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    Quote Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie View Post
    Ha i don't know why you're asking me as if i have a greater window into Wenger's mind than you do

    All i'm going is from what i heard and what i heard is that Perez was a signing to mollify fans because Welbeck was out until the end of the year (his preference was to wait until he came back rather than go into the transfer market).
    What makes this whole saga all the more comical is that Wenger's preferred starting strikers (Giroud and Welbeck) are nowhere near the standard required for a team who have ambitions to be challenging for titles.

    I've given up with Wenger when it comes to upgrading the striker position, he just isn't going to do it. We are going through the same thing in Central Midfield.

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    Quote Originally Posted by selassie View Post
    What makes this whole saga all the more comical is that Wenger's preferred starting strikers (Giroud and Welbeck) are nowhere near the standard required for a team who have ambitions to be challenging for titles.

    I've given up with Wenger when it comes to upgrading the striker position, he just isn't going to do it. We are going through the same thing in Central Midfield.
    It is the same thing with the midfield. He can stumble upon a solution but he’ll revert back to the same garbage that has us dropping points. This is why people think he’s clueless. Last season, our best performances came against Utd and Bayern with Walcott playing as striker. The season before that we saw how easily we dealt with Villa with Theo leading the line. You would have thought something would have clicked in his brain to stick with Walcott up front and have him learn the position. But he reverted back to Giroud and our season fell apart. What’s done is done but you’d at least hope that he’s learned that we need a striker with pace and mobility to stretch teams.

    When he bought Perez and started playing Sanchez up front, it looked like something finally clicked. Sanchez is one of the top goal scorers in the league and he’s flying in that role. But something goes off in Wenger’s head to switch him out to the wing. What’s worse is that he’s not even trying Perez there he’s gone back to playing guys that have more than enough playing time up front and failed time and time again.

    I don’t know where this idea comes from that we need a big player like Giroud to hold the ball. The commentator kept on saying it when Alexis was up front for Leicester City. We’ve all seen what happens when we have a target man as seen against Spurs.

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    The idea of a big man up top to link play was relevant when our midfield had guile. Now though it's completely redundant.

    I cannot believe Giroud has found his way back into the team.

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    We were looking so much more dangerous up top.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Delusions of Grandeur View Post
    It is the same thing with the midfield. He can stumble upon a solution but he’ll revert back to the same garbage that has us dropping points. This is why people think he’s clueless. Last season, our best performances came against Utd and Bayern with Walcott playing as striker. The season before that we saw how easily we dealt with Villa with Theo leading the line. You would have thought something would have clicked in his brain to stick with Walcott up front and have him learn the position. But he reverted back to Giroud and our season fell apart. What’s done is done but you’d at least hope that he’s learned that we need a striker with pace and mobility to stretch teams.

    When he bought Perez and started playing Sanchez up front, it looked like something finally clicked. Sanchez is one of the top goal scorers in the league and he’s flying in that role. But something goes off in Wenger’s head to switch him out to the wing. What’s worse is that he’s not even trying Perez there he’s gone back to playing guys that have more than enough playing time up front and failed time and time again.

    I don’t know where this idea comes from that we need a big player like Giroud to hold the ball. The commentator kept on saying it when Alexis was up front for Leicester City. We’ve all seen what happens when we have a target man as seen against Spurs.
    Oh I agree, only Arsene knows why he has made the changes he has made. One thing that is clear is that it's a massive mistake.

    I mentioned this before but I have a feeling Wenger has removed Sanchez from the centre forward position as some kind of punishment for his apparent falling out with his team mates and bad behaviour. The whole thing is a complete mess and of Wenger's doing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by selassie View Post
    Oh I agree, only Arsene knows why he has made the changes he has made. One thing that is clear is that it's a massive mistake.

    I mentioned this before but I have a feeling Wenger has removed Sanchez from the centre forward position as some kind of punishment for his apparent falling out with his team mates and bad behaviour. The whole thing is a complete mess and of Wenger's doing.
    I agree. He seems petty enough to pull that sort of stunt. Now that he's not scoring as much since being shunted over to the wing, the smear campaign about his attitude is having more of an effect. It's now easier to justify selling him!

    Clubs an absolute joke.

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    I'm not convinced by that to be honest, not because I don't think Wenger would do that. It's because Sanchez hasn't frequently been playing up front since post Xmas.

    It's more to do with Wengers stubborn and idiosyncratic behaviour. Wenger as we know cares less about formation and shape than he does shoehorning his favourite players into the side.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie View Post
    I'm not convinced by that to be honest, not because I don't think Wenger would do that. It's because Sanchez hasn't frequently been playing up front since post Xmas.

    It's more to do with Wengers stubborn and idiosyncratic behaviour. Wenger as we know cares less about formation and shape than he does shoehorning his favourite players into the side.
    Which was when it was widely reported that contract talks had broken down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie View Post
    I'm not convinced by that to be honest, not because I don't think Wenger would do that. It's because Sanchez hasn't frequently been playing up front since post Xmas.

    It's more to do with Wengers stubborn and idiosyncratic behaviour. Wenger as we know cares less about formation and shape than he does shoehorning his favourite players into the side.
    There have been games this year where Welbeck or even Walcott have been playing through the middle over Sanchez.

    Wenger won't play Sanchez there anymore, it's totally crazy TBH.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Delusions of Grandeur View Post
    Which was when it was widely reported that contract talks had broken down.
    And also he was playing Giroud because he'd run into a rich vein of form and didn't feel he could drop him (stupid i know but that's Wenger for you)

    Wenger never really wanted to play Sanchez up front and i think he felt the lack of options made it necessary and he stuck with it

    Wenger as we know doesn't innovate he stumbles upon things by accident or circumstance.

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