Sentences with phrase «ineffective as a striker»

Lacazette is now 70 million and his simply not good enough, Welbeck has poor control which makes him ineffective as a striker and base on Olivier Giroud overall performance in the EUROS, there is clear evidence his going to have a modest season.

He was totally ineffective as a striker, and just as anonymous in the wide areas.

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Louis van Gaal opted to send Radamel Falcao back to AS Monaco after an ineffective loan spell and veteran Robin Van Persie struggled with form and fitness last season and as such there is certainly scope for a striker signing to boost the Old Trafford attacAS Monaco after an ineffective loan spell and veteran Robin Van Persie struggled with form and fitness last season and as such there is certainly scope for a striker signing to boost the Old Trafford attacas such there is certainly scope for a striker signing to boost the Old Trafford attack.

there's nothing u can do to convince a player who isn't really into moving... wilshere will not try and persuade him to join if his opinion isn't needed... sure, d occasional «sweet talk» but he will expect vardy to make up his mind... I believe we shld continue pursuing him so if there's an off chance he wants to join after Euros, and we've not found a better alternative, we get him... Wenger shld go to south america and look for pple tevez, aguero etc... he says they produce d best both he ends up buying the ineffective ones (Wellington, Campbell)... nobody shld sai they're not there, cuz ath Madrid will sell all their best strikers and buy south Americans (either in Europe or s / america) and they'll be as good as d previous 1s... can't he get callieri or gabigol... I for one would love it if we could put in a cheeky bid for angel correa (the next aguero)

Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste

He could be an option on the left, in place of the ineffective Ivorian Gervinho, or as a supporting striker to Robin van Persie.