Why do you keep saying that even though we've already spent £60m?Originally Posted by saintnickle
Why do you keep saying that even though we've already spent £60m?
I don't really see the problem myself - we wanted an upgrade on Giroud, and we've bought a £35m player, who brings all the qualities that Giroud lacks, to compete with him? That's good, isn't it? It may take him a few weeks to really find his form, but I suspect that will be more about getting used to the league than the role? He's played CF before (certainly for his country), so that automatically gives him more experience there than Thierry or van C--t ever had before we converted them, so I don't think the switch should be too troublesome for him? Iif anything, it looks like it's the rest of the team that has more work to do in adapting to play with a pacey forward?
Jackson Martinez.
He offered nothing on Saturday but it wasn't a great performance all round. Wenger's done it before, very successfully, but with Giroud out we don't really have time for him to adapt so hopefully he'll get there quickly. Potentially there are plenty of goals in this side but there's not been much evidence of that so far.
Yeah, it's difficult to judge how much of his performance on saturday was down to him? Listening to Wenger's press conference before the Besiktas game [when asked about whether Alexis would get another chance to play CF, and explaining why he brought Giroud on at half time against Everton], he suggested with one of his comments that he set the team up to play a counter-attacking game in the first half, but it looked more like the team were still playing like they had Giroud up front instead, so it didn't really work? That doesn't absolve Alexis of all responsibility of course, but when you chuck in possible fitness issues from the reduced pre-season, and his general newness to everything (new club, team mates, role in the side, league, etc) then I'm prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt.
On the plus side, things looked better yesterday, even if they're still some way off being perfect, - if we keep showing a similar, steady, game-on-game improvement in terms of understanding and fitness levels, then I don't think we'll have to wait too long before it starts to click? Leicester next, isn't it? That at least is one of the better fixtures we could have hoped for while we're working on it...
Yes we have spent about 65 m but 30th of that has come from players we've sold .65-30 =35Why do you keep saying that even though we've already spent £60m?
I do think we should revert to 2 up top when Walcott is back.... with Ozil tucked in behind and a more of a diamond in midfield although footballers in reality move all around the pitch but ozil could really thrive feeding through balls to Sanchez and Walcott.
It may well end up becoming something like that during open play, regardless of what you want to call it (433, 4231, 4312, 442, etc, etc)? Those 3 players (and Cazorla, Campbell, Podolski, and Chamberlain) can all play wide or through the middle, whether that's deeper or more advanced, so I could see any of them popping up anywhere when we attack? Where attackers are concerned, I've always thought that formations and team shapes are more relevant to what they do when we're defending than when we have the ball - obviously you still need a bit of structure there to stop it descending into a total free-for-all, but in general there should always be enough flexibility there to adapt to whatever's in front of you...
Your Mum, that's who should replace Giroud
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