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Regardless of selling Walcott and Sanchez, their glaring weakness is their aging, and already dubious defence, and no good defensive midfielder.
They aren't all that bad going forward generally but if you look at a lot of the goals they concede, it's due to xhaka ambling back and not tracking runners.
With Monreal, Mertesacker, Koscielny all the wrong side of 30 they are going to need to replace, especially when Holding and Chambers aren't up to the job. This, especially following the VVD transfer (and even our Sanchez) is going to cost North of £100m. Even replacing with Mkhitaryan and Aubameyang isn't really solving the issue as they are both relatively short term options with both being nearly 30.
Especially if they miss out on CL football again, they could be in real trouble. Let's hope eh...
Yep, spot on Steve.
They need to spend a lot of money on getting those defenders in. The would have been wise to buy Van Dijk.
Also, whilst Wenger is there he will be the one who decides on bringing the players in. They can update all their recruitment team all they want but if wenger doesn't want the player they won't sign him. He will want the praise for pulling off a new signing if it works out...