So it's almost that time of the year again: English football season is about to start!!! People are excited and are trying to figure out their Fantasy teams; fans are excited about their club's new signings; the bookies are giving odds as to who the new Premier League Champion will be. And of course every loyal fan thinks and hopes that their favorite team will be the one holding the EPL Champions trophy at the end of the season!
So what are Arsenal fans excited about? You would think the answer to this question would be: their new signings! Well, guess what? There are NONE! Oh, wait there is Yaya Sanogo. In all honesty this guy looks like a solid player. He has good size; was a French Youth International and was instrumental in France winning the Under 20's World Cup this summer.
The only problem is that he is the ONLY signing of the summer so far. I know there are a few more weeks left in the transfer window, but everyone knows that if you want your new signings to adapt to your team and perform straight away, it's best to get them as early as possible, not after the season starts.
Wenger is talking his usual bulshit how the team he has is good enough, but i don't think that even he believes what he is saying! We need more top class players and we need them THIS season! The sad fact is that not only some players are not interested in playing for our club, but we are targeting the wrong players.
Let's start by talking about the strikers we weren't able to bring to the club or we didn't even target! In my last blog post from last season, i mentioned that it would be awesome if we were able to sign Mario Gomez from Bayern Munich since it seemed that he is not first choice at Bayern anymore. I really believe that Gomez is a top class striker and his goals per games ratio is a good indicator i am right. Not only that we didn't sign him, we didn't even ATTEMPT to sign him!! Instead he signed for Fiorentina for about 17 million pounds. For the quality that Gomez has, 17 million is nothing.
Next on the list is Higuain, he is also a very good player and we at least attempted to sign him. But i guess Wenger wasn't willing to pay the 31 million pounds that Napoli paid for him. Instead he decides to pursue Suarez for a fee of at least 40 million pounds. I have nothing against Suarez and i do think that he is one of the best strikers in the world. The problem is that he is way too hot headed and has proven that he has a tough time controlling his nerves on the pitch. It's only a matter of time before he explodes again like he did against Ivanovic. When you put his disciplinary issues in perspective i don't think he is the right player that we should be pursuing. Not to mention that both Gomez and Higuain were way cheaper than him with very little difference in quality compared to Suarez!. So to recap: we didn't even pursue Gomez; we didn't want to pay enough for Higuain; but we are desperate to break the bank for a player who is an issue when he can't control himself. No wonder Arsenal fans are not jumping for joy before the beginning of the season.
Probably the only good news during the summer was the departures of a lot of players that should have been let go long time ago: Squillaci ("phenomenal" signing by Wenger with a hefty wage), Denilson (still can't believe someone signed him even for free), Djourou (on loan), Gervinho (sold to Roma), Santos (thank the lord that clown is gone). Now we just need to find someone to buy Bendtner and the clear out of players who are not good enough to play for Arsenal would be complete. I am sad that we sold Mannone to Sunderland because he is way better than Fabianski. I don't blame him for leaving though, because he never really got a chance to compete with Szczesny.
And to finish, let's look at our defense. Since Vermaelen is injured for a while, i guess Wenger decided that the smart thing to do is to try to play Sagna as a central defender and loan out Ignaci Miquel! Another bunch of baffling moves by Arsene. We finally got 2 good right backs and 2 left backs (Sagna, Jenkinson - Gibbs, Monreal) and instead of buying a central defender to complement Mertesacker-Koscielny-Vermaelen, we decide to loan out Miquel and play Sagna out of position to see if he can cover for us in case we need him? I mean what the fuck, at some point you have to be realistic and say that the way this club is acting doesn't make any logical sense. If we don't get a solid central defender and a good defensive midfielder, i don't think this team has a chance for anything but a top four finish next season (what's new?)! So, don't blame me if you get a lot of grumpy blog posts coming your way this year, if we are having another shitty season!
C'mon You Gunners!
No comments:
Post a Comment