Lets all laugh at Man Utd.: Page 15 - The Arsenal discussion community: One More in the Tolly

Lets all laugh at Man Utd.

Burnwinter

If we were still at or near the top of the table, definitely. He'd probably win us the league, can't turn that down.

Klaus

Nah. There's one 31 year-old striker in the world who I'd still pay good money for, but it sure as hell isn't van Persie.

Biggus

kamikaze wrote:
just a hypothetical: if van persie handed in a transfer request and told wenger he wanted to come back in the jan transfer window, and we had a bid accepted for, i dunno, 20m, would you take him back? assume we're not close on any other top striker.

No, Van Persie is on his way down he's only got more injuries and loss of pace in front of him.
Besides theres a new paradigm in town- No more will we accept cheap Ligue 1 rejects no more will we accept kids, we have the money and everybody knows it we will not accept anything but the best now.
Over to you Mr Wenger.

Burnwinter

You guys are ignoring the part of Kami's hypothetical where we're not close to another top striker.

invisibleman18

Still no. As Biggus said, all he has in front of him an injuries and decline which we already starting to see this season. And after all that's happened, winning something with him the helm would just feel somehow tainted as it would with Suarez. Not bidding for Higuain remains unforgivable for me.

Burnwinter

A league title is never tainted by a player just not being very nice. It's not like an ego problem is the equivalent of calciopoli.

Biggus

Burnwinter wrote:
You guys are ignoring the part of Kami's hypothetical where we're not close to another top striker.

Well you're ignoring the fact that we should never be "not close to another top striker" anymore.
We have the money for a top striker.
We don't need that dog.

End of- We don't need that dog.

Burnwinter

Well that's not the hypothetical, but admittedly it was a bit artificial. That said, if we're there or thereabouts in January and we pass on signing any top striker it'll be a disgrace.

Biggus

It's there Burnsy it's within touching distance, we just have to want it more than the rest of them!

invisibleman18

It was already a disgrace we passed on signing one in the summer. Just don't understand the thinking behind constantly leaving us short in one or two positions, especially when ample money was there. It's worked out in the first few weeks with Giroud's form but 6 games in he already looks like he's playing on pain killers and is scarily close to going down.

Biggus

If we fail this time theres simply no excuse for Wenger.

It's up for grabs now........

invisibleman18

That's the annoying thing. That it really does look up for grabs and it could well come down to Bendtner, Sanogo or Park.

Rex

If we don't win it come May, then it will be because 3 teams in this league have better squads than we have. If we DO mangage to win it, then it will be a massive over achievement. That is the truth.

I am not holding my breath for the striker we lack in January either. Not at all sure a class striker will be available then.

Biggus

invisibleman18 wrote:
it could well come down to Bendtner, Sanogo or Park.

goon

Even if we don't buy in Jan it won't come down to any of those three, Poldi and Theo will play up top before them.

invisibleman18

Except they are both already out and will be coming back from surgery. Giroud has looked on the brink for the last couple of games. Bendtner is extremely close to the first 11 at the moment.

goon

Giroud hasn't looked on the brink of anything in my opinion, nor should he be, we're less than two months into the new season. Walcott and Poldi will both be back or close to being back after the international break so despite Bendtner being 'close at the moment' he'll be nowhere near for the majority of the season. Bottom line is, we'd be extremely unlucky for all 3 to be out at the same time at any point this season.

Burnwinter

That's true, but in the context of contesting the title, the big issue isn't a lack of backup for Giroud. It's that we need a couple of genuine PL quality forwards in every first XI we field, and ideally we need to improve on what we've got.

The matches I've seen since Walcott got injured we've looked very one dimensional up front.

invisibleman18

Let's hope so.

flobaba

otfgoon wrote:
Bottom line is, we'd be extremely unlucky for all 3 to be out at the same time at any point this season.

Jinx master

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