benjamin86
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Sell Lacazette and then if Aubameyang gets injured Welbeck or Nketiah upfront? That'll be fun....
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Alexandre Lacazette (Out)
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Player:Martinelli
This 100%. It's the same crowd who are first to bump the Laca thread after a poor performance. Tiresome really.
And the first who'll moan about selling him when Auba gets injured or suspended and we end up with Welbeck or an overwhelmed kid up front.
NieThePiet
Loves Overhyping Our Rivals
We were searching so long for a good striker since we sold van Persie - now we have two with a briliant partner ship and some seriously would like to sell one to improve another position?
With this attitude we will never reach our goals again. We're Arsenal, we don't have to sell good players to strenght the team.
With this attitude we will never reach our goals again. We're Arsenal, we don't have to sell good players to strenght the team.
If you want to know what happens to a club with only one top striker and a mediocre backup, just look at Bayern. You fail your goals.
They realized they couldn't rely on Lewandowski completely with injuries, suspensions and draughts. They thought they were clever with Wagner, 10m budget buy, but he's manged what? 5, 6 goals against Bundesliga cannon fodder and shat his pants againt Real when Lewa was misfiring. That's exactly Welbeck or Nketiah as our backup striker.
Never in any universe do you sell a striker who can score 20 to 30 goals a season, depending on where and how often he starts, and who's shown he can play along the main guy very, very, well. Guy scored 17 in 39 settling in at a new club and a new league with a knee injury and about two months out. Now without injury and settled in I suspect he'd score around 20 to 25 in ~ 40 games. You don't sell that.
Btw: In his first season at Arsenal, without injury and surgery, Giroud needed 47 games for the same goal tally.
They realized they couldn't rely on Lewandowski completely with injuries, suspensions and draughts. They thought they were clever with Wagner, 10m budget buy, but he's manged what? 5, 6 goals against Bundesliga cannon fodder and shat his pants againt Real when Lewa was misfiring. That's exactly Welbeck or Nketiah as our backup striker.
Never in any universe do you sell a striker who can score 20 to 30 goals a season, depending on where and how often he starts, and who's shown he can play along the main guy very, very, well. Guy scored 17 in 39 settling in at a new club and a new league with a knee injury and about two months out. Now without injury and settled in I suspect he'd score around 20 to 25 in ~ 40 games. You don't sell that.
Btw: In his first season at Arsenal, without injury and surgery, Giroud needed 47 games for the same goal tally.
Player:Martinelli
Not too mention fitting into a broken team that relied on the brilliance of one player lead by a manager who was out of ideas. Additionally unrest caused by uncertainty regarding two star players and a heated divide in the fan base.
Sanchez11
Nobody Is Coming!
Country: England
Remember we had 4 strikers for 2 positions all them years ago. If you think eddie and danny are going to be our back ups then you are simply deluded.
Add that he's been subbed of after 70 minutes in almost every game, and it's a fantastic return for a first season
I would not sell Lacazette personally. He did not have a bad season and doesn't deserve to be punted already, especially considering Welbeck probably has first dibs on being Auba's backup 
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However, don't sleep on Eddie Nketiah. Kid has adapted to a higher level every time he's stepped up. In a combined total of 127 minutes for us (not even 1 and a half matches), he has 2 goals already. He's a killer, and a more well-rounded player than people think. If Emery has to rely on Nketiah at any point in the season, I would not be worried.
. However, don't sleep on Eddie Nketiah. Kid has adapted to a higher level every time he's stepped up. In a combined total of 127 minutes for us (not even 1 and a half matches), he has 2 goals already. He's a killer, and a more well-rounded player than people think. If Emery has to rely on Nketiah at any point in the season, I would not be worried.
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James Bond
Moderation Consultant
Or we have few sellable assets to raise funds outside of Lacazette, Ramsey, or Bellerin (nobody is going to pay us for dross like Welbeck or Mustafi or match the wages we gave Özil) so I would have typed out a similar reply on the potential benefits of moving them on to help rebuild the squad in more pressing areas given our lack of budget if they were linked with moves away.
Look at the work Liverpool did in selling and reinvesting in weak areas. We have a surplus of starting CFs but loads of holes in other areas. Moving Lacazette and investing elsewhere surely isn't that bad of a move.
Also don't really understand the "well what if PEA gets hurt?! You'll be sorry!" crowd either. If PEA was here last summer would people be happy with spending 50m on Lacazette to be his backup in Jan? Doubt it. Would think most would take it as a waste of funds, so why people are some so offended with people being ok with selling him?
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James Bond
Moderation Consultant
Remember when the club signed that attacking midfielder Santi Cazorla and he was our POTS in his first year here but then the following summer when we needed a striker we went and opportunistically signed another attacking midfielder for a record sum in Özil leading us to needing to change formations to accommodate both AMs all while leaving major holes in our unbalanced and weak XI as we supplemented the rest of the squad with cheap/stopgap players like Flamini due to lack of available funds?
How exactly is signing Lacazette and then signing PEA in consecutive windows different? 100m invested on starting CFs in 4 months.
We clearly didn't plan to buy both CFs so why not keep the best one (PEA) and make a plan to sell to buy and build a balanced and stronger first XI?
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Country: Scotland
I don't quite understand this logic. Real Madrid sold Özil and Higuain to sign Bale Barcelona sold Alexis and Fabregas to buy Suarez. Psg done a clear out to buy Neymar. Are we below doing what those teams did? Selling good players to buy world class players?
Giroud12
Active Member
Those of you who have been hating on Laca for the past year: its better to just admit you thought he was going to flop, and he didnt. Hold your hand up and accept you were wrong. Arguing for selling him now, to somehow prove your point, just makes you look stupid.
Fewtch
Özil at 10 And Emery Out
Ridiculous thread
kraphtous
Raul Stanllehi
Please don’t entertain trolls, Lacazette alongside Aubameyang, Mkhitaryan and Özil are unsellable.
Dont really get the strong feelings against selling him if Emery staying with his one striker formation.
Saying that feel the Torreira move could be an indication of new formation.
Sampdorias 4-3-1-2 fits in both strikers, Özil & Ramsey all in natural positions. If thats the case Lacazette a key player.
Saying that feel the Torreira move could be an indication of new formation.
Sampdorias 4-3-1-2 fits in both strikers, Özil & Ramsey all in natural positions. If thats the case Lacazette a key player.
It could also be a case of changing mind after we signed a truly elite striker in January.
To be fair none of us have ever seen the main three or four start together before.
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rich 1990
Not A Big Believer In Diversity
The one position we have good depth in and people want to take that away. This is what I meant when I said some of you deserve eternal misery.
kraphtous
Raul Stanllehi
Because of injuries.
Even if they can't all play together, that doesn't mean we can't be allowed to have some depth in our attack. If anyone in attack has to leave for a new winger it's Welbeck who enters the last year of his contract and shouldn't be offered a new one.
Gunnerz4life4ever
Active Member
Why is this thread still open? , I'am just curious.
