Are Arsenal ready to move for Yanga-Mbiwa?
What Yanga M’Biwa offers by KJ
There has been a lot of early activity in the transfer market already. This includes Arsenal shifting Maroane Chamakh on loan to West Ham for the rest of the season. However, there is still a lot of work to be done. Djourou looks certain to join Hannover on loan and the club is doing it’s best to shift Squillaci and Arshavin to free up the wages for some arrivals.
One name that’s on everyone’s lips is Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa. With Wenger actively looking to flog two centre backs, it’s only natural that we’d want at least one to bring in.
M’Biwa is a class act with a lot of aggression and passion to his game. He’s a born leader, captaining Montpellier at such a young age. He’s also quite a bit of a beast.
However, the question is why would Wenger sign a class defender to be 4th or at best 3rd choice? It doesn’t make sense. But M’Biwa is more than just your conventional centre back. He can play as a right back as well as a central defensive midfielder. His versatility is what makes him such an attractive prospect to many clubs around Europe.
Hopefully Wenger can use his nationality as his edge in this transfer (which we all desperately want to go through). However, we’ll need to be patient as the remainder of this week and next week will revolve around shifting as many players as possible to open up the wages. I’m sure Wenger has shortlisted the candidates he wants signed and is waiting to pull the trigger when enough wages are freed up.
He is a TANK
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Only downside is that he supports Man United………..
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just buy everyone…
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He Support Man Utd.. Sorry Please NO! Dont Want A Manure Supporter At Our Beloved Arsenal
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He’s got Arsenal’s name written all over him! Perfect for us and its just like Wenger to give us all a kick in the balls and say ‘ I know what I’m doing’!
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I wish I could just fast forward to the end of the month and see if any of this is true.
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DM??
look no further
get him in
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3rd or 4th best??? in a year he could easily be our best defender
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rumours or WHAT AGAIN????
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Ramsey supported man u
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Who cares who they support if there quality! I’ m sure they don’t mind if the price is right!!
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Don’t waist a time the boy is good go and get him.
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4th centre back isnt that imortant we should go for a quality young player(k.zuma 19 ,dragovic 21,) alternatively a player whose contract finishes summer (hangeland would be merts back up,cb/dm juan faulin 24 espanyol?cb/lb muniesa 21 barcelona ?douglas 24 twente? ) all these would be intrested and would cost 5m max
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We need a CDM.
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Can play CDM and cb very versatile and would add much needed steel to arsenals defensive spine
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and Henry was a liverpool fan…
as if admiring another team will make you tank your own career…
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David Villa’s offer from arsenal 13.8
arsneal interested in m’villa 8-12 mill because diaby is injury hampered still although he is just returned but club fear for how long
attacking mids/wingers – turan/zaha/holtby holtby just signed pre contract with spurs the other two are still of interest despite what the media says Walcott is seen as a future CF why zaha is still being considered
Gervinho may leave in summer and rosicky is getting older a turan type with natural skill and flair and pace is the complete attacker arsenal need.
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arsene wenger please sign cdm. we cannot protect our back 4 with wilshere and arteta playing . m’vila or strootman will be gud choice but we need a player as soon as possible
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@admin- oh stop it. wht does ( Are Arsenal ready to move for Yanga-
Mbiwa? ) mean..we dont want these kind of articles..u r just trying to fill up the blog..plz write sm thing CONCRETE
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Even Wenger doesn’t know who he’ll sign by the time the window closes. So we have to be patient
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What are you smoking on this website, Its worse than the papers just spouting names looking for reply. How about Pele, are you looking forward to Jesus and Paul Merson looks close to signing. Havent been on this site for ages and the reason why is you just ignite more hatrid for the club by hyping rubbish that wont happen
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He’s a good player, no doubt about that but has the defending been that poor this season that we need to buy a new CB that might not even play for an entire season. Looking at the beginning of the season, the defence was perfect and the praise was heaped on Steve Bould. I’m sure if he is allowed to work his magic on the training ground, the current defence will get stronger.
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No, don’t get your hopes up.
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He is just what we need! A solid beast of a defender who can read the game and be a pysical nightmare for strikers! And can also play in the defensive midfield role!comeon wenger sign him up!
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Wenger never buys out and out defenders like this – really hope this isn’t just wishful thinking ! Spuds doin good deals early here ! Was hopein holtby wudda signed for us – was perfect for kronkes budget too (sweet f.a)
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Get Him!!!!
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M’biwa would be the perfect defensive signing for a number of reasons.
-gibbs is injury prone
-he’s a leader. something we lack
-can play him alongside either verm kos or per and it’ll be a good combination
-plays as a CDM. something we desperately need
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@No more excuses so how about when whole grounds are monkey chanting or boing a player every time he gets the ball just because of his colour. What about what happened to our u21s in serbia guess in your eyes that was all fine and dandy nothing wrong there and england and the media were just being big babies because its all fine as long as it aint as bad as what happened thomas or davis right?
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@CasperPerez
what if he supports manure? young, bale, and many others support arsenal but does it matter to them?
they just kill us
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Arsenal Arsenal my beloved Arsenal..if the money eyed board (gazidiz kroenke) still there then Arsenal will yet be a downfall..selling best players for profits and show no ambition on footballing each year will hinder Arsenal progress towards stability and strength on the field..strict wage structure as a superb excuse..
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@no more excuses
Stfu, i’m black and I would have done the same thing.
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I doubt we’ll see any official signings until after Wenger has shifted the deadwood. He’s already shown his initiative by loaning Chamakh, with Djourou heading out the door as well. He tried to loan Arshavin to Reading, but Andrei declined, and I think he’s probably trying as hard as possible to get rid of Squillaci.
I think Wenger wants to be sure of how large a wage budget he’d be freeing up before really asserting himself in this transfer window. He knows, just as we do, that this month may be one of the most pivotal in his careers, and I trust him to make the right decisions.
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Just take fellaini!!!! Arsenal need DM…. we cannot rely on the bullshit diaby….
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No more excuses……i do not know if you are black or not…….you have to experience racism and feel what it does to you to know what Boateng felt……..it eats you inside……worse than anything you have ever felt…..and if do not control it you may take your anger on every and anyone around you…..
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i still cannot understand how we lost to the Spuds again and how the hell we lost one of the best shooters, and he was ours, to Man U.
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if he’s abeast why would he be 3rd or 4th choice,more like first or second.But you could be right he could want him to play DM
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No more excuses. Possibly the most ignorant comment i have ever read.
as for m’biwa, i feel he is a slut. In the summer he was a milan fan and could dream of himself in the san siro. in december he dreams of scoring the winner for united at old trafford. dont need no more impressionable and mercenary type players. The last one we had we made captain and decided that he was bigger than the club that spent 7 years waiting for him to get rid of injuries.
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Chelsea have bought Ba
Newcastle have bought Debuchy
Who do we think Will be Arsenal’s first (of many hopefully) buy?
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Quit crying about having a potential United supporter in the team.
Ramsey is a United fan.
Theo is a Liverpool fan.
Ox is a Chelsea fan.
What’s your point then?
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im very dissapointed every transfer window. always arsenal are linked with big name players but end up loosing to other clubs and we have to satisfy with cheap unproven players. we always sell our best players every season. i hope this time in january we can get a quality left back,
defensive midfielder and a striker who can score goals
please dont give thumbs down to my comment lol.
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@maxigooner27
Nobody, just walcott signing a new contract and diaby will return from injury, unless there’s a miracle…
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first of all m’biwa doesn’t support manure i read his interview where he said he wants to play in pl & would prefer arsenal or manure he said he wanted milan move last season so what’s wrong with that even giroud wanted milan move at first m’biwa would be happy to join us
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Get we get a player from outside the french ligue 1 please, history has shown that most of them become crap.
Don’t really get the excitement over this Mbiwa guy, he played against us and was poor in my opinion.
He just runs up n down like a headless chicken fouling people, his positional sense wasn’t as good anyway.
If we need a dm we should get Strootman, a left back we should get Baines or Shaw, and for centre back we should promote Ignasi Miquel.
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I think Admin should write an article on why Arsenal loose Prospective players to Tottenham…Dembele, Vertonghen, and now Holtby.
Are we loosing our greatness as a team or what?
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Proven talent and versatility. If these things are really true – I would be delighted with this guy. Arsenal badly need some defensive depth. But I will admit my lack of full knowledge on this guy.
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Can’t u lot write about somthing differnt other than tranfers speculations then in the end u are so wrong can’t u see we won’t sign proper players as long as wenger is in charge
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Arsenal top four qualification looks very hard this season…
Wenger doesn’t seem to gonna buy a dm n again depend on diaby…
N arteta
every team is taking advantage of this arsenal weakness…
Arsenal need to atleast win 14-15games to finish 3-4
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Here we go again. Nice work admin. keep raising your hopes up. You will be the one to feel let down when some other team buys mbiwa. Did wenger personally tell you that he has decided to buy mbiwa? The fact that we have scouted him does not mean we intend to buy him for sure. The job of the scouts is to have a ready list of the kind of players arsenal will like, should incase we need to buy tommorrow. You see the difference? We arsenal supporters like torturing ourselves. We should have learned by now. Lower your expectations and just hope for the best. But dont go obsessing about particular players. You are most likely going to be dissappointed and heart broken.
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THIS IS A JOKE……!!!!! BEFORE THE TRANSFER WINDOW OPENED EVERYBODY KNEW WE ARE THE TEAM THAT NEEDED QUIC K SIGNING OF NEWS PLAYERS TO BOOST THE DIEYING TEAM WE ARE THE 5/01/13 NOT EVEN 1 SIGNING YET……??????? PLUS ALL TARGETED PLAYERS ARE BEING BOUGHT BY OUR RIVALS ……… THIS IS A JOKE!!!!!!!
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Great addition! He’s a UNIT! hope we get him, and play Verminator in CDM!
COYG!
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David Villa just followed Mikel Arteta on Twitter….good signal???…………………………………………………………after some moment lot of sites are reporting that David Villa is set for Arsenal…LOL
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It seems we are interested in Olsson and Coloccini.
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WENGER OUT!!!!!!
GASZIDIS OUT !!!!!!
KROENKER OUT!!!!
BOARD OUT !!!!!!
THESE GUYS ARE KILLING ARSENAL AND YOU GUYS ARE WITNESSING AND NOT DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT …! BUT U RATHER CHOSE DISCUSSING SIGNINGS THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHH
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Holtby has agreed a deal with Tottenham that will see him move there at the end of the season.
I hope we pip spuds to the champions league qualifying spot so he realises what a mistake he has made.
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Arsenal need two of these players in their defense:
Howedes
Mapou Yanga-MBiwa
Capoue
M’Vila
Olsson
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If we do buy him i think the Arsenal would prob have man for man the best set of CBs in the PL, we’d just have to learn how to defend better as a team. If we then add Shaw and he’s as promising as we all hope he is well then our defensive back line looks sorted.
It definitely looks like we are going to introduce new faces in the defence, atleast one anyway.
Surely Wenger realises that an Arteta injury would be a disaster, or even that a real physical presence through the centre is a mismatch and we can get over run.
Hopefully Wenger will reinforce this area.
With Chamakh getting shipped out i believe its a certainty, along with the defence, that he will look to bolster this area.
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It is astonishing to see how many players we have missed out on just for a couple of million. Cahill, Mata, Debuchy, Holtby, Llorente, Ba and many more. On the other hand we have not made efforts to sign any world class players like Sneijder, Fellaini, Jovetic or Mbiwa.
Wenger should do something big now or he’ll lose his supporters.
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NYEH…
no rumours (again) please?
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Remember these statements made by Arsene:
Jan 1-13 – I will be active, yes. We are looking everywhere. We are open-minded. We want to strengthen everywhere…
Jan 3-13 – First of all, what I have said is that we have to make sure the players who are here stay here. After that, we’ll look outside, so let’s try and finalise the deal with Theo Walcott and after if we need something else we’ll look outside…
Ummm… WTF! Which is which here?
While it’s good to throw around names and hope for the best, Wenger is one of the most frustrating people to read. Knowing Arsene, I’d rather be pessimistic, and think I won’t see any new faces this month.
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@nomoreexcuses
We all meet a right d**k now and then, its a fact of life, but i dont think you could ever imagine how difficult it must be to be basically spat on by an awful lot of idiots beginning from when you were a boy right up still through manhood. To have mobs spouting hatred for being the person who you are is just unimaginable to allot of people. You couldnt even begin to imagine how horrible it must be, i know i couldnt.
For you to speak so nonchalant about the whole matter makes me wonder if maybe on occasion you have been one of those supreme idiots with there screwed up ideals, if off the mark or have offended i apoligize but in reading your comments i couldnt help but feel that you are one of those complete d**ks that one meets in life.
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All this talk about transfers is doing my head in
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Wenger is a liar and is manipulating fans with cheap rhetoric and red herrings. We missed out on Ba, and Holtby. What a bunch of BS.
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Mbiwa isn’t that good people come on now, can we look elsewhere other than thr french ligue 1
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Dear all,
I don’t see the reasons as to why Wenger is using Mikel Arteta as a DM and yet he was playing as a attacking MF for Everton. there is a great need for him to bring in Yann M’villa to play that role Yanga M’biwa in the defense plus one striker to help Olivier G.
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Remember this about Arsene Wenger in the transfer window: expect nothing and you will never be disappointed!
Last year with numerous injuries in late December he said that Arsenal were desperate and were sure to sign defensive cover in the transfer window – nothing happened.
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Fair Enuff guys – if my last comment offended then I apologise . I think if u read it u’ll understand I’m no racist – especially as I stated racism is wrong twice and the people who do these things are scum .
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is there anything to link us to this player ??? also ,,,,,,,( However, we’ll need to be patient as the remainder of this week and next week will revolve around shifting as many players as possible to open up the wages. I’m sure Wenger has shortlisted the candidates he wants signed ) why can we not be talking to players /clubs already can we not do 2 things in one week ?????? if we want to get anyone we need to move not wait !!!!!!!
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just heard on sky sports villa has requested barca to allow move to the arse
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@josh09 That explains why he always plays so sh*t for us.
If you look at Wenger’s recent signings, most of them have been absolute rubbish. Let’s be honest here. Cazorla is probably the only one worth two bob, and maybe Chamberlain.
The rest are just too inconsistent. Selling RvP and Song I still think was a massive mistake. Imagine where we would be with them two still in the squad.
The day we stop selling our best playing and focus on building and strengthening the squad, is the day we might challenge for titles. For now, according to ‘realists’ like Dr Peppper, we will just have to trust the board and wait another two years until they have the funds to start doing that. What a joke. By that time, Arsenal will be the new Liverpool and it will take a hell of a lot of money to get out us out of the ditch.
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Why dont we go for Micah Richards and Sakho?
Richards RB/CB/CDM
Sakho LB/CB
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Just don’t play players out of position and get the fans thinking what crap have we got here.
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Go and check the last 10 people david villa followed on twitter and make of that what u will
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Who has David villa followed on twitter
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If you read in between the lines the statements that wenger is makeing he is not going to bring many new players in so just bang your heads on the wall like me i have never been so frustrated in my life
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@ santi claus ,,,, arteta
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Looks promising then please get villa now that’s a statement intent
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Villa is good but if we buy him what would Walcott think?
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Afcf
But if Walcott or giroud get injured we will be only left with podi so signing another striker makes sense seein we just loaned out chamakh to west ham.
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>this gut has the wrong attitude. We should stay away, overrated as well. Who we should have gotten last year was Gary Cahill!
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@Santi Claus u make a gd point and u r probably right but if we r really buying him we shelf sign up Walcott first so he will not leave cos of villa
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@AFCF
Who cares what Walcott thinks?
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We need a lethal CF and two defenders, wenger pliz stop annoying the fans
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look at it like this!
We have a weak squad without anyone departing or going out on loan,
With some deadwood being shifted or reported to be, we will be in more desperation of Quality replacements! It’s who? we won’t know about until its official!
I do think there will be 2-3 players In this window as next seasons PL money shoots up ridiculously
So the higher you finish up the table the more money a club gets ( bottom relegated team will claim around £61million) now with that said Arsenal being buisness minded know although the new T.V windfall is a massive inheritance they still need to fit into the fair play revenue bit they’ve been doing for years as it goes live to everyone next season. Hence why the clear out now before buying!
Also bear in mind if we fail to grab a top four spot this season then “the quality names ” we would seek in the summer are likely to want to go to other champ league qualified clubs!
Wenger must know this and knows its on for him to do buisness now!
If the clear out happens and no one comes then my fellow gooners it’ll be evident that this club has been sold for gold and bled dry into the ground until nothing left!
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Walcott wont go even if we sign Villa.Villa has at most 2 best years ahead of him.Wallcott can aslo learn a lot from Villa.
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Wenger says only great players but still looking for cheaper alternatives!10-15 million players have proved unsuccessful and waste of money! Top, top players is what we lifelong fans have been after for 10 years! Only need to add 3-4! We could easily have won epl or cl in last 8 years with addition of world class signings and most likely hung on to our best players! I understand it maybe was not possible then with the move but it definatly is now, stop this crap wenger or go do it elsewhere!! Jovetic or cavani, sneidjer, mbia, shaw! In arsene I would trust again!!!!
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why would the captain of montpellier want to join arsenal and be 3rd choice.
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or maybe he could be the dm we are looking for.
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If he were to play like he did against us every week I think you’ll find he’d be the first name on the team sheet. But I think Wenger would want to play him next to Jack. He wanted to play Vertonghen in that position, but he didn’t want to. Be interesting to see if this guy is willing.
Did this guy not say he wants to play for Utd last week?
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bring him
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@ PAN – well said its nonsence to talk about Arsenal buying these players. Dont get me wrong JUSTARSENAL could talk about if they are good players and would they fit but lets be honest dont say is it the right time to buy a player because the answer is NO. Not unless the board is replaced
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We are signing Villa who can also help out Walcott.
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This guy is class. He would get games for sure. Im a huge fan
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