Is Wenger right about Walcott?

[Power n Glory]

i didnt say Giroud should be our main guy, but IM also not gonna shit on him either. He has been very prolific for us.

The point I am making is I dont think Wenger decided to not buy fast strikers (well its not really fast strikers, but players with great movement). Those strikers cost a lot of money and the club could not afford them in the period prior to Giroud.

A player like Bony and Ba are not that pacy and play similar to Giroud. Remy just isnt that good.

The closest we got was Suarez, and we got him until Liverpool decided not to honor his contract.

I don’t believe quick mobile players weren’t available in the market at the time. World Class players that were quick and mobile…yes I’d agree there weren’t many around for cheap but I think we’re really stretching things if you Giroud was the fastest player we could find at that price and quality. I already mentioned the Dortmund players and Suarez at Ajax.

It also goes back further to when we signed Chamakh. It’s partly born out of circumstance but I believe it’s tactical because Wenger was reluctant to play short strikers on their own up front. We bought Vela as a striker but Wenger wouldn’t play him through the middle on his own. Pushed him wide when we were playing 4-3-3. He did the same to Eduardo and we’ve had Walcott here for years and he’d never give him games through the middle. I believe Wenger wanted a striker that could complement our style and keep the pressure in our opponents half. A striker that can hold the ball in our opponents half.

You’ve made the argument yourself against Walcott saying he couldn’t hold the ball up to save his life. He may not be able to hold the ball up like Giroud but I believe that strategy slows us down, leaves us vulnerable to counters and we don’t have the players or movement up front to break down a compact defence. The eye of the needle pass stuff is boring and risky. I get we’d be just as vulnerable if we have a small striker that gets bullied off the ball constantly but I think we’ve seen a glimpse of how it should be done recently. As I said ages ago, a small striker doesn’t need to match a defender physically to keep the ball in our opponents half.