SiMamu
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His first touch and close control to turn and spin is amazing, very good player. His link up play is also top notch, as well as his general movement.
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Alexandre Lacazette: Laca the Net
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CJJ
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Don't know why you'd assume i have the same opinion of those players you mention.
Özil and Lacazette is a great partnership on paper. The real problem is our wingers.
And Ramsey? We are practically letting him do what we wants.
Fact is simply that Wenger does not utilize pace on the wings anymore, nor are we very effective on the break-up play where a guy like Lacazette gets most of his goals.
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carlito'sway
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People want to make it as if he is underperforming and dissapointing, but I don't understand that. He's been showing very positive signs and could have had a lot more goals with a bit of luck.
Laca has imo been performing well in a team that seriously needs changing.
Laca has imo been performing well in a team that seriously needs changing.
BigPoppaPump
Reeling from Laca & Kos nightmares
I think the guy will improve when he gets used to the Prem, maybe next season.
And the level of discussion on AM is somewhere above the stratosphere compared to many football forums.
Most don't even mention money at all.
It's crazy how many people disregard money as the biggest factor in a clubs success. When I tell people Arsenal can't compete with Chelsea and Manchester clubs they say Arsenal have money to spend and it's no excuse. Like Arsenal have 50 million to spend on fullbacks or 15 years of Russian oil spending to live off.
Football needs socialism!
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nick gould
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I know that he has missed a few chances of late but again strikers should miss sometimes. Even Suarez went through a barren spell but he has magicians creating chances for him.
Let me talk about the team dynamics. When you go to a new team it takes some time for your new teammates to accept you as part of them. You may demand the ball and not get it. I remember Thierry Henry at Barca, they wouldn’t even let him take Free kicks and he was a proven free kick taker. Van persie at Man U, Fergie had to explain to those thick heads that Van Persie wants the ball passed to him quicker than they were doing.
Lacazette demands the ball and make the runs but he is not getting the ball. He asks for over the defence ball, he doesn’t get it because our players choose safe options. That assist for Özil will help him move up a peg or two in the team dynamics. Özil will try harder to find him and he will be accepted as one of the top dogs. That’s when we can start expecting ha tricks from him.
Let me talk about the team dynamics. When you go to a new team it takes some time for your new teammates to accept you as part of them. You may demand the ball and not get it. I remember Thierry Henry at Barca, they wouldn’t even let him take Free kicks and he was a proven free kick taker. Van persie at Man U, Fergie had to explain to those thick heads that Van Persie wants the ball passed to him quicker than they were doing.
Lacazette demands the ball and make the runs but he is not getting the ball. He asks for over the defence ball, he doesn’t get it because our players choose safe options. That assist for Özil will help him move up a peg or two in the team dynamics. Özil will try harder to find him and he will be accepted as one of the top dogs. That’s when we can start expecting ha tricks from him.
Jojoba
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Laca is having it easy.
@American_Gooner pretty much said everything I was gonna say to Dok. Fairplay.
What I will say is he's made an excellent start to his Arsenal career. Of course, I would've liked him to score more goals but eight is a decent return considering he's been hauled off before the 75th minute in most games. He's got some key assists too, in big games.
He's still adjusting to England and new teammates, so there will obviously be teething problems. But three things are for certain;
1.He's clinical
2. His linkup play is exceptional
3. He has fantastic movement
The above three reasons means he'll be a success here. I'm excited for whats to come.
What I will say is he's made an excellent start to his Arsenal career. Of course, I would've liked him to score more goals but eight is a decent return considering he's been hauled off before the 75th minute in most games. He's got some key assists too, in big games.
He's still adjusting to England and new teammates, so there will obviously be teething problems. But three things are for certain;
1.He's clinical
2. His linkup play is exceptional
3. He has fantastic movement
The above three reasons means he'll be a success here. I'm excited for whats to come.
samshere
Why so serieuse?
They don't mention money because we already know that fact. The challenge now is to compete given the constraints we have. Not to just give up.
BBF
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Funny that.
So what you're saying is that Arsenal clearly don't have 50m to spend on fullbacks. But somehow, we had 90m+ to spend on a winger last summer who wouldn't have started in a back 3...
IslingtonBornandbred
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In 2008/2009 Wenger signed Arshavin for 15 million pounds and Nasri for 15 million pounds. In 2008 Manchester City signed Vicent Kompany for 6 million pounds.
Priorities spring to mind.
With Giroud out for six weeks,he should get a run in the team especially if Alexis is sold. I can only hope he's firing after Wenger has taken such care with him.
Both were brilliant signings at that time imho.
Nothing to see there.
Was never a fan of Kompany. Wouldnt even have paid 5M and 1 pound.
IslingtonBornandbred
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They were brilliant signings if you want to play tippy tappy football and get overpowered by your rivals. I was just commenting on the financial situation because there is this notion we were completely restricted financially when we did have money to spend.
The reason we had a team of little guys who got bullied wasn't financial, it was a player profile decision i.e maybe trying to replicate the Barcelona style. Only now with Kolasinac, Mustafi, Xhaka do we seem to be addressing it.
Tir Na Nog
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Arshavin's signing helped us get top 4 from a difficult situation, he also had a really productive season the next year. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the signing, Rosicky's long term injury and losing Hleb meant we were in need of add some more creative players who could play wide, there were times that Diaby and Denilson had to play wide in the first half of that season.
The very next window we spent money on a central defender in the form of Thomas Vermaelen.
The very next window we spent money on a central defender in the form of Thomas Vermaelen.
IslingtonBornandbred
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We were in need of more creative players but probably more so more powerful physical players, and I'd hedge a bet that long term Kompany at 6 million would have been much better business than Arshavin or Nasri at 15 million.
My point was that it's an acceptable argument to discuss finances and transfer budgets, but what matters is what you do with the budget you have, the profile of player you sign and subsequently the type of team and squad you build. The core of the team i.e central defence and central midfield have been weak for years and imo is a major source of why we couldn't sustain any sort of challenge in this league because if you can't be absolutely exceptional on a footballing front like City this year, you better have a powerful strong athletic core because that's what you generally need to win this league. Just look at those players around that time...Hleb, Rosicky, Cesc, Nasri, Arshavin, Wilshere....they all have the same thing in common and that's that are small, slight and physically weak compared to the player's our opponents had and they recognised it then and still acknowledge to this day when they talk about "running through Arsenal, or powering through them".
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Had the refs cut down on some of the **** we got put through back then like they do today with City I think it'd been a different story. We were technically beyond a lot of teams but got hacked down. Song and Diaby could have given plenty of physical prowess and then we had a lot of guys who could produce beautiful football: Cesc, Arshavin, Nasri, Rosicky, Adebayor, Van Persie, young Wilsh, young Ramsey, Eduardo. Injuries was the only problem for that bunch. Oh, and another CB reserve instead of ****ing Silvestre..
GDeep™
League is very weak
We really missed out on Vardy. Still can’t believe that chav bastard turned us down.
Suarez first full season for liverpool he scored 11 goals.
Potential is massive with this guy
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