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Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 5:00 pm
by DiegoSapiens
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
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 5:05 pm
by lazyalf
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.
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 6:34 pm
by rockonin
DiegoSapiens wrote:What a coincidence, 99% of chelsea fans are mercenaries too!
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 6:53 pm
by Forum
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
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 7:10 pm
by DiegoSapiens
is the most similar team to barça in the premier and that is why alexis isn't playing well
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 7:17 pm
by Forum
Barcelona don't play against 6 centre backs every week though. You can't that way in the premiership, it just doesn't work
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 7:25 pm
by Func
#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
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 7:46 pm
by hubb
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..
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 8:53 pm
by hubb
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:09 pm
by rockonin
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.
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 6:50 am
by Johoosh
So we bagged Welbeck for 16m...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29023952
Can see him doing alright tbh
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 8:29 am
by magma
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.
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 8:39 am
by Forum
No problem with Welbeck but we have 6 defenders in the squad...
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 10:53 am
by murky21
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
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 9:48 am
by Johoosh
Good article - 'When did the transfer window become more important than the football?'
http://www.espnfc.com/barclays-premier- ... all-itself
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 9:53 am
by Forum
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..
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 9:53 am
by Riddles
Welbeck injured training for England apparently:
http://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/ar ... gn=twitter
Arsenal are good at this aren't they.
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 9:54 am
by wub
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 1:10 pm
by hubb
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?
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 1:43 pm
by Forum
Arsenal aren't going to suddenly buy someone on more than double their current highest wage
