Arsenal's season preview

Its turning August soon. The EPL season is about to start. Its about time for me to go through team by team and how I think they will do in the coming season. We're talking about the 2007/2008 season of course.


The gunners are a far cry of the team that dominated English football a few years back. Personally and probably like 50% of the fans out there will blame it on the Stadiums fault. Maybe not in the long run. After moving from Highbury, and spending so much on the new stadium, it is clear that development in the squad is not impressive. Wenger's policy of signing youngsters is not exactly the best thing either.

I'm not saying that its bad, its good for the future, a hope for good things to come. Develop talents when they are young and fresh, totally nothing wrong with that. But the hard part comes when you are a title hunter. How to develop talent and at the same time, mantain a squad good enough to not only challenge but win titles. Its a tough juggle.

Players that are potentially good may end up being just a fringe, soon moving to smaller clubs to get first team football. We hear this story way too often.

So good old Wenger decided to play a huge portion of his young talent in his first team. True, a lot of them deserve their spots. But its no title winning squad.

So this season, we are looking at the Arsenal which in previous seasons have developed their youngsters, and these youngsters gained 1 year of maturity.

People talked about Henry leaving, and the conspiracies and the reasons behind it, but lets forget about him for now.

Signings that would probably see a lot of first team action would be Eduardo Da Silva and Bacary Sagna. We will see more of Theo Walcott, Diaby, Djourou, maybe Denilson. Possible cameos will include Justin Hoyte, Bendtner and maybe Vito Mannone.

What can we expect from this Arsenal squad this season?

We expect Fabregas to take a super major role to bring the whole club forward. An injury to him will kill of Arsenal's season. We've seen an Henryless and Fabregasless Arsenal in the past, we all know what happened to them.

Robin Van Persie must be the new Dennis Berkamp. No excuses, and the player that might surprise us will be Eduardo Da Silva. In my opinion, he has a good chance to be the buy of the season. We'll see.

What will they win this season?

Sorry, the League cup will be the only good bet. Maybe a good run in the FA cup and a better run in the Champions league. The squad is still weak in Depth. Could be the repeat of last season.

I will predict their possible standings in the EPL after I am done previewing all 20 teams. That's right! All 20!