James

Correct that they should have told Taylor and his agent to find a new club if they couldn't agree terms. But there shouldn't have been any statement whatsoever. Its a big massive advert to clubs that we are willing to sell anyone at a profit if they can't work out a contract. When we discover we can only get £2m for Taylor (undisclosed) every player with two years left will get flogged and replaced with cheaper versions, we'll never get a settledteam, and we'll never get to see our youth talent play for us in their prime.

Will be hard to sell him for as much as we'd want, especially as the injury has meant he's missed pre-season so therefore you'd expect him to be injured or low on form for the rest of the season. The club have played it out too publicly in my opinion, and we are going to get our fingers burnt on this one. Probably to the extent that we'll try to sell anyone with 18-24 months left on their contract who is asking for too much. Taylor I'm not too bothered about, but it will be Carroll and Enrique next.

Practice what you preach James. What do you refer to? Around the time he got cornrows, you were saying we should release him. Please direct me to this post as I have no recollection of saying this. Actually I've found the post, and was clearly a remark about how I hated his hair!

Practice what you preach James. What do you refer to? Around the time he got cornrows, you were saying we should release him. Please direct me to this post as I have no recollection of saying this.

Practice what you preach James. What do you refer to?

He's gone from a chav kid to some kind of long haired icon in less than a year. Didn't see the Villa game as was on holiday, but against Man United, he was strong, powerful, hardworking and confident, and I knew that if he carried it on he'd have no problems as he proved last season he can put the ball away. Another example of why we shouldn't write off any player of that age.

But then mebe AC wouldn't have got his Hattrick-that-makes-him-an-England-Striker No doubt it will have done wonders for Carroll's confidence, but I think we are going to need these players in the PL and by disregarding them in these meaningless situations, Hughton has made a mistake. Could mean them playing in an important game against someone like Stoke, and in that situation it would have been much better to have 40 mins against Villa and Manyoo under their belts.

It's a shame that we didn't make the most of two irreversible results in the last two games to give Tavernier and Vuckic 20 mins in each. That would have been far more invaluable than 90 in this game in my opinion

Just got back to my hostel in Prague. What was the real score?

OK, definite places: Bosnich X McGrath X Staunton X X Barry X Yorke X I will start the polls soon.

Eidur Gudjonnson

Fifth in the all-time-points-won-since-football-invented-in-1992 table, actually. Good and consistent with some great individuals, but no great team

Now Aston Villa, no great Premier League team, but have had plenty of good players. Which Villa players did you admire? What would your team be? No bets accepted on tooj mentioning Paul McGrath.

OK, we have an Arsenal team. Seaman Dixon Adams Campbell Cole/Winterburn Pires Viera Fabregas Overmars Bergkamp Henry

No point prolonging this, Overmars and Pires it is. Just one space left, next to Viera in central midfield.

Basically the wingers involve the players mentioned, and an alternative is included to get Ian Wright in the team if people would prefer.

Winterburn got twice the votes Clichy did, and I think it is worth moving onto the next poll which is going to be more interesting. Therefore Winterburn might replace cole.

I'd be surprised if the poll didn't see him through. However need to work out which wing is best for him. Put him on the left and Overmars on the right. They could both interchange though. You have argued the case to me, but it hasn't quite been nearly unanimous in the nominations. Ljungberg and Wright are going to deserve a shot at getting into the team

I'd be surprised if the poll didn't see him through. However need to work out which wing is best for him.

I was hoping to set up a multivote poll so I didn't have to do one at a time but it won't let me. So first is the left back poll. Who was better, Winterburn or Clichy? I'd say Winterburn personally.

Ok thanks for the responses. Unless there is massive disagreement, I propose we move Seaman, Dixon, Campbell, Adams, Viera, Bergkamp, and Henry into the final Arsenal selection. Cole also makes the team as it stands, but may need a reserve in case he makes the Chelsea team too. I am about to set up a poll for the remaining players and the left back reserve.

Well Arsenal are a team split into two eras: the brilliant George Graham defensive team, and the brilliant Arsene Wenger attacking team. In all honesty though, they were probably at their best when they were merging between the two teams, the excellent defence getting fitter, and the former attacking players being better than all of the current lot bar one. In goal, David Seaman is indisputably the best, one of the three best English keepers of all time. He is the goalie that defined the 90s. Tony Adams was a brilliant captain and defender, and got even better with the arrival of Wenger. No offence to the old guard of Bould and Keown, but Campbell was a different class, one of England's best ever centre backs. Lee Dixon seems the only valid choice of right back, a very good right back in his day, very intelligent player. At left back, you would have to say Ashley Cole. However Chelsea might want him too. Therefore Winterburn or Clichy could sneak in as a reserve. I'd probably choose Winterburn between those two due to the defence he played in. I'd dare anyone to say that Henry and Bergkamp were not their best strikers. Two magical and effective players. Fabregas and Viera would have made a magical combination, so full of energy and creativity. On the wings, Overmars is a definite. I've gone for Merson on the other wing although to be honest I'd say wings were never Arsenal's strong points, and they've always been better passing through the middle. Great players missed include Platt, Petit, Pires, Anelka, Ljungberg, Parlour and Adebayor. So my team would be (subject to an Arsenal vs Chelsea debate on Cole) : Seaman Dixon Campbell Adams Cole Merson Fabregas Viera Overmars Bergkamp Henry

Arsenal are a good team to start with. So who are the great Arsenal Premier League players? Who did you love watching? Who would your Arsenal PL XI be?

One further 'rule' is that a player can't play for two teams, so Lampard couldn't be in the West Ham and Chelsea team, sowould be in the Chelsea one as that is who his best form was for. If we get any duplicates that would have to be sorted before the playoffs.

The teams are: Arsenal Aston Villa Blackburn Bolton Chelsea Everton Fulham Leeds Liverpool Man City Man Utd Southampton Sunderland Tottenham West Ham Best of the Rest I have deliberately left out Newcastle as Newcastle teams have been done to death, and we are likely to be biased.