Haven't played it since the 03/04 version tbh.Originally Posted by A Gunner
Haven't played it since the 03/04 version tbh.
We need a top striker. But so do Man United, so do Liverpool, so do Chelsea (they will want competition for Costa as nobody else has done the job). It will be interesting to see what happens in the summer, but if we don't sign anyone up front we have no chance of winning the league. Or cross our fingers that Giroud/Welbeck/Theo make a sudden, miraculous improvement, which is Wenger's normal plan of action. If Wenger doesn't sign a striker, I think there is a strong case for giving Alexis another shot as the CF (but an extended run this time rather than just one half).
We could do with a goalkeeper too. Ospina is decent, but has actually made a lot of mistakes, including in the games we were knocked out of the Champions league and League cup. If Chesney didn't go full retard mode at the start of the season I think there would have been a strong case of dropping Ospina a couple of times.
I don't think signing a new DM would improve us that much. Coquelin has been brilliant there. He's a defender first and foremost and loves the physical side of the game. He's also deceptively quick which comes in handy when we're defending counter attacks or when he's covering the fullbacks. Ok, his passing isn't the best but a quick, simple pass is all he really needs to do, especially when he has the likes of Cazorla, Ozil and Ramsey available who can do a lot more damage with their distribution. By all means, bring in someone like Schneiderlin for competition and depth, but only after we've signed a striker and a keeper, who will make much more of a difference.
Emirates goonie....
To peddle the popular line.... which I hate to do but is kind of true, we need to strengthen right down the spine. That means down at the back and in attack. Where I differ to others is that I think the mooted 4 world class players down that spine (which is never, never going to happen all this summer) isn't quite the necessity it is made out to be. I think a genuinely world class striker (beats me who!), and an addition like Kondogbia/Vidal alone will put us right in there with a title challenge.
Sure find a world class CB if you can get one and/or a keeper but I think Gabriel and Sneezy are capable to coin a Wengerism 'internal solutions'. To add further weight to the problem with the popular 4 world class addition solution.......if we can't pull off Cech, who precisely can we pick up as a world class keeper? An undisputed world class keeper? Neuer? Lloris? De Gea? It's clearly not an easy thing to do. Similarly at CB.....I'd say Hummels is a world class defender and there are others like you who'd dispute that so that goes some way to showing how difficult it is to bring in 4 undisputed world class players.
If you're going to pick 1 world class player out of any of those positions and lest we forget a genuinely world class player can easily cost 50 million, then you'd pick him to be the centre forward. A world class centre back is a beautiful thing for a long lasting dynasty but a world class forward is more likely to go and win you the game, even the games you should NOT win.
A world class forward covers a multitude of sins. After we score the amount of goals Cronaldo would score us, we may as well play Steve Bould at CB for all it will matter.
Last edited by Blink 1nce Quince 2wice; 07-06-2015 at 12:14 PM.
We do need a top striker, but not a wanker like Ronaldo. We want somebody who will integrate into a team that is starting to come together. A prick like Ronaldo would tear everything apart. It would become all about him and his posing and posturing and moaning when anyone else tries to step up. The striker position is tough, there are so few out there that would genuinely improve us without bringing a ton of unwanted baggage.
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Beggars can't be choosers and Cronaldo will go down as one of the greatest, we've signed bigger cocks than him and with half the talent. He's a big ego that's all and whilst he'd do his preening, posturing everything else we'd be winning titles and be in a position to sell if he got completely out of hand. He is no more a despicable human being than Suarez who most were quite happy to see come here.
Either way we're never going to sign, exchange rub a genie in a lamp or lick a charmed toad to bring that sort of calibre through the door anyway.
I wish you lot would just come out with it and say you think Koscielny is the best CB on earth though. You're amongst gooners after all.
Koscielny's performances speak for themselves. There's no one int eh premier league I'd swap him for.
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I already said Kos has been the best CB in the league this season. And he has. He hasn't been playing in the best back five but when he's in the team the difference is like night and day.
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Ronaldo is everything football shouldn't be as far as I'm concerned. An absolute twat, a cheat, playing for himself rather than the team. The opposite of Messi. The opposite of Zidane, Pele. Comparable to that druggie little cheat Maradona who was another superb talent but with too many fleas to ever be considered in favourable terms.
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To be clear I love Koscielny....and he's even managed to kick his habit of a comical own goal/pen. I just think not swapping him for Cronaldo is madness.
The best on earth?
I'm not sure the Messi + Ronaldo + £50mill for Kos posting was serious. Of course we'd swap him for Messi + £50mill (they can keep that cunt Ronaldo)
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