Sentences with phrase «bought as a striker»

He said he was bought as a striker but wenger relied on him as winger and he got the hang of it.

Poldi, however, was NOT bought as a striker and again the price was relatively low.

Not exact matches

If I'm le prof, I'll buy higuain and another striker (a diminutive 1)... if we have to sell giroud to get higuain, then by all means go ahead... we cld use Walcott as our back up and wait 4 welbz to come....

If wenger is not planning to buy CF then he shud play Akpom as striker not Theo

I doubt if wenger will buy a striker this window with iwobi playing well on the wings, Sanchez might be permanently deployed as a striker for next season leaving akpom and Walcott as alternatives... However a centre is non negotiable..

hope theo comes back soon that will allow ozil to play behind striker than on lw & hope in jan wenger goes & buy a cb & cdm mertasacker too was slow yesterday & caught ball watching on some ocassiosns we need a new cb as well

Wenger needs to either buy another striker or test some of the other options such as sanchez or campbell up front, or eventually Theo.

As far as this transfer window is concern if wenger fails to buy players for the two obvious positions i.e striker and defensive midfielder, then he is no more the right man for ARSENAAs far as this transfer window is concern if wenger fails to buy players for the two obvious positions i.e striker and defensive midfielder, then he is no more the right man for ARSENAas this transfer window is concern if wenger fails to buy players for the two obvious positions i.e striker and defensive midfielder, then he is no more the right man for ARSENAL.

Unless Wenger buys a complete spine for the team such as a GK (back up for Ospina, Schez is done), Virgil Van Dijk CB, Shinderlin DM, Sissoko DM / Box to Box, and a real WC striker such as the much rumoured Cavani for Ozil / Santi to feed balls through to, we aren't even making 4th.

Ozil through the middle with Cazorla as back up and buy a great left winger and a striker problem sorted.

To progress, however, we need to buy 2 players, a Central Defender / Midfielder and a bigger striker to present as an alternative to Sanchez.

Ive been saying it for weeks he wont buy big this summer if at ALL!!!!! AW thinks we are fine as we are despite the world and his wife stating that we really need about three top notch players, I think the minimum we need is a skilled and beast like striker but Im betting we don't get that either.

He bought Sanogo too (note I think of Welbeck as a winger) because he knew we need a striker and he gambled on buying Welbeck too.

Yes, man u bought some good players but that is not enought to give opinion as fact - a fan said other epl teams must fear man u. 1 even said we need a striker that would do for us what suarez did for liverpool and i asked what did he do, did he win anything meaningful for them?

as a striker i would rather use Akpom who is familiar with the team then buy someone not proven second rate and spend Arsens money sorry Arsenals money

Not danny but costa d best striker in EPL currently...... at the beginning of the season if that wenger bought a world class CB to compliment kos and brought Song back as well as buy costa which he had all the chance to Arsenal would have been deadly... but he chose to go to italy to officiate game..........

and we were so close to having Yaya Sanogo as our striker for the first few months instead of Welbeck, who is decent, but was a panic buy as well.

This year is no different then the previous transfer windows whereby Wenger panics at the 11th hour and tries to buy any player from the basement bucket... You can youtube any player (search... players names + goals) and you'll see a compilation that will make that player look to be on the same level as the best strikers around.

Yes he could be alot better at finishing, but let's see, maybe we got a new sturridge... What I am mad on Wenger about is not so much the lack of a proven striker to our ranks... No it's that we haven't bought a central defender to cover, but most important, we haven't bought a defensive midfielder, that we need so much!!? Wenger makes the same mistakes over and over, everybody else can see it, just not him... hmm: / but still lets respect him as a man and judge when we are atleast half way into the season... COYG!!!!

Even if Wenger thinks there is no better striker available than Giroud (Only wenger knows why), still he needs to buy a striker as Welbeck is almost certainly out of most of next season, I am sure he would not go for Walcott and Akpon as our backup striker.Hopefully

We are buying in a defender that we were NOT originally seeking and now we wont be in for a striker so although we may not be letting in as many goals as before we certainly wont be scoring any more with the lampost up front.

Such as buying quality strikers, and having a solid DM.

The BVB are claimed to be looking at the possibility of buying Olivier Giroud from the Gunners, as they look to replace supposed Arsenal - bound striker Pierre - Emerick Aubameyang.

I cant imagine he will leave for the same type of money that they bought him for as with ffp rules and his scoring these days being very good for a winger but not so much for main striker and also people will be looking at Falcaos case.

This is why I believe he would be an excellent buy because Arsenal need a no nonsense striker up front who has the ability (as we have seen in Cavani) to smash 30 goals a season and take us to the title.

if we buy a fast, clinical striker in summer and a someone who's as good or better than coq, i think we can win.

OT: My wishes: — Wenger to stop playing Mert ahead of Gab... this is a must — Wenger being ruthless and stop being stubbornness «big wish» — Wenger to change his transfer policy «big wish as well» — Not count on very injury prone players (Wilshere, Walcott, Ox, Welbeck), take them only as a bounce because they would never stay fit... It is a dilemma because they are all quality home grown players, so I can not say «get rid of them all» — Give our smart attacking players (Sanchez, Cazorla, Ozil) what they need, a striker... that is a must — Strengthen the flank with another quality because all the sights now on Sanchez — Get rid of useless team players (Campbell, Flamini, yes they are useless) and replace them with better players (promote or buy good ones)-- Loan Chamber... 16M is too much to ruin

Your right there as much as I hate to admit it Buuut I still think we need a beast of a striker and then we're where we should be Buuut I just see your god Wenger buying one.

Maybe we buy Reus and try Walcott or Sanchez as striker.

I really do nt see any legs in any of these stories about any more transfers, The evidence is all there among all the smoke and mirrors, Look at the evidence, Wenger stated that Giroud would lead the line next season and as such we have have only seen any real movement towards buying a striker in the purchase of Asano who clearly is nothing more than a shirt selling move.

We on the other hand will have Walcott and Ramsey back as well as Alexis and the DM that I'm certain we'll buy, possibly even a striker too.

As usual wenger will buy a CB and not a striker.

Wenger could save him by selling alexis and giroud to buy aubamayung and play ozil behind lacazette n aubamayung then we might compete with batsuaryi morata lukaku rashford aguro Jesus but as it stands lacazette will not work as a lone striker coz he still to small and immobile!

But chill out, Arsene won't buy him or any other striker just like last season as he is going to count on Giroud and Sanogo as our main strikers and guess what!

What a failire he's become.He was bought as the man supposed to lead the line and send us to glory and now he becomes a so called super sub.I don't get it.France's leading striker is a super sub at Arsenal.Since he came here he's part of the reason why we've not been able to win the league.He's also part of the reason why Wenger remains hesitant in signing a world class striker since for some reason he still believes in him.He's really affected Arsenal a lot which I don't kbow if many have realized.At times playing with him is like playing with no striker at all.This inconsistencies won't help us at all going forward We have absolutely zero quality in striking department.

With the prices of other strikers being as they currently are, buying in a player who can learn the CF role while also adding to the team from out wide would seem the «cheaper» option compared to buying a CF who will displace Giroud or cause Wenger to go back on his word with Theo.

We have G - rude, Walchart & Wellback and a goal scoring Sanchez (LW) so AW will not be buying any new striker over the summer unless Theo leaves as AW and quiet a number on here believe our «strike force» have what it takes to take us to the TOP.: -LRB-

We will sell Alexis to city then he will buy a medioka striker bring back Jack wheelchair as a new sighing and promote from the youth ranks thats it

We won't go 2nd, we'll be same on points but they have better GD, coz our strikers are shooting blanks since they were bought as top scorers in some league, he may be Wenger's cousin

's to join a club with no silver for eight years at the time, i would like to see Falcau as our striker, Arsen if your buying do it now otherwise it will be Christmas before any new signings settle.

Can't believe Conte after winning the Premier League thought it was a good idea to buy Llorente as a backup striker.

We're NOT linked now with anyone else and that's a worrying thing in itself, I personally really don't think Walcott is good enough to play that striker role and I know I'll get roundly «thumbed down» for this but its how I feel about the boy he's good but NOT as good as he thinks he is and it annoys me that theres a possibility that all the toing and froing around his contract may be stopping us from signing a top notch striker (and I DO NT think Martinez is this) I do feel that AW will opt for the cheap and second rate options again and this will also include not buying a striker and putting Walcott in this role, meanwhile all our rivals will be putting strong established players into the positions where they need to bull up their squads we are not well known for doing this and its not going to happen now, which is infuriating as this is the right time to break that mould and go for it!!

Rather than buying Morata I would prefer for us to stick with Giroud with Sanchez as second striker like Griezmann in the France team then we sign a left winger like Reus, Draxler or Gotze

If say the Arsenal board member who said Arsenal identified a striker they wanted to buy but the club wants a replacement first, one hopes that striker was Baryen's Lewandoski and that Abumayang wants to go to Bayern, otherwise the Abumayang transfer will have no impact on Arsenal getting a striker because Benzema is just as good as Giroud.

I think he was bought more as a Welbeck replacement (2nd striker) than a Giroud replacement (1st striker) and don't think we could have got any better as a 2nd striker for the price.

My take is, no matter how well we complain about this or that, Wenger will always do what he think is right for the club and the team generally, if he's not buying a striker that's ok in as much the midfielders can assist with their own share of goals to ease the burden off the strikers, but depending solely on Giroud will be suicidal.

This is why i think we need a striker next season, the likes of Higuain, Laccavet and Reus so if you tell me no need of buying ST i will simply remember your idea to buy Demba Ba from chelsea while Morinho saw him as a surplus of requirement to his squad.

he's just looking on to see what kind of attacker (whether a winger or WC striker) we buy so as he can weigh his chances.

LOL It didn't take too long for the media to start the January Arsenal transfer rumours as at the start of yesterday the Guardian are saying that Arsene Wenger made a last minute offer to buy the Juventus striker Simone Zaza, despite the 24 year - old only moving to the Old Lady earlier in this transfer window, and are now preparing to go back for another bid in January.

I do not agree that Wenger biiding for Vardy in 20 million range signified that he is not going to bid more.Wenger has to buy a new striker as Welbeck is inhured.