Caporegime
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Good move? i reckon so as a 34 year old Henry is still far better then chamack, ashavin or gevinho
Come on then, best goal?
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But MLS defence/keepers are like League 2 defenders/keepers
EPL is total different ball game, faster and physical
I think a lot of people are looking through rose tinted glasses here. A lot of people forget how truly average his overall play was for Arsenal in his last season. Whether you put that down to him not giving a **** or genuinely the PL being a step above beyond him, that's your call.
I bet chamack, ashavin or gevinho are like, great we can sit around and earn the wage while he does all the hard work, its a stupid move by Wenger, its going to have negative effect on moral, imagine your workplace bringing in an ex employee that was the best the companys had in decades just for a few months to help the company.
Moral boosting.
You didn't watch him for Barca then, he was VERY good at Barca, just rather ignored as most people don't watch an awful lot of La liga.
Firstly in his last season at Arsenal he scored 10 goals and got 5 assists in 16 starts, in a season he was struggling with injuries. His play wasn't even slightly "average" that is completely horsecrap, the players around him were getting worse and he had more not epic games than usual, but that is basically a goal or an assist for just about every start he made... horrible season.
His first season at Barca both, he was playing less as he did at Arsenal, like Villa rather out on the wing now. He still got 12 goals and 9 assists in under 30 games, in a season that he had to gel with a new team and play in a different role. The next season he got 19 goals and 8 assists in 25 starts, scored goals in both CL games against Lyon, in the Bayern game, which got them to the final and played in the final, he also scored the first goal and the 4th which put the Barca vs Real game out of sight and won them the title for sure that season.
He was brilliant, the only "bad" year was the year after when he wasn't remotely first team and scored considerably less, but with no form and sporadic appearances that is likely to happen.
He won everything at Barca, and scored key goals in key games in all the competitions he won, can't really ask more than that can you?
Giggs was cack for the majority of last year and he's been cack this season. Aside from getting a bunch of assists in a few of the games Utd have demolished opposition in key games he's been completely useless, like champs league final last year, and many games this year. He's not a central midfielder and has sucked when stuck in there, but that is where he is mainly getting games.
I don't see why he can't play as well as RVP, RVP's all around game hasn't been brilliant, certainly not bad, just his goal scoring is stand out from this season over any other season. You last point is right though, he WILL be better than those three, one, Gervinho, because he's so far ahead of Gervinho its laughable, the other two, were both doing very well before they were dropped, and crap after a year with no run in the first team....... surprising that. Henry is still better than both of them, but judge Chamakh on when he was playing consistent games, when he was out scoring and out assisting RVP, judging him while woefully out of form and not match fit because the manager won't give him games is unfair to him and ignores the reason for his poor form, Wenger.
I remember last season the media loved rolling out this stat that Chamakh had scored 1 goal in 20 appearances or something, but when I looked up the stats out of those 20 appearances he started hardly any games. Just found my post from 26th April actually: