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Arsenal: Wenger Better Hope Vincent Janssen Flops
By Josh Sippie
Arsenal either lost out on Vincent Janssen or they didn’t try. In the long run that could be worrying, especially if Wenger can’t match the signing.
I’m a bit perturbed right now. Just a bit. Arsene Wenger is (hopefully) shopping for a striker for Arsenal, but as we have seen him do before, he may be exercising far too much patience.
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While I don’t think that Vincent Janssen was the perfect fit for Arsenal by any means, he sure would have been a useful investment. He could very well have turned into a world-beater, given his numbers in the Netherlands and it is a shame that he will be suiting up down the road at Tottenham.
But even if he wasn’t the perfect fit, he was a good fit. Simply because he was cheap and he was a striker. For that very reason, Wenger better damn well hope that the young Dutchman flops at Tottenham because if he scores even ten goals next year, there will be an irate bunch of Arsenal supporters out there and I won’t rule out the possibility of joining them.
Arsenal need a striker so bad that it’s gotten to the point that almost anyone would be good, and I don’t like that feeling. But it’s not a choice. It just happens. When you are deprived of pizza for too long, you start to crave literally any kind of it. Give me marshmallow pizza for all I care, just be a pizza.
I feel like the striker situation is getting the same. We have needed competition for Giroud for so long that we are in desperation mode, crying out for some sort of fresh air. If Wenger does not provide that, tensions will be as brittle as tungsten.
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If Vincent Janssen then subsequently turns into a 15-20 goals striker, that’s where the wound exacerbates and starts splurging blood like a freshly hewn carotid artery. Have you ever tried to stop one of them from bleeding (I haven’t, but I’ve seen it in movies)? It is a daunting task and, while I picture Wenger a calm, ample surgeon, even the best surgeon can put himself behind the eight ball a bit by taking too damn long to wash his hands.
I’m really running with these analogies.
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The point is that Wenger better have a plan. Seriously though. If Chelsea and Tottenahm both see immediate returns from their new strikers, then I have nothing to say but ‘what the hell?’