GDeep™
League is very weak
He was a useful player though, most of the best football minds were not top players either.
Pipe down.
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The people v Gilles Grimandi
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Pipe down.
MD3 Gunner
All Deals Off
How did we end up with Martinelli then ? Who scouted him ?
rich 1990
Not A Big Believer In Diversity
He was not useful. He was ****ing useless.
Country: Wales
Begs the question why we’d appoint someone as manager who was so pathetic as a player.
GDeep™
League is very weak
He’s outweighed by trash like Luiz, Cedric, Mari, Coutinho etc though.
GDeep™
League is very weak
He never let Arsenal down from what I remember. When was he useless? He played in a winning era.
Country: Iceland
There was some story about us going for him at the same time we tried to sign Martial but Mbappé felt he was too young to move away and wanted to at least stay one more season so he refused us.
It might just be a story so I'm not selling the story more expensive than I bought it!
Furious
Emery Gone, Telly Back On
The ***** gang in full flow, best illustrated by that gimp @Riou's comment.
So, who better than myself to play the devil's advocate and ruin this vomit inducing circle jerk party.
Hadn't watched either at the time but surely there was a logic behind signing Giroud over Auba, wasn't he league topscorer in a title winning team?
Maybe goal contributions stats comparison between the two could help:
Auba: 18 g + 11 a
Giroud: 25 g + 12 a
Conclusion:
So, who better than myself to play the devil's advocate and ruin this vomit inducing circle jerk party.
Hadn't watched either at the time but surely there was a logic behind signing Giroud over Auba, wasn't he league topscorer in a title winning team?
Maybe goal contributions stats comparison between the two could help:
Auba: 18 g + 11 a
Giroud: 25 g + 12 a
Conclusion:
Riou
In The Winchester, Waiting For This To Blow Over
Country: Northern Ireland
Player:Gabriel
Feel like the word "gimp" is steadily being used more on AM since I joined, if that's my legacy on this site then I am happy.
EinmalImmerEwig
Bent on his knees by asking to get banned !
These r good times for arsenal. O don't understand why your all moaning bout it
Country: Wales
The ***** gang in full flow, best illustrated by that gimp @Riou's comment.
So, who better than myself to play the devil's advocate and ruin this vomit inducing circle jerk party.
Hadn't watched either at the time but surely there was a logic behind signing Giroud over Auba, wasn't he league topscorer in a title winning team?
Maybe goal contributions stats comparison between the two could help:
Auba: 18 g + 11 a
Giroud: 25 g + 12 a
Conclusion:
There was logic at the time but isn’t it a scouts job not to just follow the logic and be able to pick the better player?
From 2014 onwards there’s no comparison between the two.
Country: Scotland
From Liam Brady
It was summer of 2015 that I mentioned Virgil van Dijk to the powers-that-be at Arsenal. Whenever I watched Celtic, he was so cool and commanding and my connections in Scotland all assured me this fella was a hell of a player.
The word from inside Celtic was they had to sell, that he was itching to get into the Premier League, and that there was a ‘gentleman’s agreement’ in place that he could go.
I wasn’t scouting for the Arsenal first team then, but I passed the info on. And a lot of clubs must rue what they let him slip through their hands. Nobody moved, not Liverpool, United, Chelsea. Van Dijk hadn’t yet made his Dutch debut and I’m guessing there was a reluctance to judge him on Scottish standards.
What a mistake it was by several clubs to let Southampton take him for £13m.
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Unfortunately it's not uncommon to judge a player by their league rather than their quality. I remember certain posters laugh at me when I said he could sign for Barcelona tomorrow and not look out of place.
On Giles he was an average player, like a fair few players Wenger signed back then. Hard to believe was a worse scout. France has had so much talent pass through their leagues it's hard to believe we missed out on all of them. For a club with a French Connection that had so much success with players from France it's a bizarre turn of events.
On Giroud it may be revisionist but I dont think he was as bad as some make out. His link up play was and still is outstanding and when teams get balls into the box he is dominate in the air. I still remember he had the most headed goals in the league. Not bad for a team not known to fling balls into the box. He would be a perfect 2 up top player or with the right players around him to cover for his lack of mobility. Just a shame though it seemed like Alexis and Özil failed to get on with him. He has done alright though probably better than either of them since having won the EL and a World Cup since leaving us.
Furious
Emery Gone, Telly Back On
Didn't think anybody would take that post seriously.
Yeah sure, obviously Auba is miles better now, but this happened years ago. Hindsight level is ridiculous.
Besides, there's been plenty of question marks over Auba as well. Could he lead the line in the PL at a younger age when you consider that we're not even using him as a striker now? His poor overall play, no top clubs going for him, etc.
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Country: Scotland
Grimandi and Remi Garde with the horse Oleg Luzhny in support. Although I do have time for Oleg he was a character to say the least.
Furious
Emery Gone, Telly Back On
I voted no on worst of all time solely because Steve Walsh exists. Built himself up at Leicester as a super scout but when he left they continued to excel at signing hidden gems.
Meanwhile when he went to Everton as sporting director he was then responsible for this incredible work.
First year not terrible. All the big money signings were flops but Gueye and Calvert-Lewin were smart buys as was Lookman even if they sold him very cheaply.
Then came the infamous 2017 window.
Roughly 180M spent on utter dross with maybe only one successful signing who was a huge overpay at 45M.
Jeez. Buy within the league they say.
Country: Wales
Didn't think anybody would take that post would seriously.
Can never tell on AM these days
Country: England
Watching our rivals all go on take me out with Hazard whilst we got his mate Gervinho the summer before was a nice experience.
Grimandi was the Raul of scouts.
Grimandi was the Raul of scouts.
Country: England
Think Hazard is another one we tried to sign early but he decided to play one more season. That season caught the attention of all the big clubs unfortunately.
Country: Wales
Mate of mine at Uni was convinced that Hazard was only good because of Gervinho at Lille.
I remember when Wenger played him up front out of desperation one year and he kept telling me his Henry level breakthrough was about to happen
Riou
In The Winchester, Waiting For This To Blow Over
Country: Northern Ireland
Player:Gabriel
I liked the story from back then, that Ivan called up Lille and asked how much for Hazard, they said £30 million...Ivan: "Got anything for closer to £15 million?"
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