Poldi is just limited.. Its the reason he was never a dead on starter for either us or Bayern. He could be a lesser teams clear first choice, and he seemed to work well within Germany's system because he has so many other players around him that could pick up his slack. Its hard to argue with 125 caps for a power like Germany.

However, his finishing is top class and he can score goals others can only dream of when he gets the chance. Unfortunately, in this day & age of the modern game, his choices of team is also limited because of his lack of all around game.

Doesnt help that with age he has slowed down even more and runs even less. Just not enough anymore.

He would have been a great striker in the days of 4-4-2

Podolski in Turkey, ahead of his move

To bad it did not work out, I am a big Podolsky fan.

So so far from what we need as a lone CF.

However, as others have said he would be great in a dual striker system and was serviceable at times on our LWF.

Odd that he got so few chances while Theo has had far more. Do you feel Podolski is really that much more limited than Theo, or is that Theo's pace is to impactful to ignore?

General Mirth wrote:

He would have been a great striker in the days of 4-4-2

He still can be. But who play 4-4-2 nowadays?

MistaT wrote:

So so far from what we need as a lone CF.

However, as others have said he would be great in a dual striker system and was serviceable at times on our LWF.

Odd that he got so few chances while Theo has had far more. Do you feel Podolski is really that much more limited than Theo, or is that Theo's pace is to impactful to ignore?

Theo just offers more. I always thought we looked pretty dangerous the few times we played Walcott and Podolski on opposite flanks though. I'm not really sure what happened with Podolski here, Wenger sort of pushed him into his shit form of his latter years. I think he just didn't like his work rate. He was decent enough in terms of goal return for us.

Sad to see Podolski go, was so excited when we signed him. Agree that he would have been of more use in a 442 but he really isn't enough on the wing in our current system.

Hopefully his massive wages go towards someone of first team quality!

Qwiss! wrote:
MistaT wrote:

So so far from what we need as a lone CF.

However, as others have said he would be great in a dual striker system and was serviceable at times on our LWF.

Odd that he got so few chances while Theo has had far more. Do you feel Podolski is really that much more limited than Theo, or is that Theo's pace is to impactful to ignore?

Theo just offers more. I always thought we looked pretty dangerous the few times we played Walcott and Podolski on opposite flanks though. I'm not really sure what happened with Podolski here, Wenger sort of pushed him into his shit form of his latter years. I think he just didn't like his work rate. He was decent enough in terms of goal return for us.

He also disappears a lot. Not a criticism of him, just that he'd let the game pass him by before picking his moments. As a number 9 that's a great quality to have. As a winger or a lone striker, not so much.

Rorz wrote:

Hopefully his massive wages go towards someone of first team quality!

100.000 from Poldi go to Cech. It worked out fine.

that's a wage trade you make everyday. with 8million net transfer fee - that's exactly the philosophy that i have been preaching and Wenger is taking note of. you get rid of the guys between roster position 12 and 20 in the squad and replace them with guys who will be important starters. Podolski was an obvious choice, but there are one or two others for whom July should be squeaky bum time!

A certain little Spaniard falls into that category...

That same Spaniard who was a starter in almost every team Wenger picked throughout the season?

That's the one.

I am willing to bet good money that Cazorla will be a squad player for the better part of next season. If he is still here that is.

A useful squad player that is. Someone that every championship winning team needs. Quality, versatile, dependable.

Yeah, but this is what I responded to.

Claudius wrote:

that's a wage trade you make everyday. with 8million net transfer fee - that's exactly the philosophy that i have been preaching and Wenger is taking note of. you get rid of the guys between roster position 12 and 20 in the squad and replace them with guys who will be important starters. Podolski was an obvious choice, but there are one or two others for whom July should be squeaky bum time!

Claudius is right. You're wrong.