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Olivier Giroud

degoose

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Do we or do we need a finisher to put the ball in the back of the net? That’s what we seem to have missed recently if you ask me. Giroud isn’t a finisher.
well we need both but if you look at the way we play we need a focal point in the attacking area and we don't have one. Giroud would fit in well until kane's return and can play along side kane as they are quite different types of players. Also Giroud was great for france and is still their main striker because how much he provides to the team.
 

WiganSpur

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Long time poster on COYS james163:

Giroud 99% not happening. Can share with the mods how I know but cant post it.

Followed by:

Its very rare I hear any info but this is (almost) from horses mouth.
Best news i've heard all day as it hopefully forces us to move on to players we can actually sign.
 

spursfan77

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well we need both but if you look at the way we play we need a focal point in the attacking area and we don't have one. Giroud would fit in well until kane's return and can play along side kane as they are quite different types of players. Also Giroud was great for france and is still their main striker because how much he provides to the team.

but they had mbappe and griezmann.It’s a bit different.
 

Kiedis

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You reckon?

I seem to remember us creating a number of great chances against both Liverpool and Watford in recent weeks which, if taken by a recognised striker, would probably have us 5 points higher than we are right now.

5 points last season was the difference between 4th and 6th, and tens of millions of pounds.

That's the difference 3 goals across two games could make.

It's a game of marginal gains.

I guess it's down to how you think about the game (this is not me saying your way of thinking is wrong, it just differs from mine). We've created a lot of good chances lately and would normally have scored more than we have. My thinking is that it's about variance and that the chances we created against Liverpool and Soton wouldn't magically have fallen to Giroud if he had been playing. And that he would necessarily have put them away. Keep creating chances, and the goals will come.

The thing we've been struggling with is working the ball through midfield and setting our attackers up in good situations and also establish structures that lets us keep the ball longer in the final third so that we're not always in transition and Son have to spend the entire game sprinting up and down the pitch.

I don't see how Giroud solves any of this long term, unless our endgame is relying on counter attacks and flick ons from a lump up top. If it's not, give the minutes to the likes of Bergwijn, Lamela, Sessegnon + +, and spend time on the training pitch to work on passing game.

Does signing Giroud mean we take 4-6 points more? I don't think so. But I think we have a lot of young players that would benefit hugely on getting some of the minutes that Giroud would be getting.
 

freeeki

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I don't see how Giroud solves any of this long term, unless our endgame is relying on counter attacks and flick ons from a lump up top. If it's not, give the minutes to the likes of Bergwijn, Lamela, Sessegnon + +, and spend time on the training pitch to work on passing game.

He doesn't.

Our #10 is the best striker in the world.

We're not looking for a long term fix, nor do we need one.

It isn't complicated once you remember Harry Kane exists.
 

ilikeost

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Jul 17, 2012
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Who knew that relying on Chelsea to help us out in our striker search would backfire.

If it's Giroud or nothing, we've fucked up badly this transfer window.
Signing some overpriced mediocre striker in January is not going to save our season. Better to save the money for the summer when more players are available.
 

THFCSPURS19

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Who knew that relying on Chelsea to help us out in our striker search would backfire.

If it's Giroud or nothing, we've fucked up badly this transfer window.
It clearly isn’t/wasn’t Giroud or nothing because we’ve been linked with about 20 strikers this window.
 

cozzo

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Horse tea needs to stick to arsenal news and stay out of or business!! He’s pissing me off!
 

vicbob

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Who knew that relying on Chelsea to help us out in our striker search would backfire.

If it's Giroud or nothing, we've fucked up badly this transfer window.

Yet that statement just proves its not that easy, cos if it was, then Chelsea would have signed and upgrade on Giroud! (not forgetting Man Utd, Barcelona to name a couple of others all trying to sign a forward in this window and looking like failing).
 

Kiedis

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He doesn't.

Our #10 is the best striker in the world.

We're not looking for a long term fix, nor do we need one.

It isn't complicated once you remember Harry Kane exists.

That's actually what I'm doing. We've been using Kane as a big lump that can win us flick ons. I'm advocating the development of a playing style that gives our attackers the ball more often in better conditions, instead of having to scrap around for flick ons surrounded by defenders.

I don't think signing Giroud helps that or that there is a short or long term benefit of signing him.
 

JCRD

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Rondon. Yes.
Bakambu. Yes.
Ighalo. You what? Where did that come from?

I was going to suggest Rondon - I really do like hi. He doesnt have the technical skill but dont give a shit, he is a strong bully up top and I like that..
 
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