Impossibly Daft

Fantastic strengths and style of play. Likes to tackle indicates his effort in closing down, which is so important for us. Please God let this man stay fit the rest of the way now. He's easily the least motivated at closing down when compared to Vardy/Okazaki/Ihaenacho/Ulloa. Bullet headers, really good movement in the box, but that's been about it. It seemed to be a lot of getting the hump about not being the centre of attention though, so maybe Benitez will be able to drag the rest of it out of him.

Some sort of Homegrown player rule filler, maybe?

I never said he was fast!

Nah. Slimani just scores headers and berates team-mates when they don't do all the link-up play for him. Ulloa can hold the ball up and does more off-the-ball work. Ulloa's contributions in 14/15 were huge, and in 15/16 when coming on as a sub he scored a bunch of huge goals. Not stylish ones, but if you're in a relegation battle you want the guy who spends the 89th minute scoring, not slagging off team mates. I suppose if Slimani's played as one up front with attacking midfielders doing all the supply, he might score more, but as a get-the-job-done player in a relegation battle I'd go with Ulloa. Irrelevant anyway, linked with Palace.

Ah man. Imagine going from Gayle & Joselu to those two. Slimani is pretty one-dimensional, to be honest; Ulloa would be the one I'd want in a relegation battle.

Clearly well researched... They seem to have mixed up the guy they spent pretty much the whole second half going on about - A 29-year-old English freestyler, with a 26-year-old Jamaican international who doesn't even spell his name the same way.

If they broke it down into two smaller group-stages then instead of breezing through a weak group, it'd be breezing through a weak first-round group, then stumbling through in second place in the second round group? Doesn't make much difference, does it?

It's Matic->Bakayoko Then Chalobah->Drinkwater As the Homegrown Player box-ticking exercise.

Just realised I'd not saved a formation change and it's left Morata on the bench. I'm so bad at fantasy football.

Eh, he did ok with a handful of sub appearances. He was decent enough for a squad player in a bottom half team.

But he died for our sins. There's no saving at that price though

Not anymore it doesn't. Have you seen the prices being quoted nowadays?! You can buy Javier Hernandez for £12m. Different type of striker - but a much, much better one and Leicester already have an identical type striker in Slimani that they spent £30m on last season. Hernandez might cost £12m but I can't imagine he'd want to sit on the bench and be the backup to Jamie Vardy. I think the logic of Troy Deeney is a player that combines the attributes of Okazaki and Slimani/Ulloa. Completely disagree. The problem with the current Arsenal side isn't anything like what people think it is. As opposed to 5 years ago, they now drastically lack technical ball players in central midfield, attacking midfield and wide playmaker. The positionless playmakers that became Arsenal's cliche have almost completely disappeared. Coquelin, Elneny, Xhaka, Ramsey in the centre. Walcott, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Welbeck, Iwobi as wide options. They basically have a load of sort-of destroyers in the middle (save for Ramsey, who flatters to decieve) and speed merchants out wide. I'm not necessarily saying any of these are bad players, but they're certainly not title winning decisive players. If they were to lose Ozil their squad looks desperately lacking in this area. Signing a world class centre back and midfield destroyer would improve them but nowhere near as much as people make out. They more clearly need an injection of flair, creativity and skill. And FWIW, there's absolutely no chance Bonucci would sign for Arsenal. I don't think those midfield options are particularly dreadful, but those wide players...

Some glorious autocorrect, that.

There's plenty of 'name' managers that would struggle (like Sven taking over a playoff-losing team, throwing crazy money around and finishing midtable, Felix Magath's horrendous run with Fulham, etc. ), but Benitez certainly isn't one of them. You'll do well. It's Villa who won't get it together, I think.

Real Madrid, fine. PSG, eh, ok. But Arsenal? ffs.