Realistic Deadline Day targets for Arsenal – Strikers

A lot of my mates are spurs supporters and like the so called soccer experts and well informed pundits that are made up of ex players, seem to have this opinion that Wenger doesn’t like to spend money…………well they’re only half right !

Wenger has always professed that if a player becomes available that will vastly improve the fortunes of of Arsenal, then he will spend the money and unlike the sports writers, pundits etc he also adheres the well and truly tested aphorism that ‘not everything that giltters, is gold’.

Yeah, we’ve been chasing so called top draw strikers for a while now and have turned our attentions to the likes if Higuain, Cavani, Benzema to name a few but all of them, along with their agents and current employers have decided to turn us down. As far as they are concerned, the grass is greenest on their side of the fence for now however, when they are no longer required by their employers and they’ll gladly come to us or any other team in the EPL for a nice end of career payday / pension.

In regards to the Benzema, would he honestly have improved Arsenal fortunes on such a scale that it would be worth making the sort of financial investment that perhaps Benzema and Madrid wanted ?

As far as he is concerned as a player, he’s achieved all he has ever wanted to in terms of club and world football whilst being at clubs other than Arsenal. The quality of players and football that he’s more akin to is not in the EP. The type of football that they play in La Liga et al is of a type where at the moment he can still ply his trade and get results. Would he really be able to do the same on a cold dreary Wednesday night against the likes of robust and singularly minded and determined defenders in the premier league ? He may well do, but it’s a big ask to spend big money just to find out he can’t ! If he ever did come to us it would only be because he’s fulfilled his ambitions of club football where he’s enjoyed a great deal of success. We would be nothing more than a good pay day for him once his current club decides to trade him in for a younger model !

There’s only a handful of top quality strikers around the European circuit and world football that can singularly and definitely turn the fortunes of a game. Unfortunately, those players are in clubs where they’re tied into long term contracts and they are tied into those long term contracts because they believe that’s where they will have the best opportunity of success so unless you offer an obscene amount of money, you aren’t going to prise them away.

As we can’t prise the real cream away from their clubs, why should we at Arsenal be held to ransom to end of career cast off’s ?

Okay Giroud is very much miss than hit nowadays especially as he doesn’t vary his game beyond what he does already making him and Arsenal very predictable but Benzema might be just the same. What we have to do at Arsenal is to adjust our own game play to get the best out of our strikers including Giroud. Maybe he should be told to forget trying to play like Ozil and Carzola in his respective position i.e a little less flair and grace and become a bit more Marouanne Felaini, more brutish and bullish, play ugly !

The premiership doesn’t have the type of strikers that they used to have like Ian Wright, Andy Cole, Alan Shearer, Mike Newell, Solskjaer, Henry who knew exactly what it needed to unlock a defence and done it with a single minded determined approach and when defenders were even more savage !

Let’s stop thinking that just throwing money around is the one and only approach to winning a game successfully and maybe think about a more tactical approach and breeding more players like the Shearer’s, Wrights and Cole’s.