Summer Transfer Misery and Recriminations.

[Gooner23]

Sounds like we're dithering on the Mustaphi deal as well. No rush gents, take your time.

[Özim]

Kos, Ozil and Giroud will start.

If Giroud starts and Wenger gambles on him being our main striker again....

This guys went MIA after Christmas. He went 18 games without scoring a goal.

In all the 27 games he played after Christmas he managed 8 goals. Take away that hat trick he had scored against a relegated Villa on the last day of the season and 2 goals against Championship side Hull in that FA Cup replay...it looks a lot worse.

I don't care if he has a good start to the season, we must sign a striker or press on with Sanchez up front. Heck, even try Henry's suggestion of Sanchez playing behind Giroud but we can't depend on Giroud for the whole season.

Giroud is a middle of the road striker, only an incompetent manager like Wenger would be happy to rely on him and not sign anyone, any other normal manager would have signed a striker a long time ago, as usual though it will blow up in his face, it always does, but he never recognises it.

[Globalgunner]

Giroud is a middle of the road striker, only an incompetent manager like Wenger would be happy to rely on him and not sign anyone, any other normal manager would have signed a striker a long time ago, as usual though it will blow up in his face, it always does, but he never recognises it.

Coming 4th without spending money is as good an achievement as coming first. Sometimes you can get lucky and even come 2nd. #Wengervision.

If you ignore the fact that Leicester has a 1 in a million season last year, We actually came 1st......and we only spent 10m...... and we beat them twice. Kampeones!!!!

[Letters]

Take away that hat trick he had scored against a relegated Villa on the last day of the season and 2 goals against Championship side Hull in that FA Cup replay...it looks a lot worse.

And and some more imaginary goals and it looks a lot better.

I think we all know Giroud won't win us the league but he's not as bad as some on here make out.

[Power n Glory]

And and some more imaginary goals and it looks a lot better.

I think we all know Giroud won't win us the league but he's not as bad as some on here make out.

Great contribution.

[Niall_Quinn]

He's a squad striker, useful in some situations and a decent enough option to have as part of a rotational policy based on who we are playing, the frequency of games and the situation during individual matches. It's absolutely laughable he's our main striker though. Okay, bring him in and give him a season to prove he's a 25-30 goal getter. Hell, even give him 2 seasons. If Wenger gives him 4 seasons though, well that's incompetence with a healthy dose of penny-pinching thrown in. To start Giroud again as our primary striker is a screaming confirmation of our lack of ambition and misplaced priorities. Not that we really need any more confirmation of the obvious.

On the other hand, ITKs tell us we're signing Lewandowski and Griezmann. That's great news, I can't wait. It all sounds totally realistic. I wonder will we be signing Pogba from Utd too? I think yes. That's highly likely.

[Letters]

He's a squad striker, useful in some situations and a decent enough option to have as part of a rotational policy based on who we are playing, the frequency of games and the situation during individual matches. It's absolutely laughable he's our main striker though. Okay, bring him in and give him a season to prove he's a 25-30 goal getter. Hell, even give him 2 seasons. If Wenger gives him 4 seasons though, well that's incompetence with a healthy dose of penny-pinching thrown in. To start Giroud again as our primary striker is a screaming confirmation of our lack of ambition and misplaced priorities. Not that we really need any more confirmation of the obvious.

On the other hand, ITKs tell us we're signing Lewandowski and Griezmann. That's great news, I can't wait. It all sounds totally realistic. I wonder will we be signing Pogba from Utd too? I think yes. That's highly likely.

It does seem Wenger has tried to sign someone better so he must recognise it's a problem, but he's failed to and that's the problem. He doesn't seem that good at closing deals and frankly that shouldn't be his job anyway. The board should get someone in to deal with all that, all Wenger should be doing is identifying the players.

[Power n Glory]

Giroud is a middle of the road striker, only an incompetent manager like Wenger would be happy to rely on him and not sign anyone, any other normal manager would have signed a striker a long time ago, as usual though it will blow up in his face, it always does, but he never recognises it.

It will be interesting to see the line up on Saturday. I can’t be crazy enough to go with the same starting line up that has failed so many times before.

--------------------Giroud------------------------

Sanchez-----------Ozil------------------Walcott

-------Coquelin/Xhaka---Elneny---------------

Monreal------Kos—Chambers----Bellerin

-------------------Czech-----------------------

I’d rather not see the above line up. It should be good enough to win the game but not the league even if we sign a CB to replace Chambers.

[Marc Overmars]

Bit of talk that Usmanov wants to sell his stake and invest in Everton.

Bye.

[LDG]

Bit of talk that Usmanov wants to sell his stake and invest in Everton.

Bye.

So Stan gets 100% of the club?

Deep joy.