These 'will he stay will he go' stories are upsetting me a little, as they always does in transfer windows, so today I decided to stop and think about tactics a little. I've always been a 'half full glass' person myself, and I must say that I truly think we have a very good bunch of players, and that with the addition of a strong holding midfielder we could easily become the best team in Europe.

However, since the departure of Hleb and Flamini, players who I really liked by that time, I feel we don't have a 'best eleven', a list of 11 players who are always your first choice, and that's something I feel every team must have. Even though injuries didn't allow it to happen many times, the team in 07/08 was Almunia; Sagna, Toure, Gallas, Clichy; Flamini, Fabregas, Hleb, Rosicky; Van Persie, Adebayor. There's no way you can say it different, that was our team, and we almost won the league with it (I'm sure we would've if we, again, had less injuries). Now try and do that with our team last season. You can't do it. I'd love to see the boss changing that for next season, but you must start by choosing the right formation.

Football is even worse than fashion when it comes to being trendy, and it seems now that everybody wants their team to play Barcelona's 4-3-3. To make matters worse, the only team who challenged Barcelona in the entire season was Chelsea, who play exactly the same way. Well, I hate being trendy, but hey, that's exactly how I think Le Boss should organize our kids. Just think about it. The back five, whoever it will be, and then a midfield with whoever we buy as a holding midfielder along with Fabregas and Nasri. It could be Melo, it could be Cana, it could be my mother. It works.

Up front things get even better. You could play Arshavin on the left, RvP in the middle and Rosicky/Walcott on the right. Or you could try Arshavin, Eduardo and RvP. However you do it, Arshavin and Walcott are not right or left midfielders, they are natural born strikers. Just like it was said on this website's latest podcast, having Arshavin and playing him as a left-side midfield player is rubbish. The man is a Russian DB10, a second-striker. So why not play two second strikers? We have Rosicky, Van Persie, Arshavin, Walcott, Vela and Wilshere who can all do that. And we still have Van Persie, Bendtner and Eduardo to play as the frontman (and maybe even Adebayor, bleurgh).

To make it even more solid, you can keep the formation and use it on the Carling Cup team. Think of that: back five, Song, Diaby and Denilson; Vela, Bendtner, Wilshere. No way can we be destroyed again by Man United and Spurs' first teams in a more stylish way!

There is only one problem about it. Where would you play Eboue? Well, I wouldn't play Eboué even if our tactic had 11 right backs and he looked like Scarlett Johansson. I'd rather have Gazidis as our right back than Eboue. No harm done, then.

That was some brainstorming, but I do think that my idea is better than Wenger's last 4-2-3-1, with Fabregas in an alien position to him (advanced central midfielder), and Nasri way back. I think they should be allowed to play side-by-side, in the centre, creating the beautiful chances they can for the three wondermakers in front of them.

It's going to be a beautiful season. I can almost smell a double again.