Marouane Chamakh first victim of Arsenal clear-out
It seems that Arsenal are gearing up for the beginning of the transfer window on January 1st, and the first player to be shown the door is expected to be the Morrocan striker Marouane Chamakh, after the Telegraph revealed that “Sam Allardyce met with Chamakh’s agent Pierre Frelot on Friday night and expects the green light from Arsenal,”
Wenger has already clearly hinted he would allow the Morrocan to leave last month when he was discussing the arrival of Thierry Henry, when he said: “…..Especially if for example, Chamakh should go, because I cannot stand in his way now.”
West Ham are in need of another striker since they found out that Andy Carroll is likely to out with a knee injury until February so at least Chamakh could get some game time, and hopefully impress enough people to get a cash buyer in the summer.
Along with Chamakh, Johan Djourou is almost certain to be on his way after he has completely dropped out of any mention in the first team matters, not even in the League Cup or Second XI against Olympiakos, although his agent Flavio Ferraria has refused to confirm any talks with the usual suspects.
‘At the moment there has been no contact with Napoli and even with other Italian clubs,’ Ferraria said. ‘No decision on his future has been taken yet, everything will be decided when we meet with Arsenal in the next few weeks.
‘At the moment there has been no contact with any club.’
He is certainly right there. it doesn’t look like Djourou is having much contact even with Arsenal at the moment!
We would all like Sebastien Squillaci to be on the list but I can’t honestly see anyone willing to pay his exorbitant wages outside Arsenal. Andrei Arshavin looks like he could be on his way to Reading, but who else should Wenger be disposing of next month?
We really needa striker if he leaves. I hear Hernandez is leaving Man U? I am pretty sure its all a rumour but if it isnt we should get him. If not we should get a striker between age 26-30… We need someone who can score. Hunterlaar wont come here I think.
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IF WE CLEAROUT IT COULD BE THE BEGGINING ON A GOOD TRANSFER WINDOW FOR ONCE BUT I WONT GET MY HOPES UP BECOZ I HAVE BEEN DISAPPOINTING MANY TIMES
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Pleaseee..get rid of ramsey too..!!
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a straight swap for diame would be good.+ maybe a bit of cash
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Cmon surprise us with some quality Wenger! Falcao, cavani, benzema!
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sell arshavin,djourou,chamack,park,denilson and we would get so much space for wages for our bigger stars (walcott,sagna) and buy 3-4 players.
If the board can do that then i would kind of respect them, becuase they have been taking off our loans and other stuff and getting great sponsership, but need to sell those players and give walcott and sagna better contracts and buy 4 players ! gogogogo
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A move will be good for him. He is being wasted here anyway.
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we need to replace Chamakh n Gervinho at all cost!
RAMSEY: he is quite intelligent n Young! 1st thing he is out of position, 2nd thing he is an Attacking Midfielder! So he must b used properly, at positions where He can play!
i saw few good things which need time to come good in him! Like we knw he has some shooting skills, he tried long passes n about 1/4 were correct too!
So Ramsey, he is Good SUB, when he plays on his Proper position
1 thing, he fails when he try to copy Diaby :/ mean he try to hold the ball n thn give away, he must realize he is not tht Much powerfull as Diaby to hold ball in Own Half!
he is young, n on his proper position he is quite good!
But GERVINHO N CHAMAKH, plz plz plz leave ARSENAL!
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Let’s not get too teary eyed about these dead wood players. Quality signings are required.
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allow me to throw in another name; Adel Taarabt; e was impressive yesterday
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Ramsey should certainlyNOT go but he should also not be played in an attacking midfield role or out on the flanks. i would simply make him jacks deputy. sure he doesnt have the flair of wilshire and jack will always get the nod over rambo but that is not a bad thing. however i do understand peoples frustration with ramsey but we must remember at 21 he is the youngest of the 25 man squad with only the u21s and not counting as homegrown younger than him. if we are to get shot of players that give less than ramsey look at players that are older than him. players like denilson diaby and craig eastmond! here is my team to flog off
fabianski
eastmond djourou squillaci santos
diaby denilson arshavin
park chamakh bendtner
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Ramsey is one of the worst player in that position we had in a very long time
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Arsenal is not the club which loses trophies – Chelsea too – happy for them LOLZ
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what is wrong with arsenal giving ramsey a new contract? next year he will be a deadwood, sit and warm the bench, till his contract get over. GOD HELP ARSENAL.
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WORST EVER ARSENAL PLAYER! He couldn’t even get a game for Wigan! Not only is he such aloof player, he has such a poor attitude on the pitch! And his wages are ridiculous! GET OUT! Typical wenger transfer that!
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This is good news not only for arsenal FC, but also for arsenal fans.
Players like chamark will never stay long in clubs like Man U. But i don’t why such players are kept in arsenal and the best been sold every season.
Maybe arsenal fc and arsene wenger, is beginning to wake up from there slumber.
We need more clear out in others like Djourou, Gervinho and Ramsey. Just hope that Arsene will not sell Theo Walcott-in my opinion, our best striker at the moment.
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I think only Barcelona has a better attacking midfielders than us so I would keep Ramsey far from them coz he may infect others like wilsher carzola rosicky diaby arteta top player the reason people can’t c this is because we have the worst wingers and strikers in the league
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- Chamakh –
A good idea to get the them out especially MC, he’s out of his depth at AFC. Get us Yohan Mollo in instead. His favored position is left wing, not repositioned forward, like we have used. This would allow Poldi to move to the front were he thrives or alternatively use one as a good backup depending on opposition.
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If Djourou leaves we should move for a ready made defender, who is primarily fast. One who could actually compliment players like Per and TV5. Preferably a dedicated left back. We already have plenty of back up at center back where as left back is embarrassingly exposed.
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Why is it that arsenal rarely buy players from the premiership or championship, the problem with a lot of arsenal’s purchases is that they take a while to settle into the English style of play. For an example if we had bought a player like Steven Fletcher we would surly have a few more goals then we do now. if a team of players from league 2 can beat a team in the last 16 of the champions league there must be some talent in the championship :/
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I think Wenger should get us a LB who knows his job,two midfielder’s one whose a play-maker and one whose an engine(one who has stamina for days that being for helping our defence recover when the get to flop) and two/three forwards one whose a ST(clincal finisher,poacher & acrobat), the second one whose a winger(fine crosser, dribbler & aerial threat) incase Walcot leaves us and the third one another striker whose just lethal who will be our super sub better yet who will be our regular player.
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I’ve been hearing of a clearout at Arsenal for the last 4 transfer windows. Its never happened.
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Chamakh, gervinho, ramsey, squid, djourou just fu*k off!
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This stupid fans still back Ramsey coz he is British and go on and complain y we lose this is y you stupid people Ramsey and gervinho should never play for arsenal I don’t even think Ramsey is good enough for Cardiff
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@Peetr
Please shut up man, the guy is crap, even a blind person can see that.
This is a free forum and the people can say that they want.
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i dont like the way Wenger said “i cannot stand in his way now” this implies that he’s been stopping Chamakh from leaving earlier,i hope i interpreted this wrongly
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Why the f*** did he sign him in the first place & gave less playing time to Bendtner. I would have rather prefered the latter to continue with us for the time being.
Clearly Wenger is arrogant.
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Please get rid of Wenger.
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Why are we buying other teams rejects? We need players who wany to play for arsenal football club for all the right reasons
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No offence to the guy but I hope its not a loan im sick of them in one way betterethan paying their wages but we need to make a few full stops on players careers at arsenal and not van persies. The money were paying a few players would keep a lot of other guys happy if not that at least. But Watch QPR also for him I think he would be more interested in linking with his mate Taarabt.
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theres about 8 players that our dead wood….but ofc they dont want to leave seeing as there getting alot of money and no other club would be stupid to match there wage that there on.
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Chamakh is a quality player as is arshavin. Chamakh started his career well with us until rvp came off the injury table then chamakh never really got a look in again. I hope he does well at his new club, he deserves it.
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Why dropping arshivin? You better drop gervinho than arshivin. I believe arsene made a mistake on how to manage arshivin that’s why you see that he has a form dip. If you do not believe let arshivin go and you will see the way he is going to shine on another club, for arshivin is just management I don’t question his ability.
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Mass clear out! Hmmm, now is that the same clear out we were having in the summer?
What a load of tosh, no one is stupid enough to leave a job where they are being paid huge wages for doing very little. Would you??
As for some of the players who we have signed over the last few years … Who the bloody hell scouted them? Perhaps we need a clear out of scouts?
What about the never ending injury list and poor medical staff (estimated to be out for 2 weeks, Oops sorry 2 Months, Oops dash all season!) another clear out then.
And as for the Board!!! Gazzi and his overpaid non linked pay bonus cronies…. Last man please turn the lights out at The Emirates!!! Aaaarrrrggghhhh
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