Fuck! There couldn't be any more devastating news for us. Don't know why people are trying to downplay it, this is a season defining injury regardless of the alternatives we may or may not have. When the Balon d'or front runner is ruled out for the season, that's a monumental blow in it's own right even if you also had the second best number 6 on the planet, the lack of a real alternative just compounds it.
We need to have a real 6 come in during January to stand any chance, kovacic isn't a 6 and I say that as one of kovacic's biggest fans. Stones is actually comfortably the most adept at it in our squad, the problem with that is firstly stones cannot stay reliably fit himself and secondly, we have 6 defenders in the squad, we cannot have them playing in midfield too when we are that short in numbers. The only alternative to buying a 6 would be to buy another defender to cover Stones moving into midfield, something we should have done last summer anyway.
Wonder when arsenal fans are having their open top bus celebration upon hearing this, scumbags.
