Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit.

[mastermind84]

Agree with that and why I'm always saying Theo should be starting up top. He can learn composure and has over the years and when on his game he will get you a hat trick. Has Giroud ever scored one for us? Teams don't fear Giroud.

Theo's problem is not composure.

Its that if you held a gun to his mom's head and said you would squeeze it if you don't hold this ball up and bring your midfielders into play, you would end up with Theo's mom's brain matter on you. And he will never learn how to do that because he is physically and technically incapable of that.

[Power n Glory]

That's a nice chart. Well done.

[mastermind84]

It's a combo of both. Not just one or the other. Cesc assisted Costa for a lot of goals.

It was Costa.

Chelsea would have won the league in 2013/14 if they had a competent striker.

Cesc was the cherry on top,

[Power n Glory]

It was Costa.

Chelsea would have won the league in 2013/14 if they had a competent striker.

Cesc was the cherry on top,

How hard is it to understand it's a combo of both? Cesc was on course to setting the assist record last season. Costa did well to put chances away but it's not as if he was a one man wrecking machine creating his own opportunities. He only scored 21 goals. Nothing amazing.

[mastermind84]

How hard is it to understand it's a combo of both? Cesc was on course to setting the assist record last season. Costa did well to put chances away but it's not as if he was a one man wrecking machine creating his own opportunities.

How hard is to understand that it was not a combination of both? It was Costa that was the big difference.

Chelsea's problem was not having a finisher, not creating chances. Fernando Torres, Demba Ba, and the corpse of Samuel Eto'o was their forward line that season.

I am not saying Chelsea were a one man team (well they werent at the start of that season. From January onward they did become a one man attack with Hazard just getting penalties and creating everything)

And to get back into where the convo was going, Cesc has always been a tactical nightmare unless you had a player solely dedicated to making sure he could create. Its why Wenger eventually took the CM role away from him.

[Power n Glory]

How hard is to understand that it was not a combination of both? It was Costa that was the big difference.

Chelsea's problem was not having a finisher, not creating chances. Fernando Torres, Demba Ba, and the corpse of Samuel Eto'o was their forward line that season.

I am not saying Chelsea were a one man team (well they werent at the start of that season. From January onward they did become a one man attack with Hazard just getting penalties and creating everything)

And to get back into where the convo was going, Cesc has always been a tactical nightmare unless you had a player solely dedicated to making sure he could create. Its why Wenger eventually took the CM role away from him.

Dude, you need to do something about your username. Seriously. What you're saying can't be proven at all. The facts are Cesc got the most assists and had a good partnership with Costa and was on record with the most assists in the league. That's fact.

[Power n Glory]

Theo's problem is not composure.

Its that if you held a gun to his mom's head and said you would squeeze it if you don't hold this ball up and bring your midfielders into play, you would end up with Theo's mom's brain matter on you. And he will never learn how to do that because he is physically and technically incapable of that.

Again, that's your opinion and not fact.

[Niall_Quinn]

Who cares about those chav wankers?

This is a thread to discuss all of Arsenal's transfer activity this summer. Can we stick to the topic please? Or close the thread?

Both amount to the same thing.

[mastermind84]

Dude, you need to do something about your username. Seriously. What you're saying can't be proven at all. The facts are Cesc got the most assists and had a good partnership with Costa and was on record with the most assists in the league. That's fact.

and all I said is that Costa was the pivotal player, not Cesc. Chelsea were second in the premiership in chances created to Manchester City in 2013-14 and had the most shots in the league but were 7th in percentage of shots on target.

Even further, I responded to someone saying Cesc was the key reason they won the league last fall which was nonsense.

Again, that's your opinion and not fact.

Has Theo shown a consistent ability to hold the ball under pressure from centerbacks, yes or no?

[fakeyank]

Cesc's 700 assists against shit teams in the first two months of the season won them the league last year. He is a key reason they won the league. But we don't have the problem of creating chances, we have the problem of converting them and conceding them, and he wouldn't have helped in either respect - apart from not being able to help Chelsea. I would've bought him just for that fact. Wenger's not ruthless enough.

We have a problem creating chances when the other team has 10 people behind the ball. We will tippy tappy for 90 minutes and 'may be' have a couple of close chances. We dont go wide to open up spaces and since we are hell bent on going down the middle, Cesc would be much better playing the eye of the needle pass when compared to Wilshere, Ramsey or Coq. I would put him on a step above Santi and Ozil to play those killer balls. However Santi and Ozil have better positioning compared to Cesc.