Sentences with phrase «other than the striker»

While defending, after we win the ball deep, there is no one to pass the ball to other than the striker, who is high up the pitch and also isolated.

Now other than the strikers, Ramsey is the only one we have that can do that well.

We just need the finishing touch with a striker who scares defenders and perhaps one or two players who score 12 — 20 goals other than the striker (Iwobi?

Not exact matches

Also, I like the Xhaka signing but if funds are limited, I would argue a top striker was or is a greater need than an other DM.

I could have understood if we had unearthed someone from Argentina / Chile / Brazil (historically have had some great strikers) but someone from Asia — its a PR gem — nothing other than that.

He has been called the best number 10 in the world for his creative ability and he has just taken that shirt number for the Germany national side, where it's previous holder was none other than the former Arsenal striker Lukas Podolski.

Matthaus has a history of spats with the striker, and has piped up again to criticise him for blaming others rather than himself.

Aubemeyang is no Thierry but he is a damn fine player and goalscorer, he suits our play as - well maybe more so than any other striker on the market.

To all giroud bashers, who claimed other strikers would score 30goals for all the chances wil created, man city, liverpool actually created more scoring chances than us which depicts that our midfielders need to create more to meet up with these teams and our fans must stop picking on players to attack.

Giroud is an old school Stoke style striker, a Peter Crouch type that has offers nothing going forward other than physicality.

Then I can't see where he'll fit in other than maybe a «Cup Game Striker»...

They only «need» to improve their backup, I think Chelsea are not going to be prominent on the marked, other than buying a striker, most likely going for the same striker Wenger will be after, just for harassing us.

Other than that I think we need a backup striker that is actually good, but I realise that these are very rare with our wage structure.

Other than Sanchez last year, have the $ 70M spent on Ozil, Chambers and Debuchy over the last few windows significantly improved the squad, when a quality DM and striker could of easily been bought for that price tag.

So on one hand you would prefer a striker that only has 2 seasons in him and is possibly just a one season wonder, and on the other hand you would prefer a striker who scores less than Giroud and hasn't shown any sign of full filling his so called «potential» people keep talking about?

There aren't really available strikers this summer other than the mentioned Dybala.

The sad reality is I'd be so excited if we sign a striker and a defender that would be other than Giroud and Mertesacker.

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The net result is that whilst I still think we need an upgrade on giroud, he compares better with other PL strikers than I thought.

Maybe the French league is easier but the fact that Lacazette has scored more goals there in the last four seasons than any other striker including Edinson Cavani who was in a league of his own when playing in Italy's Serie A tells you that the new Gunners star is right up there.

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).

lewa and Benz r out, griezmann, lukaku, auba and dybala r young and will have d cash pits of Europe chasing them... which means astronomical transfer fees / wage (we'll definitely lose in d bidding war)... huguain is a viable option but with a transfer fee of 55m and 200k wages for a 29 year old????... BONKERS!!!!! I don't know about u but I feel we shld do everytin legal / illegal to get vardy... by 2 - 3 years time, others strikers will have surfaced but for now there's a limited pool and d richest club r d sharks... i would like any of d young strikers but it doesn't mean we shld pay 40m more than their market value like its an auction!!!!

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...

this tells me that the financial prudence we have extolled as prudent for the clubs future and for the adherence to FFP is really a smoke and mirrors situation we need a striker (opinions differ to which one) we need cover for Le Coq (again opinions differ) and maybe we need one other in another area of the pitch, but if we don't get them we wont be better than we were this year and we wont move closer to the real glory.

Wilshere getting injured isn't new just how after Wenger does not sign a capable CF for the 4th season in a row and we finish 4th this season you will see the SAME PEOPLE around this SAME TIME next year who said the squad was good enough, you'll see there will be no injuries if everyone stays fit so we don't need to sign players or we don't really need any striker we have Giroud (a player better than Rooney and Henry who it is very very very very HARD to find any better player than him and whom some fans here will discount any other player better than him to prove he is good enough).

If the Arsenal transfer rumours linking us with the Real Madrid and France striker Karim Benzema are true, however, then Wenger is going to have to find some leverage other than money because The Guardian is reporting that moneybags Man United are after him as well.

The fact that you take Gibbs as an example makes everything you say jut a pile of french frog poo, and you know it, same with Wilshere, like he was playing for Arsenal ever knowing that he spend more time at the bench than in the pitch, Giroud is also a stupid example knowing that we had no other striker besides him for years

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While I agree we would need to change to get the best out of Ramsey, Giroud simply needs someone to fight for his place, rather than running him into the ground each season because we have no other real strikers.

But I will let you in to a well kept secret for you and others that don't understand conversion rates, the fact — all strikers in history miss far more than they score.

Reason is, I think if we stopped depending on Giroud for goals, and stuck more to him being a dummy for others to run around, we'd score more goals than having an out and out striker that waits for chances, rather than makes them for others.

sanchez had more short on target than any other player on the pitch and he came on when?that is to show you we need a better striker jot giroud or walcot.and please walcot should stop thinking he is messi he was on the pitch for 35 mins yet noting to show for it.

The Swedish international has bagged himself a large amount of goals this season, despite being 35 years - of - age, but if you are to delve into his record, he has more misses than any other top striker in the Premier League.

Then you have other top strikers like Ibrahimovic, Lewandowski, Benzema and Lukaku who for one reason or another all look likely to be playing for someone other than Arsenal next summer.

If he is a one season wonder and can not recover last years effieincy or if he gets injured, we might regret not signing Schneiderlin more than not getting Benzema or an other top striker.

but, here's a little reminder of his importance (i) upon arrival his was the goal that catapulted into th CL; (ii) when others were tired and unable to respond he has the strength of character to fight to bring us into the game; (iii) he scores the goal to save us face in FAC after last seasons fiasco; (iv) he is without equal our best player so he already earned the right to be in the highest bracket of epl strikers, we need sanchez desperately we've no choice other than to pay # 320K + and build into his deal performance rated enhancements so as we're all able to move forwards.

You state we need a striker yet we scored two less than the title winners seven less than city, 2014/2015 we scored three less than Chelsea and 12 less than city you have to go back to 2013/14 to find a time where we were way behind in terms of goals scored and that was a massive 33 and 34 goals behind city and Utd with both those teams scoring 100 goals plus, the reason we need a striker is not as you and others push to win the title but to give strength and depth to an area that is thin on ground.

He does not have any other option rather than to buy a striker

«He is a great player and poses different threats than other strikers with his ability to run in behind.

Spoiler Alert people, we are not getting anyone in the front striker position OTHER than what we already have, there was a story in the star yestrday about the 250 million wenger is looking to spend on the likes of Marco Ruess ect ect and I really can not believe that after all these years the Prof will change his ways and spend all that money and evern if he was going to he needs to pull his finger out as all the top players are being strongly linked with other clubs, meanwhile we wait for the brat Vardy to make up his mind when we know he is highly unlikely to come to us another summer of dissapointment for us as wenger has already stated that Giroud will lead the line next seOTHER than what we already have, there was a story in the star yestrday about the 250 million wenger is looking to spend on the likes of Marco Ruess ect ect and I really can not believe that after all these years the Prof will change his ways and spend all that money and evern if he was going to he needs to pull his finger out as all the top players are being strongly linked with other clubs, meanwhile we wait for the brat Vardy to make up his mind when we know he is highly unlikely to come to us another summer of dissapointment for us as wenger has already stated that Giroud will lead the line next seother clubs, meanwhile we wait for the brat Vardy to make up his mind when we know he is highly unlikely to come to us another summer of dissapointment for us as wenger has already stated that Giroud will lead the line next season.

Are you honestly suggesting our vast array of scouts couldn't find anything better than Kallstrom when going for the title or Sanogo when we badly needed a top striker, amongst others.

This issue does not revolve around any childish controversy about which striker is «better» than the other.

Last season after we got Cech early we waited and waited like dummies for a huge signing like striker / dm and nothing (other than Adelaide)

Everyone, pundits, fans for 2 years were telling him to get a top striker, but other than bungling of Higuain and silly offer for Suarez, he didn't listen and only got Welbeck because Giroud was injured.

Mahrez and Draxler and many other players that have been the subject of Arsenal transfer rumours this summer are not out and out strikers, though, even if the Algerian international did bag more goals than our own top scorer Olivier Giroud.

The only thing I can hope for is that Perez will be our main striker this season just so I don't have to deal with an other season of Giroud and on his youtube highlight films he looks a much better finisher than Giroud.

Truth is once you take LM, CR and LS out of the equation you can put nearly every other striker out there in the 0.4 — 0.5 range for league goals with the best in that range getting 10 goals more than the bottom of the range forward over 100 league matches ie: just over 3 extra a season.

As for the addiitonal striker, i do nt think we need that either... unless its suarez, lewandowski, aguero, cavani, messi, ronaldo, other than that we are ok with what we have.

good comment, If Wenger was willing to buy the French kid for more than 100m, why not splash a little less than 100m to bring in Aubemeyang, or any other super strikers?

In fact I'd expect Asano to be valued at probably only around # 5 million, which is of course much cheaper than most of the other strikers that we are being linked with.