Quote Originally Posted by Boss View Post
The mistake was selling Van Persie, not replacing him with Giroud. Once you sell a player of Van Persie's calibre, of which there are maybe only 3 players in the world on the same / better level (Messi, Ronaldo, Falcao) he becomes impossible to replace. As we're learning, of course.

Giroud was a good signing as his performances so far have shown and will only continue to get better. The fact that we have a thread slating him after less than 20 starts for us is proof that most football fans today are glory hunting filth.
Selling RVP was a mistake but I'd argue signing Giroud rather than someone proven also was.

There are players out there who'll score you goals and that's what we really needed, Giroud will miss many more than he scores, he's a sub at best IMO.