Legend14
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Looked very lively in practice. Best I have seen him. Liverpool beware.Nice to see him looking like his old self again
Looked very lively in practice. Best I have seen him. Liverpool beware.Nice to see him looking like his old self again
joleon lescott sign for us?
Have you watched any of the City game this season?& never score
Just look at how Citi plays. They have a team of creative players. It does not matter who is finishing the chances, because if you create enough of them, your team will score a lot of goals.
We need a skillful striker, someone like Suarez/Firmino/Van Persie/Sanchez, or can be a Ødegaard with better finishing (you know what I mean). Someone who could work well with other technical players in the team. Auba, Nketiah or even Laca, are too much of a poacher to me. They are not skillful enough.
Having Auba on the pitch means one less player in the build up, less possession, less chances created, more possession lost, more opportunities for the opponent to counter attack.
In other words, if auba plays, we will struggle to create chances, simply because we have one less creative player on the pitch playing against the same number of opponent defenders.
I would rather have the above mentioned striker scoring no goals for the season, than a 30 goals Auba. Because it means we would have a much more dangerous attacking force.
Citi could have anyone playing the striker role, could be KDB or anyone, and the striker don’t have to score a lot. The main point is, their whole team is creating plenty of chances. The rest just comes down to having anyone to simply get into the box at the end and tap-in an easy goal.
There are plenty of technical players out there who are not expensive. They do not have to be top class but having them will certainly improve our attack.Man City aren't a side you can compare Arsenal to in any way.
Basically what you want are technically perfect, fluid players in every position. Cool, I'd like that too but it's dream world stuff.
Players of that well roundedness and quality cost huge amounts of money, money we don't have.
& you think they play with 3 Firminos up front?Have you watched any of the City game this season?
They have a team of technical players.& you think they play with 3 Firminos up front?
At least you didn’t copy paste something
Depay to replace AubaMan City aren't a side you can compare Arsenal to in any way.
Basically what you want are technically perfect, fluid players in every position. Cool, I'd like that too but it's dream world stuff.
Players of that well roundedness and quality cost huge amounts of money, money we don't have.
Depay to replace Auba
Edouard to replace Laca
Gouiri to replace Nketiah
Pugi to replace Willock
Aouar to replace Willian
Hakimi to replace Bellerin
Getting 2 or 3 of the above replacement would already be a huge upgrade on the technical level.
We also have AMN, Xhaka, Elneny, Guendouzi, Torreira......to be replaced, so plenty of room to be upgraded.
People have been asking why Auba was not scoring enough. They asked how many goals would Pepe score this season. They compare the scoring stats of Laca to strikers in other teams........
These questions doesn’t mean much to me. In fact, it’s not just down to the individual performance of the player you questioned. If your team have created enough chances, your attacking players WILL score.
It’s the fact that we do not have enough creative talent in the team, which has limited the quantity and quality of chances we created.
So my criticism is not that these players are not performing (on an individual level), but rather, they are not a creative player so they have limited our chance creation.
“We've created plenty of chances the last 3-4 months.”We've created plenty of chances the last 3-4 months. I've no issue with Saka, ESR, Ödegaard, Pepe, Tierney and Willian. That's a core of players that will create enough chances.
You have a desire to see us play with a bunch of technical skill midgets that never pass the ball over knee height. Basically you want us to be a poor mans Pep side.
That's fine but it's not an objective fact that we should play like that, the way you make it out to be nor is it factually better football to play that way. It's all subjective.
Benzema, C. Ronaldo, Coman, Henry, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Hleb, Sane..........midgets?You have a desire to see us play with a bunch of technical skill midgets that never pass the ball over knee height.
What did laca do? Both should be dropped but hey it's all aubaAny other player plays like him and they’d be on the bench, not golden boy though.
Useless.
They can both go in the summer for all I care, worst CF pair we've had for the past 30 yearsWhat did laca do? Both should be dropped but hey it's all auba