Sentences with phrase «only striker at»

Sure, he can't win us the league on his own, but he being only striker at Arsenal for few years is not his fault.

This isn't the only striker at Arsenal that Wenger didn't want, Welbeck is another, only wanted him on loan but Gazidis went ahead and bought him.

Rodgers is looking to strengthen his attacking options in the transfer window with Luis Suarez having been the only striker at the club during the first half of the season.

The French international would strengthen Mauricio Pochettino's strike force, with Emmanuel Adebayor, Harry Kane and Roberto Soldado currently the only strikers at his disposal.

Striker: Theo Walcott Apart from the Benzema stories that are still fluttering around, Theo, Welbeck and Giroud are seemingly going to be the only strikers at Arsenal this season.

Not exact matches

As they are our only 2 «strikers» at the moment we will need to keep one fit and play the other.

It is particularly difficult for strikers to break through the ranks into the first - team at the bigger clubs at present, with most sides opting to play only one striker in the starting XI, and Arsenal is no different on that front.

It looks like we are going to have two strikers in Sanchez and Giroud, and surprisingly Wenger has also started with Ramsey, despite the Welshman only playing a cameo role at the weekend.I personally would have thought he would only have played half a game, but maybe Wenger intends to take him off at half - time?

Not only Juve don't need Giroud because they have Higuain, Dybala, AND Mandzukic, but there's absolutely no way Wenger will allow his second choice (at the moment) striker leave in the middle of the season.

Not only will the Chilean have the added incentive of getting one over on his former club and proving to them that he deserved more when he was at the Nou Camp, but his current injury has given our star striker the opportunity to put his feet up and have a proper rest after a very heavy two years of football.

goodness i can't believe it people will still defend him.You know something when Giroud misses many chances like at Monaco i did not criticize him even based on that you know why?its because he has always not been clinical.The only way a team can improve is by indentifying its problems and solving them.Arsenal has Giroud as the main cf and Welbeck as backup to him.Giroud has done well scoring some goals some too important but collectively he does more harm than good.Do not use moments to judge a player judge him based on content.Giroud does not excel in many games than he excels in games.As a main cf you need to be consistent.I see people here saying Giroud can not dribble he cant do this he cant do that but its a bit crazy to criticize him for that because every player has his own style.Giroud limitations as a player costs arsenal and will cost us a lot.Most importantly his poor finishing which has cost us several times.Not good enough.His style of play is ok for us but a striker who can take on players and run behind defences very well would make us very strong and also should be clinical.For Welbeck he needs to works on his finishing and composure by doing the basic things right.He rushes infront of goal too much.For now he is just above average.However he can excel if he works on improving.Giroud and Welbeck will always be a pain in arsenal's neck for most part.Some will call me stupid but hey at least i want to analyze the problem.People may support Giroud or Welbeck to lead the line next season but as the saying goes if you fool me once shame on you but if you fool me twice shame on me.Will you let Giroud and Welbeck fool you again?

Only when you fill all those positions we can start looking at strikers / forwards.

We need at least five quality players a defender, goalkeeper, a defensive midfielder, a attacking midfielder and a striker Though winning the f.a cup did take a bit of pressure of him only time will tell There got to be a new structure at the club, and get rid of the also rans like Lucas Perez, Jenkinson, debuchy and sagono for starters

Higuain has been so good for Napoli in recent years that he is now in front of Sergio Aguero, who only started one of five games at the Copa America, in the Argentina pecking order and the Man City striker is widely regarded as one of, if not the very, best forwards in the Premier League.

Arsenal appear to only be on the look - out for a challenger to Olivier Giroud, and Jese could be an affordable striker, who at 23 years - old, could still prove to be a shrewd capture, especially when you consider the Spanish giants opted to keep Jese over Alvaro Morata last term.

Benzema is the only target man striker at BBC.

my only hope is wenger to buy kanté of leicester.this guy is a beast at dm position with a good technical and physical quality.with him and coq in midfield against barca we can hope for anything special to happen.with finally olivier giroud slowly becoming WC striker, walcott most efficient and campbell who is a revelation this season, the return of alexis we can be dangerous against any defence.our only weak position is a dm position and wenger won't have any excuz this mercato bcoz there are players available that we can buy if we want.plz wenger go for at least one of this: kanté, wanyama, w.carvalho, l.bender, krychowiak, biglia, neves, l.gustavo, rabiot... if we try to sign s.roberto he will be a good addition with great quality.gunner for life!!!

I would not say «Don't worry, we have a young player who has never scored any goals and never proven himself at any level — and we also have an still - injured Walcott who has only played striker a few times — we are fine.»

And of all the bunch of strikers we got at the moment, dhat guy seems to be the onLy one with a striker's instinct...... (Tho he's still an unfinished product and isn't even world class yet)... the rest of em are just models

i get where you are going at but not a lot of the top teams were in the need of a top striker the ones who were already bought a striker at the start i.e. chelsea and man u and man city (nolito) and tottenham, of course there should have been other top clubs in search of a striker but i think it shouldn't be a knock - down that we were the only one who triggered the clause but i agree with all the other things you said the its absurd to compare him with griez and vardy and we have to be patient with him

Welbeck is probably the only striker out there that makes sense to buy at this point.

that tactic worked fantastically at the star of this season where walcott performed and it worked brilliantly for the team but after the injury of Theo, giroud had his dry patch and theo almost did nt even try... and the year before welbeck played reaaaally bad as a starting striker and scored 4 goals or something i think, if he had one worldclass or equally good striker as giroud, we would have enough and wenger could rotate them according to the patch / form of giroud like what he intended to do with walcott and giroud, which i had high hopes for but sadly only worked for half the season

I mean look at carzola, he says outright without hiding that we need a striker... about finishing strongly, we did that last season and the season after and the other after after a first leg screw - up... maybe ramsey loves his friends in the dressing room but saying that we need a few quality wouldn't have hurt anyone... we weren't able to beat the chelsea that hez talking about at home even with a full squad so i don't get his reference plus other teams are strengthening strongly and will only get better... man utd with a mediocre team played us like we were some kids FH at OT and we had no injuries... IF WE DO NT SIGN STRIKER we are doomed cz it» l be harder to beat even the smalstriker... about finishing strongly, we did that last season and the season after and the other after after a first leg screw - up... maybe ramsey loves his friends in the dressing room but saying that we need a few quality wouldn't have hurt anyone... we weren't able to beat the chelsea that hez talking about at home even with a full squad so i don't get his reference plus other teams are strengthening strongly and will only get better... man utd with a mediocre team played us like we were some kids FH at OT and we had no injuries... IF WE DO NT SIGN STRIKER we are doomed cz it» l be harder to beat even the smalSTRIKER we are doomed cz it» l be harder to beat even the small teams

We need to win (at least at home) against big teams and there are fewer chances to score against them is, we do not get the 4 - 5 chances during 90 + minutes, only 1 - 3, so that's why there are WC strikers, they make goals out of nothing, are capable of creating them alone, that can't Girould do.

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.

Of course we can only have 11 players on the pitch at any time but it is good to know that almost any of them are capable of popping up with a goal and maybe that is taking the pressure off our specialist strikers.

Not only was it his birthday but the striker also earned a new contract at Stoke City.

And yes Juve MIGTH be in for him, its only at Arsenal were you are satisfied with having 1 striker the whole season and 2 more strikers in the medical room half of the season you know!

The only regret is we have lost a good chant for a striker who was / is never prolific and went through too many barren spells with his goal scoring.While the Chavs put more and better crosses into the box (yes take note Bellerin) Giroud has no pace to get on the end of most of them.No great loss as far as I'm concerned and good money for a bench player at best

It's difficult to blame Ozil for the difficulties he's faced at Arsenal without looking at the big picture... like the fans, he too was lied to by Wenger... there is no doubt in my mind that he was told by Wenger that he was trying desperately to recreate our earlier success by acquiring players that fit the system he ran when Henry was in his prime... as we know this hasn't happened... in order for Ozl to flourish he needs some speed up front, forwards that can make intelligent runs, a boss in the midfield to compensate for his obvious defensive liabilities and defenders who can transition from defence to offence quickly and efficiently... much like he had in Real and with the German National squad... unfortunately he ended up on a squad that has a striker who plays with his back to goal, very few intelligent runs into the box, minus Sanchez, no one to take pressure off him in the midfield, once Cazorla was injured, average defensive midfielders around him, which simply highlighted his lacking defensive qualities and defenders who lack the necessary cutting edge when it comes to transitional passing... instead of blaming Ozil, which is simply too easy, especially considering his mopey disposition, we should be asking ownership and / or Wenger why they brought him in if they didn't intend on doing what was necessary to get the best from him... can you imagine Ozil playing with the likes of Henry, Viera, Petit and Pires, it would be incredibly to watch and even more difficult to stop... so the only thing different between his experiences in Real and with the German team versus his time at Arsenal are the players around him and we all know who is in charge of making those decisions, the Grinch who stole soccer

It occued to me the other day that we sold Van Persie... who at the time was our talisanic striker for just six million short of what we paid for Lucas Perez, am I the only person in the wold that see's this as odd?.

we have at most 4 real quality outfielders i.e. players that other top european teams would take... ozil sanchez santi and kos... in my books you need 6... we are two short but worse the quality of others is lower than needed... only bellerin coq and wilshere have that potential... and there are problems with each still... we should have put in bids in june for griezman kondogbia and the Burussia striker as all could have been prized away with right bid plus players thrown in IMO... now its too late and wenger is in some weird gallic world of existential hope and denial and fans are just praying we do nt lose opening 2 matches for first time in over two decades... but no one is really confident against a team which is sure to finish around mid table...

You only have to look at Chelsea languishing in 13th place after winning the league last season, Liverpool losing 3 - 0 at home to West Ham after spending over 50 million pounds on Benteke and Firmino and United losing to Swansea for you to realize that strikers won't decide who wins the league.

They have only one senior striker at the moment.

26 year old Jarvis was perhaps one of only two players who impressed at Molineux during last season's poor showing, the other being striker Steven Fletcher, and the former Gillingham man certainly deserves a chance to make an instant return to the top tier.

The Togolese striker is surplus to requirements at White Hart Lane after failing to break in manager Mauricio Pochettino's plans for large parts of last season and it appears the club are desperate to get him off the wage bill this summer despite the player only having one more year left to run on his current deal.

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.

For me the Swedish striker is a short term fix as he is already 34 - years old and may only have another season or two at the top level.

especially the way he left, the things he said after leaving and his agonizing celebrations... I don't see this happening at all... but we can get a striker with his qualities or even better if only we have the ambition to do so!

Having sold Grant Holt to Wigan for # 2million earlier in the summer, and releasing Simeon Jackson, Norwich only have two fit strikers at the club, and would like to bring in another forward on the cheap.

Daniel Sturridge, Mario Balotelli Rickie Lambert and Fabio Borini are the four senior strikers at the club currently and have only managed eight league goals between them.

Hernandez is not the only unsettled striker at United at the moment, with Wayne Rooney also widely tipped to move away from the club in the upcoming transfer window.

How many assists did Ozil have last season?If Arsenal had a clinical striker last season we would've won the league.But of course our so called super sub and Mr. Stamina passed with flying colours.It's funny how people only look at his laziness yet forget about his other qualities.You need to look at which outweighs the other.Some are also saying he's staying because no one is interested in him.That's funny.He could even go to Madrid next season and would even be their highest assist for consecutive seasons.It's funny how we talk of him like he's nothing.How I wish he left last season to a top club with clinical finishers.He's even wasting his talents here honestly speaking.

He's vulnerability a lack of Height during set pieces (I.e Giroud being the only realistic target because of his height and the fact he is a striker) has meant our CB «s are playing a bit more up top than they should be and because our midfield is mostly attacking defusing the situation / stopping opposition attacks in the first half of the season wasn't happening, the second half we had coquelin but if he gets injured, without any cover at CDM we end up in the same situation.

Andy Carroll, the Liverpool striker, was due to be named in Fabio Capello's squad for the Euro 2012 qualifier against Montenegro at Wembley only for The FA to deem his inclusion as inappropriate because of reported misdemeanours in his private life.

The Turkish striker is certainly a late bloomer, having only really reached his potential last season at Galatasaray.

Vardy rejecting us is only good if we sign another top quality striker, otherwise it's huge disappointment, because he's a big upgrade on what we currently have at Arsenal upfront.

No question they are fantastic players but and as you said it defence and goalkeeping are an issue not to mention there striker situation, i mean hernandez will probably be sold leaving luke wilson, rooney deepay as the only recognzed fowards at the club...

i will say this again, Giroud is the only true striker we have at arsenal and would have had a better goal average, if we had true wide players at arsenal, who actually cross the ball properly.

Yes Giroud is number striker because that is the only one we have at the moment.