Arsenal Finally Strengthen The Team

The cavalry have arrived!! We were promised a busy transfer summer at Arsenal this year and at the 11^th hour, the club has come through!! True to his word, Arsene Wenger and Ivan Gazidis have delivered what they promised. This was a much needed shakeup of things at the club. I suspect players such as Van Persie, Walcott, Gervinho, Song, Vermaelen will be pumped up now that Wenger has delivered.

Expect to see a highly motivated Arsenal team after the International break.I was glued to sky sports news all night, hoping and praying...

 Incoming players (New Signings):

1.       Attacking Midfielder Mikel Arteta from Everton.

2.       Attacking Midfielder Yossi Benayoun from Chelsea on loan.

3.       Defender Per Mertesacker from Werder Bremen.

4.       Left Back Andre Santos from Fernebahce.

5.       Striker Chu Young Park from Monaco.

6.       Winger Gervinho from Lille.

7.       Winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain from Southampton.

8.       Right Back Carl Jenkinson from Charlton Athletic.

9.       Joel Campbell (who has been loaned out to France for work permit reasons).

Incoming players (Loan returnees & Promotions):

10.   Winger Ryo Miyaichi from Feyenoord.

11.   Defensive Midfielder Emmanuel Frimpong from the reserve team.

The departures from our team are well documented:

1.       Joel Campbell- loan

2.       Armand Traore- permanent

3.       Gilles Sunu- permanent

4.       Francesc Fabregas- Premanent

5.       Samir Nasri- Permanent

6.       Henri Lansbury- loan.

7.       Nicklas Bendtner- loan

8.       Denilson Neves- loan

9.       Emmanuel Eboue- permanent

10.   Gael Clichy- permanent

11.   Jay Emmanuel Thomas- permanent

12.   Carlos Vela- loan

Suddenly I have some faith in our chances to compete for the league title once more. We might not be LALBTS anymore... It may have come very late, but like they say, better late than never. Have a read here. Gunnerblog does an excellent blog.

Now let’s start the season by giving Swansea a real pasting to restore some pride, goodwill and belief at Arsenal. Also get Yogi’s warrior’s perspective of transfer deadline day.

I will write a belated “season preview” of this new look squad in the coming days. Things are looking up for the season ahead.

Come on Arsenal!!