Quote Originally Posted by The Emirates Gallactico View Post
In the age of Social Media and twitter, things travel fast. Surprised you haven't heard his comments by now Blink; they've become a big news item by themselves.

As for the Henry comments, I thoroughly disagree with them. Giroud's stats are no worse than Costa's who's about to win the league with the Rent-Boy's ...... we can win a league with him up top, especially if you have top quality around him as we currently do. Bayern fucking won the treble with Mandzukic who's worse than Giroud imo. We may not perpetually dominate Europe but a league is certainly possible ..... I mean it's not been because of Giroud that we've failed this year, our problems have mainly been at the other end. That being said, if an upgrade is possible and available then we should certainly be open to getting him in and I think Giroud is the type of guy who would welcome competition. However when it comes to getting world class striker's in, it's not a matter of shopping at Tesco's and picking something of the shelf to use a common Wenger analogy.

Unfortunately for Thierry, he's part of the pundit class now and after receiving some public criticism of his punditery recently (article in the guardian) which tbh objectively hasn't been that great, he's probably been told by the Sky producers to ramp it up and start being more controversial which he's done here. It shouldn't detract from his legend status at the club and any so call fan using it to slag him of personally (there have been some prats on twitter) need to fuck off.
When Henry spoke on Sky, I immediately thought of his outburst before the Spurs game. I don't think he's said anything we haven't said on here and I think he's being genuine. We really need to make some changes in how we prepare for a season because our slow start has hampered our chances of winning the title. It was the same last season. We need to do better in the summer and stop making excuses for ourselves.

Henry said Giroud has been good and fine striker but he's not going to win you the league. That's on the money. His record in big games isn't up to par and it's never a case that he's been an absolute thorn in the oppositions side. He needs to really up his performances against top opposition. If not, we need another top player to step up where Giroud drops off.

Henry said the same applies to a lot of the players. Ozil is another example he used. He needs to come out firing next season because he's another one that hasn't done the magic for us on the big stage. Maybe next season we'll see more from both players, Ozil especially, because he seems to be finding his stride whilst Giroud is in the form of his life. It's not impossible to win the league with a striker like Giroud, but we need another player to step up with the goals. We really missed Theo's goals and assists this year along with Ramsey's crazy form from last year. Imagine if we had that.

Which is where Henry was saying we need the players to step their game up if we're not going to buy in the summer. We also need our medical team to keep players fit for the season so they can stay in form, another point Henry made. There isn't anything he said that hasn't been said on here before and if we carry on in the same way, won't be saying again in 6 months time.