Why isn't Joel Campbell being picked ahead of Sangogo?

[Master Splinter]

I reckon we didn't plan for Campbell to be involved this season, but because of his performances over the past year he's forced his way into consideration and Wenget doesn't know what to do now.

He hasn't exactly set the world on fire in Greece or at the World Cup. We've seen players who have had bad loan spells becoming excellent players and players who've done well on loan be ignored by Wenger. I'm sure he had his mind made up a while ago on what to do with Campbell.

As Maccy referred to, the first two matches have seen our sub options curbed by injuries and a red card. And he most likely won't be competing directly with Sanogo for a place anyway.

He could be one of those players that WUMger just doesn't give much of a chance too, but we should probably give it a few months before hysteria sets in.

[Bumble]

I don't think he is a central striker so would more likely replace cazorla. Plus he had a good game against Uruguay then went quiet after that. He needs a loan to a PL club.

Giroud and sanogo are shut and won't win us the league. Need theo back so Alexis can play up front.

[Bumble]

I don't think he is a central striker so would more likely replace cazorla. Plus he had a good game against Uruguay then went quiet after that. He needs a loan to a PL club.

Giroud and sanogo are shit and won't win us the league. Need theo back so Alexis can play up front.

[mastermind84]

Sanogo is younger by a year but he is not the finished article while Jenks is? I seriously hope he comes back and makes it at Arsenal. I bet you would leave GW by then and probably the world..

its because Jenks is never going to get better.

Probably lost 2 million on him this year by him taking this loan.

[BOBN]

Sanogo is younger by a year but he is not the finished article while Jenks is? I seriously hope he comes back and makes it at Arsenal. I bet you would leave GW by then and probably the world..

Oh? Am I going on a trip?

Last player I said was finished was Wilshere and look how that one turned out. Weve lost 20million on that boy (could still get 15m).

[saintnickle]

why sell our best striker though?

For money why else.Last night was an ideal time to introduce campbell.Quick ,direct running with pace but for some reason wenger doesn't like him.In some of his interviews wenger states that he would like to keep him ,not will be keeping him which is strange as we know campbell wants to stay.Do we need to sell him to balance the books??cos if so all the talk about a 100m warchest is bollocks and we are back to our old ways of making money.If a team like arsenal can only spend 36m this window there is something seriously wrong with this club specially with all the revenue coming into the club.Why else would we be persevering with the likes of sanogo ,giroud and arteta.

[Özim]

I think Campbell has something about him from what I've seen of him, very lively and can make things happen, wouldn't hurt to give him a chance been quite impressed with him.

Mystifies me why Wenger persists with a player like Sanogo though, he's not found the net yet and everytime he gets a chance fluffs it badly, I just can't see the potential with him.

[Niall_Quinn]

Campbell is a solid player, the sort of striker you'd see at Fulham or West Ham or a top Championship team. He's direct, something we lack whenever Giroud or Sanogo are on the pitch. He's willing to take a few risks, he has enough pace, he has enough strength, he's got experience at club and International level. We should have better strikers than Campbell at Arsenal, but right now we don't - unless we're converting Alexis or Walcott (which will take time anyway). Considering Giroud can't be bothered to challenge for a header and Sanogo can't kick a ball straight and won't sit down and learn the offside rule, considering these two give us nothing up top right now, there's no reason not to play Campbell. On the surface it makes no sense at all to leave him on the sidelines while Sanogo blunders about or Giroud fluffs everything that comes hear him. There must be something weird going on behind the scenes or some sort of deal in the progress that will see Campbell on his way again. Real shame because he'd at least give us something right now, at a time when we have nothing in that position.

[I am invisible]

There's actually an interesting option there, if we pick a front 3 of Alexis, Walcott and Campbell - all 3 can play wide, and all 3 can play through the middle, so you could end up with an attack where any one of them could end up as a CF or a winger at any moment? (Also worth noting that our two main play-makers, Ozil and Cazorla, can also play central or down either flank, albeit in a slightly less advanced way). We'd have to work a bit of structure into it somehow, so it doesn't become a total free-for-all, with our whole attack just doing whatever the hell they want, but we might be able to work with it with a bit of thought?

[Xhaka Can’t]

A bit of thought never seems to come into it. Looking back over ten years ago, our success came about because Wenger assembled a team that was head and shoulders better than anyone else in the league. We then conspired to win about half the things we should have with that squad.