With Arsenal being linked with
moves for players like Marcelo Brozovic, Aleksandr Kokorin and Javier Hernandez, it remains to be seen who Le Prof will decide to bring to the Emirates.
The Angels were okay making minor
moves for players like David DeJesus because they had the safety net of the Wild Card.
Not exact matches
What makes the decision so consequential is that it was such a massive
move — one
for which many key
players in the market were not well prepared — and the aftermath is
like a black hole that can suck massive amounts of credit from currency trading as we have known it.»
Mertesacker is the type that will win headers that go towards him, but if he has to
move for it then he's in trouble, but he's very good at positioning himself so it's not that big a deal, though when he does get caught out it seems to stick in my head
for a while,
like against Anderlecht...
Players like Koscielny and Gabriel are a lot more mobile, they
move and attack the ball when it's played into their area.
It is understood that Ronald Koeman has identified the
player as a
like -
for -
like replacement
for Schneiderlin and will make a
move for him now that he's bound to lose the Frenchman.
I hope Sanchez gets a good
move and wins trophies —
players like him are far too good
for a club
like Arsenal.
If he were to
move on, following the
likes of Fabregas and Bellerin in
moving to north London seems the natural next step, with Wenger known
for getting the best out of top young
players.
There have been a few debates regarding which young
players who could make the
move from the Arsenal under 21's to the first team
for next season, and whilst the
likes of Jon Toral may have been mentioned as a likely candidate, Iwobi will most certainly be well in Wenger's view
for next season.
Nevertheless, a
player of his standing on and off the pitch would be a huge coup
for Chelsea if such a
move were to materialise, although with no mention of a transfer fee or whether or not his wage demands could be met by the Blues, it seems
like it's still a long way off from becoming a reality.
Monaco don't want to sell him and Mbappe this season as they are their best players.We should
move for Mahrez before it's too late whether Sanchez leaves or does not.We need a left footed
player with cutting edge
like him.
I laughed when you said he will likely be the best
player in the club he's
moving to.I hope Arsenal fans don't deceive themselves also into thinking this.The thing he has over most wingers in the world is work rate.Apart from that in terms of technique, skill and talent there are quite a lot who can match him there or are even better.He won't have that patience of a club
like Arsenal that allows
for mistakes and he'll be benched even when he doesn't want it.I did mention that he was world class.The fact that you're overrated doesn't mean you aren't world class.I know all his stats and
like you I've watched him since he came here and I can say we are making him look better than he actually is.As
for him being irreplaceable I don't think it» sthe first time we heard that about an Arsenal
player leaving and we saw how they eventually ended up.
O ye of little faith.Just trust me on this one.How many times have owners / presidents come out to say
players won't be sold bla bla bla.What he said is just
for formality sake.Have you forgotten what Aulas said about Lacazette?Listen Thomas Lemar has his heart completely set on a
move to Arsenal.What has even made him firm and influenced his decision the more is the fact that are lot of Monaco
players have left and likely more will be leaving.The guy just doesn't want to stay and will likely be an Arsenal
player in the coming days.One thing slowing down the deal is Monaco want to be assured they can replace him.The deal is basically a done deal.As I said insider sources are twice as fast as the media.So whether the vice p.
likes it or not he'll become an Arsenal
player.Mark my words.
Time
for a reality check the dream was that self finance from the satdium would put us up their with major
players, good idea in the years we
moved, however time
for investment from Usminov or get some Chinese backers (looks
like liverpool are) as football has
moved the oalposts from the dream eg Man City, Chelsea, PSG etc
And same old same old: lack of finishing, discipline, mental toughness, not living up to expectation & dodgy defending, injuries that once again has derailed to a degree the balance of the team... If Wenger doesn't go some of those things will have to change... Some
players are
for sure heading out this summer a prime chance to make some smart
moves & promote
players for more playing time (
like Iwobi).
Most of ye probably didn't support arsenal when Wenger was classed as one of the most wanted managers in Europe and was putting it up to Utd and winning trophies every yr things are different now the
moving stadium all that less whinging give it a bit of time he is starting to spend and I'm sure he will buy 1 or 2 in Jan and a few big signings nxt summer and I hope he goes out on a high man gets ridiculed by knobs
like ye on a regular basis
players want to play
for him big star
players like his style wake up a bit as long as he is in charge the club is in good hands
If it was me or you we'd probably love playing too much to consider any of this, but not all
players are
like that, some even had a choice of which sports, but didn't succeed at their chosen favorite so opted
for football as a career
move, go figure.
Clubs do not
like to sell in middle of season,
players do not
like to
move in January AND most importantly Wenger lost his crowbar to pry open his tight pocket
for his wallet
This is big
for any
player coming from league 1 to the pl so if he doesn't quite etc
moving ad quick as we
like we just need to keep shouting his name loudly until he does.
An absence
for players like Le'Veon Bell, Antonio Brown, Julio Jones, David Johnson, Ezekiel Elliott, Rob Gronkowski, Odell Beckham, Mike Evans, and A.J. Green will likely
move the line.
The Spanish giants are among the attacker's main admirers this summer, and could
move for him depending on what happens with
players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema.
As his statement says, the
likes of Napoli and Dortmund have been linked with a
move for the
player, whilst of course a permanent
move to Roma may also be on the cards.
all a
player needs to do to stop Wenger making a
move for them is say to the press he
likes Arsenal.....
This is a guy who,
for long stretches of his career, has played with top - notch
players like 17 - foot assassin David West and a guy who owns virtually zero post
moves in Blake Griffin.
It remains to be seen how much the
player's desire to
move can influence the decision, with Lille previously suggesting that they would
like to keep hold of him
for the rest of this season as agreed.
Wenger doesn't
like superstars and that's why we will never
move forward, he should allow
players to believe they can win a game
for the team at any moment, not just when there's 10 min left in a game.
If Arsenal only had a competent director of football operations,
like David Dein to aggressively deal with securing transfers early and eliminating both the deadwood and unsettled
players pining
for a
move away.
The Gunners brought in Mkhitaryan as part of Alexis Sanchez's
move to Old Trafford this January, in what looks
like a decent chance
for the
player to revive his career.
The north London giants have been hurt in the past by losing star
players to their Premier League rivals, with the
likes of Samir Nasri and Emmanuel Adebayor among those to leave them
for City in the past, while Robin van Persie also recently made the controversial
move to Manchester United.
Liverpool have been linked with the
likes of Ryan Shawcross, Gary Cahill and Scott Dann but as yet offers have not been made and a
move for Corluka appears to be a more cost effective solution as Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp appears keen to offload
players from his expansive squad to help provide funds to bring in new additions to help the club fight to re-enter the top four race.
It's so «SAAAAAAD» that Arsene wenger philosophy and Sentiment have blinded you to the Point that you have Failed to realise that the World has
moved on from the past football ideas that
Players are more happy winning Trophies these days than Playing football
like an Academy.You claimed wenger said he wanted to build a team that plays football and is recognised
for the way it plays and bla bla bla.
Moving on from it all
for this season i fear
for worst to come next season (just had a deja vu i say the same thing every season around this time) City already are talking spending 600 Million in the next two to three years on new
players and you can bet Man - U will follow to try and close the gap, Liverpool can sell one
player and buy an entire squad, Chelsea owner Abromovich has started to make noise's about next season so they will be spending, spuds will try to keep their existing
players with one or two additions to strengthen and some salary rises to keep the elite, and Arsenal will go head to head with the
likes of Burnley Everton Leicester
for average
players signature, and the board will make sure even if they replace AW they will replace him with AW No2 who will do what the board decides on who and how much to spend
Definitely no love
for Brenda and his crumbling team here, they just lost their best
player and Sterling looks
like he'll be
moving too.
He is an unbelievably average footballer on the level if
players like Stuart downing anf should be playing in equivalent clubs... Not surprised allardyce picked him
for England as he is a less than average football manager... The sooner we embed Perez in the first 11 the better our chances of
moving ahead...
Anyways it's a good
move on his part to not waste money on average
players who would be hard to get rid off when he leaves he has already such
players in the squad (Giroud, mertesacker, Walcott) so it's good he is keeping those funds
for the new manager who i hope is not as idealist as he is.He will get us top 4 with this squad
like he always does.
Most Top
players would We aren't as big as RM Also we aren't doing enough to win Trophies I wouldn't blame Alexis, Ozil, Bellerin
for moving if we bring in Lucas instead of someone
like Aubemeyang
The underperforming Mesut Ozil has already turned down a new contract,
for example, while
players like Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain are also being primed
for a
move away from the Emirates.
It's funny how a lot of people want Ox gone.He'd give any defender a tough time.With proper coaching and advice the guy will destroy teams.I fear Conte can do that and won't mess around with him.It's very difficult when
players like Ox play against you.I don't want to see him beating pur
players for fun and putting in good crosses against our team.This
move will be suicidal to us if everything goes well
like it's supposed to be but if things don't go well
for him we won't regret.
The sad truth is that we are just a couple of
players away from having a very strong starting 11... Wenger's fixation with Walcott and mertesakher as starting
players remains a mystery to me... neither have the quality of a top team
like arsenal... I am not a giroud hater but he is still too inconsistent and the big question is whether welbeck can push him in a way Walcott won't... Campbell has done well and has
moved ahead of Walcott and, ox
for sure but there is still a question about how much more he can improve... Elneny is certainly an upgrade over arteta and flamini whether he will make it I don't know just hope that he does but arguably wenger could have been more ambitious... That leaves a top quality striking option... There is no doubt that wenger deluded himself over the summer and that needs to be corrected ASAP... Draxler dybala aube and even griezman with a big enough big could have been prized in summer... january not a good time
for this but it is not difficult to find better options than Walcott ox or Campbell... All a question of whether wenger wants to win EPL on his terms or wants to win this
for the club
We only decisively make the
move for average
players nobody is interested or
players who aren't at the top of the pile
like we did with Giroud, Arteta, Welbeck.
With the January transfer window now having opened, clubs are not just able to secure big money arrivals
for this month itself, but also talk to
players whose contracts expires at the end of the season about the possibility of a bosman
move — even the
likes of Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool have been linked with numerous free transfer
moves
Teams
like Manchester United and Arsenal sold themselves short over the summer by
moving for too many attacking
players and sacrificed strengthening their back lines to their detriment.
After all even I would as a ambitious
player would
like to
move on if the club is not competing
for top trophies.
The French youngster
moved to Barcelona
for big money, but Hoeness was slightly mocking of Dortmund as he insisted his club would never be walked over by a
player like that.
Alexis will
move to a more ambitious club and we'll remain with our average
players to keep fighting
for 4th, and next season we'll witness Alexis winning trophies just
like the others with ambition that left us and went on to succeed, and we'll be here waiting
for St. Toteringham day to celebrate
like we won the league
Or maybe their two star
players realised that they made a big mistake by not forcing a
move during last summers window and rebelled against Ranieri
for letting him sweet talking them into staying lol Anyways, it's done and dusted now, and their fans won't be moaning all the while they Keep beating teams
like Liverpool.
The
likes of Real Madrid and Benfica have been linked with a
move for the pint sized talent since the World Cup and it could be that Ferguson deems a
move for the
player as worth making before the transfer window shuts.
Say what you
like admin.Even Diaby upon doing nothing
for several seasons was able to secure a
move to Marseille which to me is a top team.Was it not last season that before he went to Bournemouth teams
like Juventus and AS Roma were interested in him?He just needs a league which is not physical
for the mean time.I mean any time he gets a run of games he begins to hit top forn and just when things are looking up things go down again.This injury thing is a menace in our club.Look at the number of games Gnabry has played.But I will urge him to leave Arsenal because all he needs to do is to remain injury free.It's not rocket science.If Wilshere remains injury free
for just one season he'll be great.It's just
like the Van Persie case.A lot of people were frustrated with him and cllled him man of glass but I knew he just needed to be injury free
for one season.To me he's a better
player than Ramsey though Ramsey is on form.He also has the ability to surpass Cazorla and be Arsenal's number one.He's also Arsenall thrugh and through.Arsenal has to solve his injury problems because he's shown that when he gets a run of games he can do it.
@ArsenalIsYourDaddy i totally agree why look back
move forward its not
like there are no more
players left in the world, our problem has always been that we are always two or three
players short of being a great team every season and AW knows this and
for the life of me cant understand why he wont address this issue,
Players like Lewandowski have
moved to Bayern
for free
for one particular reason alone.
This is an incredibly difficult question to answer
for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where
players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current
players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to
move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the
likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these
players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone
for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I
like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as
for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played
for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as
for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act
like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he
like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive
players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a
player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the
players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this
player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3
players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill
players we've seen on this squad
for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a
player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6
players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is
like an addiction to heroin without the benefits