Ignore away but I am the sack of sanity.
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He wasn’t serious.
Iheanacho is the real deal and I’m convinced he’d be an upgrade on what we have currently.
Good strikers have moved: Aubameyang, Sturridge, Dybala…
We’ve failed, above all, at bringing in good young strikers that could contribute and grow into something more. The expectation of just having a Benzema fall into our lap like with Özil has been a failed policy. It’s just not realistic, and it’s only realistic if you’re willing to pay the exorbitant fee that Juventus just paid for Higuaín, which we are not.
We should’ve been interested in the Aubameyangs, Sturridges, and Dybalas of the world. Aubameyang was signed the summer Welbeck was signed…if we were serious about finding a real, quality CF and not just a stopgap like Giroud, we could’ve signed both, and moved Giroud on, because there is no rule that you have to persist with players and delusions that they can become top class after two full seasons of mediocrity. To steal a line from @A.F. , look at Atlético, they are quick to move players on and try new things. Speaking of Atléti, having missed out on Aubameyang and Sturridge, Correa would’ve been a good option, a player with real talent to bet on and give a real chance.
We might’ve made a real strong run at Aubameyang last summer, too, before he broke out. There were rumours we were considering a bid of £30m or so, and that Dortmund was determined to hold onto him, but would they if we were willing to make an offer of £40, or £50? It’s a risk we should’ve been looking to take instead of holding out in a vain pursuit for Benzema.
Yeah @Maxi_Gooner as Shamrock says I’m not serious, it’s a running joke from the old forum, arising from the claims of a certain mad englishman named BradyMagic
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If you read my earlier aumba was bought as winger not a striker same with Griezman; even if we offered £50m and the player didn’t want to move you can’t force him to move especially when the club has no reason to sell. Athletic like get good players but if good become great that’s plus like with every signing teams that splash 50-70m on a single player; you a lot of people are ignoring the fact not a lot of good strikers moved around in the last four years. Inhac is would be great soon but not now, all he is at the moment is a good young striker I agree we should got while we were getting his buddies.
@AbouCuellar sorry for the last post, I don’t understand your humor 
However, apart Correa and Sturridge who are two question marks for many reasons, you’re talking about two strikers (Auba and Dybala) form two small/medium clubs and without a scoresheet good enough to be considered clinical strikers good enough to improve our attack.
Arsenal missed the chance to sign proved striker during latest transfer windows like Gameiro, Icardi, Mandzukic, Carlos Bacca, Michy Batshuayi, Diego Costa etc…
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That’s the whole point, you need to bet on someone before they break out and become world class as Auba and Dybala and Sturridge have. Unless you’re Real Madrid the luxury of attracting and paying the fee necessary for a ready made top class striker–especially striker, because it’s the most highly valued/sought after position–is not one you can permit yourself.
Hence why I say this is where we have failed, in recognition and development of a potential top class talent, or a few, to mitigate risk. Welbeck and Sanogo has not been a good enough attempt.
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I can’t remember the details now, but I read it and it seemed credible.
You look at the money City and Pep spent on Jesus. Fuck me he could be a game changer and they’re already playing silky stuff the league can’t compete with. I genuinely didn’t expect Pep to have it this easy but I’ll be interested to see what he can do in Europe, City very much could win the CL in the next few years or at the least get their name out there as a European powerhouse - something we’ve never really done.
Though it’s genuinely hard for me to be objective when you’re so salty over a rival having a manager who cares about modern tactics and takes the transfer market seriously.
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And this is an impossibility with Perez? Why the FUCK will people not give the guy a chance, he could very well be a top striker once he gets the ball rolling! Just because he is older people have totally disregarded that he could turn into a peach of a signing. I wonder how many people will come back to this thread and admit they are wrong if he turned out to be a 30+ goal a year striker. Please dont say history dictates yadda yadda…he just scored 17 goals pretty much on his own for a shit team. Vardy came from nowhere to be the leagues top scorer, what about Harry Kane, did fuck all for ages now he is banging them in (well at least was.
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Dude, just stop…It’s okay to give opinions and it’s okay to be able to accept others opinions even if they don’t align with your own opinions. We’ll all find out.
And just FYI…people on this forum watch a TON of football. We aren’t 12 year old Messi fanboys spouting shit, we’ve been through a lot of PL & CL games, we’ve seen a ton of non-Arsenal players, we’ve watched a million youtubes on potential signings and we’ve heard from supporters of other teams on their players. There’s a lot of knowledge here, you should try listening instead of shouting down all of the time.
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Why it is so difficult to understand?
Nobody here, NOBODY refused to give Perez a chance.
The topic just switched to “why Wenger could not land a talent earlier” or something like that.
There were players available in the past couple of years but we did not take any chance on the availability. Wenger just played the waiting game, or he was sacred to take a risk.
It is NOT about Perez, it is about Wenger.
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Some Celta fan said he’s better than Benzema so now I can stop worrying about our CF position thats a relief.
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For me is wrong to compare Welbeck with Sanogo (Danny is a successful experiment, for me). About Sanogo, is the classic wonderkid (for other people, not for me because I judged him not good enough for a big/medium club before his sign for us) who hasn’t reached the expectations.
I remember the NT where he was the main striker: Areola, Zouma, Umtiti, Pogba and Lemina have and are confirming the expectations, not the same for Sanogo and Thauvin, not the same for Jean-Christophe Bahebeck (I was his fan). We’re talking about three players on 21, a poor record. Sanogo has been a bet not won like the many young players fired by Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Tottenham, Real, Atletico etc…
We need to support Perez to reach high level despite the age like Luca Toni, Jamie Vardy, Carlos Bacca, Nolito, Gameiro, Mandzukic and Jackson Martinez. He can that, he isn’t the son of the modernity, looks an old school player with a better mentality.
Its about the hypocrisy of the comment ‘you have to bet on someone before they break out’ soooooo ummmmm what could this be as regards Perez, its like because he is older he doesnt count or something. 17 goals in a poor team with barely any hope, but this is a ‘risk’ and not a very good signing people think but what happens if he is breaking out right now? Seems extremely myopic most peoples views. I reckon if we bought Auba people would have been saying the same sorta things ‘aaahhhh fuck another speed merchant with no real end product (which he didnt do well scoring goals until recently) and we have enough fucking shitty wingers’ its just tiresome hearing the same tiring arguments, damned if you do damned if you dont!
Sorry, I can’t recognize the guys in red and purple shirt.
Are they good??
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Auba was basically Walcott back then got better since Giroud outperformed in France, Sturridge was an unknown quality pre-Liverpool and Chelsea wouldn’t have sold to us (plus he wasn’t proven then) and Dybala we tried to get and he went to Juve. And no Auba didn’t move the summer Welbz did, he moved the summer before.
For the most part you have some Captain Hindsight glasses on right there
We bid for him last summer. City bid for him this summer. They weren’t selling.
Can you identify the posts that inspired this post? Same goes to the others on your side of this debate?
At the end of the day there has been a fairly consistently negative set of posters on this forum for several years (a , why on earth would you suddenly expect them to stop being negative with regards to the signing of a 27/8 year old who has only had one season as a striker?
Fair enough. It doesn’t seem credible to me but fair enough.
But do you think it’s fair enough? You could be clearer.
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