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DiegoSapiens · Post by **DiegoSapiens** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 5:00 pm

hubb wrote:No that's not it. Plenty of great teams work without a designated striker.
It's the playing style that is specifically wrong especially when considering the wealth of almost top top level players on the team.

The solution could be to forget about even using a targetman and instead aspire to play in a waý that is similar to (just as examples): chile, barcelona, swansea, udinese, roma, fiorentina, even bayern and so on...
It's not like they lack players that understand shortpassing and putting pressure on the last third of the pitch either.

It seems that Wenger is still chasing a winger that automatically becomes a forward, like Henry did (possibly by himself).

this. i said it before, arsenal has bare offensive midfielders to play without strikers

lazyalf · Post by **lazyalf** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 5:05 pm

wub wrote:Benjamin Stambouli to Spurs

[Have to admit, I had to Google him before realising his picture was posted a couple pages back]

Decent player for a decent price. Hope for him he doesn't spend most of the season on the bench, he deserves better.

rockonin · Post by **rockonin** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 6:34 pm

DiegoSapiens wrote:What a coincidence, 99% of chelsea fans are mercenaries too!

Forum · Post by **Forum** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 6:53 pm

DiegoSapiens wrote: this. i said it before, arsenal has bare offensive midfielders to play without strikers

Arsenal arn't Barcelona. They'll either play with Sanogo who's tripe or Sanchez who'll get marked out of every game

DiegoSapiens · Post by **DiegoSapiens** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 7:10 pm

is the most similar team to barça in the premier and that is why alexis isn't playing well

Forum · Post by **Forum** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 7:17 pm

Barcelona don't play against 6 centre backs every week though. You can't that way in the premiership, it just doesn't work

Func · Post by **Func** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 7:25 pm

#WengerOut I just don't understand how you can play a 4-5-1 system but not have at least one respectable striker on the bench

hubb · Post by **hubb** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 7:46 pm

swansea played with michu in that kind of role for a while under laudrup

ofcourse its different for arsenal at their level but we've seen similar revolutions in most of the big leagues in europe with roma and bayern sticking out as someone they might be able to mirror somewhat

it could be argued that changing system at arsenal would mean they could field their best players at the same time aswell

and they even did it back when walcott finally got the opportunity as forward and he scored a hattrick one of those times.. just saying..

hubb · Post by **hubb** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 8:53 pm

jermaine defUCK??????

rockonin · Post by **rockonin** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:09 pm

Im not going to lie I'm gutted Falcao has gone to United. I was gutted because he was supposed to come to Chelsea two season ago. Not sure he'll be as good as he been previously due to his injury.

Johoosh · Post by **Johoosh** » Tue Sep 02, 2014 6:50 am

So we bagged Welbeck for 16m...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29023952

Can see him doing alright tbh

magma · Post by **magma** » Tue Sep 02, 2014 8:29 am

I'm happy with that. Always had a soft spot for Welbeck... mainly because I lived on Welbeck St for ages and we used to enforce a "drink whenever the commentator says Welbeck" rule for England games. Gonna be drinking a lot more often now.

Forum · Post by **Forum** » Tue Sep 02, 2014 8:39 am

No problem with Welbeck but we have 6 defenders in the squad...

murky21 · Post by **murky21** » Tue Sep 02, 2014 10:53 am

Johoosh wrote: Can see him doing alright tbh

yeah pretty happy with it tbh, much better than nothing

defence is good right now, chambers can be seen as a replacement for TV5, obviously any injury and we're completely fucked however

Johoosh · Post by **Johoosh** » Wed Sep 03, 2014 9:48 am

Good article - 'When did the transfer window become more important than the football?'

http://www.espnfc.com/barclays-premier- ... all-itself

Forum · Post by **Forum** » Wed Sep 03, 2014 9:53 am

I love it, especially when it goes right to midnight waiting for an Ozil or Arshavin to go through

It is pretty pathetic spending the whole day sitting watching Jim White and Natalie Sawyer

though..

Riddles · Post by **Riddles** » Wed Sep 03, 2014 9:53 am

Welbeck injured training for England apparently:

http://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/ar ... gn=twitter

Arsenal are good at this aren't they.

wub · Post by **wub** » Wed Sep 03, 2014 9:54 am

Riddles wrote:Welbeck injured training for England apparently:

http://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/ar ... gn=twitter

Arsenal are good at this aren't they.

hubb · Post by **hubb** » Wed Sep 03, 2014 1:10 pm

there were genuine rumours of a six month Defoe rental.
Is something like that maybe used to curve the blow of getting someone slightly shit like Welbeck here or did they expect to be able to buy Falcao?

Forum · Post by **Forum** » Wed Sep 03, 2014 1:43 pm

Arsenal aren't going to suddenly buy someone on more than double their current highest wage

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