The defensive midfielder is Wenger's moneyball tactic. Buy low, sell high.

[eamonn37]

He's figured out that it's a position that many players can play competently well in, and the exceptional ones don't make that much net difference tithe team. Disarray, Flamini, Song. Any others?

[eamonn37]

Interesting that iPhone predictive text version of Diarra is "disarray"

[Jake]

God I miss 'ol Gilly http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/cry.gif

[eamonn37]

True, to some extent. The position itself though does seem to be Arsene's big moneymaker.

[Jake]

[Steve-OH]