I'd start Bendy ahead of Giroud on Sunday, Giroud is doing nothing, other than playing badly. He hasn't scored a goal in last 5 PL games, last 7 in all competitions, and has been blowing easy chances away, he doesn't deserve to start at all.
No that's ******ed. I hate these gross over-reactions. It was the same with Ramsey a few years back- apparently he was 'completely useless' as well. Ok so Giroud is no Thierry Henry but he's still a very good player. Perhaps not good enough to win us a league but a very useful hardworking target man. Giroud is a decent striker. Bendtner is just ****ing useless. Personally I would like to see Podolski given a run down the middle.
Bidding £40 Mil is now considered 'lukewarm' is it? Last time I checked, £40 Mil was a lot of money. Also, we did also go in for Higuain.
Andy Carroll was 35 mil... and you think 40 is a fair offer for the premier leagues TOP goalscorer by a mile. We just saw Bale who is far from world class , go fro 80 million quid , you can put your fingers in your ears but it wont stop a club like pool chucking 40 million quid back in your face as ridiculous. For him it IS a ridiculous amount . If we had payed WHAT HE IS WORTH , we would be miles ahead of the competition now of that i am sure . ps . and then the 40 million and a pound which KILLED the deal stone dead .... If you take the pi$$ with such offers , you pretty much deserve to be told to fuck off. call me cynical but it may well have been wenger going through the motions to cover his ass. " well we DID try to sign a top striker but ......"shrugs shoulders "
When we bid that amount of money, Bale was still a Spurs player. An opening bid of £40 Mil was hardly laughable. We do not really know where we would be with Suarez for sure. He is been at Liverpool for few years and has an entire team built around him, at Arsenal he would have been moving to a new club and working with new players. It's hardly ridiculous to suggest that he would not hit the ground running and been as good. Also, even at the time, there was a lot of people not even sure about us bidding £40 Mil for Suarez, because of his character and the fact he was banned for start of the season. But hindsight is an amazing thing, I guess.
Oh and for what it's worth, I do not even think we should bothered with Suarez in the summer, they were never going to sell to a rival and we wasted so much time when we could have focused on other targets. Higuain was the man we should have really gone for, and I was gutted when we pulled out of that deal. Also if we got Higuain, we could have still got Ozil. Whereas if we got Suarez, we would have never gone for Ozil as well.
suarez was not the top scorer in the prem last season, and was due to be banned for the first 6 games of the season, but let's not let facts get in the way of you talking garbage, he also had major behavioural issues, considering no one else even showed any interest, shows how highly he was thought of. 40 million was a decent price considering the major risk involved. most people regarded cavani and falcao as being better strikers and they only went for about 10 million more and they had a lot less issues, and went to sugar daddy clubs. really annoys me when high and mighty types like you start going on about what we should have done in hindsight, if we had offered 60 million for suarez at the time people would have thought we had lost our minds.
Did not even see that Carroll comment. Comparing any deal to that one is pointless, because that transfer was a freak and was based on ridiculous management from Liverpool. They for some reason thought they had ONE day to spend £50 Mil and blew most of it on a donkey. They panicked big time and it led to one of the worst transfers of all time.
Excellent point, the going rate for top forwards was not far off what we bid for Suarez, and as you said, at the time, he was not even as highly rated as those two.
Personally speaking, I thought Suarez was indeed one of the best strikers last season, and would be well worth 60 million, even with all his behaviour issues, I didn't care about that. As for being suspended for the first few games, that wouldn't have really been the end of the world, as eventually he would come into the team and start banging in the goals as he's done with Liverpool. I disagree with the both of you trying to put down Suarez as supposedly not being as highly rated in the summer in terms of his calibre, as he is now, that's rubbish, he was as highly rated-coveted for his skill set in the summer, at least he was by me, so this argument that nowwwwwww in hindsight we see how good Suarez is is class A bullshit, most of us fans already knew how bloody good he was, his performances on the pitch right now only prove us right.
Plus, Suarez wasn't the only striker out there, many other top quality strikers, and we failed to get a single one, so lol, you guys still fail. We didn't sign ANY striker, unless you consider Sanogo as a striker signing, lol.
I seem to remember a time on here when my suggestion that we make a bid for Suarez was met with derision. Funny how some of those people now are knocking the club for making a derisory £40m bid
dear me . time of the month ? check what i wrote before you spit your dummy out. I never said he was top scorer LAST SEASON at any time now did i ? shhhhhh there there .
40 million and a quid made us look stupid. If you want him seriously he would have come for 55 million i think , whats 15 million quid in football these days . Arsene might not like the writing on the wall but THATS what the transfer market is like now . With the likes of city and RM splashing the cash at the drop of a hat . But to be honest in hindsight i dont think they would have sold to us .
Initially the 40m was a decent starting offer but I thought the 40 million + 1 was a stupid idea as it was only ever going to piss Liverpool off. Somebody at the club obviously thought the release clause was watertight and they got their fingers burned. I thought we should have gone back with a 45m bid which might have got negotiations started, but to be fair to Pool they made it clear that they would not sell to another PL club from the outset.
Gunner.B.Alright and A87 talking a load of nonsense... what a suprise! Giroud has 10 goals in less than half a season, there is every chance of him netting 20+ and he very obviously adds a lot as a CF other than scoring goals, if you can't see that then you don't watch him or don't understand that there are other things a CF can do that are massive positives to the team outside of scoring. He is a very solid player and abviously better than Bendtner. He is most definately a top 4 striker. He just isn't the world beater we would all like (having been spoilt over the last decade or two with players like RVP, Anelka, Wright, Bergkamp, Henry etc). I think every single fan is in agreement that we should be looking to bring in another striker though. And the club is obviously in agreement having made moves for at least 3 strikers in the summer.
