soldado v giroud v torres

What I find most amusing is that if Arsenal had a player like Hernandez, they would be contenders.
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No, we wouldn't. He is a good player. Fairly quick and a good fox-in-the-box type of player, but he wouldn't lead us to silverware because he can't hold the ball up and doesn't have the strength or agility to play as a lone centre forward. I've been losing my patience with Giroud, but even I can see he can offer more than Hernandez in his all-round play. Hernandez is a better finisher than Giroud, though, and that's the main thing.

Giroud hasn't even played that badly in his last few games, but he just isn't enough of a goal threat. We need another striker desperately, although with Podolski coming back from injury, along with Bendtner still in the squad, I don't see it happening unfortunately.

I'd rather have Giroud than RVP or Rooney..

Hernandez is a super sub

When Giroud is having a rubbish day at the office, you bring him on and he pops the ball in the net (with his face, back of head, hip, whatever) and there's + 1 to 2 points to the tally

being a super sub who always seems to find a goal somehow does lead to silverware

Hernandez is very average as a starting striker but his ability to scoreas a sub is like gold dust to squad over a season

Hernandez scores more when he starts than off of the bench.

He's a good option to have in your squad as he can make the difference from the bench but when he does start games he also scores, he doesn't need to play regularly to find his goal scoring touch, and it's a valuable asset to have in your squad.

He wouldn't massively improve Arsenal as a first choice striker but would improve their squad, for sure.

Its what Solsjkaer used to do.. I think it was him who said that he used to analyse weaknesses in the opposition whilst the game was going on so if he was called upon, he would be ready to go and exploit them. Sign of an intelligent player.

Yeah that's true, Mr. C.

The difference is that Ole was a much better footballer than Hernandez, though. He played on the right wing quite a lot after Beckham left and did well there, can you imagine Hernandez playing on the right wing?

it'd be funny to just watch him on the wing darren atleast once

It'd be an improvement on Welbeck.

Vela