That's the most obvious solution yeah. I've been banging the Sanchez up front, Wilshere on the right drum recently though. It's probably nonsense but fun to imagine.

Götze is a top player, and he scores more than I thought, but he is another player who primarily wants the ball to feet rather than exploiting space behind the back 4. I think Reus is a better player, and I think his willingness to get in behind is a lot more valuable to us.

Gotze's better with a more mobile forward than Giroud

Yep, if you want to play guys like Gotze and Wilshere on the wing you need a mobile forward in my opinion, otherwise it overcomplicates games.

Toff gun wrote:

Yep, if you want to play guys like Gotze and Wilshere on the wing you need a mobile forward in my opinion, otherwise it overcomplicates games.

You'd also need a more prolific goal scorer than Giroud as Wilshere-Ozil-Gotze is not brimming with goals.

I'd say a conservative estimate would be 30 goals for the lot of them.

We have Alexis too and he scores plenty.

If Wenger wants to play an attacking mid in one of the advanced forward roles, Goetze would be absolutely perfect.

Almost as good as Eisfeld even.

Klaus wrote:

We have Alexis too and he scores plenty.

So Sanchez / Walcott as CF in an attacking front 4 including Gotze & Ozil?
TBH if the transfer fee was the same I'd take Sterling ahead of Gotze re his ability on the ball at pace akin to Hazard to open compact defences.
Alternatively I'd take a look at a WF type like El Shaarawy who scored 19 in 46 the season before his injury issues.

Gotze posts better numbers

How is Gotze's defensive work? He doesn't trackback a lot, does he? I do not see any way Wenger would field both Gotze and Ozil in the same team. Our WFs are basically hardworking box-to-box players.

We judging attackers based on there defensive work again?

Götze used to put a shift in at Dortmund.

Lulz wrote:

We judging attackers based on there defensive work again?

I'm not, but Wenger does.

How are you guys pronouncing Gotze?

Go-ert-sir
Got-za
Goat-sah
Gotsha
Gerrt-za
Or summing else?

He's Jerman.

Jotzey.

The ö sound is similar to the i in bird, or the u in hurt.

"Goats"

Klaus wrote:

The ö sound is similar to the i in bird, or the u in hurt.

so..   "Guh-tsa" ?