Arsenal and Liverpool to fight over Phil Jones
It has been reported for the last few weeks that Arsene Wenger is very keen on bringing the Blackburn defender Phil Jones to the Emirates, as he tries to beef up the Arsenal defence with some English backbone.
Arsenal have been linked with the older Christopher Samba, but Jones is much more like a typical Wenger signing. He is only 19 years old but with proven Premiership experience and could have a long and successful career.
The Mail thinks that Liverpool are preparing to make an opening bid for the England U21 star, but after Wenger admitted that he would be buying taller players this summer, the 6ft 2in youngster immediately sprang to mind, and the Mail reckons that Wenger is waiting to see how Blackburn respond to Liverpool’s bid before making a counter-offer.
Jones is tall, young and English. Does that sound like the type of player that Wenger may pay £15m for……?
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pls Mr wenger buy him!he is a type of player you and we need. he is energetic, talentive, strong and hard worker. he is only 19 and english player who not think to go to other club once he sign to us. he can make difference and keep aggresive attacking playing. pls pls pls wenger do it.
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wow who arent liverpool bidding for
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nearly everytime ive mentioned this lad some goof as turned round and said “hes no good coz hes only 5ft 11″ hes a beast and well over 6ft and yet again it just goes to show how little people know about non arsenal players.
just like how the most determined and motivating midfielder in the prem is not good enough for a team that totally crumbled last season. coz parker woulda just sat there and done nothing to motivate our players and he never shows any desire either does he! and parkers desire would of been of no use last season coz the desire was just spilling out of our players last year.
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How tall is he really?
Player profiles have him listed as 5’11″
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My bet is on Liverpool getting Jones because of the English inflation prices and I taught that we needed experienced defenders any way. I’m not a fan of C.Samba because he will need time to get his fitness up and is not a ready made solution that will be able to compete on all fronts i.e. The Champions league. But compared to this guy he would be a better buy for what we need.
A bit CONCERNING – that Wenger wont spend big in an area that clearly needs strengthening. Looks like he’s banking on Verm & Kos next season. Kosceinly no doubt is a good player but, I don’t think he had the same impact Vermelen did in his first season and I would not go as far as to say that he’s one of the best defenders in the premier league or that other clubs taught damm we should of signed him, we was a gem.
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why would you wait until liverpool make an offer. put in an acceptable offer and get the deal done or he’ll be off to liverpool
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@ Fowler Loool this is Wenger where taking about- that’s why I doubt we would get him
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@ Fowler Loool this is Wenger where taking about- that’s exactly why I doubt we would get him
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Samba is shit peeps, he’s a big lump, nothing more than a more man’s sol campbell.
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poor even…i’m high! High on life!
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Have you noticed that he is cited as a Liverpool player on Wikipedia today?
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buy Jones and Sakho and (stop ur laughing) eto’o, and i think we would be serious contenders on all fronts!!
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please wenger….. if you want to prevent arsenal from death you have to bought jones at real time[real time was now] he was areal defender which best seems arsenal playing style.we need best defender like vermalen, the left was not defender they are striker of opposite club….
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He’s 19, and not very experienced. This is exactly what Arsenal DO NOT NEED. We need experienced older players. We are a Champions League team, we should be buying better players than Phil Jones!!!
I’m so sick of this, I’m starting to want Wenger to just leave this summer.
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I bought him in Fifa 11. He turned out to be quite good after a couple of seasons
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arsenal should go for the ajax defender vertonghen this guy will add more strong at the back of the defens
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I hope he gets him, infact I’m tired of us being linked with players. When is wenger actually going to makes moves, I mean what happened to Scott Parker?
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Guys, stop dreaming.The best hope for the club is if AW decides not to sign anyone, i hope he doesn’t, WHY? Because that is the only way he could sacked. He is part of the problem, not the solution. AW please just go.
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With all due respects Blackburn didn`t exactly set the world alight last season so one can only assume that the players could be missing something we desperately need (and it`s not just height), the winning streak. I know, Jones has `potential` and he`s affordable. As for Samba,I`ve never seen anyone less likely to suit an Arsenal shirt. Let`s move on.
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It would be great if Arsenal sign him because then we would have Jones, Gibbs, Wilshere and Walcott who are the future of England and could be a Dynasty for Arsenal
And if Sagna leaves we should get Richards
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If they went down we would have a chance at a decent price and Samba could have been bought cheaper in January but nothing happened.
Now Samba signed a new lucrative contract and they won’t sell him for cheap aswell as Phil Jones.
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WE NEED JONES AND SAKHO
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who is wrote this???????????????
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Sakho
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why can’t we get Phil Jones and Samba both are very good defenders and thats the area we really need to strengthen.
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We need samba,sakho & phil jones phil jones
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