blimey, rip their fucking arms off, tie him in a big ribbon and deliver him with a herd of unicorns
I thought he’d be going on a free!!
If we could keep him I’d rather keep him.
That said, I thought Chelsea were after Dzeko and Roma need to sell etc. But maybe that has changed.
Someone likes Giroud, some others not. It can happen with every player. So boring with the same old discussion.
It would be an incredibly non-AW, non-Arsenal thing to do and I would be thrilled… selling Ollie now would mean we are looking at more rapid turnover and perhaps turning younger (even though Auba isn’t exactly a spring chicken). If we jettison Welbeck in summer, get another young star striker and have Auba, Laca, star, Eddie, that would be approaching a proper top striking line FINALLY.
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I love Giroud but £35m recouped and Aubameyang is difficult to argue against. I’ll just have to do my own hatchet job on him post-Arsenal like many of you have done with Sanchez, seems to be an effective cure 
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For that money, and Auba, I’m completely for it.
But some people in here are being fucking ridiculous. The guy has over 100 competitive goals for us and has scored or assisted in every cup final we’ve played in since he’s been here.
The guy deserves way more respect than he’s getting and easily sits in that Kanu/Wiltord bracket of Arsenal cult/icon status level players who more than showed their worth for us.
I’m fucked off at the fact that we’re doing Chelsea a solid by selling them a type of player they’re desperate for right after handing Sanchez over to Manchester United. Fucking hell, what a January.
However, if it allows us to land Auba and we get some serious money for Giroud then it’s a deal that’s too good to turn down.
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Cristo your analysis is SOUND
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no one is disrespecting him
but Ollie and plenty others in the squad are the type that finish 6th to 3rd at best, that’s just the level
If the club has ambitions of competing for titles and going deep in UCL ever again we will need better than them
sometimes you have to offload and anything north of £20 million for Giroud is robbery
he won’t be turning CFC into title winners any more than he has us
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Sound bruv, innit fam 
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If we got 35 million for Giroud 
Don’t think we have done that with him being Plan B or Plan A.
Him being Plan B is to recreate what we have done with him all the time. He is another player the players are familiar with. His interchanges, flicks are handy and have served us well many times.
It is not just ‘lumling the ball to big guy’
Oh man 35m would be too hard to turn down and since we are helping direct rivals, we should demand that price.
And I agree with everyone who say that some people have needless agenda with Giroud.
Giroud is not world class but he has done more than most strikers around Europe. When the team is performing well, Giroud has complimented equally well.
He has served his value and as @ljungbergkamp & @Phoebica said the mocking he receives is completely unfair and definitely an agenda.
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That just isn’t true, all you have to do is read this forum
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Honestly I think this is unfair on Giroud and the idea that him being our plan B means hoofing the ball up to him is basically inaccurate.
Watch back his goals for us and there are barely any examples of any of them coming from us just lumping the ball up to him from deep. How many players score their goals from a direct ball lumped at them from deep anyway? His headed goals come from crosses, corners and free kicks taken from a decent range, not desperation hoofball from deep. Despite how bad our football is compared to what it once was, we aren’t hoof merchants and that isn’t where Giroud’s value comes from.
We’ve scored more goals from headers than other teams because Giroud is great at getting on the end of crosses and free kicks, not because of some Allardyce old school Bolton play.
It also ignores that Giroud isn’t just limited to his headers, he scored countless goals from those near post runs. You can bring Giroud on and still play decent football, exploiting gaps behind full backs and either putting it on his noggin or playing across goal for him to meet at the near post or somewhere else in the box. His touch can obviously be pretty iffy at times, but it can also be brilliant and facilitate intricate link up. His physicality can also be very unsettling to tired defences and his hold up play can be really good. All of which is true and not in anyway dependent on desperately lumping it to him.
Its fine to say you want some other sort of Plan B, but this is Wenger and without Giroud the Plan B is likely to be Welbeck. So let’s see how much you like that for a back up plan 
It’s fine to think it is time to move him on, or that you prefer a different style play, it is totally reasonable. But I feel like you can think those things without trying to make out as if he is total cancer to our style of play and that he hasn’t been highly effective as a back up, because I honestly think it is demonstrably true that he does have his qualities. It seems that just recognising that has basically made me seem like his biggest fan apart from @sevchenko, when I’ve actually never been that big a fan in the grand scheme lol
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Giroud wants to join Chelsea
Tbh if we get £25 mil plus, I’d be fine with it.
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Going to be worse seeing him in Chelsea blue than seeing Sanchez at United for me, purely on attachment value alone
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Same here
We are actually in a position where we have a very strong attacking line up with strength in depth, so It’s a shame that we’re are going to sell Giroud, who is a very good and experienced striker for it to happen.
If we get more than 30m, that would be a good deal.
He is a very good experienced PL striker so anything less than that is unacceptable.
He will do well at Chelsea because they have a manager that knows what he is doing and will play to his strengths.
Realistically, with Aubameyang and Lacazette in front of him in the pecking order, he isn’t going to get much first team action, especially as he needs it going into the World Cup.
So if we get more than 30m and spend it on more top quality players, it will be a decent bit of business.
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