Arsenal could poach Diame from West Ham for £6m
Most people expected Arsenal to feel the loss of Robin van Persie this season. The Dutchman was not just our best player and top scorer, he was the best in the whole Premier league. Many Arsenal fans, however, worried more about how the loss of Alex Song to Barcelona was going to affect the team.
The problem is, Arsene Wenger replaced van Persie with Lukas Podolski and Olivier Giroud. There will be differences of opinion as to whether they are good enough, I personally think they have lots of potential but it may take time to be realised. Arsenal did not replace Song, however. Wenger pushed Mikel Arteta further back and relied on his ball playing skills and awareness to do the job.
To be fair, it seemed to be a genius move at the start of the season, but it is not working anymore. Opposing teams are putting more pressure on Arteta, and he is being asked to do too much in a role which he is not ideally suited for. Arsenal need a strong, energetic and tough defensive midfielder, and there is one just across London.
Mohamed Diame is stalling on extending his contract with West Ham. When he signed for the Hammers this summer, there was a release clause put into his contract, believed to be around £6 million. The 25-year old has been fantastic for Allardyce’s side this season and was a major factor in West Ham’s comeback and win against Chelsea at the weekend.
Not only is he the kind of player that Arsenal need in the middle of the pitch to give us some grit, he knows the Premier league and is a bargain. Could he be the player that we want, Gooners?
During the transfer season i wondered why we didn’t get him for free. Wenger likes a good deal and it would hv been perfect. Well @ 6million it’s not still a bad deal. But i will prefer wanyama
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Diame would be perfect, considering he’s almost the exact same player as Diaby. shame that Abou can’t fully recover, such a talented player.
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A lot of pple here avnt been talkin abt him bt i think he’s d rite playa we need atm……capoue,biglia,wanyama etc may need to adapt to d league 1st bt in his case dats nt needed coz he already knws d league well…..i luv his style he drives d ball 4ward a is also skillful……exactly wat we need
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Uhhhh but we are signing DIABY soon remember? Lol COYG
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Was screaming out to get him for free in the summer its too late now, shame cos i think he is a class player, better then yaya toure on his day to be honest considerin his been surrounded by worse players all his career compared to toure (man coty and barca) and diame can still control whole midfield if he wants to top player, another f up by the scouts/manager/board
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Time has come for the lame board and greedy swine Kronke to stop shopping at Primark and start shopping at Harrods!!!!
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Diame, Ba AND Huntelaar would be great! Throw Reina/Zaha in the mix as well, and we’d have a darn good team.. Be happy with that.. All problem areas, except LB addressed.. Though i guess we have Verm to slot into LB when Gibbo is out
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we blame the manager for his cheap buys with the end products being mediocre players.what we need now are big player signings not just any player who available for cheap.i understand u guys since a drowning man will even clutch at a straw.that not withstanding we need to raid the spanish league for top top talents like Jesus Navas who ll give us instant tranformation just like santi.i ll rather we signed llorente or lopez
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Too right We need muscle and drive. But Diaby will be fit in January and Wenger will ay its like a new signing. By Febuary he will be rested because of a muscle strain. He’ll be out for ’3 weeks’ and we’ll be lucky if we see him again by May.
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Diame descent player but dont be suprised to see lampard and reina given a retirement holiday at afc or else wenger will tell you when diaby recovers he will be like a new signing.we should go for wanyama or m’vila or promote le coq he has impressed.
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We need to sign players who have experience playing in the EPL. Expectations are high on players coming from other leaques and, they take a long time to settle down. Almost halfway through the season and we still cannot gel together as a unit. I am a huge fan of Demba Ba and he would be an excellent signing. Reina is an accident waiting to happen…the Norwich keeper would be a safer bet. Diame would be perfect while Arteta has to be moved to an attacking midfield role. Get Fellaini and Zaha and we have a top class team.
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Great signing.I like him.Hes well able to mix it.It we got him and another striker it would be a good window for us,also lets try and get Theo signed.I know some fans will want more signing but lets be realistic.Gunners 4 life!!!
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just use coquelin, although he still young, but he has a lot of potential, all he need is experiences, wenger dont want use him efficiently, then what is the objectives of youth policies if wenger dont want use them as 1st eleven?? such a waste talent..thumbs up if u r with me
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Diame, Huntelaar, Ba, Zaha and Vorm. Then we are set!
Team will look like this.
Vorm, Gibbs, Vermaelan, Mertesacker, Sagna, Diame, Cazorla, Zaha, Podolski, Ba, Huntelaar.
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Diame or Wanyama in my opinion. Obviously Diame would be the more preferred option because of his price and the fact that he’s not cup tied for the Champions League.
What Arsenal need are good back ups. No one in our team has the fear of being dropped, because they know there isn’t anyone good enough to replace them. I think we need to fortify our midfield, wings, and striker position, just to make every player work for their places.
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good idea
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arsenal need more black people
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We COULD poach a lot of players money talks
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Completely agree with this article. A player like Diame or Wanyama is exactly what we need atm, especially with Diaby proving again that he cant be relied on. I think Wanyama has attracted a lot of attention and would be much more expensive, Diame seems like the best option.
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diame is a fukin beast, i would like that he comes to the emirates.
we can switch with ramsey or santos or gervinho… oooh i can dream
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the only player befitting the real afc standard in the EPL who cud be available to me is Fellaini not worn out players like lampard and Reina.Ah! what is wrong with arsene,am really his man who ll never renounce him any day but with this one and continuous usage of Ramsey,i think he’ve lost it.
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We miss Diaby, I want player exactly like him with no injury problems , maybe his twin Uoba Diaby
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Arsenal need more black people I reckon.
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wanyama
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Doesn’t diame have a heart defect or something? With our medical team probably not a good idea…good player though
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Shouldn’t have loaned out frimpong he’s a beast and culd easily take up that role, he’s not the best footballer going as he’s not an out to out passer but he can hold up the ball well and give it to the likes of carzola, wilsheres to do the pretty stuff, only if diaby culd stay fit 3 weeks out my arse
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I think all the players wnger wants in the summer has to be bought in January, that way they have 5 months of the league and pre season training to adapt and to play well… but add one or two players in the summer.
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i think diame would be perfect. he’s affordable (appeals to wenger of course), he has good experience, pace and strength. it is very obvious that this is the type of player that is missin g from our team as we proved when we were playing well with diaby.
i would love Lewandowski/huntelaar, diame and fellaini. this would be a team that could challenge any team in the world where at the moment it’s is very easy to play against our team. teams just bully us when they don’t have the ball, we make silly mistakes and this happens time and time again. the reason why we’re losing to lesser teams.
we also seem to struggle or be scared of moving forward with pace. everything always gets slowed down which makes it so difficult to score and create decent chances.
the arsenal way is playing with pace and confidence. we are still having good possession but in the wrong areas of the pitch and mucking around with it at the back, basically time wasting before the opposition win the ball and attack again. i cant remember the last time we created 4 good chances in a game.
Come on Boys! i believe in you!!! lets sort this out!
also since its christmas, i am disappointed that i am the only one in the stadium singing the following:-
(to the tune of santa claus is coming to town)
he beats his man once,
he beats his man twice,
he’s gonna go home n have paella and rice.
Santi Cazorla’s coming to town
sing with me!!!!!!!
lets up it in the crowd even if we are playing s**t atm
COYG
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Don’t get your hopes up, most probably he will loan henry again and sign zaha & huntelaar or ba ? to make you guys happy a bit , after that he will sell walcott & sagna lol , in the end we are back to square farking one !!! WTF !!!!WENGER !!!! You make me just wanna kick you in the balls(ie if you have any)
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DIAME? then we have a holding midfielder, at 6 million pounds? better late than never. let this not end in speculation come january coz if we do sign him, we would have solved half the problem. good though. gooner 4 ever
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Its definitely a pos of concern at present. i would like if we tried not to precure a bargain with in this pos, for the reasoning of there being not many if at all who could give our Vieira a real challenge.
I do believe it is the easiest pos to fill but the only prob is that when you have or play against a master in this department the class and winning mentality really do be on show, so again we should not try the cheap option and instead look to find ourselves a champion with great leadership qualities along with his many other skills.
The only difficulty is that a Vieira type player to find is nowhere near an easy task with maybe the mold being destroyed forever.
Manu have still never properly replaced Roy Keane, we found suitable replacement in Gilberto but still where a poor mans Patrick Vieira, manc have a good one in Toure but he is nowhere near a Vieira type player, more like a Diaby type player, che have a solid holding player in Mikel. It really is going to be difficult.
I do like what i have seen so far of Wanyama at Celtic who looks a great athlete who loves the physical challenge, Fellaini would be an awsome asset, who would like that Arsene encourages him to get forward when needed, he could really be a focal point behind our Cazorla and Wilshere helping to completely control the midfield tussle. There is also the option of the young Dutchman whos name i cant recall, however the article that day made him sound a very useful player and a mate of mine mentioned how he loves giving out solid strong tackles.
The only concern i have is that none of those possible transfer targets who i have mentioned could prob ever stand on Vieiras pedastool, He really where a giant among men and maybe even where a dying breed.
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Kevin Strootman anyone??
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we might as well do a senegalese double and get demba ba as well for £7.5m, Diame is a good player, don’t know why we didn’t get him in the summer, but it is better late than never
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DM is the Key, shall be on top of the list.
Buy Song back!
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Lampard a worn out Player??? Every side in Premier League could be happy to have such an excellent Player around!!!
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no Lampard please. he is an excellent player but not for the AW’s system. he will play more or less Wilshere’s role.
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Yes we can poach him but we won’t. Among other things, wenger is too sentimental to win anything. He looks at Diaby and he tells us that we shouldn’t worry because Diaby will be back soon and he will be like a new signing. Yet history tells us that Diaby will be injured again and again. That is why we will not sign Diame.
Wenger will say, ‘What about Diaby? When he is fit, he is the first name on the france national team sheet’. Yeah Yeah but he is always injured! You cannot play a man who is not there. We are just a bunch of losers. Even Swansea has more focus and ambition than us. Did you guys hear that we turned down the opportunity to sign Michu? Yep and in his place, we kept chamak. Michu only cost swansea 2 million pounds. How does that make you all feel?
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WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT PLAYER THAT SHOULD BE IN ARSENAL TEAM NOW. GOONERS!!! We should look at our current situation NOW. It is frigtening. Wenger should have been sacked long time ago. lost of ideas dont have the temperament to motivate player and lots of excuses. Must we wait 40 0dds years like Citeh. 10-20-30 years to justified our standing . that is all a loser thinking. NOT a CHAMPION THINKING.
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diame would be an excelant player to join our squad.he scored for west ham against us and destroyed the chelsea midfield when he come on inthe second half on saturday.
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He certainly is a better option than some suggested names out there. He is physical and seems like a fighter, a quality Arsenal just don’t seem to have.
Only concern is this! Is it that Big Sam makes fighters out of his players? Seems to me like the whole West Ham team have that quality now?
Arsenal we know do not, not sure if signing one player will change that, you would hope yes, but I am not so sure?
Sorry folks, U just cant get on the Huntelaar bandwagon??
All we need is another tall striker looking for runners who aren’t there?
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He’s not the arsenal quality if we want to be Real title pretenders, but he’s ok if we want to battle the 4th place. I believe we should rather determine for ourselves what do we want from the club – be a champion or be in CL zone and on its basis sign players.
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Felleini and David moyes.
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GREAT PLAYER…!!!
JUST SIGN HIM…
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Diame would be solid. As the artical reads Arteta is good to have back there to spray the ball left/ri
ght, but wen it comes down to it ya need someone thats too powerful to get past. Diame is the man ya want……..a big black African to steady the shop from the middle. He would just break legs and hearts if he was given the chance at THE ARSENAL that is the Gooner!
COYG!!
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Naaah, wenger won’t buy, no sense left in his head, it’s over for a long time now.
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Mr Wenger’s one only signing will be T Henry. so get used to it. All the rest is just bull dividends have to be paid to the board.
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