If Cabaye and McArthur go, would you use their combined wage to bring Wilshere in? If I look past his annoying face, there is a potential gamble there.

I read somewhere that despite his poor injury record, his stats for the last two seasons have been really good. He's got a young family, so I can't see him wanting to move out of London to Wolves or Everton.

Also, two other things: 1) I think RLC has booked his place in the World Cup, and we know his class and I think if he shows it at a World Cup there is no chance of getting him back next season - even on loan - so we need to get a new playmaker, and 2) Keeping Zaha is priority number one this summer, and if we can get a 'name' in early on, I think that will show Wilf that we're serious. He can already see the spine of the team with Tomkins, Sakho, Townsend, Luka and himself, and throw Wilshere in there and you are looking at a serious team. I heard the Zonal Marking guy saying he fancies us to challenge for Europe next season...

Edited by BarmyPhipps (02 May 2018 8.39am)

He was sh*t for Bournemouth and is going to be sh*t for every team outside of the top 6. He's a big team player.

Fit after the injuries? Never gonna have that pace again. Watched him this year and God, he's slow. Arsenal have been really destroyed down the center, with him, Ozil and Xhaka there. That's how you end up in 6th place even if you have world class players

I really can’t see Palace letting both Mac and Cabaye go. IF reports are true and Cabaye has been offered a new contract on reduced playing time and wages and he stays. IF we do sign Wilshere given Wilshere’s injury history I think it would be more likely and a good tactical move keeping Wilshere injury free by Playing Wilshere from the start and then replacing with Cabaye at some stage late in the matches.

South London & Proud
Sometimes I really wonder if family are really worth it.
Because it doesn’t matter how time and affection you give
It’s never enough

lot of rumours he could be joining palace let's see what happens

wanted him since last season...he would be an amazing signing for the club & exactly what we need

‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway

This would be a disaster imo:
(1) (most importantly); this guy is a crock, that will not change. Anyone saying “if we can get him fit, he’d be great”, you’re fooling yourselves. He’s injury prone and you can’t get away from that. Arsenal’s medical staff are far better than ours and they couldn’t help him.
(2) So overrated. What has this guy ever done? Played well against Barcelona several years ago?! Not good enough for Bournemouth. Seriously, if this guy wasn’t English no one would be talking about him or offering him £100k+/week
(3) Expensive, let’s pay the money to keep Cabaye instead.

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