Theo Walcott scored more PL goals in his career than Gareth Bale.
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Country: Wales
Giroud cost £10M, had a strike rate to rival Drogba when he played for us.
In terms of PL goals during the 2010s he’s eighth overall. The only players who cost less than him on that list are Kane and Vardy.
Everyone else cost double or triple what he did. Maybe a shout for Wenger’s greatest ever signing?
AbouCuéllar
Author of A-M essays 📚
Yeah, let's just ignore goal scoring environments.
Giroud's strike rate never even reached top level quality compared to his actual contemporaries. There were seasons where he was at a similar strike rate to Ricky Lambert and Christian Benteke FFS.
Giroud went a crazy amount of games without scoring when we needed him for the title.
He’s an average to good player, I don’t care if he won the WC. He was a tool in the system and that’s it, scored 0 goals in the tournament. I respect the trophies but that’s about it.
He’s an average to good player, I don’t care if he won the WC. He was a tool in the system and that’s it, scored 0 goals in the tournament. I respect the trophies but that’s about it.
Riou
In The Winchester, Waiting For This To Blow Over
Country: Northern Ireland
Player:Gabriel
Guys, Rex is saying these things a little tongue in cheek.
You just need to relax
You just need to relax
Country: England
Olivier Giroud has a much better strike rate than Alexis Sanchez this season
He’s never scored goals so rapidly before.
metro.co.uk
Pls stop
Country: England
NoGuys, Rex is saying these things a little tongue in cheek.
You just need to relax
Country: Norway
Misunderstood by many, appreciated by the discerning.
Riou
In The Winchester, Waiting For This To Blow Over
Country: Northern Ireland
Player:Gabriel
Giroud was a good player, not arguing that.
But when you grew up with Thierry as your striker, it's quite a drop to then have to watch Ollie for half a decade.
But when you grew up with Thierry as your striker, it's quite a drop to then have to watch Ollie for half a decade.
AbouCuéllar
Author of A-M essays 📚
Giroud's PL rank for npG/90 in his seasons as a starter for Arsenal:
12-13: 16th
13-14: 18th
14-15: 4th
So his best season as a starter he was only 4th in an Arsenal team that finished 3rd and was coached by Arsène Wenger, and his average rate was 13th in the league. Yeah...
15-16 and 16-17 his rates look better because of sub effects (same thing that made Morata look like a world beater statistically at Madrid), ie your rates get a huge boost when coming on as a sub.
So overrated by Arsenal fans. The definition of mediocrity (or worse) as a starter yet you have people manipulating the facts to compare him to Drogba, FFS.
BigPoppaPump
Reeling from Laca & Kos nightmares
Yeah agree it’s just that we spent 50m on Lacazette and expected much more from him, disappointing signing in general.
People acted like comparing Defoe to him was an insult when Defoe was 10x the player tbf.
Country: Wales
Genuinely I can tell whether someone knows ball or not if they sh*t on the big man.
Country: England
I will happily embrace my potato knowledge in football because he deserves to be shat all over multiple times the way some of you big him up.
He's clearly a fine player in his own right with a fantastic career, but the reality is whilst at Arsenal he was learning on the job and we paid the price for that.
BigPoppaPump
Reeling from Laca & Kos nightmares
People were turning on Auba because he was struggling under Artetaball after watching him single handedly carry us to the FA Cup.
Country: Wales
BigPoppaPump
Reeling from Laca & Kos nightmares
Macho knows ball but he just loses his mind a bit when it comes to Lacazette and Pepe.
Country: Wales
Pepe’s alright. Vampire Mik just drained his energy.
Country: England
The rat twerking again.
Riou
In The Winchester, Waiting For This To Blow Over
Country: Northern Ireland
Player:Gabriel
I loved Cesc when he was here.
But it's better for him to big up Chelsea, rather than Arsenal...find that less annoying, after all that's happened since 2011.
But it's better for him to big up Chelsea, rather than Arsenal...find that less annoying, after all that's happened since 2011.
