Summer Transfer Misery and Recriminations.

[Globalgunner]

Well, what are we bloody waiting for??

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/f...-a6972581.html

Arsene wont sign him anymore, too expensive and would hinder the progress of Sanogo and Akpom

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Terrible in front of goal. Really?. Im sure you cannot remember a single game that he was terrible in. Giroud on the other hand.
Giroud is 2nd rate always has been on that we are agreed.
Wiltord on the other hand has scored goals that have been crucial for both club and country

Wiltord got 49 goals in 173 games for us

Giroud has scored 82 in 188

If Giroud has scored in less crucial games internationally (i only remember Wiltord scoring the one goal in euro 2000 that counted as crucial) it's because France has diminished as a quality team compared to what it was, rather like Arsenal in that respect.

[GP]

Some massive revisionism going on here.

We all love Wiltord for the goal at Old Trafford, but he was certainly no better than Giroud. Not by any stretch.

[Power n Glory]

No comparison. Wiltord was played as a winger.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

No comparison. Wiltord was played as a winger.

More often than not he played as a second striker

Bergkamp certainly wasn't playing every game for us and they used to alternate

Yes Wiltord did play on the wing at times, but not that often because Ljungberg and Pires played there

Wiltord was a decent squad player, Giroud is a decent squad player.....the difference i reiterate is that one was used as a squad player the other is used as our no1 choice striker.

[Marc Overmars]

Giroud would be fine as a number 2 striker but he's nowhere near good enough to be relied on over the course of a season. I think his attitude is questionable and that manifests itself on the field with his little tantrums and wrestling matches with markers he can't get the better of.

[Niall_Quinn]

you are really mentioning Wiltord in the same annuls as Wright, Henry, Bergkamp and that other dutch toerag?

Wiltord is certainly no better than Giroud, the difference is that Wiltord wasn't played as our main striker.....

Of course not. What I'm saying is we had standards and those standards have entirely disappeared.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Of course not. What I'm saying is we had standards and those standards have entirely disappeared.

Because the same players we could pull out of obscurity and get for cheap, are no longer obscure and no longer cheap and Wenger's magic hat has a hole in the bottom.

Can we afford to buy these same players?.....of course. But what's the fun for Wenger is buying established or prodigious talent when everyone knew how good that player was to begin with.

[Niall_Quinn]

Forget about Wiltord then. I included Theo in that list too, he's the invisible one. Wenger has been fucking the club with his cheaparse signings up front and it has been costing us. There's every chance he'll do it again this season. But on the offchance he finally gets his fucking act in gear, we need quality up there and that means no skimping or scraping barrels out.

[Power n Glory]

More often than not he played as a second striker

Bergkamp certainly wasn't playing every game for us and they used to alternate

Yes Wiltord did play on the wing at times, but not that often because Ljungberg and Pires played there

Wiltord was a decent squad player, Giroud is a decent squad player.....the difference i reiterate is that one was used as a squad player the other is used as our no1 choice striker.

Wiltord played as winger. Hardly ever as a second striker. Only in his last season was he tried more in the middle with Henry. Ljunberg was injured a lot also. We'd rotate between the two. He left because he wanted to be a striker and more game time.