I swear the club deliberately leak these rumours so we'll all be grateful when we sign a slightly less shit player...Originally Posted by Munchies
Arsenal now being linked to Nicola ZIGIC from the Championship
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Put us out of it already Wenget
So thats just about everyone covered then!!!..........
Arsenal are ready to make a £50m bid for Paris St-Germain striker Edinson Cavani as Olivier Giroud, also 27, faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines. (Daily Express)
The Gunners want Manchester United striker Danny Welbeck, 23, to replace the injured Giroud, but the Red Devils are reluctant to sell. (Daily Mail)
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is also interested in a loan deal for Monaco's Colombia forward Radamel Falcao, 28, and France striker Loic Remy, 27, who is available for £8.5m from QPR . (the Guardian)
Ornstein reckons we aren't in the market for another striker, just a back up CB who can cover defensive mid. He's normally quite accurate as well
0% tax rate in Monaco hence all F1 drivers "live" there, so helps them on transfers too.
Society is now one polished horde
Formed by two mighty tribes, the bores and the bored.
"After all, it was the Gunners’ goalkeeper who started the move that culminated in Thomas’ crowning glory. It was Lukic who, in injury time, decided to throw the ball out to Lee Dixon rather than lump it long..."
Pretty much. Same thing happened when Theo was getting games up front, long balls and expecting him to play with his back to goal. Crazy.
Wenget has been hell bent on using this formation with a big man. RVC is the only striker we've had in recent memory who successfully managed to bridge the gap between midfield and attack, he won't find someone like that again so I think it's high time we tried something different.
We need someone to play off Giroud because he'd thrive off the support, it's silly leaving him to feed off scraps all the time.
I suspect it's all down to the training methods, GPS vests, calories burned per mile, heads of broccoli consumed on Wednesdays. We play statisticsball and on average it does serve to haul us to that top 4 spot every year. Deviating from it comes with a £20-£30mill risk. When new players come in they stand out a mile, Ox looks direct and exciting, Chambers looks a world beater, Campbell is the most entertaining player on the pitch. But we train it out of them. The thought of Ox as a central midfielder is a joke. He could be the classic winger. But some academic has said wingers don't work so that's that. Can't play two up top either, that's prehistoric apparently. Everyone is trapped in this fuck awful congested five man midfield that bores the fuck out of everyone but gets the results.
If Everton had more ambition in the second half against us and took the risk of continuing to play instead of shutting up shop they would have run out easy winners. We didn't force two goals, they let us back into it by being negative. Negative is what keeps contracts alive, points coming in and money rolling. But it's boring so runs counter to the whole purpose of the sport.
Our substitutions are telling. Like for like, no change in the system. One exhausted cog out, another slotted in. Machine keeps ticking. It was funny Celtic being beaten by a nobody yesterday, but the match was actually quite enjoyable to watch. Admittedly because both sides made a ton of mistakes and were low on quality. But the end to end play and the expansive passing was entertaining. And there was a drama to it, whereas with us I just yawned when we pulled a goal back because I'd already been bored to tears by that stage.
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Players will need time to adjust to new tactics and formations, we're only 2 weeks into the season and some of our key players haven't even had a pre-season. Nobody thought Wenger would play Alexis upfront against Everton but this has been part of Wenger's thinking for a while. Up until now he had to be rigid in formations because we just didn't have forwards we could trust - (either on quality or injuries) and that was Wenger's fault. But now he has a few options - he has wanted a livewire upfront. He tried for Suarez who would've been perfect but now he has landed Alexis which gives him more flexibility and he's trying it out.
I said it a few days ago but Podolski could be the 25+ goal striker we need provided we change our formation and style of play to make it less about flicks and hold up play from the striker.
Wengeritis - the disease that turns a decent player into a shit liability because of the managers insistence of playing square pegs in round holes. Notable victims are Thomas Vermaelen and Andrei Arshavin. Santiago Cazorla is infected and Mezut Ozil is showing symptoms.
He played Alexis up top but in Giroud's role - what's the point of that? Then Giroud comes on to play Giroud's role and mysteriously it works. We're fitting players to systems rather than building systems from the players we have. We've already shown the trend can be successfully defeated when we were winning titles. Then Barca went on to show the norm can be overcome when you have the quality. We've got some genuine world class quality in the team now but really, what's the point of Ozil if all he's tasked with doing is holding the ball on the left and tapping it around with the full back until eventually somebody puts in a shit cross or hits it across the pitch for another round of tippy tappy?
Once we've seen Ozil break from the midfield and really run at the defence and he looked bloody great doing it. Ramsey would thrive if we had runners. Too much of our play goes through full backs that aren't called Ashley Cole. Our fullbacks are always too tight to the wide man. The wide man is hardly ever running into space and often takes the ball surrounded by defenders. Plus a hundred other things. I'm not saying Wenger is wrong in all this, undoubtedly this is the modern game and he's doing what everyone is doing. Just saying the modern game is shit and boring and I think we have the players who could try something different.
Here's the thing, Lee Cattermole would work in our current system. We talk about Khedira and Carvalho and Bender, but what would they actually be required to do? We're spending money on ballerinas so we can use them for mud wrestling. Waste of money. If you're going to buy Ozil then use him. And of course buy the closest thing you can get to Ronaldo - which is not Sanogo.
Ozil and Sanogo on the same team. Can anyone say that's not a joke?
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