CrimsonGunner11 wrote:Reasons why keeping Aubameyang as first choice ST is a mistake:
1. We have Arteta in charge. His record shows to me that he tends to make poor decisions and does not know how to take advantage of opponents’ weaknesses. As long as Arteta and Aubameyang are here, Arteta will continue to play Aubameyang up top even if the game doesn’t call for it.
2. We don’t play a style that will bring out the best of Aubameyang. Backwards and sideways passing won’t work with Aubameyang up top. Lacazette is better suited to this style of play than Aubameyang is. We must change to a counter attacking style for Aubameyang playing the ST role to work but again we have Arteta in charge who isn’t flexible enough to see this.
3. Aubameyang is an awful captain IMO. Him keeping his spot in the first XI takes away the opportunity from someone who actually deserves to be captain. Again having Arteta in charge is a problem here. He clearly is someone who does not put much value in whoever is captain when he should. If we actually gave the captains armband to someone who deserves it, that player would see it as a license to actually call the shots on the pitch and would carry out the role much better than someone who was chosen by a manager who doesn’t truly understand what the captain’s armband means to a football club.
I can't help thinking that Artera has learned from the Wenger school of knocks. Wenger never revered the captain's role and seemed to give it to players to keep them at the club, they mostly left anyway.