It's actually terrible news for us
It's terrible news for us fans because we know it's gonna be yaya and joel sharing the role til Christmas.
If it was any other club at the top of European football it would be terrible news for giroud because he would be replaced by someone as good or better who give a much better chance conversion rate and simply bench giroud for the rest of his contract thus ruining his euro 2016 chances
....however this is Wenger in August that we're dealing with and I suspect Carvalho will be our last bit of business following CL qualification and that will be that.
Ozil and Sanchez are who I feel for most in this situation. Two players approaching their prime and feeding balls through to a postman and "goal campbell"
With Giroud out Wenger could be tempted to see if Campbell can step up to the plate, but he seems to prefer Yaya Sanogo for some reason. That level of snubbery would be enough to convince lesser men to leave the club, less quit football all together.
Yep haha, that article had more than a few hilarious moments... The "eto'o , Cameroonian striker,89," also tickled me!
That level of snubbery would be enough to convince lesser men to leave the club, less quit football all together.
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It made sanogo quit football ages ago
Its very bad timing. Not so much terrible overall if we can sign a better striker. Someone needs to help the transition for Theo/Alexis to move to striking position and we don't have a natural experienced striker now with Giroud injured. But if we can make it through the tougher part of the next 10 games, Theo/Alexis will get better and if we can buy a Bony, (hell I would even take a Welbeck than nobody) to help through that we will have a far better squad to challenge for the title when it gets difficult.
Does anyone know when Theo is estimated to be match fit?
We won't sign anyone but if for once, wenger changes his ways and goes for one, it has to be a prem striker
comment by Castor Troy (U8700)
posted 11 seconds ago
We won't sign anyone but if for once, wenger changes his ways and goes for one, it has to be a prem striker
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Yes I agree with you. We can't really afford a settling in period.
Not even that keen on Bony but I'd take him, he is far better than Sanogo, Akpom and probably Campbell (who is not a lone centre forward).
The issue is clubs know we are desperate for a striker and so they are in a position to bump the price up for an even more inflated fee. Still, just think we need to do something, can't rely on Sanogo and Campbell for 3 months.
Bony is better than giroud.
Dude has got a seriously good goals record and would excel at arsenal
Fack it, I don't care about a striker just get a facking B2BM and a CB. I see Manolas is signing for Roma, fantastic.
I would offer Joel Campbell on loan in return. I think Swansea would be quite interested.
But it would cost c£20m. Would Wenger be willing to signal the end of Giroud? Or would he sacrifice the season for a player?
Campbell has hardly had any game time so if all of a sudden he is playing up front for us then it will just show that as a club, we have zero ambitions in challenging the big boys
But the fact that we are keeping pod maybe suggest we won't be signing any forward
Or would he sacrifice the season for a player?
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Yes.
Even if we buy a premier league striker keeping Podolski would be reducing risk. I don't think we can read too much into Wenger changing his mind.
The fact that we have not bought in a striker for the last 3 windows is a disgrace in itself.
Doesn't this giroud situation remind you of the times rvp was out and we all hoped wenger would strengthen but never did
Or would he sacrifice the season for a player?
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Yes.
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Like he's never done this before, has he?
Wenger's biggest strength is also his biggest weakness - great faith in players.
I know for a fact that at the RVP time we barely had two bob to rub together.
Its not the same situation. We do have money these days. Its all Wenger now and there are no excuses if he doesn't buy a striker now.
I know for a fact that at the RVP time we barely had two bob to rub together.
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We've always had money Jenius, (adtmittedly not £40m+ money but enough to buy decent replacements) Wenger is behaving in more or less the same way as he did when everyone assumed we were in transition
Don't you think it was better to give RVP a chance rather than buy an inferior replacement?
Rvp wasn't away for a few weeks, it's 3-6 months he would normally be out for
comment by Pat Rice - In Ozil's Shadow (U9114)
posted 2 hours, 20 minutes ago
I know for a fact that at the RVP time we barely had two bob to rub together.
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We've always had money Jenius, (adtmittedly not £40m+ money but enough to buy decent replacements) Wenger is behaving in more or less the same way as he did when everyone assumed we were in transition
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The swiss roll blog or whatever never took into account that although sponorships (8 year long ones) were coming in, money had been borrowed against that and already spent. So although the P&L looked healthy, not £30m healthy as you say, but £10-£15m healthy was actually not true. Wenger admitted in 2008 to news of the world that he had to sell one player a season (£15m). Anything above that was allowed to be re spent on players. You will notice we sold, Hleb, Adebayor, Kolo, Eboue, Cesc, Nasri, Rvp, Clichy, Song. The entire team. So to suggest that Wenger could have gone out and spen more than what those players brought is nonsense.
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posted on 26/8/14
It's actually terrible news for us
posted on 26/8/14
It's terrible news for us fans because we know it's gonna be yaya and joel sharing the role til Christmas.
If it was any other club at the top of European football it would be terrible news for giroud because he would be replaced by someone as good or better who give a much better chance conversion rate and simply bench giroud for the rest of his contract thus ruining his euro 2016 chances
....however this is Wenger in August that we're dealing with and I suspect Carvalho will be our last bit of business following CL qualification and that will be that.
Ozil and Sanchez are who I feel for most in this situation. Two players approaching their prime and feeding balls through to a postman and "goal campbell"
posted on 26/8/14
With Giroud out Wenger could be tempted to see if Campbell can step up to the plate, but he seems to prefer Yaya Sanogo for some reason. That level of snubbery would be enough to convince lesser men to leave the club, less quit football all together.
posted on 26/8/14
Yep haha, that article had more than a few hilarious moments... The "eto'o , Cameroonian striker,89," also tickled me!
posted on 26/8/14
That level of snubbery would be enough to convince lesser men to leave the club, less quit football all together.
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It made sanogo quit football ages ago
posted on 26/8/14
Its very bad timing. Not so much terrible overall if we can sign a better striker. Someone needs to help the transition for Theo/Alexis to move to striking position and we don't have a natural experienced striker now with Giroud injured. But if we can make it through the tougher part of the next 10 games, Theo/Alexis will get better and if we can buy a Bony, (hell I would even take a Welbeck than nobody) to help through that we will have a far better squad to challenge for the title when it gets difficult.
posted on 26/8/14
Does anyone know when Theo is estimated to be match fit?
posted on 26/8/14
We won't sign anyone but if for once, wenger changes his ways and goes for one, it has to be a prem striker
posted on 26/8/14
comment by Castor Troy (U8700)
posted 11 seconds ago
We won't sign anyone but if for once, wenger changes his ways and goes for one, it has to be a prem striker
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Yes I agree with you. We can't really afford a settling in period.
posted on 26/8/14
Not even that keen on Bony but I'd take him, he is far better than Sanogo, Akpom and probably Campbell (who is not a lone centre forward).
The issue is clubs know we are desperate for a striker and so they are in a position to bump the price up for an even more inflated fee. Still, just think we need to do something, can't rely on Sanogo and Campbell for 3 months.
posted on 26/8/14
Bony is better than giroud.
Dude has got a seriously good goals record and would excel at arsenal
posted on 26/8/14
Fack it, I don't care about a striker just get a facking B2BM and a CB. I see Manolas is signing for Roma, fantastic.
posted on 26/8/14
I would offer Joel Campbell on loan in return. I think Swansea would be quite interested.
But it would cost c£20m. Would Wenger be willing to signal the end of Giroud? Or would he sacrifice the season for a player?
posted on 26/8/14
Campbell has hardly had any game time so if all of a sudden he is playing up front for us then it will just show that as a club, we have zero ambitions in challenging the big boys
posted on 26/8/14
But the fact that we are keeping pod maybe suggest we won't be signing any forward
posted on 26/8/14
Or would he sacrifice the season for a player?
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Yes.
posted on 26/8/14
Even if we buy a premier league striker keeping Podolski would be reducing risk. I don't think we can read too much into Wenger changing his mind.
posted on 26/8/14
The fact that we have not bought in a striker for the last 3 windows is a disgrace in itself.
Doesn't this giroud situation remind you of the times rvp was out and we all hoped wenger would strengthen but never did
posted on 26/8/14
Or would he sacrifice the season for a player?
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Yes.
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Like he's never done this before, has he?
posted on 26/8/14
Wenger's biggest strength is also his biggest weakness - great faith in players.
posted on 26/8/14
I know for a fact that at the RVP time we barely had two bob to rub together.
Its not the same situation. We do have money these days. Its all Wenger now and there are no excuses if he doesn't buy a striker now.
posted on 26/8/14
I know for a fact that at the RVP time we barely had two bob to rub together.
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We've always had money Jenius, (adtmittedly not £40m+ money but enough to buy decent replacements) Wenger is behaving in more or less the same way as he did when everyone assumed we were in transition
posted on 26/8/14
Don't you think it was better to give RVP a chance rather than buy an inferior replacement?
posted on 26/8/14
Rvp wasn't away for a few weeks, it's 3-6 months he would normally be out for
posted on 26/8/14
comment by Pat Rice - In Ozil's Shadow (U9114)
posted 2 hours, 20 minutes ago
I know for a fact that at the RVP time we barely had two bob to rub together.
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We've always had money Jenius, (adtmittedly not £40m+ money but enough to buy decent replacements) Wenger is behaving in more or less the same way as he did when everyone assumed we were in transition
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The swiss roll blog or whatever never took into account that although sponorships (8 year long ones) were coming in, money had been borrowed against that and already spent. So although the P&L looked healthy, not £30m healthy as you say, but £10-£15m healthy was actually not true. Wenger admitted in 2008 to news of the world that he had to sell one player a season (£15m). Anything above that was allowed to be re spent on players. You will notice we sold, Hleb, Adebayor, Kolo, Eboue, Cesc, Nasri, Rvp, Clichy, Song. The entire team. So to suggest that Wenger could have gone out and spen more than what those players brought is nonsense.
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