I knew that, I knew that - about the film anyway
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My take on this is that we needed more goals from last year. And while I hope Ozil can start scoring like Bergkamp did, we need most of these to come from the front 3.
Alexis may score a few more as CF than LW, but his goal rate as a winger was superb.
We don't really have any other goalscoring wingers other than Alexis. Yes, Rambo, Feo, Iwobi etc will get a few but not as many as Olly.
And shouldn't that be the equation? We need a 25 a season striker plus Alexis. {And another goal scoring winger would make us contenders.} Sticking Alexis at CF with Ox etc out wide won't get us enough goals.
I'd rather stick with Alexis on the left, Olly up front {and hope he gets lots more goals} and hope that Rambo or Feo or the new lad Perez or Iwobi can score lots from the other wing. That's why I wish we'd kept Serge.
Would have been better if Arsene had signed Mustafi and Perez before we were already 5 points off the pace.
Mustafi was in the German EC squad, was he not? If so he wouldn't have been available at the start anyway. And Perez only became 'available' to us once we'd missed all the primary targets. :hehe: :-| AW said it was the most difficult window ever, and comments from Conte and Klopp echo this.
You have mentioned this ad nauseum. I'm not entirely sure why a couple of goals against Fiji U23s and some similar teams has turned Serge Gnabry into Lionel Messi and Neymar combined. He was pretty ordinary in the one game I saw him against Nigeria in the semi for a start and don't think he did well in the final. Walcott will score far more goals than he would if he gets the games
I still think our front 3 will give us more combined goals with Alexis wide and Olly central {with one of Feo, Rambo, Iwobi etc on the right} than with Alexis central and two of the above out wide.
I could well be wrong, but are you saying you disagree with my supposition?
If Feo could bang them in like he did that season when RVP was on fire {something like 20 goals for Feo} then we'd be sorted if both Olly and Alexis play to their full potential. But a front 3 with Alexis at CF with Feo and Ox won't score as many as Feo-Olly-Alexis imo.
We've spent a lot of money and the squad looks quite strong but I'm not sure our starting eleven is much stronger.
A marquee signing might have been better than what we've bought. Mustafi we could have got for much less if we'd gone for him earlier.