Arsene Wenger has dismissed links with a number of rumoured transfer targets, but confirmed that Arsenal are interested in signing 17-year-old Polish midfielder Krystian Bielik.
The Frenchman has spoken in recent months of his desire to add to his squad in January, however, he was quick to shoot down links with Saint Etienne’s Loic Perrin, Villarreal’s Gabriel Paulista, Real Madrid’s Isco and Chelsea’s Petr Cech in his pre-Stoke press conference.
“No, we are not on the case [of Perrin]. We are not on the case [of Paulista], we keep all that as quiet as possible.
“No, Petr Cech is at Chelsea. We have three goalkeepers who for me are top class and there is a big competition going on. I have no doubt we have the needed quality.
“No, we are not on the case [of Isco]. We have plenty of creative players. We are more short on the defensive side of our game, not on the offensive side. We have plenty of offensive players.”
On Bielik, a lanky teenager making headway at Legia Warsaw who has undertaken a trial at London Colney, Wenger was more positive.
“He is a young boy that we follow, yes. You see I gave you some information! We are not very close at the moment [to an agreement].”
The Gunners are understood to have had an initial a £1.6m offer for Bielik rejected by Legia who are eager to hold out for £2.5m.
Bielik has been dubbed the ‘Polish Vieira’ in some quarters…you don’t need Arseblog News to tell you how fucking dumb that sounds.
Bielik would be a nice capture from the looks of things but he sure as hell isn’t going to save us this season. Well, if he manages to at 17 then comparisons to Vieira are probably justified!
he won’t even play a game. its the signing we all expect.
I love how you get thumbs down for pointing out the blatant truth.
If you mean ‘this season’ you’re probably correct.
But not the her Emirates (Gotham) needs right now
But Bielik would kill Samuel Galindo.
“We are more short on the defensive side of our game, not on the offensive side. We have plenty of offensive players.”
Wenger….. is that really you??
Don’t worry, he’s still going to sign a couple of wingers instead 😉
I know right ?
Said same thing last summer , bought Welbeck
Plenty of offensive players with no end product except Alexis. Our offensive Line need to be sorted out aswell this summer if we want to challenge City, United and Chelsea whom all got plenty of firepower up front. Our forward Line is mostly shooting blanks.
But defense need strenghtening immediately, but i sure hope we sell some of our forward players this summer and use the money to add more goal threat to our forward Line.
That’s not fair on Walcott, who’s fairly accurate in front of goal. Giroud tends to go on streaks too. And Welbeck could be a beast, but his main problems atm are that he doesn’t give himself enough chances and he doesn’t take enough risks with or without the ball
Well put regarding Welbeck.. It’s his lack of risk-taking that is letting him down a bit.
We have Walcott, Giroud and Ozil who have been out almost all season, as well as Ramsey’s dip in form and injury as soon as he was getting back into his stride. Cazorla is finally doing what he does best, Chamberlain is coming good. And Campbell looks like he could do wonders out on the wing as soon as he gains some confidence. At the back on the other hand, we’re a shambles, having to play Chambers and Coquelin so often proves we need more defensive recruits.
once ozil/wilshere comes back, cazorla will be pushed to the side…and he’s a totally different player in the central role whether as the no 10 or slightly deeper
errrrm yep our front line that has been consistently fit all season………
Walcott????
Giroud????
Ozil?!??!?!
That’s 75% of our 1st choice attackers btw pal!
My point was it looks like we need more attackers only because they’ve been injured. We need more defenders because we have no backup, in spite of injuries.
We have 25 players in the team that needs to be registered to play. We cant buy everyone to replace everybody, because by the end of january, we can only swap 2 names anyway.
Walcott will get goals. We however do lack a world class striker(like you rightly pointed out). For all our defensive woes, i’m surprised people don’t see how wasteful our strikers are…but then again, i’m probably being “negative”
One goal in a game will often win it if your defence is good. We wouldn’t “have” to keep scoring three or four goals to be sure to win if we filled our three available slots with a solid Defensive Midfielder and two solid defenders.
To be fair to AW he has said this pretty consistently and it gets tiresome hearing the same old guff that he doesn’t see the problem. He does see it – and before I’m called an Arsene-licker, I am only saying that his quotes clearly state we need those defensive recruits. I’m not absolving him of blame for not yet getting them. The other thing that chimes with some truth, is the Carvalho rumour. He said a week before the summer window closed that we needed a defensive player. He also seemed very relaxed – confident even. Then in deadline… Read more »
Difficult to judge the wisdom? For how long have we needed a solid DM, and refused to get one due to not wanting to quiiiite pay the requested fee? How many titles have we won since then? It’s not difficult at all.
How many ‘quality’ DMs have been available?
Quite a few tbh.
Matic was about, for one.
Plenty if you offer the right money. Just ask Benfica when Chelsea knocked on their door this time last year.
If we’d gone for Matic it would have just forced the Chavs to get him quicker. There was a lot of politics involved in his move back there and If rumours are correct, we couldn’t have got him (same with Costa). If there was any chance he could have come to us then I’d really have been chuffed, but we’ll never know for certain. Anyway, that’s 1. Really there aren’t many top level DMs about. So would you prefer we get a (hopefully) good one which causes problems when we go after the top quality one we really want. We… Read more »
god, so many arsene lickers over here, please you can like him and defend what he does best i.e. gets us to 4th place but stop trying to pretend his transfer policy is up to the standard for a team “aspiring” to win the title…
His transfer policy pre Emirates stadium was better than you suggest.
His transfer policy for the 8 years after we moved into the stadium was as you say, great for 4th place.
His transfer policy since then is undefined but it’s definitely heading in the direction of being successful again. Hopefully that will be the case.
In all 3 periods he has (and probably will continue to) to make mistakes like every other manager in the game.
Have to say after Dein left, the transfers department has had more bad apples than not…so you can’t really credit Wenger wholly for that period… “Heading in the direction of being successful” is certainly debatable…but it is a fact he didn’t sign any defenders after a gruelling world cup and have too many players of the same ilk while hanging on to players that are played out of position… I’d rather he revert to the old formula of buying cheap players and then playing them until they turn great and then sell them because he doesn’t know what to do… Read more »
My 1st thought would be that you’re right. AW and DD pre-stadium were probably better than AW and whoever post-stadium. But we still had plenty of ‘less sucessful’ players. Of the top of my head (and a flick through some old progs); Jeffers, Kiwomya, Shaaban, Malz, Wreh, Stephanovs and Diawara. I’m sure there’s a few that didn’t get a game. But equally, I’m pretty certain we had a much smaller squad then, so less chance of picking a dud. The other thing now it that there’s much more competition for the very good players and although we’re one of the… Read more »
Willian, Matic, ramires, Fernandino, fernando, schneiderlin, (song but i think hes shit) Dan henderson when he moved (underrated very hard working strong athletic player who could have been moulded into a enforcer, if arteta can be he can be) tottenham found two brazilian DM’s. At least Tiote has some pace to show his bite. United have been going nuts with the signing of 30 mil Fellani, Blind and Herrera (at least trying to fix the problem! Bayern have martinez, sweinsteiger, Loaned gustavo and use Lahm there. ALONSO is now there with some of the best stats in all comps?! Obviously… Read more »
Plenty if you pay the money.
Plenty if you pay the money. Rvp wasn’t available until man u offered the right price. All players have a price and it doesn’t mean you always have to pay silly money sometimes it’s just the going rate. Matic perfect example.
You shouldn’t put so much store in what teams who don’t sell us players say. All teams put their own spin on any deal, so when they say we were at fault for the deal not going through then I’d say we should take that with a pinch of salt.
No matter how much we fans may think we know what is going on we are basing it on what other team’s coaches are saying, as reported by a Press that lies in almost every story they write and are showing a distinct anti-Arsenal bias.
Well put. We must always act with due diligence and get the best possible price. I work for a London based insurance company that adheres very strongly to the principle of “spending well”. In fact, the Insurance world is a suitable analogy for the Football world. In our market you have the big fuck off “Sugar Daddies” – huge global conglomerates like AON, Aviva, AIG – who pretty much will insure anyone/anything at prices way below the market value (i.e. they charge low premiums – a bad thing for most Insurance companies). But the philosophy is ‘Stack em high sell… Read more »
And I’m please to see that you aren’t dumb enough to believe the newspapers (unlike too many media naïve ‘fans’).
Nice comment. However, I fear for your company if it’s staff are spending the day writing essays this long! ;O)
Ha. Maybe we’re not so careful with how we use our resources…
For a person who says he knows nothing, you know hell of lot more than the ones who say they do.
@AK57
That’s the beautiful part. The more you know, the less you know.
we know nothing, but we watch football and right now it ain’t pretty at all for all the pennies on the dollar that we are paying…oh wait…we have a wage bill as high as the top teams
I keep hearing this wage bill comment but it misses the fact that we saved 100m++ on the purchase price. Yes it’s too much for our results but it’s not that bad when taken in context.
The baby in the bus says waaah waaah waaah….
Excellent post! Arsene has forgotten more about football than all his detractors combined. They think this is FIFA15 not the real world! COYG!
Absolutely effing spot on, been saying this for years (well, not using the same analogy of course, but the point in principal) – too many fans read claptrap tripe made up bollicks sensationalised by the media just to gain more clicks on their sites and sell more rags and then they take it as gospel to bash the management. AW is a legend and just like us fans, he loves the club and wouldn’t do anything to harm the club’s future successes. By all means he makes mistakes, don’t we all?! He’s not perfect in every department and we all… Read more »
Smart-Arse that’s the best comment I have read in a while.
Well said smart-arse! If I didn’t know better I would suggest that you were related to the club! Buzzing for Brighton away foxy!
This website is so funny. It’s about the most knee-jerk place you can get.
Make a statement that dares to criticize Wenger during a feel-good mood (we won our last game, players returning from injury, so feel-good) and you get thumbed down to Bolivia.
Make the exact statement after a loss, and so many thumbs it.
At least be consistent, guys.
The consistency is absolute. Any and all things to do with Arsenal that might be less than perfect are instantly jumped on by the people who are never happy, and the people who are sometimes happy instantly attack them for being anti-Arsenal.
No we are not chasing balotelli… Yeah right… Boom Sanchez!! Let’s hope for more of le profs suprises. Although there isn’t too Many arshavin type defenders out there.
I would hope there are not many Arshavin type defenders out there. He was woeful at defending
lol, i think the absolute last thing we need is an arshavin type defender.
If we bought two and stacked them they might be useful on set pieces. I think I actually recall Andrei scoring a header for us once. He was shocked.
Arshavin type defenders are too small. We need two defenders who are 8 feet tall and 9 feet wide. This will allow us to free up two defensive slots, a goalkeeping slot, and a defensive mid slot. This will then allow us to buy four more central midfielders to play out on the wings.
Loïc Perrin, new Squillachi.
He just stated that he wasn’t after Perrin.
he also said no and the pulled many surprises after
He hasn’t said he’s trying to buy hummels and ginter, Should we start calling them the cygan and stephanovs, just in case?
If it changes and we get perrin, give him a couple of games and then judge him.
Look at it this way, if he doesn’t sign anyone to fix the obvious problems in the squad, and we fail to make the CL at the least, his position will become untenable, thus bringing about the change all the Wenger Outs want.
Why do people give a thumbs down to things like this? It’s the truth.
No, it is not ‘the truth’, nor is it ‘Fact’. It is negative speculation with a personal bias.
Stating and then repeating something forcefully over and over and over again does not make it true.
“Fact” is we’re not playing good football at the moment. “Fact” is his system and tactics that he instills in the team are susceptible to shameful thrashings by top teams and disastrous peg backs by minnow teams. “Fact” is he has a clique of players he hangs onto that he plays (no matter their form) until they get injured and then claims “ah, now I can rotate”. “Fact” is we are not anywhere near the standard of the top teams in the world given the fact that we are supposed to be challenging big clubs like manure, bayern, rmadrid etc… Read more »
I’m not sure that you understand what ‘fact’ means. I see lots of assertions, with lots of debatable judgement calls. Plenty of articles elsewhere on this very website on what is ‘good’ football for instance.
I’ll just defer back to Mpls above – stating and then repeating something forcefully does not make it true. Doesn’t mean it’s false either, but this is not a list of ‘facts’ to be debated.
Fact is some of your facts are opinions.
Fact is, I don’t defend mistakes that I see, a few of which you see as well.
Fact is, I’m not interested in a political campaign over the manager of Arsenal.
Now if you do wish to take the viewpoint that simply stating speculation or opinion forcefully somehow makes it fact or truth, that would be the opposing position to my statement and we would have a proper topic of debate. But that would be silly.
Okay let’s see you debate some of the facts that I pointed out which you see as opinions…So, in your opinion, we’re playing good football? or you like a different term? how about “neutral football but sometimes susceptible to occasional humiliating scorelines but good enough to qualify for champions league”?
What do you qualify as fact? That the sun rise everyday? okay, let me check that against my list….I think only the 3rd fact is actually speculation and that’s a story I make up to explain why Arsene doesn’t rotate enough for my tastes
I don’t think you read me. Let me clarify.
Not interested in your little flame war.
And in the pure sense all of your ‘facts’ are opinions and speculation. Not just one.
“Fact” is you’re being childish.
Well we ARE far away from madrid, bayern, etc.
We DID suffer humilating defeats at the hands of big teams due to the tactics employed by wenger.
Even the staunchest of Wenger fans can’t deny those.
Wenger never tells if we are close to anyone. Nothing surprising here
It’s also very difficult to keep it completely secret from the media these days.
So I think we are far away from any deal…to buy a player.
To let go of one…two…three players even it happens very quickly!
We’ve got quite a few guys that the media didn’t know about until the last few days.
They play on that by saying that anything they hear is in advanced negotiations just in case this is the one that’s true and they can claim they have the inside track with us.
…and the one in ten that they get right is the only one that makes the paper the next day…
“Yet again we were FIRST with the scoop”
but they always forget to add
“and the nine piles of poop”
I saw a youtube video of Beilik and he kind of reminds me of Yaya Toure with his physical presence and charging runs. Just from the short clip I watched, he is fucking massive compared to the lads he was playing against, absolutely dominated them all! Perfect for the premiership, get your wallet out Wenger.
lol, Jay-Emmanuel Thomas, anyone?
What’s a forward got to do with discussing a MF?
He used to play CM as a 17 year old. People touted him as the next Vieira simply because he is a big lad and played in the center.
He actually played in pretty much any position. Biggest letdown of all the youngsters to come through our set-up; genuinely very talented but nothing between the ears.
In youtube, even Emile Heskey looks like Messi.
On a separate note, does anyone know that Harry Kane is an Arsenal reject?
Bielik is not even getting into the Legia first-team…. He is a long, long, long way from being up-to-scratch. I have watched every Legia game this season and when he has played, he has been completely overwhelmed by the games. Massive gamble taking someone so young for that price considering he isn’t exactly making inroads in the Ekstraklasa. Has potential but just doesn’t seem like money well spent to me.
I’ve seen bits and pieces of him too and I don’t disagree, but he’s not being bought for today. He’ll go into the development squads and learn the game further before he gets a sniff of first team football at Arsenal. It’s right that we identify and recruit potential talents as much as buying the finished article.
Aye. Gnabry, Walcott, Ox, the list goes on of players we’ve developed this way.
Polish Vieira sounds very shiny… the kind of player that would slide right into the first team and then slide out again because of the polish…
I’d like us linked with the new aboriginal bergkamp or the hardly used eskimo pires my self
We’re on the trail of the Navaho Tony Adams as well!!!!
I’m holding out for the Hopi Gilberto
Polish Vieira sounds like a cleaning agent for Panasonic Viera TV’s.
I heard we also had a 4 million pound offer rejected for him?
Newpapers….. the font of all factual knowledge.
No, they do not have factual knowledge.
All they have is what they describe as the TRUTH!!!!!
Of course, they have their own definition of the word, and that has little to do with either fact or veracity.
Let’s not start all this again
Sort of like a couple of the posters on here, then. “Fact” this, “fact” that, as if saying “fact” in front of their personal opinion makes it true.
So instead if ‘Le Grand Saucisse’ might the players nickname this Polish Vieira as ‘The Big Teen Cabbage Broth’ (in Polish) ?
Worth thinking about.
This Polish lad costs less than £3m. Wenger obviously wants him, so why not just pay them what they want? It’s relative peanuts! Nonsense like this is why we’re such a shambles.
So how many transfer negotiations have you been involved in then.
To actually know the deal they want, you must have inside knowledge.
Please tell us more facts!
Of course we know you’re not dumb enough to believe the new sources!
Wenger has been buying young talented players from other European countrie from day one. My question is, how many has he being able to develop into great players? Probably 1 out of every 20. He should rather concentrate on local talents and giving then opportunities when they come around. E.g. If Harry Kane was on the books of arsenal he would have been sold to a championship team about 2 years ago. Wenger should open his eyes and be honest to himself because his transfer policies are not helping at all.
Maybe because he’s just doing his job and trying to get the best value deal for Arsenal rather than Legia?
Is Welbeck dead?
injured still.
The Gunners are understood to have had an initial a £1.6m offer for Bielik rejected by Legia who are eager to hold out for £2.5m.
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Sometimes one gets the impression that we must be viewed by other clubs as the George Costanza of the footballing world.
1 million may be negligible relative to the fee for a world class player, but this is nearly doubling the initial offer. Plus this is a 17 year old kid from Poland.
It’s interesting how Wenger will pay so much for Chambers, Chamberlin, Ramsey, Walcott, etc. when they are young, but for Bielik it seems like he is haggling over a million or so. I think he way overpaid for Chambers and hope he doesn’t lose out on Bielik for such a small apparent difference. I really don’t expect Wenger to do much more than a deal for someone like Bielik, just like last year when all he did was Kallstrom loan. He certainly won’t overpay for anyone and is very stubborn with his valuations so as much as we’d like a… Read more »
I can understand the frustration at Wenger not loosening the purse strings for a first team player that’s really needed but this is a kid who probably won’t make the first team for two or more years (if at all). If he’s decided not to pay over the odds on an unproven and untested 17 year old then that doesn’t bother me in the slightest.
There are lots of numbers ‘reported’ for all those signings but I don’t think many (if any) have been confirmed. On top of that, we certainly haven’t heard the actual full deal as there’s a lot of difference between ’16m’ and ‘could total 16m’ if the second option is on the basis he’s sold on for 40m after winning the world cup as a gunner. Add to this that the PL is a different league to any other as it’s consistently much faster and higher quality than any of the others which means you can only know if a player… Read more »
Or you can see it from the other side, if he’s willing to pay that amount of other young players, why isn’t he willing to pay it for this guy? Pretty sure it’s just haggling though.
Frankly, as long as we sign another CB I don’t give much of a fuck what else we do.
Other young players in this case means players who were trained by PL teams, and had PL experience, and had not wilted under that pressure. They were not an unknown quantity in the English game. That is a massive difference and that is why they cost more. They were much less of a gamble than a 17 year old from Poland who may get homesick after a fortnight in England or fail dismally to cope with the physical nature of the English game. Big is not the same as tough.
I still find it amazing that people who themselves surely live on a budget don’t understand that any football club no matter what size, unless owned by oil money, have a budget. An amount of money for spending and a projected budget for wages. Transfers cannot simply be costed on the fee you read in the papers, there are fees, add ons and the players wages. Remember every 10k per week extra a player gets is half a million extra per year and you multiply that by the length of a contract and multiply it by a 25 man squad.… Read more »
Yeah but in real world there are something called ‘bank loan’.
If you’re happy living on credit, good luck to you. But most of us know the real costs of borrowing money (making money for others) and keep our debts as low as possible.
That’s not how it works.. You pay off debts according to payment plan. MOST football clubs out there has debts. Some has enormous. That’s because they prioritize football above financial success.
‘some has enormous’ that sums up why we shouldn’t play that game.
Prioritizing short term over long term = Leeds and plenty of others.
I hope you don’t prioritize your house mortgage the same way.
Worked wonders for Portsmouth.
So you want us to prioritise football over financial success?
Do you know what the opposite of financial success is?
Do you know what happens to a team who lack financial success?
Have you heard of Portsmouth or Leeds United or Glasgow Rangers?
Are any of them in this year’s Champions League?
Spot on.
I think the phrase ‘penny wise, pound foolish’ is apt here. Also, money not spent loses its value. Having a transfer budget that allows for a desperately-needed player to be bought yet refusing to exercise that option benefits nobody.
Money not spent in your pocket loses it’s value but any good financial advisor can find you ways to increase the value above Cost of living when the numbers are this big.
Such as Kroenke using it as leverage to fund other projects? I agree.
I’m pretty certain he can’t leverage against the club whilst the fat Russian has such a big share. But glad you appreciate there’s nothing negative about having the money in the bank until we get the right guy.
Do we desperately need Bielik then?
What if it turns out he isn’t the player we desperately need?
Will we spend the same money a second time on another 17 year who “might” be the player we desperately need?
Can we spend the same money a third and fourth time of we got it wrong again?
Are you able to infallibly know who the player we desperately need is?
Are you sure you understand the meaning of the phrase “Penny wise, pound foolish” ?
Yes, a budget…if then…why overload on certain kinds of players…that’s the real crime…16mil on welbeck? 16 mil on chambers? I’d rather not spend on any of them and get good defender for 20+ and a cheap backup for whatever’s left…If you look at the number of goals welbeck has scored…I can guarantee you if you play Joel campbell/podolski in the central position, they would’ve scored more by now…I’m not arguing that welbeck is not quality, I actually like him as a player but 16m on an emergency backup when you have more pressing positions sounds ill advised. Let’s face it,… Read more »
There you go with your facts again. It’s marvellous how you KNOW the inner workings of Wenger’s mind. Why are you here with all us losers? With your knowledge you should be running a football club.
I second your thoughts – spot on. I feel there is a lot more fear – what if we miss out on him and he turns out to be great. Well so be it
There are costs involved in keeping him, training him and chances are he won’t make the cut.
There will always be some ” what if” x signed for us but that’s in retrospect always
“We have plenty of creative players. We are more short on the defensive side of our game, not on the offensive side.” This sentence alone has excited me !
Blogs, in Poland he’s dubbed the next ‘Wlodzimierz Lubanski’.
‘Polish Vieira’ sounds ridicules.
I agree entirely that we need some new players – I want to make that perfectly clear. I just don’t think Wenger should be denigrated for ‘not paying £35m for a centre-half or a DM’. Surely, what we want is the RIGHT centre-half or DM! Would the Wenger nay-sayers be happy if we’d spent £35m on Lee Cattermole? No, I thought not! As far as weakness in the side is concerned, I totally agree that we need another central defender (ideally one who can also turn his hand to full-back and is happy to share duties with Kosh and BFG)… Read more »
Of all the point you said, the only player that had fire aggressiveness shouts to everyone and going in to players throats is Jack, but i think he is to young to take that burden on himself now, maybe after couple of years, but i see him as a tony adams and vieira mold of captain for us that we haven’t have in a long time and desperately need one.
GunnerDareMACEDONIA
Buy jack needs to raise his game first then voice
He is a talented lad and he has been in the club long enough to know the importance of the crest
But if we spent £35m on Lee Cattermole then Lee Cattermole is a £35m player, so he MUST be good, mustn’t he?????? Yes, we need a proper captain, preferably a defensive midfielder who takes every goal against as a personal affront and will give any player who doesn’t work hard enough an absolute roasting, and a chinese burn at half time. There was a time that if the Captain didn’t think you were pulling your weight you didn’t make the team the next game. A good Arsenal Captain would know that goal difference matters (see 1989) and that 3-0 at… Read more »
Same old same old Arsenal planning for a future that never arrives. Yeah, lets get this kid from Poland, make him great then say goodbye to him in a few years. When oh when will we get off this merry go round of being a training school and go back to winning?
Is the answer last May in the FA Cup final?
Yep
Ever widening cracks papered over … BFG slips, Fab’s mad dash punished … lose in penalty shootout. Wenger gone? Great game, but a false red dawn.
If the FA Cup is merely wallpaper to cover cracks then you are in for a hell of a disappointing life as a football fan.
I loved winning the FA Cup, don’t get me wrong. It was a big deal, a turning point for the club. But it was a false dawn, even after we signed Alexis, Chambers and De Buchy … and it is the naive football and dreadful mistakes and losses to the likes of Stoke, Swansea, Man Ure, Southampton this season that have cracked my will to not crack up. Even fooking Spurs are ahead of us! I love what Wenger has done for the Arsenal, but he is running out of time, and fast. Maybe we’ll win the cup again and… Read more »
Every big team buys youth. As long as we’re also looking for the 1st team squad player(s) we need, I can’t see why you’d have a problem with this. It seems very short-sighted not to look for young talent.
This kid has barely played 10 senior matches, surprised we could make a judgement from so little.
Fed up with young hopefull wonderkids for the future. Give us some experienced proven quality please.CB DM.
It isn’t actually an either / or choice, you know. Have we not bought any quality experienced players in recent years?
I can’t wait to hear his performance of ‘Blue Velvet’ in the changeroom.
17 year old kid to solve our defensive problems. How can people not be sick of arsene wenger’s transfer policy? It is a fucking joke really.
You suggesting that we’re trying to buy him as an immediate solution to our defensive problems is a fucking joke really! He’s being looked at for the future.
Well, why does he strengthen the u21’s? We DON’T need players for the future. We need players for the NOW. Not players that are gonna be good in 5-6 years. FFS. Some fans really needs to start using their brains and realise that this will probably be the only deal he makes in the entire window.
He should strengthen senior squad rather than making Jonkers job. If he is so fond of developing young players let him take over the u21’s and give the senior team to someone else.
Stop acting like ‘kevin’ (kevin & perry). We all get that you hate AW with a passion but please use some sense when making such ludicrous comments.
You don’t think we’ll buy anyone is a fair comment. I think you’re wrong but it’s a fair comment if it’s your opinion.
But suggesting this kid is being bought for the 1st team or that it will have any effect on buying a 1st team player, is just child-like logic.
Striker, sir are you an idiot?
Don Cazorleone, why bother asking the question when the answer is already so obvious?
Oh FFS.
We all see right through it. You can’t possibly be saying you think this 17 yo is being considered for a starting position. This is either just propaganda for your angry agenda or flat out trolling.
I don’t think that he will be considered for a starting position because he will not be ready. WHICH IS THE FUCKING PROBLEM. We need players that can come in and strengthen now not in 5-6 years. FFS. The only one’s doing propaganda are people who believe that Arsene Wenger never makes mistake and that he is the best manager in the world. 4th place for 10 years without actually spending much, ‘it is something unique in football’. Shit like this you hear it all the time. When will people wake the fuck up and realise that Arsene is just… Read more »
Well I don’t know those people you speak of, but I do know your statement made it sound like this development investment had to do with our current defensive needs. We agree on the defensive needs, by the way.
lol ‘doing propaganda’
You do realise you are criticising Wenger for something that hasn’t happened. You are also making the huge assumption that even if we did buy the lad that it has anything to do with the first team or a solution to immediate problems.
Forgive me for saying so but that’s a bit foolish.
Everbodys available at a price and we got the wonga so come on arsene get some IN!
Everybody’s available at a price to everybody who has the money to afford it. Sometimes having the money just doesn’t cut the mustard on it’s own. Did you know, for instance, that lots of footballers who speak Spanish and come from warm climates would actually prefer to play for Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, or perhaps even Marseille or Monaco, than to come and play in England. Weird I know, but it turns out that footballers are actually people too!!!!! Who would have thought it, eh? So what do you do when a player tells you he doesn’t like London… Read more »
Which is exactly what happened with Manolas in the summer. Pity, he would have been a top class CD, and he would have got plenty of playing time too what with Koscielny being chronically injured and Mertesacker having a dip in form.
Expect this to likely be the only reinforcement in midfield. It is a good one for the near future. It may not be the new Viera but it could be the new Diaby.;)
Meanwhile, we are likely to await end of window to do any business with regard Cback cover (if at all)
One thing is for certain – If we do not get cover for cb, not only are we going to miss out on 3rd place, but we’ll find it EXTREMELY difficult to get 4th place.
So i don’t know what’s going to Le Prof’s head…but he better do something.
We won’t be signing anybody this window. We only sign players who are super, super quality – and cheap.
Instead, Wenger will get on loan an injured French-African attacking midfielder – to cover for injuries. And he absolutely won’t sign a defender or a defensive midfielder – because that’s what we actually need. Why do the obvious thing?
Yeah, we’d never spend 42 million on a player.
Fatgooner where have you been! I thought you had just changed your name to Striker
I think they’re twins.
Ooooooooooooooooooospina!!
erm… why would you want to polish Viera? He was always so shiny anyways?
IT’s funny how people come up with solutions to problems without having an idea of how it is in the real world.. If you’re a couch potato (case in point – Fatgooner) SHUT UP.. You think it’s all merry -go-round.. I dare you you to play college football/national/state/if you’re lucky -International.. and see how tough it is.. And I did.. Got a broken leg to prove it.. Oh I paid these much money, oh I’m entitled..SHUT THE FUCK UP!!.. 8 million all shit.. Why don’t you just send your resume to AFC.. Somehow I get reminded of the precis writing… Read more »
Oh please…say what you want, but 90 percent of the time Fatgooner’s comments make sense. People down here thumb him down because he’s not “positive” enough.
i think you misspelt twats…