Football

Sorry Pip, but you're living in cloud cuckoo land if you think this current Arsenal team is anything but average.

Wenger's youth experiment has failed and he's not the type of person to admit failure. The board need to force his hand, and ensure he buys the 3 or 4 experienced players the team desperately needs by the end of the month or they show him the door.

With the exception of Utd who have brought through some great young players, Arsenals youth system has been fantastic, his biggest downfall was not holding on to players like Edu, Gilberto, Pires, Flamini and Hleb for just that extra season. his routine stripping of the maturity in the squad leaves our youth exposed, Utds aren't so and come through without the pain.

Gibbs, Lansbury, Wilshire, Oxy-Chambermaid, Walcott (sadly), Eastmond, Frimpong and Bartley are all great young british players - and future core of our team and most likely the england team (when we last great it was the French team), I'd be very surprised if Wilshire was not England captain in 5-6 years, but bear in mind it took 9 years to get Wilshire through the ranks to his current place in the team.

Those that have risen above us have blown transfer budgets and wage structures to get there, what ever new manager comes in wont be given carte blanche to do the same to Arsenal and the fact is the board love Wenger as much as they love their bottom line, so he wont be going anywhere.

We do need a seasoned player but Wengers mastery of the transfer market has been understood and adopted by bigger spenders leaving him missing out on deal after deal. now he has gone like my Dad and is obsessed with getting something better for cheaper.

I want to see Rice out and a bad ass coach in to drive some backbone into the kids, then spend money on Baines, Vertonghen, Hazard and Doyle. we desperately need a goal scorer but putting Theo as an out and out striker and bringing Afobe in would solve that imo