Winter Transfer Speculation

[mastermind84]

Is it wise to pick out a game where we had 10 men coupled with the fact that we had the worst and least creative duo in the middle of the park (Flamsey)?

It's not really worth going deep into this game. The heatmap shows he was more so on the left and that corresponds with where he mostly received the ball. You can see his touches below. All down the left.

https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/95...rsenal-Chelsea

But you're right certain games he won't be suited for but there is too much of a wide assumption of what he can't do without the game time to back it up. People assume he couldn't hold the ball up and link up play, but the Man Utd game says otherwise.

Or he can't play against teams sitting deep...West Brom game says otherwise.



Walcott really hasn't had enough games to say what he can or can't do. We won't agree on him but if you look at that West Brom game, that's want from a striker when teams sit against us. Someone in that mold. Someone that posts up against defenders like it's basketball to receive the ball only to look to lay it off isn't what we want. It's too dependent on other players making runs unmarked into the box and having space to shoot. By the time the balls been pass the space has been closed.

We don't have the ideal striker in the roster but we need to find a solution this season. Someone needs to find their second wind, a player needs to come back from injury or Wenger needs to do something tactical. We're scraping by at the moment.

I chose it because it was an example of what we are talking about. Theo wasnt a threat in that match at all vs a team that sat deep. His touches were on the left but also a lot in the area. I use Costa as an example but the touches are in very similar locations on the pitch:



Ideally, all I want is for people to score goals outside of Giroud. Thats it.

[Power n Glory]

It's not a good example because we had 10 men. It makes no sense to compare him to Costa because they had full squad. What did Vardy do against us once they went down to 10 men? Nothing at all. It's a bad game to reference.

[mastermind84]

ok.

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One thing that might get some more goals flowing with Giroud and Ramsey, might be to to simply swap Özil and Ramsey around every now and then (i.e. Özil on the right, and Ramsey behind the striker, in the middle)? Let's be honest, if we've got Giroud leading the line, then having Özil in the middle, sliding in through-balls all game is probably a bit of waste of time - might be better to have him pinging in those laser-guided crosses instead? Ramsey prefers playing through the middle, but doesn't really have the discipline or passing range to play the deeper roles, so it may solve that problem. And Giroud generally seems to find another level of usefulness when he has midfielders like Ramsey or Wilshere behind him making overlapping runs into the box - he's not actually a bad play-maker in his own right when it comes to playing cute one-twos around the D, and clipping players in with subtle little flicks and chips?

Obviously Sanchez is just Sanchez and will be awesome whatever.

[AFC Leveller]

We still dont have anyone performing to a high standard on the right hand side and if the likes of Ox and Campbell cant nail it down then the answer is to go out and buy a right winger. Mahrez would be great, he is a provider and a goal scorer.

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We still dont have anyone performing to a high standard on the right hand side and if the likes of Ox and Campbell cant nail it down then the answer is to go out and buy a right winger. Mahrez would be great, he is a provider and a goal scorer.

Mate, I'm up for going for another world-class wide attacker, if world-class CFs are still looking thin on the ground. Unfortunately though, it's not really the answer for us until June at the earliest...

[Power n Glory]

One thing that might get some more goals flowing with Giroud and Ramsey, might be to to simply swap Özil and Ramsey around every now and then (i.e. Özil on the right, and Ramsey behind the striker, in the middle)? Let's be honest, if we've got Giroud leading the line, then having Özil in the middle, sliding in through-balls all game is probably a bit of waste of time - might be better to have him pinging in those laser-guided crosses instead? Ramsey prefers playing through the middle, but doesn't really have the discipline or passing range to play the deeper roles, so it may solve that problem. And Giroud generally seems to find another level of usefulness when he has midfielders like Ramsey or Wilshere behind him making overlapping runs into the box - he's not actually a bad play-maker in his own right when it comes to playing cute one-twos around the D, and clipping players in with subtle little flicks and chips?

Obviously Sanchez is just Sanchez and will be awesome whatever.

You might be right about that. Wenger has been trying to encourage Ozil to score more goals but it’s not really working out. Ramsey may benefit from playing higher up the pitch but his shooting has been off lately as well. But it’s worth a try. Bif needs to work off someone. The goals he set up for Ozil and Walcott are examples of that. Or Wenger has to bring Walcott back to the right. He hasn’t really played there all season. We need to see a change somewhere.

[selassie]

One thing that might get some more goals flowing with Giroud and Ramsey, might be to to simply swap Özil and Ramsey around every now and then (i.e. Özil on the right, and Ramsey behind the striker, in the middle)? Let's be honest, if we've got Giroud leading the line, then having Özil in the middle, sliding in through-balls all game is probably a bit of waste of time - might be better to have him pinging in those laser-guided crosses instead? Ramsey prefers playing through the middle, but doesn't really have the discipline or passing range to play the deeper roles, so it may solve that problem. And Giroud generally seems to find another level of usefulness when he has midfielders like Ramsey or Wilshere behind him making overlapping runs into the box - he's not actually a bad play-maker in his own right when it comes to playing cute one-twos around the D, and clipping players in with subtle little flicks and chips?

Obviously Sanchez is just Sanchez and will be awesome whatever.

Yep, I think that may have even happened in periods on Sunday in the second half, Ozil and Ramsey swapping positions. I think we're simply going to have to "Pub" it out until Santi or Jack come back and hope we can carry on picking up enough points to stay in touch.

The Ramsey & Coquelin partnership isn't bad but it lacks the required control we need in Midfield if say a Santi or Jack were playing their. That's one of our biggest issues at the moment, we're not controlling games like we were earlier on in the season and I think a lot of that still has to do with our issues in Central Midfield.

[Power n Glory]

Mate, I'm up for going for another world-class wide attacker, if world-class CFs are still looking thin on the ground. Unfortunately though, it's not really the answer for us until June at the earliest...

Exactly. We have to find an internal solution this season.

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You might be right about that. Wenger has been trying to encourage Ozil to score more goals but it’s not really working out. Ramsey may benefit from playing higher up the pitch but his shooting has been off lately as well. But it’s worth a try. Bif needs to work off someone. The goals he set up for Ozil and Walcott are examples of that. Or Wenger has to bring Walcott back to the right. He hasn’t really played there all season. We need to see a change somewhere.

It doesn't have to be an 'all the time, every game' thing - it's just an option that we can try out, if plan A isn't working. It wouldn't even require any real effort or a valuable substitution to make the switch - just get word to the two players to change places.

Yep, I think that may have even happened in periods on Sunday in the second half, Ozil and Ramsey swapping positions. I think we're simply going to have to "Pub" it out until Santi or Jack come back and hope we can carry on picking up enough points to stay in touch.

The Ramsey & Coquelin partnership isn't bad but it lacks the required control we need in Midfield if say a Santi or Jack were playing their. That's one of our biggest issues at the moment, we're not controlling games like we were earlier on in the season and I think a lot of that still has to do with our issues in Central Midfield.

Totally agree about Santi and/or Jack - we've badly missed the kind of control they can provide. I'd even be tempted to give Mo a run in the middle while they're getting back to match-fitness, assuming his distribution is as solid as we've been led to believe? Ramsey just doesn't work for me there - he's not a terrible option to have there or anything like that, and he certainly has all the attributes that you'd look for in a modern day central midfielder, but I just don't think his priorities and his judgment are right for the job? His natural instinct will always be to attack, so I'd rather have him down as an attacker who can drop back and help with the defending when needed, rather than deeper player who can add an extra man to the attack (if that makes sense)?