Only saw them play together under Pardew when no-one actually impressed.

When Sam tightened things up at the back Tomkins and Sakho made an excellent pairing.

I'm still wondering if the lack of non loan activity means that we are going to make a last ditch attempt to sign Sakho as whilst Jairo may be a capable defender is he a leader of men and organisational expert like Sakho was

Hope so, a leader at the back is certainly something we need. Sakho left a big hole. It seems as we bring in 3 or 4 to replace the impact Sakho made. The problem with Sakho is his injury record. It's a risk.

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Is he injured?
Because if he cant even get on the bench with Koscielny out and this shambles of a defence at Arsenal we dodged a bullet

I think if we get Chambers in then Fosu-Mensa will go into RWB and Townsend will then push up alongside Zaha and Benteke. Once done will then be interesting who will go into Def Mid. Surely has to be Loftus-Cheek and Milo. So maybe Puncheon as captain will be short lived?

Squad slowly coming together and getting a good number of options. Still a little worried about a reserve forward if Benteke injured and a decent keeper!

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Even if he only played for half the season he'd do enough to keep us up. His contribution was immense.

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