Well from youtube, he may be willing to run at people but he lost it/dropped every time.
I think the main issue is he couldn't fit into the current formation. I've said all season, in games where Podolski plays wide, Giroud plays upfront and Santi/Wilshire in the middle the movement has been great, GIroud tends to stand near the defenders, drop deep, receive a pass and then play the runner in behind, usually Podolski as most other guys we have make the wrong runs. Giroud looks quality WHEN we do that, but we so rarely play that way. The problem being, that looks like Jovetic's style as well, dropping deep, getting the ball then turning and playing the pass sideways or fowards into runners. Firstly we have Giroud who is already quite good at that, but is a bit crap when asked to run in behind or play completely isolated, and Jovetic again, looks pretty similar. Without options he seems to run at defences and get no where.
A huge fee, and bigger wages than anyone else for someone who really hasn't shown any spectacular ability in any part of his game, nor seems any different to Giroud, nor has broken 14 goals i over double the number of games.
For pushing 30mil and becoming the top paid player at Arsenal, both would for me warrant someone who has hit closer to or beyond 20 league goals, and frankly wasn't similar to players we already had, and actually excels in a style that the club needs, IE if we're spending that much we should be getting a striker to play as a lone striker and is great at getting in behind and a fantastic finisher, why are we buying the umpteeth big guy who likes to drop deep and isn't particularly good in the air for "a big guy". We had Bendtner, got Chamakh who is worse, replaced him with Giroud who is definitely better, but we're not playing towards his style at all, and then potentially replacing him with Jovetic.... why are we buying big guys who like to drop deep, with other big guys who like to drop deep, when we DON'T PLAY in a way that works with a big guy who drops deep? Why is Wenger spending ever increasing amounts, and the wages over the contract, to get a guy who plays in a way Wenger hasn't got the team playing for?
Considering Bendtner was good when he played, but was benched because Wenger didn't like playing with a big guy, we then bought Chamakh to play that way, who was good when played, but benched because Wenger didn't want to play that way, then we got Giroud, who is being used less for the same reasons, now he wants to spend 24mil + on a similar type of player who still won't play the way Wenger wants.... wtf is he doing.
We could have just spent 40mil on one player who actually plays the way Wenger wants to play, so isn't benched and completely wasted, and doesn't need to be replaced yearly?
Instant first choice.
