The phrase
"to buy a striker" means to purchase or sign a skilled player for a sports team, specifically in the role of a forward or attacker in football/soccer.
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Why
buy another striker when the glaring weakness in the team is the lack of quality centre backs and defensive midfielder?
There is no urgency to
buy a striker right now we have plenty of options up top and wide I think that issue will be addressed in the summer.
He will
not buy a striker of substance this transfer window, or the next, or the next.
And if he can't sort out stuff in order to join up, people will say what's the point in
buying a striker who isn't available.
in effect profit is the priority
IF buying a striker was such a priority why have we NOT bought one?
If
Wenger buy a striker at all it will be at the end of the window because player is surplus and suddenly available.
And most importantly if we do
buy a striker before Theo signs a new contract then he might decide to play hard ball.
There's only Wenger who could
buy a striker like Giroud, get us to hate him for all his misses and then force us to want him back so badly when he's injured as we have no other players anywhere near as good in that main striker role.
Wenger's had huge funds since the end of the 12/13 season to
buy a striker better than Giroud, and yet he still hasn't.
And we also needed to strengthen
by buying another striker to compete with Giroud yet we inexplicably went for an aging midfielder few of us had heard of.
It was round about the time that Jimmy Mullen was
buying striker after striker in order to find one that could score goals to keep them up.
This Cavani rumour is silly — Wenger refused to
buy a striker until Giroud was ruled out for 3 months, even then it was only Welbeck he went for.
we just need 1 more player... and that's a defensive midfielder cover for coquelin... now, I know lots of fans will go on about
buying a striker blah!blah!blah!..
It also makes sense why we
never bought a striker, because if United were forced to make that kind of signing, it meant the market really was void of any decent talent.
Right now fans are hoping
Madrid buys a striker so that Benzema will become available for us to pounce on.