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As for Giroud I hope what I'm hearing is not true.You get the feeling that once Lacazette starts scoring he just won't like it.He's also another overrated player who's also hear because of Wenger's kindness.Apart from the fact that he's good with his head I don't see the positives of keeping here and even Welbeck.We need players who can push Lacazette to perform and these are just not the players.They are more of rotation players.Do you think if Welbeck and Giroud were at top form they can challenge Laca at his best?I always laugh at our strikers though.On one hand, one doesn't fit our style of play but at least he can finish.On the other hand, the one who fits our style of play can't even score a goal.I can't believe we are joking with such a crucial role.I'm sick and tired of seeing average strikers in the club.It's been painful watching the likes of Bendtner and Chamakh already.Now I have to cope with this.

Uhh guessing this is a question from football retards exam night... We have one quality forward (currently off form) two decent strikers who can deliver in bursts (but probably wouldn't make the bench of most of rival top 10 european clubs we aspire to match) and three hugely overrated wing players who should be nowhere near starting in a team aspiring for top honours at home and abroad... Conclusion we need at least 3 new attacking options in the summer....

Now every season it's the same old story, everyone from Linneker to my Nan put their opinions forward and virtually all of them are the same, we need a Winger and a real top quality striker, also a CB and a CDM and a keeper.

- He can be a top striker on a good day but lack of consistency is what will keep away from being named among the greats.

Fair enough, I just wonder if he'd still be playing top flight football if he had been at United from the start with such a horrendous injury record, Fergie would have shipped him off ages before his eventual recovery, dare I say he was destined to win the Premier league the season he won it with United anyways, he was the hottest striker in the league for those two seasons, the only thing we lacked in his final season at Arsenal was enough creativity behind him and a lack of suitable replacement to take ocassionally take the load off him, but then Cazorla, Poldi and Giroud had been brought in for re-inforcements, he played with a patently inferior team to Arsenal's that season at United, with the exception of Rooney of course, he single handedly carried them to the title, what away to show loyalty.

He will be on a lot of top clubs radar, most top clubs want a really good young striker with potential but none have snapped him up, only an offer of # 14 $ from Tottenham.

The Arsenal winger - turned - striker Theo Walcott was given his chance in the middle of the action again in England's 9th win in a row as they beat Estonia 2 - 0, with the Three Lions top scorer and captain, Wayne Rooney, absent from the squad -... Read the full article here

For one thing he suffered more than once from not having a top top quality striker in front of him and teammates that let's be frank are wasteful in front of goals (Walcott, Welbeck among others).

I see us hammering most teams from now on but the lack of a commanding DM and predatory striker shows up against the top teams.

Arsenal were truly awful from top to bottom but instead of cheerfully accepting that and enjoying the fact that they got the Gunners on a bad day, the Monaco manager Leonardo Jardim and striker Dimitar Berbatov chose to rub salt into our wounds by claiming that it was their tactical nous that caused the shock result.

Its NOT just Giroud its the whole strike force that are absolutly rubbish, I mean yes Giroud misses far more than he scores and that is NOT the mark of top notch striker, but Wellbeck is not the finished article and to my mind shows no signs of becoming so, He seems to suffer from this innate lack of courage, a lot like Wallcott does, in laymans terms they sh!t out when it comes to the crunch, Giroud is just not good enough to be the striker we really need on the end of Ozil's assists.

50 - 70 mil striker might win you crucial games in EPL and CL... If we got that one we won't be knocked out every time from 16 - round of the CL, we might have taken the chances that we had against Utd and Chelsea... With this type of thinking we lost our title the season before when we were top of the league and I genuinely believe we lost that to City because we did not add striker as a main reason...

Well that's your opinion.I for one think Giroud is one of the most average strikers to ever play for Arsenal.I would be vindicated by their performances this season.Do you think any top team apart from Arsenal will take Lukaku and Morata over Giroud?I don't see what's so good about him.All he does is turn his back away from goal and hopes a fhance comes his way to score.There's nothing special about Giroud.

It's safe to say I'd expect anyone carrying that price tag to have some sort of pedigree from a top European League as an established striker with a reputable scoring record.

After reading some stats, in 2010, Crouch was the 3rd highest striker out of the top 100 strikers in the BPL to score more goals from headers than foot.

gk we could do with adding a young quality keeper in his teens to challenge for 3rd spot eg dragowski (highly rated polish teen) def (chambers, bellerin are top prospects) we need a young lb who is inexpensive and willing to wait for first team chances eg grimaldo mid we have lots of quali coming through from midfield att its hard to judge them so young but we could do with a striker to replace yaya sanogoo

On a serious note, it will be a massive blow for Chelsea boss Antonio Conte given the striker has 12 goals and five assists in the Premier League already this season as the Blues continue to try and move away from the chasing pack at the top of the table.

He is a very good striker and if he had to start he would do fine I am sick to death of defending him Giroud has scored 3 goals in 5 PL matches (as a sub) He has scored 2 CL goals so far 87 Goals Total for us since he joined # 1 last season in headed goals in the PL 6th Top scorer last season with 16 goals (taking into account a 12 match goalless spell) He is far from bad

I don't think we are far away from the title — we need to make sure we get a top, top quality striker in, maybe a tricky winger and another couple of mid-fielders too, sort out the injuries, get a fair crack from the referees and let's give Arsene another go.

I'm with you there mate.He's just an average player beign given many chances.A lot of average strikers can even do better because of the chances Arsenal creates.There are some strikers who are not top quality but have very good finishing that if given the same seasons and chances Giroud has had they can do better.I hate it when they make it seem like only world class strikers are better than him.He's really only improved from season 14/15 honestly speaking.He used to be so bad and waste a lot of chances.It's just that become can not see the fact that he's not as good as they think.We will surely be vindicated by his performance for another club.

I thought people here were debating about two or three seasons back why he should be our top striker.When I thought the Monaco match was the icing on the cake to show how average he was it seems just like Wenger we» will never learn our lesson.Now people our okay with him being a super sub which is debatable.Giroud was a super sub in games last season because he wasn't played when he was supposed to.He's not your ideal super sub because he very hardly creates but rather requires people to create for him.Most of the time super subs are the one's who tend to create the chances and open up spaces in the opposition defence.West ham are ready to pay and hence we should demand more from them.We can then use the money from his sale on far better players.Given the same seasons, time and chances a lot of average strikers can do better than what he did.This is because Arsenal create a lot of chances and it just needs someone who can finish.Goodbye!.

Going on past evidence and noting that the «proposed war chest» is 75 million (ironically the same as it was last summer) I would say that we'll likely get a striker but it wont be a top class one it'll be a lasser known player who Wenger will want to be lauded for if he turns into a 25 goal a season striker a la Henry Do nt expect any earth shattering buys cos the majority of that huge cash boost from BT sports will make its way to the boards private accounts.

Undoubtedly a player who'd top many fans» lists, Dennis Bergkamp is one of Arsenal's best players ever and a striker who changed the shape of the English game when he joined the Gunners from Inter Milan in 1995.

Arsenal can not pay money to sign quality striker because no top striker will cost less than 50 million and there is talk of 130 m bid for Mbappe from Real, Barca and PSG LOL.

Despite Arsenal finishing second in this years Premier League, Arsene Wenger has had to endure constant criticism from the fans for not buying a top striker last summer, and there were even a small proportion of Gooners calling for his head if we didn't end the season as Champions.

Following on from this revelation it seems to me that Arsenal have a good chance of signing this top quality striker who scored over a goal a game in the league last season and broke the long standing Serie A record.

I understand what you're saying bounty hunter, but I feel like the week prior to big games should be enough time to at least tweak our formation slightly or employ a certain tactic, whether it's counter attack with less possession or playing with two strikers up top instead of the lone striker, I would hope that players at the level required for arsenal would be able to adjust to this as it seems I tend to hear other teams coming away from big wins uttering phrases like «we worked on the manager's ideas this week and executed them well», I cant remember our players saying this for a while.

He will never be quite from the top drawer of strikers and certainly not from the pinacle.

1 in 2 is ok, but its not like it was years ago.footballs more attacking these days, we need a striker who can do better than that like Aguero or Costa.You say that many elite european teams have sucess without a prolific striker, but you failed to name them.lol.There are exceptions but on the whole most of the top teams have a WC striker a go to man from Barca (european champiions) to real madrid to PSG and even Bayern Munich all have WC centre forwrards up front.To try an argue otherwise is facile

Given that we are two games away from a 3td season finishing with one senior striker I am surprised that GK is even an issue that is top of the list given that Ospina plays well and we haven't scored in 3 home games.

To win the PL we at least need to win 25 matches to be within a shout of wining it that requires a minimum of 75 goals without conceding so we need attack minded players and defensive minded players from looking at our attaching force gerouid around 20 alexis 20 thats 40 we need another 35 and than we have the champion league and cup matches on the top of it all we got to consider form fatigue knocks and injuries can the midfield score another 40 another 40 goals have to come from somewhere so physics tells me so another good striker with 25 so goals is required for the math to make any sense

I would also love a tippety top striker to improve our potential / threat in front of goal but I suspect again Wenger feels he holds an adequate pool to choose from.

even when he suffered a serious knee injury, instead of accepting the fact that he would never stick his legs into the spaces that were crucial for someone with straight ahead speed to succeed, the club actually contemplated giving him a chance to play up top where his lack of physicality, size and holding up play talents would been on display for all to see... these are not the actions of a club that really cares about winning at the highest levels, but they are the actions of a club that wasn't interested in spending the necessary resources to purchases a world - class striker, which is usually the most expensive position on the pitch... instead we adopted the horrible phrase «like a new signing» and proceeded to allow this ridiculous experiment to carry on, which ultimately caused some discomfort on the training pitch and inside the locker room as players battled for a position that shouldn't have been theirs for the taking in the first place... don't get me wrong, I believe that Walcott is a talented player, who can help a team reach their goals, if their goals are relatively modest... just look at the teams who supposedly expressed interest in his services and they weren't the kind of clubs who aspire to win at the highest levels... as for the reasons why he hasn't been bitching and moaning about moving on just look at the wage benefits he receives from our club and his obvious desire to enjoy the societal advantages that come with playing in North London for a club with worldwide appeal... so instead of continuing to try to fix a coat with a broken zipper simply move on and buy a new and better coat

For that to happen I think it would take some monumental action from Arsene Wenger, both on the verbally persuasive side of things and on the financial side of things and I reckon that Arsenal would have to splash the cash on at least two, and probably more, top class players before the striker was convinced of our ambition.

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After the promising first half of the season from Arsenal and France centre forward Olivier Giroud has turned into something of a nightmare for him and for the team's chances of winning a trophy this season, a top class striker is sure to be on the minds of most Arsenal fans during the summer and hopefully top of the transfer wish list of Arsene Wenger.

Giroud and Koscielny will miss the beginning of the season due to their extended runs in the European Championship, as will Aaron Ramsey, and will have to be overlooked from the off, but unless a top striker comes in, I would also be tempted with the striker.

Once again it won't be one of the top 6 scorers in the world but hopefully it will be a striker from the small bracket that sits slightly above giroud.

I believed Wenger when he said he wanted to bring in a top striker and I think he only lowered his expectations because of the unrest at Arsenal along with him feeling pressure from being so close to the end of his AFC career.

Even before that special season from the Dutchman, Arsenal had not really had a top striker since the days of the great Thierry Henry.

If we are lucky, the Boss may buy a top striker of # 20m price tag from the sum that is left.

What I think is Benzema is like a French Rooney quality from a young age labeled Worldclass and although remained pretty consist and and one of the top strikers in the world never really stepped up another level.

Im so tired of «we need someone world class, just go out and buy» like teams are just waiting around for a bid from us on their top strikers.

Majority of top strikers in the world can not deny that they also benefit from tap - ins

After all there can be no doubting that Tottenham now have a fantastic squad and a great manager who should help them make a dent on the top six whereas work at pushing Newcastle United up the ladder is still ongoing however i do think this is just crazy paper talk, i am not sure he is the type of striker Ramos is looking for and it appears to be a deal Tottenham aren't even considering so the Sunday Express (Where this story appears to have originated from) probably made up the story in the first place!

With Liverpool looking strong again, this top striker signing from Marseille could give them a massive boost and make the second half of the season more interesting.

Having already denied that he would be interested in a move to Chelsea last month, the Brazilian striker will no doubt have a number of offers from any of Europe's top five leagues.

Although he has NEVER been a # 1 striker for a top club, I have defended Giroud in the past from some of his deranged detractors simply because his goal production ratio had been comparable with some other «top» strikers.

Davide Ballardini is also targeting Diego Falcinelli, but with the Sassuolo striker attracting interest from elsewhere too, they are keen to avoid a situation in which they miss out on both of their top attacking targets.

All of last years PL top 4 are light or deficit in the striker department and apart from Chelsea taking a punt with Falcao to replace Drogba on loan no - one has done any business.