Wenger does seem to want a creative midfielder, despite that being the only kind of midfielder we actually have, rather than just NOT picking a truly awful winger and proceeding to have the entire team play through said winger.
Twice we've started Gervinho and spent almost every minute trying to play through him despite his complete inability to provide a final ball, guess what Wenger playing into a dead end for 60-70minutes each game was a useless waste of time.
We've gotten Giroud incredibly little service, and Podolski has had a bit of the ball and driven at the goal but he's been playing as a centre forward for 2+ years rather than the winger he played at Bayern/Germany. In preseason against Cologne he looked fantastic but they were absymal and he spent most of the game way upfront anyway.
We should really be looking to play 4-4-2, stop playing Gervinho, much as I'm not a fan of Santos, he's better than Gibbs upfront, who couldn't cross to save his life. He has pace, sucks defensively but when he gets upfront he takes too long to do anything, doesn't attack the right back enough and the couple times he did the cross wasn't anything to talk about.
Our link up play wasn't right, the movement wasn't right. We bought two guys who worked afaik in mostly a front pair and are asking them both to play a different system, backed up by Gervinho, one of the most inept players in the league, that was never going to work well. Santi looks like he has a great eye for a pass but the movement around and infront of him was awful, and with passes to one whole side of the pitch being completely worthless.
Arsenal don't need a creative midfielder, especially as we are told we have Wilshire coming back. We need a DM, we need two fullbacks, we need a real winger, the last thing we need is a creative central mid.
Hell, Arshavin is still a fantastic player, 50 times the player Gervinho is. Same old Wenger, great players at the club, randomly drop the best and play the worst..... its shocking that tactic doesn't work.
