I can see what you're saying, but being pedantic I think most championship teams would be delighted with those 3 up front - they're better than you give them credit for

the daily fail say Chelsea are interested in Suarez who Madrid where reportedly wanted as Higuain's replacement

f we don buy Higuain we don't buy him its that that simple

Gunnerfan if we didn't buy any more strikers this summer would you be content?

The strikers we have at our club are just pathetic and its embarrassing a club like ours is void of any genuine quality up front.

Problem is, if we don't buy higuain then I'm afraid it's back to the £10-£12M player who has potential but hardly going to set the world alight

There is no way Suarez is going to Chelsea of all teams given the whole Ivanovic thing.
Just want this Higuain thing to be over one way or another its dragging on way too long. If reports are true and he wants a 3 year deal then we should look elsewhere.

"Gunnerfan if we didn't buy any more strikers this summer would you be content?"

The Wenger fan boys would come out with the usual, we have got enough in Giroud and co and that Wenger knows.

The reality is, if we don't buy top class quality up front this summer then I we a truely faaaked.

"If reports are true and he wants a 3 year deal then we should look elsewhere"

We are not going to find an alternative player like him that would want to come to arsenal.

Why would you not want to give Higuain a three year deal ?

Do you think a player of his calibre is going to accept a shorter contract ?

If the deal for Higuain falls through we'll sign someone else. Jovetic... Negredo... Kießling... someone.

Besides, Sanogo will already be ahead of both Chamakh and Park in the manager's plans.

Yeah I was thinking similar. There aren't any really top class options available really. For all the talk of Jovetic he would be a gamble.
Problem is though after one season we are under pressure to get Higuain to recommit or face going through our usual of letting players run their contract down so they have the upper hand in any negotiations.
There are surely other options out there. 80% of hadn't heard of Suarez before Liverpool signed him.

In fairness, signing any player for any amount of money is a gamble.

Look at Torres for example. Top of his game when he went to Chelsea. A few seasons Premiership experience under his belt... £50m and two years later they can't wait to see him leave.

A new formation is more important than any signing. Unless we signed Fabregas (Obviously not gonna happen) as our current formation was built for him and him alone.

Lex. Torres was no where near the top of his game when he left Liverpool, he'd been very poor for 9 months

Torres was hardly 'top of his game' when he went to Chelsea. He was already on a downward slide. Had been for the best part of a year.

I don't understand why our formation is built for Fabregas and him alone. It's easy and popular to say something like that but is it really the case? I don't think Wenger is stupid enough to have a formation suited to a player he hasn't had for 2 seasons!

LDS

Disagree.....sort of.
Had we a genuine world class finisher last season instead of Giroud we would've done better and that has to be our main concern.
I agree we need to look at the midfield as not only are we missing Cescs passing ability but also his goal scoring. The system was set up for Cesc and without him it's just functional with little to no flair(not including Cazorla). Something needs to change.

V for van.

I think Wenger is more than smart enough realise that! However his greatest strength is believing in his players and I think he genuinely thinks one of: wilshere, cazorla or ramsey can be the focal (cesc) point.

Personally I don't think they can. As brilliant as cazorla is I don't think he's that player but maybe with a season under his belt he could prove to be. Wilshere may well be but his injuries mean he's more of a bonus than a player to build a team around at the moment. Ramsey -no.

Menthol strength.

As bad as Giroud was in front of goal, Walcott and podolski were actually more to blame. They became completely invisible for long spells, giroud for better or mostly worse did not go away and did his best in a far more difficult position despite limited talent. I just don't think the formation particularly suits our current personnel.

Yaya songalongadingdon....will save us......

As bad as Pod got he won us a few points with his goals same as Walcott but I'm struggling to think of any winning goal Giroud scored for us. All 3 disappeared for long stretches last season and let's be honest we are lucky to be in the CL(qualifiers). We can't rely on luck again.

Giroud was pretty effective at setting up a few of those goals for walcott and pod mind you. He had some neat little passes and chest-downs

Menthol. And I genuinely believe it's as much a midfield issue as it is a striker one. For instance, trusting Ramsey in a creative position is nothing short of baffling. I don't think any of our strikers would disappear as much if we had a midfield capable of playing them in and forcing them into the game.

People seem to forget how much Podolski's work rate helped Gibbs out early last season. He's had time to get aquatinted to the Premiership now and if he's put his much rumoured injury behind him, he could well be one of our most important players next season.

long dong, we had a totally different approach at the end of last season tho... arteta was just recycling possession, ramsey was chasing everyone down like a headless chicken and equally just keeping things ticking over, it was the attacking midfielder e.g. rosicky or sometimes cazorla who were tasked with being more creative. Generally when cesc was our focal point he was more of a deep-lying creative player...