I can't see many teams being able to stop that formation that you've put out, I'll always have question marks over Van Persie, and would love to see Arshavin in his more favoured central role, but he does the business out wide for us and we aren't blessed with any players who actually want to play there (Theo, Arshavin, Nasri and Rosicky all prefer central roles).
I've seen Vela in a few reserve games and the lad looked sharp. He's in no way the finished article, but he could be a really good little player. World Class? I'm not sure, but at the very least he'll be an outstanding squad player.
I agree entirely on Theo, do you remember that run against Liverpool a few years back? When I saw that I just thought to myself "This lad's going places", but he's gone nowhere to be honest. I can't honestly say that I think Theo is a much better player now than he was at the begininning of the year. I think he's pretty much the same. Still shows glimpses of absolute class (although they are fairly rare), but makes stupid mistakes like running into corners and occasionally his dribbling is appauling and he struggles to keep the ball due to his pace.
The jury is out on Theo for me, keep the lad a couple more years, but if in the next couple of seasons he doesn't start to improve, and improve alot, I think it could be a case of showing him the door.
I don't think Eduardo would come out firing on all cylinders or anything, but I do think that with regular football by November he could be banging them in for fun. We'll see though, I don't get the impression Wenger rates him as highly as I do, and I suppose Wenger sees more of him...
Anyway, back to playing some Madden 09! Got drafted by the Ravens, was hoping for the Lions, but seems they're happy with Kitna
