Get rid of Giroud ?

[Marc Overmars]

Giroud doesn't score enough and is fairly limited but he's better than Chakma.

Which isn't exactly a ringing endorsement I know.

[Munchies]

He's had two terrible games in a row, highlighting the obvious point we are a top striker short of winning something this season.

But he's not even close to the shit levels Chamakh dropped to.

I'd rather have Chamakh to be fair. Faster, and the same aerial threat. He was on a great run early on before Wenger dropped him for RVC.

FFS Wenger, what's it coming to now ?!??

[Power n Glory]

I hated Chamakh with a passion but he's very close to Chamakh's level because he can't retain possession of the ball and keep our play ticking. Chamakh was more than capable of doing that but he was a blunt knife. Was too afraid to shoot. Giroud's touch is really heavy at the moment so he's not helping us hold possession high up the pitch. The best thing he has going for him is his strength and work rate.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

I promise you weve been saying this word for word for over a year. going into last years January window we all knew we were short a striker and everybody said there was nobody to buy. In that time, Sturridge, Negredo, Balotelli, Ba, Remy, Bony have all moved for sensible money and would all have comfortably improved our first team, and those are just the names my insular brain can muster, i'm sure theres plenty more across Europe.

The players are out there, there is simply no excuse.

Balotelli - Psycopath, can't behave himself no matter who he plays for
BA - I don't see how he's good enough, i don't see how he would add what we need (pace up front)
Remy - Not convinced he's good enough either
Bony - Not been impressed by what i've seen, he's done ok for Swansea but nothing convinces me he could actually improve us.

Again what i mean is that making those kind of signings in January is impossible, it's not defending Wenger because he should have bought the striker we needed in the Summer and it should have been Higuain he was tailor made for us but we let him go to Napoli because of our absurd pipe dream of signing Suarez

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Controversial, but Giroud is probably one of the worst strikers we’ve had leading our line. Right now, he’s playing the sort of football that had everyone berating Chamakh and Bendy. It’s that bad. A poor touch, missing loads of chances whilst remaining immobile and not getting inside the box. It’s like a fusion of both Chamakh and Bendy to create this lump of shit on our pitch. It drives me mental to see him constantly coming towards the ball instead of making runs into the box. He always comes short but what makes him worse than Chamakh is that he’s always coming in with a heavy and clumsy touch. He loses possession a lot when he tries to come short. He’s dispossessed easily and his passing statistics aren’t good enough for him to keep coming deep. We’re talking 50/60% pass completion. We don’t need him coming short all the time just to flick it to the opposition. It’s not intelligent play. He needs a bench.

I don't see how that's controversial, in the past twenty years we have had Bergkamp, Wright, Henry, Van Persie leading our line.....that Giroud compares to any of those is patently non sensical. It's not really his fault, i think the pressure of expectation is getting to him and he's not putting away makable opportunites....you can't really say he's being lazy or doesn't care but we are bashing our heads against a brick wall with him

[Power n Glory]

Balotelli - Psycopath, can't behave himself no matter who he plays for
BA - I don't see how he's good enough, i don't see how he would add what we need (pace up front)
Remy - Not convinced he's good enough either
Bony - Not been impressed by what i've seen, he's done ok for Swansea but nothing convinces me he could actually improve us.

Again what i mean is that making those kind of signings in January is impossible, it's not defending Wenger because he should have bought the striker we needed in the Summer and it should have been Higuain he was tailor made for us but we let him go to Napoli because of our absurd pipe dream of signing Suarez

They'd be an improvement over Giroud. His current form is killing us. Immobile, terrible touch and missing chances.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

I don't agree that they would, it's not about current form...Giroud simply does not have the ability to do what we are asking of him.....we have no pace on the wing so when he's holding the ball up he's holding it up for the congested cluster of central midfielders where invariably the ball will be cut out by a deep lying defence.
Remy has a nice burst of pace but considering none of our midfield has he would not be much benefit to us on the counter attack as it will fizzle out by the time it gets to him as he doesn't have the strength or ability to take multitudes of players on the way a Higuain or Suarez could.
Balotelli is a very average striker for someone who would cause us so much trouble and completley destroy any dressing room harmony that we had. Bony and Ba we'd have the same problem as Giroud, both would be starved off service left holding up the ball in a congested midfield....and nothing to prove that they have the finesse to kill off the chances against the top sides any more than Giroud has.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

I'm not defending Giroud i'm really not, but the names you are mentioning would not leave us any better off....we bought Giroud because he was avaliable and had a good season with Montpellier there was no consideration about how he would fit into our side anymore than there was with Podolski.
In the mean time expect Wenger to drown our squad with a plethora of central midfielders who play exactly the same way in the summer...Draxler etc

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Oh and buying strikers like Mandzukic who will offer us nothing more than Giroud in terms of pace

[selassie]

However, I lay the blame for Giroud's profligacy firmly at Wenger's door. His bids for Suarez and Higuain show that he is well aware that a title challenging team needs a top striker - but he either won't make sure we get one - or his executive team are too inept to enable us to do so. Personally, I think its the former. He would rather throw the league (as long as he thinks he can get 4th) than pay a penny more than his own skewed valuation says a player is worth. Neither will he change the way his team plays and give us some fucking width to allow Giroud more room in the box.

Yep me too, I am pretty certain it's Wenger, his valuations and his lack of flexibility in regards to the teams tactics.

I don't think anyone can really defend Wenger when it comes to his neglect of our forward line, it's borderline criminal. It's not a new trait either, he neglected central midfield and central defence before.