Burnwinter wrote:
Just read today's Arseblog. Admittedly it's all his usual obvious, safe, conservatively minded fence-sitting stuff, but I can't help but feel he's been reading this thread slash forum. :o
You sound a bit tentative, Lagos. Would've expected a more "penny wise, pound foolish" argument.
To me, six games' absence at the start of the season aside, Suarez's behavioural problems are more an ethical or reputational, than a logistical risk. He has been at Liverpool in a time of turmoil and his recidivism has been very badly managed, especially by Dalglish.
At Arsenal there's stability, and structure. A bigger risk is probably that he'll become unsettled if we continue to disappoint results-wise.
However, on the upside, we urgently need a top striker and if we do add one, our "three half-cocked musketeers" forward line of Podolski, Giroud, Walcott suddenly looks like a star and three genuinely useful supporting acts. We have players coming through in midfield, and we have some sort of defence.
We need aggression and energy up front as well, and Suarez would also add those qualities.
On the whole both financially and on the field we could see improvements from signing him that would offset some of a fairly large fee even in his first season—eg if we go further in the Champions League. We have the money, we need the missing puzzle piece to exploit a solid squad.
He'd be an investment with big variation on return, but it's not all downside.
