Inevitably the conversation at today’s press conference turned to transfers and whether or not Arsenal will make any further signings before the window closes on Tuesday.
Arsene Wenger said he’s hoping that the final five days will provide some action, as possible opportunities present themselves when clubs buy and sell, but said he can’t promise there’ll be any further spending this summer.
“I am always confident that a last-minute situation or solution is available,” he said, “because the transfer market is especially moving in the last four or five days
“But at the moment I cannot promise you that. We have specific targets but sometimes you get an idea from somebody because you didn’t know that the player you like was available and if you get an opportunity you do it.
“We work very hard, you know I have a team around me who work day and night to find good solutions.
“I am 24 hours available per day, so I am involved in the decision of course, but at the moment we are not close to signing anyone.”
And with the window closing the day after most other European leagues, the manager thinks that might provide a chance for English clubs to do business unimpeded.
“The implication is that on the last day we will be the only ones on the market and not face any competition with the others.”
Let’s see what happens so.
We are one Coquelin Giroud Injury away from an Arteta Walcott “solution” and knowing Arteta he won’t hold long and before you know it the Flamster is strutting his stuff at Chelsea away.
Fuckin buy!
We are also one Sanchez injury away from not having a single natural wide player in the squad, and then every match becomes a repeat of West Ham at home
I do think he will buy. One thing that caught my attention in the press conference was particularly interesting and it’s something I’ve not heard him say before. He mentioned that other people bring players to his radar which is of course standard expectation of our scouts but it was specifically about players he wouldn’t normally think of. From this I’ve taken he’s been contemplating specific players but someone has planted an unexpected lightbulb moment in his head that he is clearly open to and dare I say quietly optimistic about pursuing. He was actually going to elaborate on it… Read more »
Draxler and Juve maybe?
To keep your hope up, you started reading body language too lol.
Two more seasons of this crap, just take it like a man.
When it gets to that point where you are trying to read arsene’s body language just sit back and recall Fergusson’s comment about him on transfers “Poker face “#ladyGaga
So I’ll start playing fifa after the deadline day has passed so I buy like him incase the computer whispers benzema is available #lol
I’ll take my coat now, please.
We have 2 experienced DMs, and Hayden out on loan, that we can call on to rotate with coquelin or if he gets a long term injury. Even wilshere and Ramsey have played there for club and country. A new signing would need to adapt to the team and to the league.
We have Giroud, Welbz, Walcott and Alexis (plus loaned players) and we need just 1 fit for a starting role in this team.
If anyone were to come in someone will have to leave. I think we’re fine.
Of course we’re ‘fine’ if the target is 4th place. Sadly, for some of us it isn’t. Where we’l be in may 2016 is largely dependent on what others have and what they do, its not just about us. And with the names you’ve mentioned, we’ll scrape into 4th place. That’s a fact.
Little known fact: Just saying something is a fact doesn’t make it so. Try all caps – shouting sometimes helps make things seem more facty.
Just a little thought, as i hear some saying 4th place finish, with these players, we are not even guaranteed a 4th place finish, we make it every year, but i am just stating the fact that we are not even guaranteed that! After all, the champions, have strengtened and spent more than us, so has Man City, United and Liverpool, and theyre all above us, bar Chelsea, i think if or form does not pick up, we ill be fighting for fourth, maybe just scrape it, i think if we buy a wc player, it will lift the team… Read more »
Numbers wise we are fine. Standard wise we are blatantly not.
Cuddly uncle Arsene won’t upgrade his babies. Just the naughty pole in goal because he smoked ciggy in front of uncle Arsene and his put him in the Roma corner.
We have internal solution and cohesion and that is what matters lol.
“you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain”… only two more years…
I would gladly welcome Arteta Walcott solution, even when both Coq and Giroud are fit. Both are immense players, and both are good enough to play in a title winning side.
They are not fashionable though, so I’ll join the bandwagon:
‘BUY BUY BUY EVEN IF IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE AT ALL’
“Not fashionable” hahaha giroud will hate that.
-Are you to tell me, even if Giroud, Walcott, and Welbeck are healthy that they are 20-25 goal all competitions strikers? I haven’t seen that from an Arsenal striker since RVP left -Arteta is a fantastic talent – injury prone – maybe we’re OK with that and an injury prone Jack, would still love to see support for Coq in a William Carvalho or the like – we missed out on Kondogbia, dude has Viera-talent written all over him -If we lose Alexis to injury do we put Santi in that role? His shooting boots are way off, Chamberlain seems… Read more »
*shudders*
Judging by this it means we’re going to sign a few players on September 1st, if anyone at all.
As much as I love when we can pull off deals like Ozil, I can’t help but feel that we should really just bite the bullet and sign players earlier, it’s what our rivals do and if it earns you an extra 5 points before Transfer Deadline Day it’s probably worth the extra couple of million. Also, players can bed in much easier with a pre season with the rest of the team.
Absolutely. I too love Oezil, but was an attacking central midfielder really what we most needed when we bought him? Was another keeper our top priority for this season? Far from meeting our needs, Oezil has caused us a permanent selection headache, with someone doomed always to have to play out of position. Ditto with Cech whose arrival has meant benching Ospina and dispensing with Szczesny and Martinez. Last-minute opportunities are great if you’ve got money left over once your main business is done. As a transfer strategy, however, it seems completely bizarre to leave the success of your season… Read more »
Before Özil: Ten years without trophies.
With Özil: Two consecutives FA Cup.
We are a way better team with Özil. He may not be the “player we needed most” at the time, but he was a massive improvement for the team. You cannot just see such a player on the market and not buy him.
Other clubs can. Yes, we’ve won FA cups since buying Oezil. We’ve also won the Emirates Cup and two Community Shields. I’d suggest that what these trophies have in common is that, while every club would be happy to win them, those with fatter fish to fry really don’t care very much. The FA Cup is prestigious and exciting for Wigan, Hull and Villa, but not quite so much for Chelsea, City and United. Sure, they put out strong teams and play to their best ability, but somehow the focus and energy isn’t quite there. Chelsea would never lose –… Read more »
Miranda, I usually, or often agree with your points. However, on the issue of transfer targets how do you know that there has not been frenetic activity behind the scenes, but that the targets will not be released from their clubs, are demanding huge wages or want to stay where they are? You dont..
That is not to say that there won’t be frantic activity on AW’s behalf around deadline day, it’s still an option, obviously not the prefered one but better than nought.
Oh I’m sure there’s been plenty of frenetic activity, especially in the last few days, and of course we can’t just go out and get whoever we want. Established top-class strikers tend to be at established top-class clubs already and wanting to stay where they are. This isn’t always true of younger or less known strikers, however, and it’s certainly not true of defensive midfielders, of which back in June there was no shortage at all. My grouch isn’t that we’re not spending enough money. Rather the opposite. My point is about planning, assessing your needs and securing your targets… Read more »
Alexis and Cech were bought early.
It looks to me that when the business is there to be done and the other side is open, Arsenal does it.
Frankly I don’t quite see why a clear statement like “If a player that will improve the squad is available we will do it” is so difficult to understand.
If it were someone else fine but Arsene making that statement could mean lots of things including “piss off you lesser beings my sqaud is fine”
Yes, because other managers are completely honest and transparent about their club strategies.
i’m so tired of excusions
i mean excuses
Well, I do not think its excuses, I really just think that right player is not currently available. At least I cannot name anyone who would instantly improve us (either in DM position or a striker) and we are realistically able to buy him. If you do, please, enlighten me 🙂
Schneiderlin and Benteke ? If those two are not good enough for The Arsenal because they are not world class then fine I suppose but they were available at a price and so much better than purchasing nobody. If we lose Coquelin and Girioud for any length of time we are fucked. Flamini and Walcott as cover for Arteta and Welbeck…..
Get the cheque book out Arsene..
I think benteke is in no wat an upgrade on Giroud, dont even think he is so much better than welbz if he is better at all.
I agree that we might miss the trick with Schneiderlin, Benteke, not so much. But what I meant was, since those two are already out of market, who are those players we should buy right now with the opened cheque book? Buying just for the sake of buying is not the way Arséne does the business, everyone knows that and we will buy only if someone who is real upgrade upon what we already have is available. And I ask, who is that, considering realistic options of what is available on the market. I do not envy Arséne on this… Read more »
Zlatan would be absolutely brilliant. Yeah, he’s a bit of a whack job. And he’s older than the ideal player we’d bring in (although I don’t think that ideal player actually exists), but he’d fit into our system very well. He’d be an amazing statement of intent. And he is an absolute game changer that would add some needed ruthlessness to our team. Plus he’s just an entertaining fucker. I’d love to see it! …But it’s not going to happen.
The issue with buying either of those players early or many others is, they may add strength and depth to the squad but won’t really improve the the team significantly. The money is then blown and when, at the end of the window a better option turns up, the money’s gone.
Do you go out and buy a second home just in case yours catches on fire? No.
I would if I had 100 mil in the bank!
But that is totally aside from the point because I am not interested in spend for spending’s sake either.
Its not that the right players arent available. Wenger seems to think we can play a part in the title race with the current Squad. Players like lars bender or Edinson cavani Are examples of players who can help us move forward and I think that even Wenger knows this but that he just wants to show he can do it with the players we already have.
Edinson Cavani? Really? Tell me, what good you’ve seen that guy do recently?
Cavani was infact very key in PSG retaining its ligue1 crown. When Zlatan was out with recurring nose injuries he stepped up with some crucial goals and play both in the league and cup. (Scoring in the 2-0 success)
Cavani was infact huge for PSG last season. His goals against Chelsea in champions league, covered and effectively too for the injured Zlatan consequently scoring important goals that led to them to ligue 1 title.
Scored in the cup final in a 2 0 success
@noblegunner do you really think cavani isnt a better strikter than welbeck? I really love Giroud and he is very important for the team and all but We need Some diversity. There is no “word class” striker available atm but cavani is the closest think to that. Everyone is screaming for a striker but the agueros of this world arent available. I think that every Arsenal fan is very pleased if we sign Cavani.
@Daan_van_Lith
So you want Arsenal to buy just to make the fans happy or we do business to improve.
A really clinical striker will be really good but I have see a lot more misses from Cavani than other world class striker who are supposed to be at his level.
We are buying to improve if we buy cavani but you are right if you way that he isnt on the level of Suarez and aguero but that kind of players arent available
Cavani has never played in the premier league, and I would be surprised if he were to settle straight away like alexis because he simply isn’t as good. Let’s not go full Tottenham and just sign everyone who’s the flavour of the year.
Cavani is better than giroud. Scores more goals from the wing than hfb.
In the french league, for its most powerful team.
What wenger was trying to say is simple, we are looking but I don’t think we would be buying, unless aguero suddenly hands in a transfer request and Madrid bid £120 million for him, that way we can get benzema, none of which is going to happen and that takes us back to square one, buying nobody sigh, you just have this sick feeling at the bottom of your stomach that once that transfer window closes we would have a player or two injured sigh
Wenger is a waste!! Penny pincher and he should leave arsenal and we have fresh blood. #Buy new players
Fabian is a waste.
Mmmmmm fresh blood
and the as the club dies, fans like you will have (Fresh) blood on your hands..
Very much doubt if the boss is going to spot a “good” player in the remaining few days if he didn’t spot any in the last couple of months. Arsenal midfield n striker problem is not and has not been an emergency but may become a disaster mid season.
In a way, once the season has started you get to see more of certain players. This can give time to assess how certain targets have developed since the last season so it kind of makes sense in a way as during the rest of the summer, when there’s no football, how are you to know?
That’s not to say that the right player will be spotted, or that we’ll sign anyone before the deadline is up, but it could happen.
so no world cup, not waiting to qualify for the CL, not players in holiday now it is to see how they start playing lol.
Anything not to sign a player with your blind faith will make sense.
we as fans dont need to say what is to be done exactly, we need to lay back and just enjoy, when we are doing things like this it obviously has sth to do with the lack of trust towards our management and board, yet again havent we learned this way of showing it never works? it never had for many years. wenger does leave it till late August to address our problems, well actually face the reality most of football fans simply can see. as for lack of players or availability, clubs like atletico or porto are known for… Read more »
(sorry!) right price, well maybe not messy ronaldo and another couple, i think even wenger himself admitted so before, the board too… reaalllyy had enough of this
If we dont sign a wc striker then i will just relax, support the team and pray we pip Liverpool to 4th position.
so basically, what we have been doing for the past 9 years? Nice. And everyone said that this season would be different. It’s the hope that kills you.
If hope are killing you, ring uncle Arsene help line, he is on the phone 24/7 and he will explain to you how people with money FORCED us to sell our best player and when we have money we wait for surplus players of big clubs.
I would be sad if petr cech were to be our only major summer signing.
I wouldn’t, if he win the league.
Why? We’ve only made one major signing each of the last 2 summers.
It is not foreclosed at least; I can live with that. Will make my tuesday more enjoyable – those dying minute deals – Arteta coming; deal off; deal back on; transfer request; medicals not completed; papers lodged on time with FA; Arteta finally signs. Boy! I enjoyed that.
LOL.
I believe you’re all forgetting about a certain Jeff…
… Sigh.
This is probably our best shot at winning the title in years. Have a brilliant squad. Right from the start every1 knew what we needed. A cdm and a striker
Well we have kind of screwed it up again. No excuses this time. Very disappointed
Ps: Not saying we can’t make those signing anymore. Just wanted us to do it early for a change
I’m so sick of the same story every year. For as long as I can remember we’ve been 2 players away from a proper squad. As has been said we’re one injury from a crisis. this ‘super top quality’ stuff is just an excuse for not buying anyone at all
lets hope and see how his going to do his magic this season without buying strikers and midfielders
To put it politely deja vu. We’ve been here before. Or to put it bluntly SSDD same shit different day. Even Berahdino would be an option
No, Berahino would not be an option. He’s one of the most overrated players in English football. He’s not bad but he wouldn’t do anything we couldn’t get from someone else.
I’m wondering if we’ve seen the last of Akpom this season myself. If he carries on his good form until January then we might see him brought back.
I’m not so sure about Sanogo though. I want him to do well but I just don’t really “get” him.
Now you are trolling or just blind faith lol.
I want us to strengthen the squad the same as the next Gooner, but who? You can’t buy if nobody is selling!
I don’t see many Özil/Sanchez players being touted as of today. But Özil was a last minute deal, so here’s hoping.
COYGs
If we don’t improve our league position any time soon, you won’t be seeing many Ozil/Sanchez’s on the team sheet, let alone available to buy. Because they’ll all be moving on to bigger clubs again.
That sounds like it makes sense, until you remember that Özil and Sanchez themselves came to the club after we finished 4th. Not saying 4th is the target; just dislike the panicky posts.
Indeed. But if these people are promised success then they will demand success and if constant 3rd, 4th place finishes don’t bring it, they will look to greener pastures. And who can honestly blame them?
Well, waiting to deadline day doesn’t always pan out. You know who was also a last minute signing as well, right gays?
It’s sad so sad. It’s a sad sad situation.
Why would other teams that finished above us strengthen their squad, yet we are still lying to ourselves that we can win the league? Chelsea and ManCity had a better team than Us last season and they still improved on that. Why are other teams mysteriously finding players and we can’t seem to spot anybody.
Because what we need is in much shorter supply than wingers and centre backs? There are loads of good wingers out there and a handful of top centre halves.
Striker maybe, but there are many options for DM or Deep-Lying Playmakers out there.
Sounds very familiar. Infact i could repeat those exact words offhand. I get the feeling we’re going to be hearing those words for the next couple of year *sighs*
Can everyone stop getting their knickers in a twist and jumping to conclusions? Ignore any speculation and Just wait till 2nd of September when we’ll have some facts to base an opinion on. Then you can be as happy/angry as you like.
Finally, someone with sense.
It gotten to the point that a kokorin have being linked with us. Wtf!!!
closest thing we could get to a Coquelin I guess.
You can’t buy when others don’t sell. Sure, but when they do sell we don’t seem to buy either. And how the heck do Chelsea and the Manchesters get their players anyway?
£££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££
It’s called ambition. From thier managers and from the owners. Our owners don’t give a fuck as long as the money rolls in.
Last minute solutions mean panic buys. I would rather see no new players than buying average players that dont improve the team. Buy only if they are top class.
We dont neee top class on the DM. We neee Someone who is happy with a back up role cause Lets be honest le coq isnt gonna het benched. In my opinion we Shouf have a go at adrien Rabiot.
You really think Rabiot would be OK coming to us to sit on the bench?
I’d rather see us sign players that improve the squad than no one at all. Sure it would be nice to sign players that improve the team, but I think our squad could be vastly improved. I am not even sure we have a full squad of 25 senior players? By my reckoning we have 23, and on this basis I suggest we could improve on having empty squad positions by signing a couple of actual players.
If those panic buys turn out as important as Arteta or Mertesacker have been I wouldn’t mind.
Personally i dont think we need to exclusively go for the other top clubs strikers to improve on Giroud. Someone like Lukaku would be a real strenghtening of our squad imo. He is only 22 yrs old and at his best he is allready a one man attack. He got pace, he can dribble, he is big and strong and he can hold up the ball and brinf others in to play, but he also likes to run at defences and take them on. So at only 22 he allready got more to offer than Giroud. Come to think of… Read more »
I was kind of hoping we would sign him when he was at Anderlecht. Obviously Chelsea wouldn’t have sold him to us but maybe he would be a decent option if we could prise him from Everton.
I do wonder if he would sign for a big club again though. It seems like he might feel he got burned by his experience at Chelsea.
That’s all well and good, but how old is he?
LOL Lukaku would be an upgrade? Let’s see, Giroud Scored 19 goals last season whereas Lukaku scored 20. However, lukaku played 12 more games than Giroud and a whopping 8 of his goals came in the Europa league!!
That is not an upgrade. It’s a slight improvement at best….and at what cost? 40mill?
The only striker in the premiership who’s an upgrade to Giroud is Sergio Aguero!!
First it was Ozil, then it was Welbeck. Do I see something brewing?
I think we should sign Gomis
I just spat out my coffee… Surprised my keyboard still works!
Bring back bedntner
So Wenger tells us the best strikers in the world are not available or their teams will only do business if it involves some kind of transfer merry go round. This is crap. Big clubs with budgets the size ours surely don’t need to wait for a transfer merry go round. Barcelona got Suarez, we got Alexis, Madrid got Bale, we got Ozil. Why should other teams start this so called merry go round? Why don’t we buy Benzema, Madrid sign someone else? Or what about we sign Cavani, PSG sign someone else? Why should we wait like a pidgeon… Read more »
Because the other clubs won’t sell for any price? Why would Real sell Benzema? There’s not really anyone else of his quality in his position that they could sign. Certainly not that would happily play second fiddle to Ronaldo. Why would Benzema want to come to us either? He’s at the biggest club in the world, he’s doesn’t need any more money (he can buy diamond encrusted footballs!), he’s the first choice number 9 and he stands a very good chance of winning the Champions League, again, where he is. It’s a similar case with Cavani. Not that I would… Read more »
For the right money and effort we could have had Suarez. We offered too small a transfer, then dithered. Cue the Alexis transfer, but we wanted Suarez first.
He, Suarez would have messed up the team cohesion, plus he was wanting a transfer to Barca or Real then already, so would be going through this whole merry (or not so merry) go round all over again, just about right now. So no, Suarez was not, is not the answer.
Simple, because we are not in that top tier of those 2 clubs. Chelsea signed Pedro and Cesc from Barca’s bench and both went straight into the first team….i don’t hear anyone complaining about that!!
We are in a tough spot because we want to buy only top-class players but we don’t have a top-class budget. We just don’t. We can’t spend 80 million on a player the way Barca or Madrid can.
To be able to start the transfer merry go round at the very highest level you have to have finances of the very highest level. We simply don’t.
We could start the transfer merry go round at a lower level than the top level, but I don’t think anyone really wants that. Certainly not Wenger.
@earlier comment” things are so bad we are now linked with a kokorin”…if you don’t mind me asking…what the duck is a “kokorin.”?
Wengernomics at it’s finest, Wenger doesn’t want to gamble money on players he thinks are over valued but is willing to gamble points instead, net effect is the same, we don’t win the top prizes.
At some point he has to accept what he has isn’t good enough to win the league and make moves it the transfer market to improve on what he has, otherwise we’re stuck in a state purgatory.
Basically, we need to get rid of Flamini and Campbell and upgrade not on them, but on Coquelin and Giroud. Should be easy.
I was with you until the ‘should be easy’ part.
Yeah, right! So you don’t believe that AW wants to win the PL again? Really?
It’s a frustrating situation for sure. Of course we would all like to see us strengthen at CF and CDM. But to give Wenger some credit, he has pulled off fantastic, world class signings in consecutive cup winning seasons, and I agree with his policy of only signing ‘exceptional’ players. Also, to be fair, he has already genuinely strengthened a perennially weak position at Goalkeeper for us. A striver would have to be significantly better than Giroud to warrant signing, and we all know the dearth of options there. I think it would be a bigger disaster spending 40 or… Read more »
It is incredibly frustrating as an Arsenal fan to see all the other clubs buying players each Summer and two of the last three Summers we haven’t bought a field player other than Ozil at the last minute. We’ve already dropped 4 important points at home this season so far and that certainly can’t be blamed on lack of new signings one does wonder what a top striker could have done for us in those two matches had we been aggressive and done business early. I understand Wenger wanting to get the best bargains he can and being a tough… Read more »
People talk about signing world class strikers as if its a thing that would be easy to do if not for Wenger.
But Benzema doesn’t want to leave Real and Lewandowski doesn’t want to leave Bayern and none of their clubs want to sell them in any case.
Literally the only reason a player in that top echelob might consider Arsenal is Arsene Wenger, and half you spoiled, entitled cunts want him sacked.
For fuck’s sake!
Exactly how the hell are we supposed to sign One of those strikers if all of them dont want to leave. We are in no way on the level as Bayern real and barca so how are we supposed to sign there first choice strikers..
Klopp might have a better chance recruiting Lewandowski. Besides most people are tired of Wenger because the of the same recurring problems of tactics, team preparation (how many times will there be mental weakness), and transfers (not buying a central defender last summer, for example).
I think Wenger is trying to do that (upgrade both Campbell and Flamster), however he is finding it difficult to offload them at this current time. Also it would make no sense for him to sell them if our transfer targets are unattainable. Players like the ones we need (world-class ones) do not grow on trees, and in most cases clubs with their finances in order wouldn’t sell a star of their team if they didn’t already have someone lined up to replace them (possibly why we haven’t signed anybody). I think this is Wenger’s point when he says ‘it… Read more »
what i’ll never understand about this window is why we didn’t go for schneiderlin. wenger wants to play ramsey in cm, but coquelin’s distribution isn’t great so wenger has to play cazorla alongside him. so he plays ramsey on the wing at the expense of ox or walcott – two players that add width and can really stretch a defence. if we had brought in schneiderlin wouldn’t he have been perfect to pair ramsey with as he has better ball distribution out of the back? i don’t understand wenger’s thinking…unless he has a big surprise planned for this week. but… Read more »
I don’t think Schneiderlin could provide enough defensive cover as a lone DM with Ramsey as box-to-box and as a pairing with Coquelin they would lack the passing and attacking threat.
Doom mongers… doom mongers everywhere… Here’s a thought! Support your team, trust who knows best and stop bitching because we really know nothing in the industry. 3 games in and the world is ending?! Chelsea have been shite and managed to scrape a win with a shiny new signing and now are contenders apparently, citeh over spend on overrated players and are the best thing since sliced bread, Liverpool spent millions on shite and Tottenham, well they’re Tottenham. Same as mancs, they didn’t improve as the season will show. IN MY OPINION Oh and for the love of Dennis please… Read more »
We have The Jeff can’t we use him as a defence midfielding striker ?
Every one seems to think that we are somehow ham fisted about buying players compared to our rivals. Everyone says Jose always gets his man etc etc. But Jose quite clearly doesn’t always get his man – cos he got Costa a season later than he wanted him. So when they say they always do what it takes they are wrong. Sometimes they don’t. Pogba has been linked with every club under the sun…..as he was last summer. And yet, with 5 days to go – he’s gone nowhere. Not to Real, or Man U or Chelsea despite the paper… Read more »
I don’t think he will buy, although would be delighted to be wrong. Thing is I totally agree with Arsene when he says there is no point in buying players for the sake of it, and buying ones which improve you are either stupidly overpriced or unavailable. The problem is, as right as he is, I feel like if we don’t get a fresh injection of attacking talent to lift the squad, I feel like we will not come close to winning the league again. Time to pull a rabbit out of the hat Mr wenger.
Still think that Flamini will leave and Wenger will sign a CM/DM. A striker depends on who is available, Wenger knows he should upgrade on Giroud or provide an alternative as shown by pursuit of Suarez and Higuain earlier. Also often forgotten that Welbeck could still turn out to be a prolific striker, he is still young and has shown glimpses of his talent. He played some bas matches in the end of the season that made people forget about him.
right now you have the worst situation. a manager that is public about bringing in another striker which is undermining the confidence of his no. 1 striker. it’s not sustainable. once you’ve publicly stated you’re in the market to strengthen a weakness in the team you better strengthen. wenger has publicly stated (albeit indirectly) that giroud isn’t world class – what’s the point of that unless you’re confident of bringing in a better striker. i think the whole thing has been managed terribly.
? I don’t see any mention of a striker let alone ‘world-class’ or Giroud in that statement.
I disagree, I don’t believe that AW has ever said that OG is not “world class” nor indeed inferred it, simply that he needs back up and competition. As Henry said, he couldn’t have won the league on his own, he stated that he needed backup and assistance, albeit in the form of Pires, Bergcamp and Freddie.
he’s previously talked about the lack of striker talent in the transfer market implying that he’s looking for it and he wouldn’t be looking for it if he already had it.
He’s also previously said he’s looking in any area that will strengthen the team. When asked about strikers, he speaks about strikers. From what I’ve seen most of the time that has been saying Giroud is good and it’s difficult to improve on him with what is available. That’s very different from ‘I don’t believe in my striker’.
Charlie Austin anyone?
Miranda, i cudn.t even any further after ur post…lobsters, bloody brilliant. And i agree w every word
The best option out of this very bad situation is Draxler as a converted striker, he has composure, dribbling and balance but even that is a gamble, even Gotze because he IS actually disgruntled at his place and he is WC, there are no more WC strikers so now I think we have to attempted, dare I say it, a Thierry-style conversion because we all know how well that went when we did it with him so who knows, our squad will struggle for 4th so if we don’t we’re royally screwed
No, that is not the best option.
We would be better off playing Sanchez as our CF than buying Draxler and playing him as our CF. Give me that choice and Sanchez gets the nod 100 times out of 100.
Rubbish!
Rubbish to Gunner always not assistantref!
Coq didn’t get called up for the French squad. oh well, at least Kos, Giroud and Debuchy did. Kos will probably pull out because of his injury. Yes, it’s off topic and i stand by it.
People saying no good strikers out there. Agreed
But what’s the excuse for not signing a good DM. This was a window full of DMs. So many options we had
No matter how much money we have, we will still keep waiting for these last day bargain deals. Ozil Sanchez deals don’t always happen u know
And giroud will probably get a hatrick.
If we consider the usual difficulty associated with settling down to the physical nature of the English game, then Cavani might not be as good at Giroud because he doesn’t have “EPL experience”. My view on transfers is that players should be signed early enough to partake in pre-season and bed in with the squad. somehow, I feel the impact of a new signing will be more of a psychological boost than anything else. All the same, we need to buy.
I’d like to see a DM as back-up/ competition for Coquelin – Wanyama from Southampton maybe?
With the attacking options that we have we shouldn’t need any new additions up top; we just need to start performing at the requisite level composite to the talent that we have.
In any event, don’t think they’ll be any new arrivals.
Test.