He said that after the rumours had been kicking round for weeks. But how serious Wenger was about signing him? Who knows. Thankfully he didn't. Not a fan of Benzema.
He said that after the rumours had been kicking round for weeks. But how serious Wenger was about signing him? Who knows. Thankfully he didn't. Not a fan of Benzema.
Why not, form what I can tell Wenger just signs players he likes and occasionally gets pressured into signing someone due to the situtation he puts himself in (Ozil being one), just because he signs a couple very good players it doesn't 4th isn't his goal, other clubs after all sign that and more, unless you match them you more than likely to be behind them, especially when you're behind them in the 1st place.Originally Posted by Letters
As for Xhaka, let's not pretend he's a massive signing, yes he cost a lot of money but how many people know anything about him or have really heard about him and how many clubs were submitting big bids for him?
He looks like he might be very good, but he's not on the same level as someone like Ozil, far from it prestige wise.
Despite that if you believe the press we were still sniffing around, Real were also short in that department so it's hard to see why they would let him go, they don't need the money and didn't have a replacement.
This signing was never going to happen, that much was clear.
You seemed quite keen for us to at least try for Griezmann, no matter how unrealistic that would of been, so I think you have to apply that same ideology to this. He had said he was more than happy at Atleti too.
Whoever we sign as a striker is going to be a bit of a punt. The best of the best are already tied up elsewhere and I can't see us putting down 70/80m on a player. It would wipe out nearly everything available to spend on the rest of the team.
Benzema doesn't strike me as the most driven of players, he's well in his comfort zone at Madrid having reached the pinnacle of his career. I wouldn't turn my nose up at him if he became available but he's 29 this year and I wonder how much hunger there would be for a new challenge.
One plays for Real one of the richest clubs and biggest clubs in the world, a club players aspire to play for, the other plays for a much smaller clubs with limited finances, so I'd say Griezzmann is far more realistic, on top of that he hasn't said he's not leaving whereas Benzema did.
I'd rather we signed someone with a good goalscoring record, i.e who has scored a lot of goals where they are rather than someone who hasn't, at least then we'll know they do know where the net is at least.
How many managers will sign a player that they do not like? And players should be bought because they can or will add to the team. We may not agree with the decisions made but we are not the people paid to make those decisions.
While all answers are responses, not all responses are answers.
He sure can put a pass long and deep, has good vision during the game and can shoot.
But how long will it take to be frustrated when the bellend players we have don't run down the flanks or try and get on the end of it?
The real problem here was betting on Giroud again. Wenger knows his shortcomings as a player, knows from previous seasons that he has never scored 20+ goals in the league, knows he can lose confidence and have a barren run but Wenger went with it anyway.
I can understand him being hesitant to spend a fortune on strikers like Benzema and Cavani. I said this last summer. I'm not totally convinced they'd be worth the money either. But he should have been totally convinced that we needed a new option up front. But the fool went ahead with it and tried to tell the world that Giroud was as good as all the other top level strikers in Europe. It's his biggest flaw. He has too much faith in certain players.
Even if he couldn't sign a new striker, I'd have rather had seen him stick to playing Theo up front and trying Sanchez up front. Or Campbell even. Just something different and not the tried and tested which we all knew would fail. Madness.
What I meant was that he signs players he likes rather than players we need, that's why we've got loads of central midfielders, the guy has developed an unheatlhy obsession with them and thinks you can have a whole team of them playing in all positions.
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