I was of the opinion we needed a different kind of striker but it's evident that Giroud is possibly the reason our style of play is working at the moment. If we're going to play with a sea of ball playing midfielders we're going to need a focal point to it, so another tall striker would be ideal for consistency.Originally Posted by She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
I don't think it's Girouds's tallness that makes him excellent for our system, tbf.
Is it his beautiful face and chiselled abs?
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Well just his overall presence and work rate really.
I'm sure Wenget could fine tune Dzeko. I don't really think artificial environments like City is the best place for any player to hone their ability.
No, its his big dick
Arsene Wenger, the only football manager that got paid 8 million quid to do nothing but sit on his arse..
There's a picture of it doing the rounds.
It's...big.
doesn't he play for galatassaray (sp)
Goetze was like 18 back then, tbf.
German players tend not to leave Bundesliga unless they get ridiculous money offer because they get paid very well in Germany.
Once upon a time on ahfc, Theo's numbers were passed off as merely the result of RvP's brilliance. His numbers subsequently improved the season after when the Skunk was no longer there any more.
I think his lack of technical ability at times has meant many gooners are quicker to slight him in a football sense, even to the point where they marginalise what he does have going for him.
Part of the genius of Wenger is to recognise that players with natural attacking ability do not so much need coaching as their skills need honing. To put it differently, he is wary of formulating or overly contriving a method in which they can use their skills. Rather he sets an adaptable framework. The flip side of that is that Wenger is less likely to tell Cazorla/Ozil/another to play on the shoulder to stretch the game a little. He may say things that imply to the player that they should consider it but he won't necessarily expressly and explicitly state it to a player directly. That is why so many players under him feel 'liberated' imo.
In Theo's absence somebody needs to be trying to stretch the play by varying their own play and getting beyond the oppositions back line. Wenger likes Rosicky because he seems to have a natural knack for sensing when he should do as much, when to drop back, when to push on and when to look for a ball behind the lines. That is hard to coach. We have enough intelligent players on the field at any one time to make it work, but Theo's persistence and speed with stretching the play means a defence never gets a rest and the lines between the oppositions back line and midfield are wider for longer periods of time. That liberates others who need not worry so much about varying their own game. Que the on rushing midfield wizards we have in midfield. Give them an inch and they usually take a yard.
Djeko's ability is a little marginalised too because of his bit part of role, but he is a well rounded player in my view. In an ideal world the next forward through the door would offer something significantly different to Giroud, but I'd take two Giroud's over one + Bendtner....that's not to say that Djeko precisely the same player though.
He was 19 and his age was part of the reason he represented such a good acquisition. He was reasonably expected to improve for some considerable time at his age and as much as we hate to think about it, he would probably retain an incredible and increasing resale value in business terms.
At the time he was already a regular at this club and one of the best players in Germany and that was the reason why the wages he was on was made public at all. As a player and as an economist he represented the sort of deal Wenger looks to do and I am pretty sure Wenger was watching him closely, although he was a lot more hesitant shall we say about parting with the sort of money he would have cost.
We pay Podolski 100k and we signed him from Cologne, so yeah, we have to pay good players accordingly, but Goetze's scenario was quite a unique one at the time really.
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