Wenger mentioned it that it was a financial issue, I think it would be resolved pretty soon.
Nasri To City - Done Deal!
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Wenger mentioned it that it was a financial issue, I think it would be resolved pretty soon.
have you ever watched Nasri? He's very good in the tackle and defending/pressuring. He's dispossessed quality opposition countless times when man marking.
It's the "at some point" that's probably on his mind.You should have won the CC which would have been the springboard to who knows what this season....probably the league but your players are getting incresingly anxious at the lack of trophies and investment so while I believe you're right..he'll sign don't believe for a moment that if a club like Barca/RM was genuinely interested in Nasri he wouldn't go
According to the site whoscored.com, he has made the 16th highest no. of tackles in the Arsenal team, so it's fair to say he's not a good tackler.
A midfield 3 of Carrick, Anderson and Nasri would be tasty.
I don't see us playing a midfield 3 much any more, not now Rooney is excelling as a #10. I think we will be looking to the type of midfielder(s) that will make us stronger in a midfield 2.
These last 2 pages remind of the Glaston/Modric stuff.
These last 2 pages remind of the Glaston/Modric stuff.
Both of them? Have you seen nasri play in the center? Thats a genuine question, im not patronosing you. Nasri has played in a DM role for the goons, too.
Personally, he's my dream signing for the summer. Better than Modric and more suited in a two man midfield than Sneijder at half the price for both. Only a fool would say no.
Tell him unlucky and sell him to anyone else, Heinze ring a bell?
If his heart is set on United he could wait a year.
Yeah I agree with this but in extreme circumstances i.e should we face Barca again next season (particularly in an away match at Camp Nou), that midfield 3 would make a better fist of competing against their midfield I think.
We and Arsenal are not rivals. Its not the same as with us and Liverpool
You can be sure they wont let him go to Spurs or Chelsea - unless it was a player swap. But us? We'll have to see. Its a lot more of a possibility although still unlikely
That's assuming Hernández will improve, won't suffer from second season syndrome, etc., etc. I'm still not entirely comfortable with him playing the number nine role against top clubs due to his relative lack of technical ability; in certain games a three-man midfield with Rooney on his own will be a better choice.
Rooney can still play as a 10 Messi style even if we use 3 midfielders. It would just mean our wingers would have to become better at scoring goals.
Rooney doesn't have the skill to do what Messi does
He might go for Rooney up top on his own for a period this coming season
Especially if by that time we have a quality midfield backing him up
He might go for Rooney up top on his own for a period this coming season
Especially if by that time we have a quality midfield backing him up
and who will sign the contract for nasri? Heinze? You don't have to sign anything...it's not the mafia holding a gun to your head...at the end of the day you can't make anyone sign a contract. What can arsenal do? You rarely see teams keep a player and not play him for a season...it's the last thing Arsenal need.
But yet you see him as our creative attacker?? All that would be required would be good movement between the front 4 and wingers with a eye for goal a bit like with Rooney, Tevez and Ronaldo.
It's possible, but Fergie didn't even make that switch at half time in the CL final when it looked logical. I just think it's more likely we will look at strong CM's to keep the Rooney/Hernandez partnership as the focal point up top.
Yes it's looking at it positively I agree, and I agree Hernandez is technically lacking on the ball right now, but it worked for us very well against big teams bar Barcelona. Plus Welbeck may turn into another player we can play with Rooney in the system and he holds the ball up very well.
Perhaps, I suggested this in the Aguero thread, but it's not a system I think suits a pure winger like Valencia.
That is where our interest in a Sanchez starts to make sense, plus our calling back of a Welbeck. Either of them and Nani can make a goal scoring partnership from wide areas with Rooney roaming in between them.
I agree, it would give us a very flexible front 3 option if we needed to change things up, I suppose Young could be figured in the same light as Sanchez, though clearly not as good.
He doesn't have to have Mess' skill. Rooney is proven 10 who has also proved he can score goals regularly. Paired with the right set of wide playera he can easily play as a false 9, dropping off into the hole to let them attack the box to score, and let runners form deep float past him into goal scoring positions. Then he can join up with them to get goals as well whenever the opportunity arose.
I see no reason why can't mirror this below with Rooney in a false 9 role:
-----------Busquets------------
---------xavi------Iniesta-------
-------------Messi--------------
-------Pedro---------Villa---------
Go on Chief bring the Muppet out... Show that formation with the United Players instead
True. Young has the game to impersonate a Pedro.
-------------Carrick-----------------
------Gibson----Fletcher------------
-------------Rooney----------------
---------Park---Valencia------------
------Gibson----Fletcher------------
-------------Rooney----------------
---------Park---Valencia------------
With what we have now:Go on Chief bring the Muppet out... Show that formation with the United Players instead
---------------Carrick-----------
---Fletcher/Gibson----------Anderson/Giggs
---------------Rooney---------------
----Park/Welbeck-------------------Nani----
If my wildest dreams come true
:------------------Carrick----------------
--------Sneijder--------------De Rossi----
-------------------Rooney----------------
--------Sanchez------------------Nani------
Except his finishing, but I could see him getting double figures.
Buzzkill.
We cannot successfully mimic Barcelona's style of play, and it is disrespectful to even attempt to do this.
Finishing can always be worked on. Remember Rooney before the season he top scored for us.
Err, why?
Disrespectful to who?
Yeah but I think in the case of Pedro he's a natural finisher and Wayne has those patches when he is as well. Young is more a converted winger.
We don't have to mimic their style of play; the discussion is about whether we could play with three central midfielders, Rooney as a false nine and two "inside forwards" on the flanks.
That's Barcelona's formation, true, but adopting a similar formation doesn't mean we'd adopt their playing style as well. We could still be, say, a counter-attacking team, we wouldn't have to aim at monopolising possession, etc.
The truth is we really wouldn't be mimicking them. We would be actually mimicking how our team that had Tevez and Rooney upfront attacked.
Brown-------------- Scholes-----------------Evra
--------------Carrick-----------Giggs-----
----------------------Rooney----------------
------------Ronaldo-----------Tevez--------
With the front 3 constantly changing roles.
True. But Henry proved all those years ago that wingers can be turned into lethal forwards. What I've liked about Young playing in the hole for Villa is the amount of great positions he gets into. If he played in a team in which it was a deliberate strategy for him to come off the wing into striker areas, I believe his finishing could be really worked on. I feel such a process for example is already under way with Nani. With in the next two seasons I believe he will start to miss the target far less and score way more as he cuts in to shoot. It's the same process SAF and co took Ronaldo through. (But his own abilities also helped take it too another level tbf)
They were all a few years younger than Young when they began the conversion, but I agree on his movement, even yesterday for England he showed flashes of what he could offer, he's low on my list of options to be honest, but Fergie would get something more from him I'm sure.
Indeed. I also feel At 26 finishing can still be vastly improved.
Barca actually want other teams to play the way they do.
Why?? They beat every team that plays different to them.
Eh? The proof of Real Madrid in the Spanish Cup final, and Inter Milan in the CL last season is that you can beat them by 'parking the bus'.
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