jayramfootball wrote:aniym wrote:Ach wrote:Bigger must keep than RVP?
RVP - 8 years at Arsenal, mostly spent in a hospital
PEA - 2.5 years at Arsenal, never injured, 4.5 years at Dortmund, never injured
He's our only hope for a trophy next season. We've missed out on silverware many times because of injuries to key players.
Our only hope for a trophy???
Never heard anything more ridiculous.
We've yet to a win a trophy with him in the team.
As a team, we've scored about the same amount of goals consistently for the last 10 years - i.e. with him or without him.
When Aubamayang is gone another striker will be the main goal scorer and as a team we'll continue to score about the same amount of goals.
It's WAY past time for Auba to be sold. The club simply can not afford these contract hold outs, hoilding the club to ransom. Tell him to eff off.
No player is bigger than the club, especially Aubamayang.
Whilst I don't necessarily agree that we should sell Auba I absolutely do agree with Jay in that whether he stays or goes Arsenal will be the same. We lost Wrighty, we got Bergkamp and Anelka. We lost Anelka we got Henry. We lost Henry we got Adebayor. We lost Adebayor the goals were spread amongst Fabregas, RVP, Arshavin and Bendtner. RVP then took on the mantle and when he left Walcott, Giroud, Podolski and Cazorla got the goals and the rest is history as they say.
So at no point have we been hit by losing our goal scorers in the past. Since Wenger joined, every season until now we have scored:
68, 59, 73, 63, 79, 85, 73, 87, 68 - Moved to the Emirates - 63, 74, 68, 83, 72, 74, 72, 68, 71, 65, 77, 74, 73.
Doing the maths, the 9 seasons with Wenger at Highbury yielded an average of 72.77 league goals per season. Taking our last 9 seasons at the Emirates acknowledging a clear reduction in the quality of the squad we have now compared to then, the average is, remarkably, 71.77 goals
Surprised even me how close those numbers are. Bottom line, it doesn't matter if Auba stays or goes.