Quote Originally Posted by Syn View Post
I'm tired of this formation talk. Am I the only one who thinks that once an attacking player keeps getting the ball in good positions, he should have no excuse for failing to deliver? Lets get some basics straight - attacking players have to score goals. Gervinho should be scoring goals. He isn't and so he isn't doing his job well. He gets into good positions and hasn't been delivering.

Arshavin should be played in the hole, Walcott should be played upfront etc...I don't give a fuck. When they get into good positions, they have to be doing much more than they are. Ramsey, too. No exuses - if you get the ball 25 yards out, fucking do something useful with it instead of nervously edging it out to Sagna to hit the first man on the cross.

Sorry to sit on the fence a bit but I can see both LDG and PnG's point about Sessingyoung (don't care how its splet). I don't think we should have to look for top quality players. I'm still happy with the Arteta and Mertesacker signings. But if we're going to make small improvements, we need a few more of them to compensate for the lack of one big improvement. But it's not sustainable to buy lots of players and keep the disproportionately large squad we'll need just because we can't sort out the issue of why we get so many injuries. We make a good signing, he'll play a month and get injured for the next 5. What's the point.
This is the thing though. I've stuck by this lot through thick and thin....well, just thin, for the last few years. I've always thought we're capable. And I've never really thought we need much more than we've had. Quality back up maybe, but not much more.

The problem is, we haven't been producing; and if it gives the club, the fans and everyone a lift, to see an exciting big name player sign for us, then I'm all for it.

You're right with the positional thing. They're all capapble footballers. And I'm sure they score shitloads in training....but that's what it boils down to I guess. Our training involves training for matches we'd like them to be. Not training for matches that ARE going to be....94 mins on a pockmarked pitch in the north east, for example.