Sami Khedira

[Power n Glory]

Rooney is an example of a club holding on to a player for too long when he wants a new challenge. They should have let him go ages ago but instead they've kept him, fed him until he's fat and now looks like a sloppy, slothful mess! He's done it all at Manure. Domestic cups, the league, Champs League....time for him to move on. If he doesn't respond to that vicious bastard, Van Gaal, then nothing will motivate him staying at that club. He still has talent and he's young enough to recover.

As for the Giroud comparisons... Form and talent. I highly doubt Giroud will be going all beast mode for us this season. It's just not within his capacity to lead the line in that way. It's just not in his makeup to be a complete menace and influential. We're always going to be looking at Ozil, Sanchez, Cazorla, Ramsey or Walcott. One of them goes out injured and we'd lose something vital. The only problem with Giroud going out injured is that we only have Sanogo as an alternative.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

@Blackburngeorge Jul 18
Giroud's goals directly earned more points than any other striker in the league last year. I bet you didn't know that?


AFC Leveller

[Niall_Quinn]

Rooney's that cheating diving cunt who didn't have anywhere near enough talent to end our unbeaten run so had to flop in the box (almost as big a flop as his participation in the recent World Cup) and steal a goal. Is that the same Rooney we are talking about? The one that's cheated in the same way throughout his miserable and massively over-rated career? The cunt who really is stealing a living with his ludicrous £300Kpw deal? Giroud's one of ours, Rooney is close on the biggest cunt in football. Any Arsenal fan who wants to be in any way objective when it comes to Rooney is getting the whole football fan thing wrong. I don't care if he's better or worse than Giroud, just so long as he's dead.

[Özim]

Wouldn't want Rooney here, however let's be honest Giroud is sh*t and it wouldn't be hard to find an upgrade on him, he's a sub at best. We've got Sanchez now of course and he's class, still feel Giroud needs replacing tho.

[BOBN]

I'm in no way saying that Giroud is the greatest striker in the PL. All I'm saying is that he also did not always have the best supply up front.. our football is a bunch of dilly dally backward passing BS. Give him a chance to play with quick counter attacking players around him and see him look like a much better player.

He had that at the world cup, he was shit.

Final straw for me.

[AFC Leveller]

I agree with some of your points but stronger and better goal record? Someone just posted he has a better goal record than Rooney in the last 2 seasons. So how exactly is that a better goal scoring record? I think they are equal in terms of work ethic, though Rooney has a much much better technique. As for big game player, I have seen Rooney do fuck all in many big games. He usually has a spurt of 6-7 games where he will go batshit insane and then we will just ride on the goals from those games.

I'm in no way saying that Giroud is the greatest striker in the PL. All I'm saying is that he also did not always have the best supply up front.. our football is a bunch of dilly dally backward passing BS. Give him a chance to play with quick counter attacking players around him and see him look like a much better player.

Giroud is a 2nd rate striker who does not have the ability to dominate games or score regularely. His best ever season was at Montpellier where he got 21 goals....in the French league. We will NOT win the league with him as the main man and i think you know it. Rooney hasnt had the best of seaons in the last couple of years but he is by far the better player (and a ****). If Wenger (Giroud's biggest fan) was offered the chance to sign Rooney, im 100 percent sure he'd do it in no time.

Yes Giroud was knackered last season and didnt have the likes of Theo, Ramsey and Ozil to play with for large parts but that doesnt change the fact that he is slow and can't finish. not only that but towards the last few months last season he became this moaning lamp post who did eff all for us and was a hindrance to our attacking play.

[AFC Leveller]

@Blackburngeorge Jul 18
Giroud's goals directly earned more points than any other striker in the league last year. I bet you didn't know that?


AFC Leveller

Yeah, we all know stats tell the whole story!


did you know that Giroud played more minutes than any other striker last season yet got les than 20 goals in the league? his ratio of 27 in 70 says it all.

[AFC Leveller]

He had that at the world cup, he was shit.

Final straw for me.

Eggsakly.

I dont think he has the mentality to be the best, he lacks that aggression and ruthlesness to be a top guy for us. Its bad enough that he is average but The amount of times he moans everytime a defender touches him is frustrating and then keeps complaining to the ref.

[Marc Overmars]

Giroud is not a ruthless striker and that's what sets the best apart, but he's far from shit.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Most of us judge players on what we see..... sometimes the stats will back up what is there for us to see and sometimes they won't.....at least ostensibly.

That stat above seems to work in Giroud's favour and yet you cannot discard the fact that last year Rooney got 17 league goals and Giroud got 13/14. That is just off the top of my head so anybody is welcome to correct me. If you are talking about a push for the title then that stat works in Rooney favour.

I cannot stand the fat ginger twat, concur that his time at Manure has probably passed and it may be down hill from here on, but I am in absolutely no doubt whatsoever that Rooney is a better player than Giroud. Whether or not he would work better for this team is debatable but Giroud is certainly behind him imho.

I agree with AFC Lev that Bony is a better player too. I just don't see that if Bony was in this side that we would be any less effective than with Giroud and he would take more of his chances.