Yes He's shit.
No.
Never impressed but he hardly has had a full game upfront to get used to it.Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
I'd just leave him up there for the whole game, if a chance falls to him, he's far more likely to put it away.
I don't really buy the argument that Giroud holds the ball up and links play, he's got crap control and loses the ball soon after. He can't be any worse than Giroud in that aspect.
I've been trying to let him off the hook for a while now but he's just too limited and just not good enough. Even his 'link-up play' had got us excited after his few Bergkamp like touches at the start of the season, but it has gone to shit since. I don't see anything he brings to the team that Podolski wouldn't (even if Podolski isn't a top striker himself). It's not his fault and so I don't see the point of hurling abuse at him, but by the same token, the next time he manages to do something half decent, let's spare the 'Giroud is awesome' talk. I think Wenger knew he wasn't good enough which us why he spent the summer trying to find a better striker.
A club aiming for the title needs a striker that can take half-chances. Forget a world class player like Van Persie, Adebayor is a much better player overall than Giroud. Wenger at least saw he had some pace and finishing ability.
Toanswer the actual question of the thread....what good will getting rid of him do? Given that we can only rid ourselves of him this summer which also coincides with Bendtner getting the hell on out......
Are we really suggesting that Podolski/Sanogo be first choice and Park backup?
What we need to be doing is signing a world class forward and letting Giroud watch the game from the bench thinking about how quickly and how few chances he will need to score when he does come on.
Not signing a top forward was always going to be a problem. Didn't need to be clairvoyant to see that last summer.
I agree, but it's a sh*t idea to be honest, sick of seeing his obsession with midfielders being played out, it just doesn't work how many years will it take for him to understand you need strikers who can score goals to win stuff....without them you come up against the big boys and put out powderpuff attacks with nothing at the end of them.
If Wenger was the maverick scientist hes portrayed as he would have got Adebayor back this summer when the Suarez thing went wonky.
But hes meek and scared and populist and now obsessed with feeble unathletic players.
Get rid of Giroud, Podolski and Bendtner and arguably many of the midfield too
Arteta for a start, and arguably Flamini as well (not a criticism of him i think he's been great this season and has given us a solidity we have missed in front of the back four, but he hasn't the ability to help us in big games and was only ever intended as a stop gap). I think also arguably you have a decision to make over which one of Ramsey or Wilshere goes, i think the Midfield is being congested in the centre and they play very similar games. Diaby definitley needs to go, maybe Rosicky as well as time just isn't on his side in his career anymore.
You stop this nonsense of turning the Ox into a central midfielder, we already have far too many already...and lacking pace on the wing......ditto Gnabry....both need to play on the wing
Than you bring in a player like Pogba, the nearest player you can get to being Patrick Vieira at this moment in time without being Yaya Toure (i could actually cry when i think we had him on trial with us ten years ago).
I would also get rid of Monreal in defence (i'm sorry he's too slow and his shortcomings were horrifically exposed in the drubbings by City and Liverpool this season).
Don't ask me who i'd bring in as a striker because i don't even know how many decent avaliable strikers are out there, it astonishes me that we didn't nail down our interest in Higuain (getting Liverpool to sell us Suarez was never going to fly) as he has the burst of pace that we are seriously lacking up front.
Mandzukic would not be a good signing, ditto Diego Costa i think they would both more fit into Chelsea's team rather than Ours......Benzema is also too slow. My preference would be someone like Alexis Sanchez however his season with Barcelona would render that almost impossible in my view.
I guess this is why i can understand why we didn't sign a striker in January, who do you sign?
^ Wait, Rosicky to go ?
He's one of our best players, never stops running, and has decent pace on him. He increases the speed of our game.
Yep. The midfield is talented but goal scorers they are not. None of them seem particularly willing to chance their arm (except for maybe Cazorla), it's always just look for a killer ball and pass up responsibility where possible.
We were really fortunate Ramsey went mental because he was putting in the numbers of a top striker, now he's crocked the spotlight has fallen on Giroud and confirmed what we all suspected about him.
I agree also that Giroud is not benefitted by the lack of pace on the wings, but what alarms me so much is the chances that are presented to him that he misses, if he was absent in games i could perhaps understand it more but when he has good chances like he had tonight he makes a dogs dinner almost every time especially against the top sides.
I agree but he's also 33 now and can't be relied on game in, game out. I love him don't get me wrong and i think at his best he is the most technically gifted player we have at the club on the ball, but there is no room for sentiment....sentiment doesn't put this abject nine year gap without a trophy to an end.
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