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Aubameyang

lorddulaarsenal

Would be good to have a threat in behind and with Malcom it’ll be great to have someone who can stand up defenders and beat them one v one

Anfield1884

Szcezney £12m, Gibbs £8m, Coquelin £12m, Walcott £30m Alexis £35m, Gabriel £13m, Oxlade £40m, Gnabry £6m.

Surely some big incoming soon. Aubameyang/Malcom is a gopd start. Lemar in the summer and you're back.

Irishgunner

so lads, who's the resident llama photoshopper?

Ricky1985

I can't believe some of you are against this.

Aubameyang would be an absolute dream considering the shambolic dire state we're in. Better than what we deserve quite frankly.

He's one of the most complete 9s in football. I say this as someone that has criticised him in the past, but he's had an incredible 3 or 4 years and, as I mentioned before, we're also ludicrously shit right now. He really would be a dream.

Ricky1985

Sounds promising:

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/904624/Arsenal-transfer-news-Pierrre-Emerick-Aubameyang/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Klaus

Ricky1985 wrote:
I can't believe some of you are against this.

Aubameyang would be an absolute dream considering the shambolic dire state we're in. Better than what we deserve quite frankly.

Amen. Signing him and lining up a few deals for the summer is the sort of last-ditch thing that might work in our favour if we're still trying to convince Özil to sign a new deal too. It's too little and too late realistically, but it's not like it's gonna hurt our chances.

And we desperately need to get some quality players in, right now, at this minute. There's no way we can leave everything in the air until the summer, especially not when it's a World Cup year. Looking at MD's list above (Edit: it's gone now) is just disheartening. There are, what, five players you'd want in the starting eleven, ideally? Three of them are out of contract in 6 months while the fourth one is 32 and can barely run because of his achilles. The fifth one has a year to go this summer and we've given him zero reason to extend.

Gazza M

beggars can't be choosers. we're europa league level and shouldn't pull our noses up if a player like auba is available.

i don't think he's going to be a big hit at arsenal though. our build up play is too ponderous and clueless, and i've seen plenty of dortmund games where he's been invisible if they're not playing at a high tempo and feeding early balls

mdgoonah41

Klaus wrote:
Ricky1985 wrote:
I can't believe some of you are against this.

Aubameyang would be an absolute dream considering the shambolic dire state we're in. Better than what we deserve quite frankly.

Amen. Signing him and lining up a few deals for the summer is the sort of last-ditch thing that might work in our favour if we're still trying to convince Özil to sign a new deal too. It's too little and too late realistically, but it's not like it's gonna hurt our chances.

And we desperately need to get some quality players in, right now, at this minute. There's no way we can leave everything in the air until the summer, especially not when it's a World Cup year. Looking at MD's list above (Edit: it's gone now) is just disheartening. There are, what, five players you'd want in the starting eleven, ideally? Three of them are out of contract in 6 months while the fourth one is 32 and can barely run because of his achilles. The fifth one has a year to go this summer and we've given him zero reason to extend.

the list is in the other thread.

Claudius

MD, I know that you are against this signing, but I want you for a second to imagine Spurs with Lacazette instead of Kane. Now imagine Spurs with Giroud instead of Kane. How do they play? How many goals are they scoring? Are they a top 3 threat?

This is the kind of difference a sure fire goal scorer makes. We don’t score goals. When was the last time Lacazette created his own goal in spite of the disorder behind him? He has 8 goals to his name in January. It’s not good enough. Do you remember how van Persie turned Song into a playmaker and singlehandedly kept us competitive simply because he knew where the goals were? Give me Aubameyang. Now. And then you can start selling your Walcotts and Welbecks.

BWoolley

No way this deal is happening. Even the most optimistic reports say we need to negotiate a fee with Dortmund. And we just bought a 50M striker (whether or not poor). Just not our MO.

Segway

Claudius wrote:
MD, I know that you are against this signing, but I want you for a second to imagine Spurs with Lacazette instead of Kane. Now imagine Spurs with Giroud instead of Kane. How do they play? How many goals are they scoring? Are they a top 3 threat?

This is the kind of difference a sure fire goal scorer makes. We don’t score goals. When was the last time Lacazette created his own goal in spite of the disorder behind him? He has 8 goals to his name in January. It’s not good enough. Do you remember how van Persie turned Song into a playmaker and singlehandedly kept us competitive simply because he knew where the goals were? Give me Aubameyang. Now. And then you can start selling your Walcotts and Welbecks.

Auba is very similar to Laca. He needs service to be effective.

I'd obviously be happy to get him but a creative wide player should be a much higher priority. We're playing Welbz on the left ffs.

jones

Segway wrote:
Claudius wrote:
MD, I know that you are against this signing, but I want you for a second to imagine Spurs with Lacazette instead of Kane. Now imagine Spurs with Giroud instead of Kane. How do they play? How many goals are they scoring? Are they a top 3 threat?

This is the kind of difference a sure fire goal scorer makes. We don’t score goals. When was the last time Lacazette created his own goal in spite of the disorder behind him? He has 8 goals to his name in January. It’s not good enough. Do you remember how van Persie turned Song into a playmaker and singlehandedly kept us competitive simply because he knew where the goals were? Give me Aubameyang. Now. And then you can start selling your Walcotts and Welbecks.

Auba is very similar to Laca. He needs service to be effective.

I'd obviously be happy to get him but a creative wide player should be a much higher priority. We're playing Welbz on the left ffs.

It's mind boggling that this seems so hard to process. We barely create chances against the shittest of teams yet people think "upgrading" on Lacazette with a striker who's a poacher will solve our problems

ohboy

Segway wrote:
Auba is very similar to Laca. He needs service to be effective.

I'd obviously be happy to get him but a creative wide player should be a much higher priority. We're playing Welbz on the left ffs.

This right here. We play with no width, and this has been going on for years now. Deliberately playing narrow with playmakers is the definition of stupid.

Walcott, Iwobi, Welbeck etc, get some wide players in right now.

Aubameyang would be great, and temporarily allow us to play 4-4-2 or 4-3-1-2 with Ozil behind to cover up our deficiencies.

A top class striker, who hopefully could work with Lacazette and free up some space for him.

Claudius

I don't think that it should be treated as an either or. I do think we should be chasing someone like Mahrez who plays with speed and creativity to break down defenses from wide and create chances from himself or others. That much is obvious even to a fool.
But if you also have the opportunity to get one of the best strikers in the world, you take it. We haven't had a top class striker in 5 or 6 years.

ohboy

Claudius wrote:
I don't think that it should be treated as an either or. I do think we should be chasing someone like Mahrez who plays with speed and creativity to break down defenses from wide and create chances from himself or others. That much is obvious even to a fool.
But if you also have the opportunity to get one of the best strikers in the world, you take it. We haven't had a top class striker in 5 or 6 years.

I agree. Get in all the quality you can, it doesn’t matter which position, we need quality everywhere lol

jones

Aubameyang would be called a donkey useless etc after couple of months or weeks playing in this team. Dortmund have form for making attacking players look better than they are plus on the ball he's more limited than Lacazette

ohboy

jones wrote:
Aubameyang would be called a donkey useless etc after couple of months or weeks playing in this team. Dortmund have form for making attacking players look better than they are plus on the ball he's more limited than Lacazette

To be honest, even with Aubameyang, teams will just sit back and watch us struggle. Ozil is the only one who can manipulate the ball and create things in the tightest of spaces. Unfortunately until next summer, this will not be remedied.

Claudius

At the end of the day, the striker we needed was Saurez The Maneater. A man who can do it all on his own. “Pay what the player is worth” Brandon said, and we held steadfast. That is why Mbappe’s fee is in the £140m range. He could become that type of striker if he converts to a number 9. But mobile strikers like that who create and finish their own chances are not a dime a dozen. That is why Chelsea and United bought the oft-maligned Morata and Lukaku respectively.

That said, you always look for opportunities to upgrade. And Aubameyang is an opppoftunity. So take it

Qwiss

jones wrote:
Aubameyang would be called a donkey useless etc after couple of months or weeks playing in this team. Dortmund have form for making attacking players look better than they are plus on the ball he's more limited than Lacazette

Or their attacking players look better cos they were playing with Aubameyang :boris:

est

Qwiss! wrote:
jones wrote:
Aubameyang would be called a donkey useless etc after couple of months or weeks playing in this team. Dortmund have form for making attacking players look better than they are plus on the ball he's more limited than Lacazette

Or their attacking players look better cos they were not coached by Arsène Wenger :boris:

Fixed.

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