The Arsenal Thread XX

Don't bother, honestly.

He was world class, there was no doubt about it. He wasn't inconsistent 'to an extent' - he was riddled by it throughout his career. But he was a pure match winner, even in his **** seasons, and he thrived on the big occasion. And ultimately that is his legacy - whenever Chelsea needed him the most, he was at his best.

Physically and technically, he had everything. Everything. Didn't use his dribbling skills to full effect sometimes. No doubt his inconsistency wasn't helped by a constantly changing manager and system.

Definitely world class.

Hmm yeah I can see your reasoning.

Tbh I see the strikers now getting close to a goal a game every season. I guess attacking play has improved/defence has weakened.

Being a big game player doesn't make you world class and the definition is loosely claimed. Out of natural strikers He was only behind the likes of Torres, Eto'o and Henry at his peak. There was a point where it was Drogba, Torres or Rooney around 08-2010 when all 3 were world class then the likes of RVP, Aguero and Suarez changed it up as the top world class strikers.

The word World class is thrown around far too easily nowadays. Not a dig at Didier; just in general.


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Drogba was a weird player.

Obviously provides a lot to the team. His goalscoring record was either exceptional or poor. I would say to an extent that he was inconsistent. But easily world class on his day.

higher echelons of strikers but would go short to calling him world class. Although has had world class seasons but there was never a period of 2/3 years he's been consistently in world class form.

Then there's Red Issue which isn't even worth talking about.

Well, it's two words actually, and there's no accepted defintion, so...

'A player who could get into any team in the world that isn't Barca, Bayern or Madrid' is a decent definition for the present time?

Very honest assessment there. I've basically said this to a few of my Chelsea supporting mates but they just parred me off with "you're only saying that cause he always dominates Arsenal."

I've never been on Red Issue because they want me to make an account ffs

Drogba, technically very good? Not really. More often than not his ball control was poor and he looked clumsy. He was good in the air and (sometimes) could use his strength well (at times he would rather look for a foul, dive, roll around on the floor). I mean Giroud has flashes of technical brilliance but we don't call him a technical player do we? Drogba did not excel at that.

In the Premier League he had two stand out seasons, that was all. He is not among the greatest of his generation, probably not even in the top 10 or top 20. Granted he had some big game performances but that doesn't hide his slightly above average goal scoring record, does it?

Bare in mind though that Drogba has struggled due to being dropped by Scolari unfairly which explains one poor tally for one of his seasons. In 11-12 he played in a shocking team too.

I reckon that if he played for another club that wasn't Chelsea, he'd have been world class without a doubt. He'd have loved it at the italian clubs.

One guy who I always thought was underrated was Diego Milito. He couldn't get into the Argentina team in 2010 as Aguero, Messi and Higuain were there but he had very good spells when he came into europe. He had one poor season at Inter in 2010-11 but he was probably the best striker in the world(bar Messi) in 09-10, he had a similar season in 2011-12 too. He moved to Inter too late and after he won the treble the whole inter team declined so he didn't get too much exposure outside of Italy.

I hope what I am hearing about a £26.3m bid for Hulk is just a poorly-timed joke, because he is utter *******s. Especially now we know that Reus has a buyout clause of £19.8m. Get him in and our Giroud sized problem is solved.

IEspecially now we know that Reus has a buyout clause of £19.8m.