Barclays Premier League Round 34, and a Bit of 35, I Guess

[EdinBruges]

Elneny can do his job and then some.

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Blatant cheating from Walcott there

[Szilard Nemeth]

Would be great if Arsenal don't finish in the top 4.

[EdinBruges]

Mesut Ozil created eight scoring opportunities today for team mates. No one to put them away. 21 shots in total for one goal.

As I've been saying. Assists have dried up just as our goals have. He's wasted with us. Don't get top four and he'll be off.

Fuck it.

Wenger should go.

[danielt]

it's annoying that Leicester scored that equaliser

would much rather Wham have equalised in the last minute to draw it 1-1

they will be spurred on the fact that it's a 1 point gained not 2 points dropped situation

gotta do a job tomorrow regardless, if we win and we're 5 points off, need a Leicester draw and loss to win it on GD

[Deleted]

Arsenal spent over £80m combined on Ozil and Sanchez instead of buying a striker. Creativity hasn't exactly been the problem for the last 10 years but the best striker they've had since Henry is Giroud who is consistently decent but he's never going to create a goal for himself nor do i think the way Arsenal play allows for that. Everything goes through their midfield to the point where the strikers don't seem to be encouraged to try anything on their own, its such a weird system that fucks them over once Ozil or Sanchez is locked down.

Probably about time for Wenger now and for the last few years, the FA Cup wins have just provided a bit of false hope but not winning a title in this season with a relatively settled squad isn't good enough for Arsenal. Then they need to work out what to do with the strikers because Walcott, Giroud and possibly Welbeck too arent good enough to win a title with. They don't necessarily need a 25 goal a season striker but they need someone who can create and score 25-30 combined and a manager who lets the striker get involved.

[MrAndyJay]

Best thing Arsenal could do this summer is sign Lukaku, over to you Mr. Wenger.

[ChappyHova]

Finally got round to watching the Leicester highlights. Did the ref get one decision correct?

[ange postecoslamp]

It's weird cos I sit and think about how Harry Kane couldn't possibly be the best striker in the premier league because we're spurs and we can't have nice things but there's such a dearth of proper goalscoring types in the premier league atm.

Aguero is clearly the most talented but he's somewhat injury prone, same with sturridge who's even more injury prone and with less talent. Then where do you look; Rooney is a white elephant, Arsenal can't decide who their best striker is because none of them have been consistent enough to merit it, Costa's a cheating prick who hasn't been able to look good in the most underperforming side of the year.. Vardy? Eh, he's had an incredible season but you very much sense this is the pinnacle of his career, difference even between first and second half of the season is tangible.

I think we might have the best striker in the premier league, God help us all.

[FL]

Kane is good, but Aguero is still the best striker in the league.

[Star of Spurs]

i'd take no one in the league over harry, but that's mainly to do with him being the ideal player you want representing your club (boyhood fan, came through the ranks, model professional, him being really really good is a bonus). aguero's still the best striker in the league imo and probably in with a shout of being the best ever in the premier league

[localnative]

Pablo for me the best striker we've had since Henry is RVP by quite some distance. And whilst we've struggled to buy a world class striker, I think it's more to do with there not being a huge amount of them on the market. Pretty sure Wenger has said this himself. Over the past couple of years the only top quality strikers I can think of that have moved clubs are Suarez and Costa. We tried for Luis and I'd imagine we either got out bid or didn't think he'd suit our squad when it comes to Costa. This summer it will be limited options again, Ibra might be available but it's wether we go for such a big ego. Then there's players like Aubameyang, Lukaku, Lacazette, Mortata and Batshuayi. All of them are potential risks as well as costing huge amounts. Not to mention the competition from 'bigger' clubs.
I do agree with the fact our midfield has problems, but I think it's the fact that everyone wants to play so narrow couple with the fact that both Ozil and Sanchez are given a lot of freedom. Neither stick to their position yet we look to force our play through them. Which ends up with a lot of our players often being on top of each other, making it much easier to defend against. When we have Cazorla playing most of our attacks go through him, so Ozil and Sanchez can push up field and play with more freedom. He's far more disciplined with his positioning and the ball goes through him much more naturally.

I'd probably put Aguero in my top three, behind Henry and Suarez. But he'd be closer to the players behind him like RVP, Torres, Rooney, Van Nistelrooy etc. for me Henry and Suarez are just mile ahead of everyone else.

[almachtig]

Apr 18, 2016 16:03:30 GMT localnative said:

Pablo for me the best striker we've had since Henry is RVP by quite some distance. And whilst we've struggled to buy a world class striker, I think it's more to do with there not being a huge amount of them on the market. Pretty sure Wenger has said this himself. Over the past couple of years the only top quality strikers I can think of that have moved clubs are Suarez and Costa. We tried for Luis and I'd imagine we either got out bid or didn't think he'd suit our squad when it comes to Costa. This summer it will be limited options again, Ibra might be available but it's wether we go for such a big ego. Then there's players like Aubameyang, Lukaku, Lacazette, Mortata and Batshuayi. All of them are potential risks as well as costing huge amounts. Not to mention the competition from 'bigger' clubs.
I do agree with the fact our midfield has problems, but I think it's the fact that everyone wants to play so narrow couple with the fact that both Ozil and Sanchez are given a lot of freedom. Neither stick to their position yet we look to force our play through them. Which ends up with a lot of our players often being on top of each other, making it much easier to defend against. When we have Cazorla playing most of our attacks go through him, so Ozil and Sanchez can push up field and play with more freedom. He's far more disciplined with his positioning and the ball goes through him much more naturally.

I'd probably put Aguero in my top three, behind Henry and Suarez. But he'd be closer to the players behind him like RVP, Torres, Rooney, Van Nistelrooy etc. for me Henry and Suarez are just mile ahead of everyone else.

Paul should change his name cause for a brief second I thought you were about to argue Divock Origi was the best striker in Prem history.
Henry is the greatest by a wide margin. I think Owen should be considered somewhere up there for his time at Pool.

[Deleted]

I think it's cos of that couple of seasons with United but I often completely forget Van Persie played for Arsenal.

As for being unsure about whether you go for Zlatan or not, I wouldn't worry about the ego. Big egos will win titles if they've got the talent to back it up. Henry had an ego but he was unbelievable so he did special things, what annoys me is if you have an ego but you're not actually that good, like Benteke or El Hadji Diouf.

[g7vikings]

Owen is only Liverpool's 5th best PL striker almachtig.