Our lack of quality in the final third is shocking. I'm not just talking about our centre forwards, pretty much all of our players are ineffective at breaking down teams and scoring goals and make it hard work every game. Toothless.
There's no chance of getting Suarez, if he moves it will be to one of the really big clubs like Barca, or Real, he seems happy at Liverpool, they look like they'll be in the CL and to be honest they are probably on an upward cycle and a marginally better side than us overall, can't see why he would want to move to us now tbh.
Years ago I remember being infuriated that Wenger had replaced Viera with Cesc. Cesc was talented but too young to take up the burden He would slow our play down so much, then what does Wenger do? Build the team around him. We went form having a powerful, mobile, box to box all rounder, complemented by a sitter in Gilberto to an young inexperienced AMF learning to play CMF and slowing our counters down, and with Gilberto being a sitter we now had sitters. Later on Cesc came good but it took a while when because wasn't ready for the role.
Then Wenger changed to a possession based style intead of our faster movement based attacking style, and here we are. Little movement, dribbling and penetration, just sideways and backwards passing.
Lack of pace in our attacks that's the problem, when we have played with pace (very rarely) we've looked dangerous, unfortunately Wenger is obssessed with tippy tappy and just won't let it go.
I think it's boring and largely ineffective, we're better to watch when we release the ball quickly and don't check back or pass it sideways, we're also more likeley to score. The manager is just too stubborn for his own good.
Pretty much and on top of that it's shite to watch to be honest, but you know how it is, he never learns and sticks to his guns year on year. You'd think after failing to pick up anything for 8 years he might consider something different.
I won't pull any punches, I put all the blame on Wenger for this, his team, his tactics, his subs, his team selections, his style of play, his decisions not to sign players and rely on crocks.
I also think that this team knows it has more or les reached its target (top 4) and can afford to take things easily now. These players and manager only get going when their beloved trophy is in danger of slipping away. When Villa were good in 08/09, Wenger went out and bought Arshavin and gave a really good go to make sure we finished top 4. Last season, when we lost to Spuds and looked likely to miss out, the team suddently found their mojo and got there in the end.
I just think that they only get going if/when CL footy is in danger.