Reading reports from Spain, I’m convinced of how good could be this player for us. I don’t know him perfectly, but looks a type of player like Jamie Vardy. He is fast, an electric player who will be not easy to mark.
Has technique, his left foot has power and fine touch.
I agree with Arseblog when speaks about a the budget Griezmann despite he reminds me to David Villa and Josè Antonio Reyes.
He isn’t Lacazette, isn’t Chicharito Hernandez, isn’t a player who will be 100% useful because hasn’t never played for a great club like Arsenal, but Monreal before to be here has been part of a great club. If he will become not a “Alexis Sanchez type of player” but only a “Monreal (the best squad player of the World)”, I will be super happy.
I’m happy that we are signing a a striker to help Giroud out but what I’m not happy about is it’s not the “Super Quality” player Wenger promised, he always says we have the money so we should be going for a striker to win us the league not get us top 4 again, like every single season. I will get behind Perez as an Arsenal fan but he seems like a bit of a panic buy so late into the window
9 months and it still takes us all summer to pull the fucking trigger, disappointing if true. This guy could have been the difference when we were chasing a league title and it was obvious our forward options weren’t what we would have hoped for.
I just saw his highlight video from last year. He created a lot of goals from scratch and scored some beauties. But I didn’t see a single goal playing against a packed and settled defense. Obviously Deportivo probably didn’t face that situation very much so you can’t really blame him. Still, its going to be a big adjustment playing for a team like Arsenal who dominates the ball and spends a good portion of matches idly kicking it around in the other team’s half of the field, trying to figure out how to find a way through. I’m not saying he can’t play that game - really I have no clue about this player - just that I wouldn’t expect him to be a natural in that setting right away. Giroud might still be our best striker option in a lot of matches, especially at the start of the year as Perez adjusts to the team and league.
Scouted for nine months but we still pursue Vardy, Lacazette and perhaps even this mysterious world class striker that there was a snowflakes chance in hell of landing.