Match Reaction vs The 'Ammers (away).

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Some people thought it was debatable that we needed a first choice striker over Giroud a couple of months ago. Theo and Poldolski are good players but not great ones. There's a lot of room for improvement there.

I agree with you if we had to choose between a £40m CF and a £40m wide forward. We've already spent that kind of money on the wrong player. A lot of us spent the summer saying that we didn't need Ozil and that we needed one or two forwards and in the end we've had to move Cazorla on the left to accommodate Ozil, resulting in Santi stinking up the place on the left. It hasn't worked.

We don't even need to spend that kind of money, before the last transfer window I didn't think we'd spend more than £20m on one player. We can still find great players for that price, you just have to look harder.

As for playing Reus as the CF - he definitely has all the raw ingredients but you can never tell unless it's tried. Henry was a winger too before he joined us.

The debate over our forward options is very different to our debate over our wide options....especially considering we have Cazorla, Podolski, Ozil, Walcott and Gnabry who can all do a convincing job wide and only 1 man who can do a convincing job at CF....and even that was up for more debate at the time.

Cazorla played a heck of a lot wide left last season. Even if we are accommodating Ozil by playing Santi left now, I think it is very unfair to attribute Santi's poor form to Ozil and 'shifting' Santi to a position he actually plays more times than not.

Henry was 6'2 had pace, power, and all the ball ability in the world. Reus doesn't have anything like the power or even pace. If we are suggesting giving him a free role (like Cronaldo or Bale at Spurs) then fine, but I really have been yet to be convinced by the idea of Reus as a CF in a 433. I just can't get my head round why so many think it's a great idea.