Is this Arsene’s best ever squad?

More hype, we win one game and we the best/strongest side since….., then we lose the game and we are the worse/useless. We have to get a sense of balance, lets see how we perform at the end of the season.

We still have to have an attitude where we win/draw dgames we should have lost, and win games that we should have drawn. very much like manchester United against Blackpool. thats the test

I think Arsene’s comments have been taken out of context. I believe he has the deepest squad he’s had in a while. This isn’t his best starting XI – that will always be The Invincibles. I wouldn’t trade any of The Invincibles for what we have now – and that includes Cesc. However, when you consider who he had on the bench for that ’03-’04 team it wasn’t as good as the bench now. Cygan, Aliadiere, Bentley, Pennant, Hoyte, Senderos – that’s not a bench that inspired confidence. The Invincibles were made of strong stuff and they hardly ever got injuries. However, we have players like Gibbs, Chamakh, Arshavin, Bendtner, Koscielny to name a few as our bench with TV5 and Ramsey to come back form injury.

maybe cos d way dis guys are playing i feel sorry for barca

Best squad ever. Barca won’t even show up for the champions league game I reckon. The thought of playing Bendtner and Denilson will just be too much for them. Just ask West Brom, Spurs, Newcastle…

A very good team I would say, the best he had, surely not.
As WC said, what he said has been taken out of it’s context, surely the squad has now depth but this is it, sometimes Arsene uses the wrong words in his interview, even missing the actual question and what has been said here is the perfect exemple.

anyway, we are still in for four.

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The first XI of the invincibles is the best team in the history of the EPL but squad wise we have more depth now. If the squad is better, that’s hard to argue for.

However, we have great strength in depth. Fabiansky as a 2nd GK? not too sloppy. Eboue, and especially Gibbs, make up great back-up full backs. And think about Squillaci. He might not be the super defender some were hoping for but as a fourth choice he is more than adequate. Then in midfield we have Diaby and Ramsey, both excellent (I hope the Diaby bantering is over by now). Couple that with Rosicky (Denilson if you are feeling optimistic) and the ability of Nasri to switch into midfield and we are well covered. Finally up top we have Bendtner and Chamack as back up frontman while Arshavin covers the wings. A new winger could add some quality to the squad, a DM even but overall we have a very broad squad.

Wenger meant that SINCE his Invincibles, this is the closest team hes ever had that is fit, playing well and full of potential but it will be a long time before they can rival the Invincibles starting 11. Our bench strength is about the same, if not a little superior to what we had back in 2003. However we are just starting to show our true promise, while the Invincibles had already won so much before 2003….I don’t think they’ll ever be a better Arsenal team than the Invincibles BUt I hope they prove me wrong!

Whatever he actually thinks, Wenger has to say that this is his best ever squad because it inspired confidence in them. They have to believe they are good enough to win trophies if they are going to do it and who better to tell them they can than the guy whose team went a whole season unbeaten.

My opinion is that the current squad will have to win medals to be considered better than any other squad that has done so. How many of these players actually have premier league winners medals? Clichy, Cesc? maybe. Football, like all sport, is results based so they can only be judged on their success in terms of trophies.