Freddies_a_winner
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I really think Wenger should move freddie to bergkamps spot and move bergkamp to freddies spot if dennis is going to miss such easy shots
henry_14 said:flog bergkamp to scunthorpe because he is hurting the team
too slow and old.
Jinn said:Firstly we'd have to recall him!
I don't think it will happen for the moment.
Jinn said:Firstly we'd have to recall him!
I don't think it will happen for the moment.
The thing about Freddie, is that he's not really a winger. He doesn't do those things that wingers are supposed to do... you know fly down the touchline and then send in a cross. He doesn't do that.
He's more of a poacher, good from coming in deep where defences don't exactly know what he's doing. As the song says, he's everywhere when he's on song. He pops up exactly when Henry or Bergkamp are ready to thread a ball into space.
At the moment, our strengths are clearly on the left side. If, as some pundits say, Arsène Wenger is trying to strengthen the right to be as formidable as the left, he has to play Kolo at RB. Lauren at RB doesn't work. He just doesn't have the defensive presence of mind. Perhaps Lauren could be a right winger for us? I don't know whether it would work, but I'm pretty sure Lauren would get a lot of confidence by having Kolo behind him.
So where does that put Freddie? In all honesty, this leaves him on the bench. His role isn't to be a winger - his role is to score goals by popping up unexpectedly.
It's a bit of a dilemma actually - and Arsène Wenger will have to give this some thought, if he doesn't want our team to remain lopsided.
Adam said:Perhaps if we had what was above, we would be top of the league without nothing up as many draws as we have. Add to that - Wengerball perhaps would be flowing like never before. And maybe instead of scraping into the top 5 of the CL and proudly mentioning it - we would be proud in saying "a great European team".
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patrick42uk said:Adam said:Perhaps if we had what was above, we would be top of the league without nothing up as many draws as we have. Add to that - Wengerball perhaps would be flowing like never before. And maybe instead of scraping into the top 5 of the CL and proudly mentioning it - we would be proud in saying "a great European team".
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i dont think anyone can make that assertion. Lets look at the positions you mentioned. RB, CB, CM, CF, RM. In the past, we have had the likes of dixon, adams, petit and a more prolific bergkap to fill these roles. I dont think you could have classed any of those as weak links. Yet, that team never amassed as much points as we have these season at this stage. I think the current squad is the strongest we'v had for a long time. to suggest that it is a rb, cb, cm, cf, rm short (half of the outfield positions!) surely cannot be true considering the points we have and being unbeaten domestically. Add to that all the records this particular crop of players have broken along the way.