Comments on: Arsenal Splashing Cash on Benzema & Not on Fabregas Makes Sense

By: Ola Ayobami

Ola Ayobami — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:51:36 +0000

Truly speaking, we do not need a midfielder in whatever form of reputation or quality. That area is not our problem. As we stand now, desirous to make some statement next season, we badly need a world class striker, and I would prefer Balotelli to Benzema.

By: Johanson

Johanson — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:22:21 +0000

@Cheadle…..Understandable argument but out of the context.
When you sell your best striker and sign a replacement, you do not spend that money to wait for 2-3 years for a striker to come good. If yes, then the club does not progress and well Arsenal’s proof is infront of you. Had they signed a proven striker, they could have won the league in the last two seasons.
Yes Giroud was nowhere near top class as compared to the current scenario, no where near the class of Suarez Sturridge Aguero Costa etc. The facts of the past are just comparisons, null and void for the current scenario and you can only make assumptions (that are normally useless)
So Van persie scored 11 league goals in his third season with Arsenal, by your argument you are willing to let Giroud score exactly the same and still stay. Or should Giroud also get 9 years to cross the 20+ league goal barrier because RvP got that time.
Im not an Arsenal fan, but this is evident that Giroud is not good enough, not world class and there is no point in waiting for more years in hoping that he might become. Good for other teams if he is given time as Arsenal are not going to progress if he remains as the first choice striker.

By: Cheadle

Cheadle — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:05:30 +0000

“Giroud was once again proving to be inconsistent and nowhere near a top class forward”
Lets see other “inconsistent” EPL forwards who are “nowhere near top class”
Thierry Henry 2nd season EPL 17 league goals========== Season total 22
Luis Suarez 2nd season EPL 11 league goals==========Season total 17
Didier Drogba 2nd season EPL 12 league goals========== Season total 16
Olivier Giroud 2nd season EPL 16 league goals ========== Season total 22
In six of Drogba’s eight seasons at Chelsea he did not get more than 12 league goals/season
In eight of Rooney’s ten seasons at Man U so far he did not get more than 17 league goals/season
Micheal Owen Never scored more than 19 league goals/season his entire career
In Teddy Sheringham’s Fourteen years as an EPL forward he scored 21 league goals/season only once. 18/season was his second best, Andy Cole’s highest tally after eight Man U seasons was 19 league goals /season. Dennis Berkgamp’s highest season league goals for Arsenal was 16, he spent 11 years at Arsenal. Before he finally scored 30 goals Van Persie’s highest ever was 18 in the league and in the six years before that he never got more than 11 league goals per season.
According to your analysis Rooney, Van Persie, Andy Cole, Bergkamp, Suarez, Drogba, Sheringham, Owen and Henry are/were no where near world class. I am willing to submit that every striker is different and some really stand out. However lets judge Giroud on the facts alone.. RVP’s break through season came after 7 years at Arsenal, yet people have not stopped talking about those 30 league goals for Arsenal and his 26 goals that helped Man U lift the title one season later. I respectfully suggest you tell Giroud, thank you for a great second season, come back next season and show what you are really capable of.

By: Given M

Given M — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 06:35:56 +0000

we need finishers at least two(2) in case of injuries which we have failed to budget of for the past 8 yrs. our crop is still young and gets long injuries therefore we need two(2) defensive midfielders at list one class like Luis Gostavo or Alex Song and kindly note that Kallstrom is still very mach needed at the left mid and we need to change our FORMATION to 4 4 2 OR 4 3 3 that thing of using 2 holding mid is no-sense that s why when ever we find great atarkers like Chelsea & man city they have scored us a lot of goals which we could have avoided.

By: Malaysian gunner

Malaysian gunner — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 05:56:38 +0000

Arsenal need approver striker of top,top quality not one who will o will not develop. Gervino and Chamakh spring to mid the kind of 2nd rate and cheap strikers Wenger likes to buy.Think of it. Had Arsenal a lethal marksman,things could have been different.
We need a destroyer not another creative artist.

By: Odoch

Odoch — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 05:11:23 +0000

Benzema is more efficient striker, his aquisition will be very important, the mid fielder Arsenal need is defensive, its painful to see Wenger play an attacking midfielder in defensive mid field.