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Marouane Fellaini

Irishgunner

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:
I thought we don't play with a dedicated DM

We don't, not really.

Shinda wrote:
The players we have are far better players than Fellaini in the CM and AM position. We should do better than Fellaini

You'd rather have Ramsey then?

Bold Tone

How do his supposed strengths vs weaknesses stack up?

Shinda

Ramsey is better than Fellaini. In all honesty I wish we could upgrade on Ramsy though.

Irishgunner

Shinda wrote:
Ramsey is better than Fellaini. In all honesty I wish we could upgrade on Ramsy though.

I really like Ramsey, but he has been consistently shit since his injury up until a few months ago. Fellaini has far more experience, and is a better player than Ramsey imo.

Which viable target would you propose to replace Ramsey then? Just out of curiosity.

Claudius

45m or so on Fellaini and Higuain. Might not have the headline-grabbing impact of 45m on Cavani, but it would really strengthen our team tremendously. That business alone would put us in a position to push for 3rd or even 2nd based on this season's standings.

Wenger will need to make a call. Risk paying 5m pounds or so for the two of them more than he would if he bought them in August; but in doing so guarantee that he actually gets them rather than see them in another team's colours when the season begins. What will Wenger do?

Bold Tone

Not being an expert, my evidence for him is a 10 min highlight reel.

Chest control, First touch, Second touch, short pass, right foot, left foot, Heading, strength, stamina, size, annoy the opposition factor, aerial dominance in defence, midfield and attack, shielding the ball, through passes and he is krusty the clown so he must be devious.

Meatwad

asajoseph wrote:
And which period would you call successful?

everton paid 15m that rose to 17m for him, so he must have been successful in belgium too to command such a fee.

anyway if we're going to sign him then they just need to activate his release clause. trying to get them to take 21m would be pointless. if he's a flop at 23m he would be a flop at 21m and no one would feel better about it because we paid 2m less than his release clause.

RonBurgundy

I didn't say I necessarily want him to play DM for us, by the way. I'm simply pointing out that the notion of Fellaini as a DM is FAR from an absurd one. It's his favoured position for goodness sake and it's the one that got him a 15m move to Everton.

I think he's versatile enough to play many roles effectively. That's part of the reason I want him at Arsenal.

Irishgunner

Claudius wrote:
45m or so on Fellaini and Higuain. Might not have the headline-grabbing impact of 45m on Cavani, but it would really strengthen our team tremendously. That business alone would put us in a position to push for 3rd or even 2nd based on this season's standings.

I'd be happy with that and consider it money well spent.

RonBurgundy

Claudius wrote:
45m or so on Fellaini and Higuain.

I'd be ecstatic with that.

Qwiss

Yep they're the kind of moves that would really strengthen us.

Irishgunner

Bold Tone wrote:
Not being an expert, my evidence for him is a 10 min highlight reel.

Chest control, First touch, Second touch, short pass, right foot, left foot, Heading, strength, stamina, size, annoy the opposition factor, aerial dominance in defence, midfield and attack, shielding the ball, through passes and he is krusty the clown so he must be devious.

I know it's only cherry-picked highlights, but most of that is seriously impressive.

lorddulaarsenal

Fellaini would also add another serious goal threat

Klaus

A lot of deflections in that clip.

Armor

😆

Qwiss

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:
Fellaini would also add another serious goal threat

Yep, from open play and set pieces. Plus he adds some much needed height and strength.

And he's an option in a lot of positions. Need a goal? Push him forward. 2 up, let him drop deep. Dying minutes, put him up front. Or even if Santi/Jack are getting bullied at number 10, move Fellaini there and its a whole different set of problems for the defence.

Lets face it he's Evertons best players (only Baines comes close) and Everton finished 2 places behind us. It makes perfect sense to sign him.

goon

I genuinely think he'd be great in Ramsey's position.

RonBurgundy

50-50s for Fellaini are like 80-20s.

lorddulaarsenal

qs! wrote:
@lorddulaarsenal wrote:
Fellaini would also add another serious goal threat

Yep, from open play and set pieces. Plus he adds some much needed height and strength.

And he's an option in a lot of positions. Need a goal? Push him forward. 2 up, let him drop deep. Dying minutes, put him up front. Or even if Santi/Jack are getting bullied at number 10, move Fellaini there and its a whole different set of problems for the defence.

Lets face it he's Evertons best players (only Baines comes close) and Everton finished 2 places behind us. It makes perfect sense to sign him.

Precisely. Defo want him to sign.

Bold Tone

Klaus wrote:
A lot of deflections in that clip.

😆
was it luck how he forced many of the those into his team's advantage or are they just as many that go against him?
A big negative is the number of cards he picks up and despite having many of the attributes we may desire, he is not an elite player making the £24m valuation extremely off-putting.

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