Gervinho our new striker?

[EvAMY-CRAIGLEEAFC]

He needs to stop trying to beat too many players, too many times. That said i am a Gervinho fan.

[ThereIsBearCüm]

You hope he leaves? f**k me the amount of players who wrote their name in Arsenal history over the years who would have been slaughtered on here does make me f***ing laugh.

So he had a bad touch and a frustrating game against the best team in England? He has scored 3 goals in his last 3 games, give him a break for fucks sake.

^this.

His finishing is woeful but despite that he's still been one of our best players this season. And people want him to leave?

Our fans by and large are a joke, they moan constantly about the players we do sell but at the same time want us to sell everybody who's not scored a hattrick for a few games....Rosicky, Koscielny, Van Persie and Song were all players Arsenal fans have clambered onto the "get rid of asap 'cos they're shit/injured" bandwagon, all have proven within the past 18 months for the club that they are top class players. After half a dozen games most down the Arsenal whinged we'd bought a dud in Bergkamp, we've always been an impatient and highly demanding bunch.
Our fans just love to whinge, maybe that's just fans in general, but ours have always had a terrible history of major infighting amongst ourselves...and I mean long before the internet gave everyone around the world a voice.

I've digressed somewhat from the thread but I don't understand why our fans always seem to want to hate a player sooner than they like them, there's no reason to be so harsh on Gervinho imo. I think the last few weeks more than ever show the severe knee jerking from eurphoria to sack everyone we're shit and back again.

Agreed, some seem to care far more about being right about a player being shit than actually caring if we win the game or not. Matchday threads are often full of "SEE I TOLD YOU X WAS SHIT SEEEEEE" while the game's still going. If you're too busy trying to say one of our players is shit to actually watch the team you supposedly support, then I don't think you're a real fan.

[Trequartista]

A tiny, TINY part of me thinks that Wenger doing this whole 'winger as a false 9' thing is just to show Walcott who's boss. Kind of just to say, look, it's not that i don't dare to give people a chance through the middle but it's up to me so put up and shut up.

I mean it's just a bit strange to me that Podolski, a recognised central striker (who admitedly has been very good out wide) would start on the left with Gervinho playing a largely central role. I'm all for fluid front 3's, in fact I cant get enough of them, but it just seems a tad odd that we are doing things like this right now, especially with Giroud on the bench. But hey ho, if it works...can't argue with 3 goals in 3 games.