Would Walcott accept a bench role?

I can't think of many top quality right sided players though, haven't seen much of Son.

If I had to choose between Bentekkers, Michu,Rooney, and Higuain like the article states...I'd choose Rooney, just cause of his star power/statement of intent qualities

But Michu would be a great signing, but is he that much of an upgrade to Giroud?

Patters wrote:

We had an unusually good year with injuries. We need Podolski-quality players on the bench and quite often injuries will mean they could be starters for most games.

I would take Michu. A creative striker (a poor man's bergy) would be perfect and from what I'm reading, Jovetic seems to be a better fit.

A prolific goalscorer would be nice. But we already have our 30+ goal a season striker. Theo could be truly phenomenal up front. He lacks some basic skills but if we create a role for him to be the poacher, he will make it worth our while. I'm sure of it. That muppet will be worth every penny of the £100k contract. There's a reason Wenger caved in for that greedy shit.

Walcott will no doubt get u loads of goals, but it will be at the detriment of our overall game IMO, don't you think so? In the end, all we'll have is a 30+ goals a season striker but with the team performing worse.

Tactics wrote:

Patters wrote:

We had an unusually good year with injuries. We need Podolski-quality players on the bench and quite often injuries will mean they could be starters for most games.

I would take Michu. A creative striker (a poor man's bergy) would be perfect and from what I'm reading, Jovetic seems to be a better fit.

A prolific goalscorer would be nice. But we already have our 30+ goal a season striker. Theo could be truly phenomenal up front. He lacks some basic skills but if we create a role for him to be the poacher, he will make it worth our while. I'm sure of it. That muppet will be worth every penny of the £100k contract. There's a reason Wenger caved in for that greedy shit.

Walcott will no doubt get u loads of goals, but it will be at the detriment of our overall game IMO, don't you think so? In the end, all we'll have is a 30+ goals a season striker but with the team performing worse.

It's a risk worth taking. It's worth finding out. He is greedy but if we play him up front then his main job is to score goals. He gets 30+ for the season, it's up there with the top among Europe and it's hard to overlook that. He some some fundamental problems with his role out wide. For a start, he'll never stay there. He can't take anyone on/can't dribble. His crossing is shit. On the other hand, his movement up front is good, he thinks like a striker (anticipates rebounds etc.), scares defenders with his pace and is a lethal finisher.

I think he deserves a shot but obviously would be happy if we bought a top forward to partner him (or at least at no.10).

Michu is quite creative though don't forget. His natural position is still as a 2nd striker, or number 10, just that he was so clinical and Swansea had no striker so he played up top.

I don't think Son is good enough to start for us week in week out yet anyway Klaus.

Neither is Walcott. Son might have a bit of work cut out but that's the tradeoff. Wait too long and he might be too expensive and have too many suitors. Buy him now and accept the fact that he might come up a little short across a season while he develops. It doesn't have to be Son anyway, he just strikes me as a great bargain considering his potential and the length of his current contract. But we need someone with that skillset who can put in a shift. I don't think I can stand seeing Walcott on the right flank for another full season when he plays like this.

Agree with that. I am of the opinion that no title winning team would have Walcott starting week in week out.

I don't think Son has that high a ceiling though, certainly not on the wings which is not his natural position. We need players of the calibre like Isco/Reus more than Grenier/Son to replace Walcott.

Pleased to Michu.

Good player. Overrated, but good.

Really like what i've seen from Michu. He's good in nearly all areas and very good in some. Maybe even an option behind the striker too which is an added plus.

Existential Question: IF we buy Michu for 10Michus, how much is the Michu actually worth?

Interesting question FEBravo.

I don't want to get too technical for a lay audience, but if Michu is worth ten Michus, you've got yourself what we football valuation eggheads like to term an "exponential Michularity" ...

Coombs wrote:

What a gif.

Thats Y sharpening her claws if Wenger has another shocker of a summer.

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:

Mind dumbing down the technicalness of that last post burnsy. Gave me brain ache

Well basically if the price of a Michu is the length of some piece of string, Theseus could find his way out of an arbitrarily complex bounded Labyrinth with that string, provided there are no extra Minotaurs.

Hope these pedagogical metaphors are giving you a real emotional connection to the underlying principles.

Absolutely shocking defendng from Jenkinson on that 11th goal. Mertesacker is nearly as poor on #15.

He is very accurate with his finishing, is good technically and is physically strong enough without being dominant. He is a poor man's Robin Van Persie in some ways, but, I'll take him.

Biggus wrote:

Coombs wrote:

What a gif.

Thats Y sharpening her claws if Wenger has another shocker of a summer.

After hearing the latest guff from Koscielny that might just be the case

I'd go for Benteke first. But Michu is very much tailor-made for Arsenal.