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How did he get your email?
Can’t tell if Don is trying to be funny or just that you know… I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. Good one Don
Receding How did he get your email?
Huh??
He emailed Pedro not me…i was quoting Pedro’s post
Gambon, we already have Auba’s sucessor – his name is Eddie.
How much can we get for Lacazette though? More or less 40m? Or is that being too generous?
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Never mind pal. Was just a silly joke
£60m for Lacazette surely?
Timo Werner would be another option.
He can play upfront, but a lot in Germany think hes best on the left of a CF. 22 years old, and will be sold in the summer because he wont sign a new contract.
Gambon
You think Aubameyang is our best player?
I think lacazette and Torreira are our best
I’d sell Aubameyang or play him on the wing. We look pedestrian without him. When Aubameyang doesn’t play all we miss is a tap in.
Lacazette 55m at worse
And yes i am coming round to the fact we may actually need to cash in on him..but how many clubs in Europe can afford a 55-60m striker and how many of those clubs will see him as an improvement on what they got
It’s easy to say sell sell sell but the question is to who
Is it me or does Pedro have 3 accents?
Rude bwoi, yuppie and Ribena puller squeezer geezer.
Sort it out Pedro. Next he’ll have that nooyawk twang
Timo Werner would be an amazing signing but Liverpool, PSG, Madrid and Bayern are interested in him making it damn near impossible. Besides he’d fetch 70-90 million easy.
Yeah ,let’s sell Lacazette …that’ll work ….Aubamayang picks up an injury then we are up the swanee ..
Werner will be £40-50m, not £90m.
One year left, smaller club.
If they think theyre getting £90m they will lose him for nothing.
What happens if Lacazette picks up the injury?
Pierre thinks we should have £50m back ups in all positions.
Maybe we should sign another £50m striker, in case both Auba & Lacazette get injured.
Auba has never had a serious injury in his life. You think clubs plan their entire squad around the idea that all their players are going to pick up a disastrous injury?
“When Aubameyang doesn’t play all we miss is a tap in”
Top clubs will play a mint for a player who is in the right place for tap ins, movement and anticipation are underated skills in modern football analysis. Everyone thinks players need to play like Ronaldo and Messi to be classed as great.
Oh he’s got one year left…then that changes everything. It’s the kind of deal that would need to be worked on now for the summer ala what Bayern and Chelsea have recently done. But it still won’t happen you just know we’ll procrastinate on the issue of Lacazette and Aubameyang and miss out on targets
There is the potential for us to make some decent money from sales this summer. You think £60 Million for Lacazette, £20 Million for Mustafi, £10-15 Million for Chambers, £10 Million for Elneny etc.
The club should be in a far more stable place than last summer if we’re in the UCL far stronger as well.
Marko
You have to hope we are on top of these things with Sven around.
Absolutely no doubt Sven will know all about Werner. I also read an interview where he said he pays close attention to contract lengths, so he will know that hes going to enter his last year.
I doubt it’ll happen though. I think we will be after narrow AMs, not wide strikers or “wingers”.
Think we will sell Kolasinac as well.
He cant play in a back 4, Emery likes a back 4.
He is a real threat going forward.
With Monreals extension being activated, I could see us selling Kolasinac and bringing a LB in as first choice.
Dont know if Mustafi will go.
We will either offer a new contract or sell as he will be at 2 years left.
If we were to sell:
Ospina
Martinez
Chambers
Koscielny
Kolasinac
Elneny
Lacazette
As well as trying to work some magic with Ozil, that would bring in maybe £100m, plus whatever our budget is.
We would have a dramatically improved team with 4 new starters at least.
I doubt it’ll happen though. I think we will be after narrow AMs, not wide strikers or “wingers”.
Not sure I agree with this given some of the links like Pepe. Like I personally don’t see the current 3-4-3 lasting beyond this season. I think this is Emery’s idea of trying to get more out of the defence and offence and the players he has available. I suspect it’ll be wingers and back to a 4-2-3-1 next season
Pepe plays pretty narrow.
Has a full back running beyond him most of the time, and plays in the half space on the right. Perfect for what Emery wants to do.
We’re forgetting that Arsenal are terrible at selling players. We need to learn from Liverpool.
well the good news is, Yannick Carasco is willing to take a pay cut to come to arsenal. I guess he must be hating the Chinese league. We should just pay up the 20m and get him.
Looks decent on YouTube but the main question of course is, can he get back to his best after playing in a league that’s worse than the second division of English football ?
So just to understand people’s views on our strikers…
Was buying Aubameyang a good move by the current setup?
Because it seems like a poor investment of its given us this scenario a year down the line.
I don’t watch the budesliga which disqualifies my opinion outright, but I thought Werner was absolutely shockingly shit at the World Cup. No where near good enough to be a German first choice player.
But I bet if I check bundlesLiga sites, stats and watch some YouTube videos I’d change my mind
I havent tho, so until then I’ll stick with the unqualified ‘he’s overrated shite’ line 😀
Surprised there hasn’t been any links with Malcom this month even fake links. He’s barely played for them and they seemingly are looking at selling and we apparently bid for him last January
There is the potential for us to make some decent money from sales this summer. You think £60 Million for Lacazette, £20 Million for Mustafi, £10-15 Million for Chambers, £10 Million for Elneny etc.
So why are we selling laca ? He’s been the only threat in attack and PEA plays a lot better when laca is in the side.
We already have our list of outs. we need quality players to come in because our squad is bare on quality.
China
Yea I wasn’t remotely impressed at the World Cup, will wait patiently for this 70-90 mil fee to materialise.
Was buying Aubameyang a good move by the current setup?
He’s been our best striker since he joined so yes. In hindsight we should have bought him in the summer over Lacazette. Also in hindsight we should have bought Lacazette the summer of 15 and we probably would have won the league over Leicester.
Yea I wasn’t remotely impressed at the World Cup, will wait patiently for this 70-90 mil fee to materialise
I see what you did there
Charlie
I think signing Auba was the right thing to do.
Lacazette came in and was pretty underwhelming. Auba is a different level of striker.
The thing is we shouldve bought Auba in the summer of 2017.
I’m not convinced that we have to play with only 1 CF. Why is this a hard and fast rule? I don’t like the situation with our strikers, but we haven’t had one serious striker since RVP. We finally have two and people want us to undo that I get that a 50m laca fee could be well invested elsewhere, but I also disagree with the notion that everyone has to play a 4-3-3. Or a 4-2-3-1. These formations are useful and effective, but only 2 years ago everyone was jacking off about how unstoppable chelsea’s 3 man defense and… Read more »
“He’s been our best striker since he joined so yes. In hindsight we should have bought him in the summer over Lacazette“
Contradiction at its finest.
If we have to sell a major asset a year later the strategy is questionable at the very least. Just interesting given the idea our new team in place are a crack team with transfers. Maybe signs that it’s not entirely without flaws along the way.
China
Theres a reason no-one plays 4-4-2.
Jose Mourinho came over and dominated all the 4-4-2s by having an extra man in mdfield.
No-one is saying you cant play 2 strikers, but when you do, one of them needs to be able to play wide or as an AM.
Neither of ours are good at that.
Like we need to buy about 4-5 much better first team players to become a top class side
Whatever system we play, with 1 or 2 up front that will be the case, so why are people limiting themselves in thinking that the only way to solve the laca problem is to remove him. There are patently alternatives.
“Just interesting given the idea our new team in place are a crack team with transfers. Maybe signs that it’s not entirely without flaws along the way.”
None of these guys were employed when we signed Lacazette.
I’m not even sure that the argument that they play better together is all that strong when you consider that when Auba came in Lacazette was injured and he was scoring and also Lacazette’s numbers are down. You can make more of a case for building the attack around one or the other but not really both.
If we have to sell a major asset a year later the strategy is questionable at the very least. Just interesting given the idea our new team in place are a crack team with transfers. Maybe signs that it’s not entirely without flaws along the way.
Lacazette was signed prior to the changes. You may have a point if we end up selling Aubameyang over Lacazette but that’s a big if. I’ve no doubt had they been in place the previous summer they probably would have signed Aubameyang over Lacazette. Him being signed in January was almost like course correction
Raul only came in last Feb and Sven in the previous November
Gambon Not for me, it was a a strange decision to make given the quality in other areas that you alluded to before. Auba is a better goal scorer, but he’s not a level above as a CF for me – unless you want to reduce them to goals alone. We could win the title flanking Lacazette with quality, we could win it flanking Aubameyang with quality. Neither are backup. With finite reseouces it’s a head scratcher to give a CF 6 months to adjust to the Prem from Ligue Un. We ain’t Chelsea or City. Questionable decisions from the… Read more »
It’s kinda weird some posters here actually wanted lacazette to be sold. These are the same guys who were of the opinion that he shoukd be benched for aubamayang u ntill lacazette proved them wrong, they are at it again thinking Sven and mislintat are that stupid. Lacazette is younger than aubamayang and has other attributes in his game that aubamayang can only dream of and who says aubamayang will be this sharp by next year? This is a guy who is in his thirties but you will rather sell a younger striker to keep an older one who has… Read more »
Gambon, Chelsea didn’t dominate arsenal on the pitch even if they won (consider the personnel they had at their disposal alongside their system, terry and carvalho was probably the best CB partnership in English footballing history for example) Arsenal didn’t lose the league in 2005 because of chelsea’s Formation. They lost it because the lost the plot after their unbeaten run ended and failed to regain their dominance for their own reasons irrespective of Chelsea. Meanwhile in head to heads they absolutely could beat Chelsea on their day, regardless of if it happened And let’s take a look at one… Read more »
“None of these guys were employed when we signed Lacazette.“
Not what I was referencing.
They were here when Auba was bought, it’s that decision given we had Lacazette, that puzzles me.
3-4-1-2*
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Just the wind up merchants. They want laca sold, and then they are the same people who will complain why laca was sold when we have only welbz and Auba.
These are the same people complaining why we sold giroud in the first place when everyone knows how limited Giroud was.
With finite reseouces it’s a head scratcher to give a CF 6 months to adjust to the Prem from Ligue Un. Given how Auba came in and straight away started scoring for fun it’s a head scratcher how he’s not for you. I mean I get it spending 55 million on a striker after spending 50 million on a striker but the 50 million one had struggled a bit in front of goal and got injured and the 55 million one is just that bit better so it’s understandable. I still maintain that had we bought Lacazette in 15 we… Read more »
Arsenal got worse after they dropped their 4-4-2
That 4-4-2 with that personnel >>>>> any formation we have had since with any personnel we’ve had since
Point is the system and personnel need to be in perfect harmony. If they are, you can be successful. But there is no golden system just like there’s no golden players if they can’t play in the system they’re given
>No-one is saying you cant play 2 strikers, but when you do, one of them needs to be able to play wide or as an AM.
-t. Gambon
Lacazette is basically as second striker as it is when they play together a few times. So why not clear out other dross first then if we can find a potential signing or two then maybe then sell Laca if the funds are not enough.
Yes, I agree that signing another CF wasnt exactly a priority.
That said, you cant really argue with the results. 24 goals and 7 assists in 34 PL games since we signed him.
I said numerous times that we should sell Lacazette in the summer.
For some reason Emery wanted to try a 2 striker system that lots of us said wouldnt work.
Alone
Youre missing the point.
Lets say we sell all our dross and sign some good players.
Lacazette is still going to sit on the bench next season. He still wont be in our firxt XI.
It makes no sense to have a player worth £60m on the bench. It makes no sense to have a player on £200k per week on the bench.
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They were here when Auba was bought, it’s that decision given we had Lacazette, that puzzles me.
I’m not sure why that should puzzle you. Aubameyang has 26 goals in 40 appearences while Lacazette has 26 goals in 65 appearences. It’s obvious as to who is the slightly better striker. Instead what you should be asking is why did you know who picked Lacazette over Aubameyang in the summer? I’d also ask why he didn’t sign him up in 15 but whatever
Gambon
No there’s no argument at Auba and his ability to produce, it’s the technical decision making that baffles me. Both are League winning CF’s for me, it’s pursuing another of that ilk that is hard to quantify.
Totally understood if we were applying the cherry and looking for marginal gains, but 56 mil could’ve been used to gain a lot more than Auba over Laca gets us.
We have two serious strikers and both of them are scoring regularly and in laca’s case he’s playing well and contributing a lot to the cause If you sell him and buy a winger, what if the new winger doesn’t score as many or assists as many? Would that be a good move? Point being we’re discussing selling one of our best players who is contributing very well in the hope that *hopefully* his replacement can do well The irony being that he’s scoring 1 in 3 this season and his record for arsenal since he joined is nearly 1… Read more »
Stretching the play, putting defenders on their asses, having blistering pace and trickery is all meaningless. They are just a means to an end in supporting a player or their team mates to score more. So if laca is already scoring a lot, getting some assists and making a key difference to our pressing to win the ball back and set others up, that ‘end’ is being achieved just through different means
Rhys Jaggar
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Spot on
Lacazette is the better player and we okay better with him in the side
Pierre if you’re around drop those lacazette win and goal ratio stats
We win when he plays. We score more when he plays
He came on and we destroyed spurs
He started and we outplayed Liverpool
Without him and holding in our side we are boring and pedestrian
I’m not sure why that should puzzle you. Aubameyang has 26 goals in 40 appearences while Lacazette has 26 goals in 65 appearences. It’s obvious as to who is the slightly better striker. Instead what you should be asking is why did you know who picked Lacazette over Aubameyang in the summer? I’d also ask why he didn’t sign him up in 15 but whatever Marko Your stats are misleading With Aubameyang in our side our play slows down and is one dimensional. He offers nothing at all in build up and requires too much from his team mates to… Read more »
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I know lacazette isn’t popular but fact is he is 27 and aubam is 29.
Seems weird to sell the younger striker when we will have to replace aubam after a year.
LG
I don’t know why he isn’t popular. We are useless without him. Back in against Fulham and we blast 4 goals.
Cor
Valley of the dead on here tonight