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We didn't overpay though. Look at the market. Top strikers are going for 100M. A prime Giroud would be worth 45 in today's market..
That's a terrifying thought if there ever was one
We didn't overpay though. Look at the market. Top strikers are going for 100M. A prime Giroud would be worth 45 in today's market..
Holy moses, what an attention seeking post.
Worse than the below?
Senderos
Chamack
Gervinho
Park?????
If we wanted to we could sell Lacazette for £50-70m.
How is our second worst ever signing winning POTS here, seriously get a grip.
I wouldn't say robbed, even though we didn't play that well last season we actually supplied Aubameyang extremely well (he obviously made that easy due to his fantastic positioning) but he did miss a bucket load of chances as well as being poor on the ball.He shouldn't have been POTS, Aubameyang got robbed.
Auba's top class movement allowed us to create those chances for him though.I wouldn't say robbed, even though we didn't play that well last season we actually supplied Aubameyang extremely well (he obviously made that easy due to his fantastic positioning) but he did miss a bucket load of chances as well as being poor on the ball.
In my opinion Aubameyang didnt win the POTS because the fans rightly thought he could have scored a heck more goals for us, he really did miss some sitters over the course of the season..
Auba's top class movement allowed us to create those chances for him though.
Fans in general underrate the importance of off-the-ball movement, either in attack or in defense. How would Bergkamp have given those legendary assists if Vieira or Ljungberg have not made the runs they have?
Scoring the amount of goals Auba has done with partly playing from the wings in a team that finished outside the top4? I'd argue it's ****ing brilliant even if he missed another 10. I'd rather he keeps on getting into those positions and miss a few, than play a striker who doesn't make those runs...
Totally, you can't tell anything just by looking at the top all time tenAssists are the most overrated stat and don't prove much.
Totally, you can't tell anything just by looking at the top all time ten
1. Ryan Giggs
162
2. Cesc Fàbregas
111
3. Wayne Rooney
103
4. Frank Lampard
102
5. Dennis Bergkamp
94
6. Steven Gerrard
92
7. James Milner
83
7. David Silva
83
9. David Beckham -
80
10. Teddy Sheringham -
76
List full of trash that
Well done for picking apart the list so effectively. You're very much more believable nowRyan Giggs is also the most overrated player of all time.
Ryan Giggs is also the most overrated player of all time.
Chocolate ice cream is gross
Everyone is waiting for the holy day when Tierney and Bellerin ascend from the bench, the stars align, and the team is magically transformed into title challengers.
But the reality is they both have track records as crocks and we’ll be extremely fortunate if even one of them completes the season.
Well said , in both paragraphs!Tbf Bellerin was never a crock. He pretty much played every game for years. He got two big injuries back to back last season so he's been out forever. Thought people are really overrating him in his absence, it's only gonna lead to disappointment when he comes back.
This Tierney kid just seems like a myth at this point, I called him the Scottish Kim Kalstrom as a joke but now it's looking real. I have no patience for injury prone players after over a decade having to suffer with them at Arsenal, if Tierney is injury prone then I'm already writing him off tbh.
I disagree, let's take a look at teams performing better than us this season :4-2-3-1 with Laca, Auba, Özil and Pepe all playing won't work anywhere near as effectively as people think it will. It'll probably end up being more of a 4-2-4 leaving our 2 man midfield very vulnerable and will get crowded out by teams who pack the midfield. It's even worse if we encourage the full-backs to go forward. But in general Pepe and Auba aren't going to help out defensively, or at least they aren't gonna do it well enough to prevent our full-backs being isolated in 2 v 1 situations.
In general I'm actually not a massive fan of 4-2-3-1 in general especially if it's with an Özil style 10 and two out and out wingers. At least with the 4-2-3-1 we played in 2015 Ramsey would come in to make it a 3 man midfield so Özil didn't have to come back and stay in positions that could hurt the opposition. There are just too many flaws for it to work without us getting punished. There's a reason why Wenger would deploy Cazorla, Ramsey or Rosicky wide in that formation, so they could also help us control the midfield. Even Martinelli-Auba-Pepe ahead of Özil would have some issues imo.
I know there's a craving for us to play our best players or as attacking as possible but it cannot be to the detriment of team balance and it cannot make us vulnerable defensively.
Onto our current predicament, we almost have an issue where Özil and Pepe are both kind of luxury players. The only times they've played together it's usually forced us to play an extra midfielder or an extra defender to compensate. So it's gonna be tough for us fitting them both in unless Özil plays on the left, we play Pepe as a striker with Auba and a diamond midfield or we play 3-4-3 or something like that in order to maintain balance and have numbers in midfield. Only other options I can think of is maybe Willock or Ceballos on the left in a 4-2-3-1, but I can't imagine that being too popular.