Much has been said about Arsenal not winning the league. Some have called them bottlers, but Gooners who’ve been part of Arteta’s journey know Arteta and his boys deserve a lot of credit For once in a long time, they are anticipated to finish second and are back in the European Champions League at long last.
The 2022–23 PL season will forever be remembered as a classic by Gooners. They will talk about how they were favourites to win the league for the better part of this season, though a few hiccups saw them surrender the title to the Citizens.
Anyway, next season, the Gunners go again, and then they could win it after some critical reinforcements are made in the summer.
I won’t bore you with who ought to be signed or who ought to be offloaded, but I’ll summarise all the potential arrivals by formulating the best lineup Arteta could use to outwit Manchester City next term.
My line-up:
Ramsdale starts in goal; Joao Cancelo, William Saliba, Gabriel Magalhaes, and Zinchenko could form the defensive wall. At midfield, a Declan Rice, Caicedo, and Odegaard midfield could be the setup, though Gundogan may come in for either Rice or Caicedo, whoever doesn’t join.
As for the attack, Saka and Martinelli are sure starters; although there’s talk about Jesus not playing the striking role well, he may still start as I don’t see Arsenal signing a top striker (correct me if I’m wrong); most recommendations about the attack are on signing backup wingers.
Ramsdale
Joao Cancelo, William Saliba, Gabriel Magalhaes, Zinchenko
Declan Rice, Caicedo, Odegaard
Saka, Jesus, Martinelli
So, that’s my dream lineup for next season. What’s yours?
Darren N
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Caicado really must be top priority. Rice is a good player, but we will have to over pay to get him. Man utd sniffing around and will pay top dollar. So prob that won’t happen. Try to keep Tierney as best we can. ESR as well. He will blossom next year I think. Top tall aggressive striker needed. Apart from that I think we will run city close again, maybe it will be our year. Xhaka and balagun will leave I think. So that should generate some cash.
My dream Arsenal team 4:3:3 Formation
Ramsdale.
Caicedo, Saliba, Magalhaes. Concelo.
Odegaard Rice Gundogan
Saka Vlohovic Martinelli
On the bench
White , Partey, Raphinha Zinchenko, Jorginho , Jesus, Kiwior
Dream squad for next year for me.
Ramsdale Turner
BOELY Tomiyasu
Saliba White
Gabriel kiwior
CANCELO Zinchenko
CAICIEDO Partey
RICE Smith-rowe/ Vieira
Odegaard MOUNT
Saka DIABY
G.Jesus ABRAHAM
Martinelli Trossard/Nelson
Rice and Caicedo is way too defensive together IMO.
Im not surprised we’re linked with the likes of Mount who is more forward minded
Caicedo – Mount
Would work better in my view. Not saying Mount is my pick but someone similar to him (Veiga, Milinkovic-Savic?)
We showed we can score a lot of goals,
We shouldn’t be looking to copy other teams we should focus heavily on defensive players as that has been our undoing, the only farward signing that should be made is finding another Wenger to give Saka competition, defense is what wins you titles
Cancelo
Caicedo and Rice/Gundogan/Mount
Xavi Simmons.
Extend the Reiss Nelson contract and also keep Tierney and ESR. I believe Fabio Vieira will be a revelation next season.
Balogun, Tavares, Cedric, Holding, Lokonga can be sold
Ramsdale
Fringpong Saliba GM Estupinan
Caicedo Ode Maddison
Saka Osimhen Martinelli
Subs:
Simones, Jesus, Tossard, Tomiyasu, Kiwor, Partey, Nkeita, Vlohvic,
Zinchenko, White, Liveramento
GK- Raya 🔥🔥🔥
my own shud b
Ramsdale
Cancelo Saliba Gabriel Zinchenko
Partey Rice Odegard
Saka Gj Martinelli
sub
Teilemans white tomiyasu Tavares ESR Viera Turner Gyokeres Kiwi trosard diaby
My team for next season would be
Ramsdale
White,Saliba,Gabriel,Zinchenko
Ødegaard,Partey,Teun Koopmeiners
Saka,Jesus,Martinelli
Squad Players
Turner
Tomiyasu
Simakan/Sutalo/Bella-Kotchap
Kiwior
Ciao Henrique(As Monaco’s LB technically better than Tierney who’s likely leaving
Michael Olise(Saka needs competition,can also play the Ødegaard role)
ESR(could play as an 8 or 10
Lavia/Manu Kone/Djbril sow
Valentin Castellannos/Mateo Retegui(Physical CF with Athleticism)
Jorginho
Trossard
There is no sensible way on Earth that any serious minded Gooner can ever answer this articles headline question, for the OBVIOUS reason that none of know who the club will buy or let go this season.
I doubt if the club even know themselves, even though they will have targets lined up. But targets are not always hit!!
IF, which it seems,the writer simply wants us to predict our personal fantasy team, then go ahead.
I don’t and won’t indulge in fantasy, but only do realism. For realism is all that matters!
UNLESS YOU ARE A FANTASIST, WHICH I AM NOT
C’mon Jon, are we not allowed a bit of fun?
Of course YOU and OTHERS ARE. I am well known for preferring realism. Thats MY personal choice.
BTW, is my refereeing article appearing tomorrow PAT?
Relax.mate. No one will charge you for dreaming. Let’s have some of fan shall we
Not my dream line up but what I realistically think could be our squad going into next season:
In: Rice £90M Mount £45M Hoijlind £40M Simikan £35M Tielemens Free
Ramsdale
White Saliba Gabriel Zinchenko
Rice
Odegaard mount
Saka Jesus Martinelli
Turner Tomiyasu Simikan Kiwior Partey Tielemens Viera Nelsen Trossard Hoijlund
You are wrong on Mount…
We are not getting Mount because Chelsea want more than 80 Million for Mount..
That’s ridiculous..
His value shouldn’t be more than 40
Maddison is much better than him..
I have to say your projected line-up doesn’t give me a warm, fuzzy feeling or make me feel in any way more confident than if we just stuck with the players we have now or actually buy in improvements.
Declan Rice isn’t the answer to any of the problems we have at the moment. I think Gundogan is a terrific player but I’m not a fan or just filling out line-up with Chelsea and Man City cast-offs.
We need a striker and either play Balogun, or sign Vlahovic or Jonathon David. I think Cancelo is also a fabulous player but he won’t offer anything Zinchenko doesn’t already and will just make us leaky on both wings. Ben White should stay at RB imo.
All I would say to those who have chosen Zinchenko at LB, is that you evidently have failed to recognise just how poor he is defensively.In other words with him in that position we will continue to ship goals and will not be in contention for honours.
Next Seasons, if Ramsdale is our No 1 keeper, we won’t win the EPL, UCL or even Europa league. 😞
He is NOT a Title winning Keeper like Allison, Cech, Van der Saar,etc.
Also Martinelli should not start matches.
His inability to dribble past opponents on the Left wing
like Vinicius Jnr, is what Causes Gabriel Jesus struggles.😕😒
White, saliba, GM , Zincneko
odegard, Rice, Mount
Saka, Jesus, Martneli
bench In Caceido, Maitoma, Zaha (free) Telimens free, Tomiyasu, ESR, Partey, Juninho, Trossard, Nketia,
ramsdale
caicedo inverted role
saliba
gabi
zinchenko
rice
savic
odegard
jesus leftwing
vlahovic
saka
subs;
turner
white
tomi
martineli
trosard
partey
jorginho
kiwior
diaby
I’m not really sure replacing Ben White with anyone else. Nobody can perform at RB and CB like Benny. Not even Cancelo. We already got Tomiyasu to backup RB and LB. Ben White is probably the best RB we had since Bacary Sagna. And why on earth do we need to buy a 32 year old Gundogan while we already got 31 year old Jorginho? And Caicedo and Rice is too defensive, we need more attacking impetus from midfield and a monster at CF. Our rivals are setting us up with the media and as usual our fans are lapping it up like hamsters. Let Arteta do his job.
I do not think we will beat Man City with this team, but I think it will keep us in the top four for this upcoming season.
We can look for more improvement to the team next year!!!!
Ramsdale
Benny Blanco
Saliba
Gabriel
Tierney
Caicedo, Rice
Saka, Odegaard, Martinelli
Lautaro Martinez (Inter Milan)
Bench:
Turner,
Tomi,
Guehi (Palace), or possibly Jules Kounde Barcelona (a good defender, although he seems to have attitude issues)
Kiwor,
Zinc
Partey,
Elneny
We will need an Odegaard back-up
I do not like Mount and I have soured on Madison after watching him recently, so somebody else for this role.
Trossard,
Jesus,
Diaby (Leverkusen,
Mo Kudus (Ajax)
This adds up to 21 first team players
Just my thoughts, and probably a long way from reality
Ramsdale
Cancelo Saliba Gabbi Zinchenko
Caicedo Kovatic
Odegaard
Saka Martinelli Mitoma
Yes Kovatic isn’t young but we’ve been missing a player like him. We have no one that can turn defense to attack like him.
The best Arsenal manager should do is to stop being mean, release money inorder to get better players knowing next season u r going to play more than two games. Artete u should not sell Tierney
With exception of Jesus the rest named in the list will be good. Need a “real” striker. Jesus will be able to achieve the result. Arsenal must replace Jesus.
The only mistake that Arsenal bosses do is to let experienced players go and they assume that the new signings will probably play well without them.
This time they would consider the consequences before selling off some players.
……………….Ramsdale
White……..Saliba………Gabriel
……………Partey..Zinchenko
……………Odegaard..Xhaka
Saka…………….Jesus…………..Martinelli
Keep this team fit and we should be in contention so says the logic
hello again guys, long time. now, my dream team,(seeing as it is all a bit of fun)would be rimmer.rice.macnab.storey.mancini.simpson.ball.brady.kidd.radford.george.they would knock the stuffing out of man.city.put simson on haaland and watch the troll fall, lol.
ger burje, whats the point of a dream fantasy team, IF you are keen to pick way underpar players such as Mancini, Kidd and even Rimmer too, for goodness sake.
I MEAN HONESTLY, RIMMER?
Why do you deliberately exclude our many far better keepers than HIM?
NOT A SINGLE ONE IN YOUR CHOSEN LINE UP WOULD GET ANYWHERE REMOTELY NEAR OUR BEST EVER TEAM.
And surely the ONLY reason to indulge in fantasy, is to pick our BEST TEAM!
Arteta has done well for the past two years. Just look at it, what happened towards tail end of last year also happens this year. No leason learnt.. we need experience defenders and a world class striker.
Ramsdale
Tomiyasu, Saliba, Zinchenko Gabriel, Tierney White
Caicedo Jorginho Partey Xhaka
Odegaard, ESR, Madison Mason Mount
Martinelli Trossard Saka Balogun Vlahovic orLautaro Martinez Jesus
So we need go for
Lautaro Martinez and /or Vlahovic
Mason Mount and Maddison
Caicedo
If we can sell Jesus, Nketiah to fund will be good. Xhaka selling is not going to fetch good money we might as well exhaust his contract
Ramsdale
Tomiyasu, Saliba, Zinchenko Gabriel, Tierney White
Caicedo Jorginho Partey Xhaka
Odegaard, ESR, Madison Mason Mount
Martinelli Trossard Saka Balogun Vlahovic orLautaro Martinez Jesus
So we need go for
Lautaro Martinez and /or Vlahovic
Mason Mount and Maddison
Caicedo
If we can sell Jesus, Nketiah to fund will be good. Hope we don’t waste money buying Rice as that will not take us from 2nd spot to 1st or win trophies.
Xhaka selling is not going to fetch good money we might as well exhaust his contract.
We need to spend money esp Striker as we need goals from no 9.
Ramsdale
White. Saliba. Gabby
Caicedo. Partey
Saka ode. Esr. Martinell
New tall striker