At the start of the last season, Wenger was deadly keen to sign Baptista after a failed shot on Robinho, and in that course he overlooked Owen alleging that Arsenal do not need a striker although he later signed Adebayor and gave him all the backing in the world and it is yet to bare fruit , yet when the beast , finally , came to Arsenal this season, he is so far to play regularly for the team , as if , ironically , he will follow the footsteps of Reyes to be forced on the bench after so keenly being signed , while in the few times he played, he couldn’t live up to expectations ; as a matter of fact Arsenal do not need him as they have too many midfielders , the virtue that Wenger is trying to neglect, is that the Gunners are very vulnerable at the defence and goalkeeping , in tactics and individuals, although the arrival of Gallas improved things but not to the ambitions, they still need Curtis Davis or another defender of the same capabilities, as well as a better goalkeeper, every good successful team have an extraordinary goalkeeper, yet Arsenal can overcome all that weakness , with a single move , which is to bring in Robinho in place of Baptista , even if it means to pay some cash more or give away another player like Gilberto; certainly a lot of people would think it is irrelevant or even ridiculous , yet calmly think of it , Robinho is quite skilful and fast, as well as instinctive goal scorer and play maker which would put enormous pressure on the opponent to attack easily , which can contribute in making up for the misses of the defence or goalkeeper, in addition to being a prospective replacement for Henry as he is very much of his category and calibre , besides that recent Arsenal inability to transform their supremacy and control of any game into goals which is what every team play for , means Arsenal need another prolific striker , while for Gilberto he is about twenty nine , neither a holding midfielder nor an attacking one , and Diaby or Flamini can efficiently fill in, particularly that they are French which is much favoured by Wenger , with no offence, in any match, watch and count Gilberto’s passes and tackles and find out how many failed ones he makes , although he is a hardworking player; even if all that is not true , Robinho deserves the sacrifice , also it would mean that Adebayor and Aliadere , can be sold or sent on loan to secure some cash and a chance to sign another defender and goalkeeper, those two players among others would never have made to Arsenal without Wenger’s biasing toward French or French based players , certainly Bentley , Pennant , or Jeffers were not inferior to them be rejected at the first call , while after three unsuccessful years and loan spells for Aliadere , still he can find a place in the first team , or even Johnson could not be as convincing for Wenger to be signed as Adebayor was ; and this attitude of Wenger on insisting on incompetent players like for example Cygan , or Almunia , Song Bellong , .. etc. , just to prove himself has been causing Arsenal a lot , and the people who would mention Wallcot , it is almost certain that he will spend the next two seasons on the bench , then sent on loan as a prelude to getting rid of him , while few years a go , Anelka who was as promising or may be less , yet was treated as the untouchable spoiled kid of Wenger , certainly in the past ten years Arsenal were marvellous which should be credited to a collective work of Wenger and his colleagues , but when will they start nursing their own home grown talents rather than “Cultivating others land and breeding others herd “.
Ali Adili
Baghdad - Iraq
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Ali Adili
Baghdad - Iraq
aliadili12@yahoo.com
009647702952398