re: Arsenal 2012/2013 Season Long Thread

Tbh, I'd take that in a heartbeat.

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Tbh, I'd take that in a heartbeat.

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You traitorous scum.

We had Vela. He's better and less douche-y. Would you rather MC be our third striker? Chicharito will bounce back and i certainly wouldn't mind him doing it for us.

If we are going to buy a 3rd striker I would rather it be someone else. He probably wont be cheap either.

I would hate to lose song and van Persie in the same summer. They were so much of our offense last year. That being said both deals fit hugely with Wenger's philosophy of buy low, sell high. The combined profit on Song and Van Persie would be about 33 million. I guess that's good but it's hard to win a trophy with that philosophy

In your attempt to not be Randy, you came off with a rather Randy-esque response. Very few facts in that rant.

Yes, he is offsides quite a bit, as any striker who plays off the last defender is, but he was offsides only marginally more than RvP last year and the year before was offsides less than once a match.

He doesn't exactly have a terrible rep for flopping/diving. To my knowledge he's only been in two potential PK controversies, one where he got a yellow (looked like there might have been contact) and the other he got a PK and there was definitely contact. I guess what I'm saying is, his flopping isn't worse than the norm in today's football. And you can still rip on it when your players do it. You don't have to be Randy and excuse it.

Personally, i think he'd be about as good a third striker as we could get, but it's all moot because they won't sell him. Means too much to their marketing if nothing else.

If we do get Hernandez, we'd be changing formations. He can't play as a lone striker. He's basically the Mexican version of Walcott except he can't play wide. That said, I'd take him because he's an excellent off-the-shoulder poacher. We would have absolutely raped Man U in this deal as well. I don't think it is likely that he will come to us though.

If Song goes, I'd really like to replace him with M'vila. Capoue isn't nearly as mobile, and his passing game is rather simple. Honestly, I think Frimpong and Coquelin could be good replacements. Frimpong is a physical specimen and Coquelin is pretty good as well. If you combined them into one player, they would be nearly perfect. They both still have the chance to develop into solid players.

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I think Frimpong and Coquelin could be good replacements.

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I think Coquelin is going to be a quality player but I think he is too similar to the rest of our CMs. Frimpong fits the description of the kind of CM we need but he is immature and injury prone. I don't know if he will make it at Arsenal. I agree with M'Vila as the first choice to replace Song.

Well we have practiced some in the offseason with a 4-4-2. He and Giroud would make a very nice pairing. I don't see how we can really afford to play it much now that we only have two viable strikers though.

Let me see if I can understand the Bendtner thing... he's pretty talented but is an a-hole and there's a mutual want for him to play somewhere besides Arsenal between the club and him?