Winter Transfer Speculation

[Power n Glory]

Pre Arsenal Metz and Monaco
2002/03 – 14 league goals (17 total)
2003/04 – 8 league goals (8 total)
2004/05 – 9 league goals (14 total)

Arsenal Career

2006/07 – 8 Prem goals (12 total)
2007/08 – 24 Prem goals (30 total)
2208/09 – 10 Prem goals (16 total)

After Arsenal
2009/10 – 14 Prem goals (14 total)
2011/12 – 17 Prem goals (18 total)
2012/13 – 5 Prem goals (8 total)
2013/14 – 11 Prem goals (14 total)

A top quality Premier League player? Get out of here. Mastermind, you’re a funny guy because when we had this same conversation about strikers and we spoke of Luis Saurez, you dismissed his goal scoring record for Ajax because it was a shit league. Have you seen Adebayor’s Ligue 1 record before joining us? He had potential but Wenger elevated his game immensely. Besides that one season for us, his Premier League numbers resemble what Giroud’s currently doing but you don’t rate Giroud.

[Power n Glory]

I'll vouch for that, Adebayor missed sitters regularly, his finishing was very hit and miss and his touch terrible at times, worse still he got caught offsdside a lot, in many cases inexcusably so, all he needed to do was look down the line but he failed to do so.

Had one good season with us and that's his career summed up really, a one season wonder, any half decent player will score goals for us because we create a lot of chances, had he been top class he'd have got far more than he got.

His one strength was getting himself into goalscoring positions, his finishing however was average.

He was average. Very average.

[GP]

[Niall_Quinn]

In fact, bum is a strong word. But I think this is a case of rose tinted glasses. NQ, I'm sure you can't remember the sitters be missed and if you think Theo was bad, this guy was worse. I remember the GW match threads where he's miss sitters. Ask Zim. You don't remember the times he'd go missing, drift to the flanks with little awareness of where he should be on the pitch or what he was like when his work rate dropped in games we needed him?

I'll give Wenger his chops when it comes to developing strikers and Ade is a product of Wenger. Never scored 30 goals again for anyone. In fact, never scored 20 goals before us or after us and some of you scoff at players like Benteke, Bony and Gomis. That's Adebayor's level but Wenger has talent for exploiting a strikers strength and masking the weakness. The fact that we're having this conversation is testament to that. Giroud is far from a top class player but Wenger somehow managed to get him into that conversation. He is great at getting the best out of strikers. Heck, he even had some people here fooled into thinking Chamakh was top class. That guy, of all people, managed a scoring run and some people were convinced he's be a good player. He might have been if not for RVP. I believe the same for Welbeck. If Wenger gave him a few seasons up top he'd look the part. But we haven't got time for that.

You're talking about him being a screw-up, which he was. Powerful, direct striker who at one point looked like he'd rival Drogba, but he didn't have the character to make it happen. Shame, but his decision.

Nobody was fooled about Chamakh from the first minute he stepped on a pitch. Similarly Sanogo.

[Power n Glory]

You're talking about him being a screw-up, which he was. Powerful, direct striker who at one point looked like he'd rival Drogba, but he didn't have the character to make it happen. Shame, but his decision.

Nobody was fooled about Chamakh from the first minute he stepped on a pitch. Similarly Sanogo.

If Adebayor were playing for us today, you'd be pulling your hair out over the missed chances and bad touches. Far from clinical. Just as bad as Theo and Giroud in that department. In fact, he was worse but played in a team that had games where we'd carve out chance after chance. But let's not forget that he also struggled when teams parked the bus and that's where we really needed a clinical striker and he wasn't it.

A few people rated Chamakh in his first season. That guy was worse than Niklas Bendtner.

[Niall_Quinn]

If Adebayor were playing for us today, you'd be pulling your hair out over the missed chances and bad touches. Far from clinical. Just as bad as Theo and Giroud in that department. In fact, he was worse but played in a team that had games where we'd carve out chance after chance. But let's not forget that he also struggled when teams parked the bus and that's where we really needed a clinical striker and he wasn't it.

A few people rated Chamakh in his first season. That guy was worse than Niklas Bendtner.

Forgot about Lord Nick Purged from my memory. Another fuck up.

I wouldn't want Adebayor playing for us today, he's done, was done when he left us. But he wasn't average when he played for us, he was better than that. He missed plnety but he scored plenty too.

[Xhaka Can’t]

He was alright.

But lets not forget, this discussion started because someone said he was one of the best strikers to grace the PL in its history.

Even without his fucked up mentality, he was not and never will be ANYTHING like approaching that level.

[Power n Glory]

He was alright.

But lets not forget, this discussion started because someone said he was one of the best strikers to grace the PL in its history.

Even without his fucked up mentality, he was not and never will be ANYTHING like approaching that level.

Exactly. A crazy statement.

[Niall_Quinn]

I don't recall saying that, AT ALL. I was pissed as a fart last night but I doubt I said that.

[Marc Overmars]

THAT goal against Spurs.

The Villarreal one was also insane.