Benzema is great and to me it seems most of his game is based on being in a deadly position at just the right time (though I think he looked a little more dynamic before joining Real).
Sanchez is awesome and as everyone else has said, can play anywhere in the front 3 so both would be excellent acquisitions.
Interesting to note that Sanchez is 5'7 and Benzema is 6'2......just putting it out there.
Yeah, that's more like!Originally Posted by AFC Leveller
Interesting that we seem to be getting linked with wingers and wide forwards more than any other type of player at the moment - Vela, Sanchez, Pedro, Di Maria, and Giovinco all mentioned in the last couple of days, and then there's the older links to Remy, Griezmann, Draxler, Drmic, (before he signed for Leverkussen), Campbell, etc.
It does open up another interesting possibility for us, if we can't find the all-conquering, super-elite CF that we're after - perhaps we don't necessarily need to get more world-class into the attack through the CF role, if we could do it through the wide men? I'm not saying we should then go out and buy a shit CF - we still need someone good - but if we brought in someone like a Sanchez or a Griezmann, for example (or even a couple of players, if guys like Remy and Vela are available on the cheap), and you had them, Walcott and Ramsey buzzing around the guy in the middle, then maybe we could consider someone like a Mandzukic, or a Benteke, or a Bony, etc, who might not be our first picks, but who would still offer something different to Giroud, without losing his ability to bring the players around him into the attack?
Benzema is whilst a much better player than Giroud too similar a type of player and what we need is someone who offers us something different and I don't think Alexis Sanchez is a realistic alternative because you'd have to ask yourself why would Barca sell him?
We do, yet if Giroud had scored 5-10 more league goals than he did, I'm sure we wouldn't be so desperate to replace him. Aside from his other limitations like being slow, he does miss a fair amount of chances.
Sanchez wouldn't leave for cheap so the answer is money and the fact they might be looking for something different themselves? We could ask ourselves the same thing about why Real would sell Ozil and the answer is something like I've just alluded too. They were looking and had fond other options and we paid them a whole lot of gold. I'm not saying nothing else comes into the equation but money talks.
It's purely speculation though anyway.
Last edited by Blink 1nce Quince 2wice; 15-05-2014 at 11:57 AM.
To be fair I don't think we need to replace Giroud, hes a more than able squad player in the same way that Sylvain Wiltord was the difference is we never played Wiltord game in, game out.
My personal preference would be to keep both Podolski and Giroud and add one or two striking options with one of the options having the versatility to play on the wing.
That's what I meant by replace.....in the first team, not the club altogether!
Do they even play the same roles? Whenever I've seen them, Sanchez has usually been on one of the flanks, and Benzema has been through the middle.
Both of which we need... just putting that out there too
I think Vela would be a much better option over what we currently have on the flanks. We really don’t have that much when you look at it. Podolski isn’t a winger. Call him a wide number 9 forward. The same can be said about Theo but what separates him from Podolski is his pace and movement. Theo has the ability to stretch play, play off the shoulder and make runs behind the defenders. That’s two players that spend very little time with the ball at their feet and can’t dribble.
Cazorla doesn’t suit playing out wide and as he’s getting on we need to save his legs. He always comes inside and we really don’t need that from him. Ox is still a bit raw and Wenger doesn’t give Gnarby enough playing time because he’s more raw than Ox. We really need more options in that area. I don’t want to see players like Jack, Rosicky or Ramsey pushed out there if we start having injury problems.
I would agree we could do with another option wide. That said, I still think all the guys I've mentioned are more preferable than Vela, in spite of their varying idiosyncrasies in the position.
I would be so bold as to say that all Chamberlain or Gnabry need is a run of games in a wide position and they would both look good. Podolski isn't the most ideal but he will get you goals and his delivery is superb. Cazorla is as good and skilled a footballer as we have and Wenger likes one of the wide places to be taken up by a playmaker as we know. I don't always agree with the ideology but I think it works when Theo is on the field.
Griezmann looks like the most dynamic wide player I've seen in some time, in so much that he seems to be that balanced hybrid/composite mix of a player between being adept in a wide position but also dynamic and creative enough to play through the middle and thread balls through.
Like I've said I wouldn't be unhappy about Vela coming back but I would be if he was the ONLY one. To be honest I almost certain Wenger won't bring him back anyway.
Last edited by Blink 1nce Quince 2wice; 15-05-2014 at 02:00 PM.
To be honest I think it's almost too good for someone like Wenger to turn down, a player that would cost any other club 20millon plus but cost us only 3million.
He will look at the difference between the amount we sold him to Sociedad to and the amount we re-signed him for as a fee for them developing him. My fear is that he will try and bring in Joel Campbell as another striking option rather than actually splash the cash on a finished product
Cazorla would have been 25 million had he not been playing for a club that wasnt in dire financial straits so we swooped in like vultures.
We clearly need more than just Vela but the reports that show we have triggered his clause seem more reliable than caughtoffside or goal.
Last edited by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie; 15-05-2014 at 02:22 PM.
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