Sarri: “The club has an option to retain Giroud for another season. I spoke to the club two days ago and we agreed to exercise the option. So, he will remain. He cannot do anything, I spoke with Marina and she didn’t say to me anything about this question.”

Oh dear.. 

56 minutes ago, ducavis said:

Sarri: “The club has an option to retain Giroud for another season. I spoke to the club two days ago and we agreed to exercise the option. So, he will remain. He cannot do anything, I spoke with Marina and she didn’t say to me anything about this question.”

Oh dear.. 

To be fair, I don't see anything wrong with that quote from Sarri. Giroud agreed to a contract with club option for another year and the club decided to activate it. He may not be happy with lack of playing time but like you've mentioned earlier he was fourth in the pecking order at Arsenal, so his situation has definitely improved in that regard. He's certainly playing more now than he would, had he stayed at Arse. In fact Giroud is probably our best option up front at the moment, which is quite sad, if you think about it.

Especially with the potential transfer ban, I think Olivier should have expected to not be able leave. ESPECIALLY after scoring 10+ goals in a cup competition! It's too bad that it took him as long as it did to get going (not that he was playing bad in the league, he just wasn't scoring). I mean even if we can make transfers, I think Giroud will be needed next year as we transition to a new striker + Tammy. (I'm assuming Tammy spends next year with Chelsea).

Hopefully our transfer ban is delayed at least so we can go after a Jovic or someone along those lines, so we don't have to rely on Giroud as much. I do think he is a very serviceable backup.

So next season, we'll lose our leading scorer (and creater), we'll have a guy who has been essentially a back up for years (Giroud), possibly Higuaín, an unproven striker in Abraham, and an unfavored striker in Michy.  

Good pro who has been that rare thing by chelsea of late - a good signing. Obviously not in drogba's or Costa's class, but far better than the two duds he's been left out for over past 15 months. 

I hope he does stay...likes of tammy could learn a lot from him

1 hour ago, abramovich said:

To be fair, I don't see anything wrong with that quote from Sarri. Giroud agreed to a contract with club option for another year and the club decided to activate it. He may not be happy with lack of playing time but like you've mentioned earlier he was fourth in the pecking order at Arsenal, so his situation has definitely improved in that regard. He's certainly playing more now than he would, had he stayed at Arse. In fact Giroud is probably our best option up front at the moment, which is quite sad, if you think about it.

When you consider he played up front in the world cup final with Mbappe and Griezmann in the same team you have to ask why we have not used him more. I think we should have used him a lot more though not for 90 mins.

Must be watching a different player from everyone else. He is going to be 33 at the start of next season, gets gassed around the 60th min mark, has 5 league goals in 37 appearances for us and 2 league goals in 804 league mins this season. It is all well and good scoring 10 goals in Europa league, but none of the teams we have played would finish in the top 10 if they played in the PL.

Who are these supposed “top” teams that want him? He wouldn’t make the bench for any of the teams above us, and that says a lot about the state of our club. 

1 hour ago, Strider6003 said:

When you consider he played up front in the world cup final with Mbappe and Griezmann in the same team you have to ask why we have not used him more. I think we should have used him a lot more though not for 90 mins.

Maybe because unlike France, we need a striker to score goals, because we dont have 2 world class supporting players. 

Giroud has done well in Europe, but he has been very average in the premier league when he has started. 

It really shows how unbelievably poor our recruitment has been that he is probably our best option.

3 hours ago, Boston Blue said:

So next season, we'll lose our leading scorer (and creater), we'll have a guy who has been essentially a back up for years (Giroud), possibly Higuaín, an unproven striker in Abraham, and an unfavored striker in Michy.  

"The club has the option to extend Giroud's contract for one year. I spoke to the club two days ago and we agreed to exercise the option. So, he will remain." - Maurizio Sarri

Edited April 19, 20197 yr by robdog

1 hour ago, big blue said:

Maybe because unlike France, we need a striker to score goals, because we dont have 2 world class supporting players. 

Giroud has done well in Europe, but he has been very average in the premier league when he has started. 

It really shows how unbelievably poor our recruitment has been that he is probably our best option.

My thought was that both of the players Mbappe and Griezmann were both very quick and ours are not so quick.

2 hours ago, robdog said:

"The club has the option to extend Giroud's contract for one year. I spoke to the club two days ago and we agreed to exercise the option. So, he will remain." - Maurizio Sarri

Good I like Giroud. Am perfectly happy with him, tammy and if we need a 3rd batman.

3 hours ago, ducavis said:

Must be watching a different player from everyone else. He is going to be 33 at the start of next season, gets gassed around the 60th min mark, has 5 league goals in 37 appearances for us and 2 league goals in 804 league mins this season. It is all well and good scoring 10 goals in Europa league, but none of the teams we have played would finish in the top 10 if they played in the PL.

Who are these supposed “top” teams that want him? He wouldn’t make the bench for any of the teams above us, and that says a lot about the state of our club. 

None of the teams we have played in the Europa so far would be good enough for the prem let alone top ten.

 

5 hours ago, Strider6003 said:

When you consider he played up front in the world cup final with Mbappe and Griezmann in the same team you have to ask why we have not used him more. I think we should have used him a lot more though not for 90 mins.

Deschamps likes Giroud, that's upto him but doesn't mean his France best option or would be a consistent goalscorer for Chelsea in the league. The only reason I wonder why Giroud hasn't played more is because his the best of a bad bunch, I don't rate him much.

52 minutes ago, Ernie_blue said:

Deschamps likes Giroud, that's upto him but doesn't mean his France best option or would be a consistent goalscorer for Chelsea in the league. The only reason I wonder why Giroud hasn't played more is because his the best of a bad bunch, I don't rate him much.

He is the best options cause he helps bring the best out of Griezmann and Kylian. If Willian and Pedro were not so poor and everyone bar Ruben useless at scoring goals from midfield he would look much better for us.

Activating the 1 year renewal probably just means we will sell him and get some money back.  Would have been gone on a free otherwise, obviously.

4 hours ago, axman2526 said:

He is the best options cause he helps bring the best out of Griezmann and Kylian. If Willian and Pedro were not so poor and everyone bar Ruben useless at scoring goals from midfield he would look much better for us.

Giroud is average, not good enough to be a consistent for a top side over a season.

34 minutes ago, Ernie_blue said:

Giroud is average, not good enough to be a consistent for a top side over a season.

At the moment we are not a top side, we are best of the rest along with Arsenal and United. Liverpool and City are top sides and in fairness he would not get in their teams. On that I would agree.

5 hours ago, mwblue10 said:

Activating the 1 year renewal probably just means we will sell him and get some money back.  Would have been gone on a free otherwise, obviously.

You’d hope so, I don’t think keeping a player against his will at the club would work out very well. 

I’d have thought these extension clauses would have to be activated mutually but obviously not. 

A reporter said to Giroud: "You are quite happy to be on the sidelines." Giroud was naturally angered because he thinks himself being ambitious. He said he needs to play more or to move on. He said he will talk to Marina. 

Personally I think he is in such a good place he will stay and will be happy with any role we give him. I think we should keep him. Excellent in the EL all season. Prem is a bit too much to him strenght and pace-wise. 

Id rather give his minutes to Tammy next season, i mean at least he can run and is homegrown and wont cost us anything. Dont see any benefit in keeping Giroud.

18 hours ago, ducavis said:

Must be watching a different player from everyone else. He is going to be 33 at the start of next season, gets gassed around the 60th min mark, has 5 league goals in 37 appearances for us and 2 league goals in 804 league mins this season. It is all well and good scoring 10 goals in Europa league, but none of the teams we have played would finish in the top 10 if they played in the PL.

Who are these supposed “top” teams that want him? He wouldn’t make the bench for any of the teams above us, and that says a lot about the state of our club. 

But regardless of any of your valid points he is the most in form striker that we currenlty have. In fact he is the nearest thing remotely resembling a centre forward that we have here. Sarri would rather fail playing Hazard as a false 9 (and pi$$ the lad off no doubt) than play a gassed out 33 year old, that knows how to pin a man, how to win a header, hold up play, spread to the wings, bring others in and chip in with goals.

Higuain looks to me like we have signed Benitez again and put a shirt on him!

I think it's a formality to activate the extra year. If our ban is frozen I expect he'll move on.

A timely interesting article from Planet football on our mercurial Frenchman:

https://www.planetfootball.com/quick-reads/the-stats-behind-olivier-girouds-form/

Europa - goal every 85 mins 

League - goal or assist every 134 mins, which while modest is better than any of our current alternatives.

 

 

Not really any better than Higuain when he plays like that. Shocking game by him, can't wait for the day we have a competent CF.

And people want to keep him? He's only good when the ball is in the air but we don't have anyone who can cross a ball.