The fact that he isn’t exactly getting much first team football, would suggest that Wenger has the same opinion about Perez as he has about Campbell, and that is neither are good enough, apart from the occasional cup game.
So we bought a player for 17m to play in one game.
He is realistically behind, Sanchez, Giroud and Welbeck, in the pecking order.
What’s the point?
Like I said, either buy a world class attacking player or save the money until you do.
How many more players of the underwhelming quality of Perez, Walcott, Giroud, Chamberlain, Ramsey, Campbell, Welbeck, Iwobi, etc, do we need?
Stop accumulating mediocrity, and start getting some top class players in.
Buying this type of quality worked when we bought Sanchez and Ozil, but just two top players, in four seasons, clearly isn’t enough.
I understand that Welbeck was injured but since Sanchez has been moved from midfield to striker, it meant that we had Giroud, and even Walcott as adequate cover for that position, and then when Welbeck was fit, he could play there as well.
I just think the 17m for a player that is fourth choice, and hasn’t worried the first team, could have been saved and used for when Wenger eventually decides to splash the cash on a world class player.
We ‘only’ had five forwards because of that injury; Chamberlain, Giroud, Walcott, Sanchez and Iwobi. And Giroud wasn’t 100% either at the start of the season. I don’t think Perez was bought only for the centre forward postion, but because he could be deployed as a winger too.