Real Madrid target Wilshere – No worries for Arsenal
Super-rich Real Madrid usually wreak havoc in the transfer periods with their ability to acquire almost any footballer they have their eye on, and Arsenal are just at risk of losing star players to them as any other team.
The Spaniards have been linked with Robin Van Persie, Andrey Arshavin and even Cesc Fabregas in the last year (before his move to Barcelona was finally completed), and their next Gunners target – according to the Marca – is Jack Wilshere.
The club are seemingly planning to spend £25-30 million on the 19 year-old, with a view to create a ‘dream team’ of Europe’s most promising emerging talents. This squad would include Mario Götze, Eden Hazard and Rafinha Alcantara, all three of which are Arsenal targets.
This news comes just a week after Wilshere promised that he would stay at the Emirates “forever”, and Gunners fans would have been impressed at his apparent loyalty in what has so far been a whirlwind season for the club. Despite these kind of pledges at times turning out to be insincere in football, Wilshere has been at the club since he was just nine and it seems unlikely that, after his Player of the Season showing last campaign, he would end his Arsenal career before it has even been given the chance to take off.
The fact that he most probably would get into the starting line-up at Real Madrid – especially after winning the midfield battle in Arsenal’s win over Barcelona in last season’s Champions League – does give him more reason to join the Spanish giants but at the moment, there seems little reason that they would offer him much more footballing-wise than Arsenal, although the chances of cup and league success have been higher at the Bernabeu than the Emirates in recent years. The likelihood of trophies at Arsenal this season arguably hangs on his presence in the squad and his availability after his current spell of injury.
He will inevitably receive ludicrous wage offers and the Gunners would recoup a mammoth transfer fee, but is Wilshere a player more interested in football than finances? Whether he is that sort of footballer or not, surely Arsenal’s grasp on the player is too tight for any team to snatch him away just yet?
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I trust in Wilshere. He wouldn’t leave. He was in Arsenal since he was 9. He treats Arsenal like a home. Trust in wilshere. He wouldn’t go back on his words.
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wilshere would feel elated with this kind of news.this wont happen atleast for now.the only positive in this rumour is,it will ensure wenger does enough(in maintaining a competitive squad) so that the players are happy at arsenal ….
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Real madrid shows interest for any buzzing player in the world because they see the mediatic potential of a player as a way to make money… and reputation… I don’t think that, at the time, wilshere could be bewitched by money and mourinho’s sparkling promises (god I hate the guy!!).
I might be wrong but english players are the more loyal players in the world to me. If not to a club, at least to the league… I can’t see wilshere leaving arsenal as he’s a true fan. Mourinho will have to find an other target, someone that loves money and easy fame… Maybe he should try to get nasri…
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I might be wrong but english players are the more loyal players in the world to me. If not to a club, at least to the league
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They are mostly not good enough to move elsewhere and they make a looot of money in the EPL, so no incentive to move
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Are you saying the likes of lampard, gerrard, wilshere, rooney etc aren’t good enough for moving??? Maybe they are too expensive, but not for real madrid. Maybe it’s more patriot than loyal, but it’s not a lack of talent! How disabused are you? However you have a point when you say they earn good money where they are, maybe more foreign moves for english players would improve their level. But you also say “mostly” and that means a few of them do have the talent (the ones I quoted) and still they go nowhere… So I have a point too ^^
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what wenger can give to jack nobody ELSE can……
AND I THINK HE WOULDNT GO ANYWAY…..
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In wilshere i trust…dis wil test him(wilshere) mayb he s a player dat goes 4 footbal or money
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he have the LOVE FOR ARSENAL not like anybody else.
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Let’s get this straight …. Real Madrid are not super rich. They are super borrowed !! Both Real and Barcelona would face a crisis if Spanish banks dared to stop lending to them. There would also so be riots.
I am waiting for Barcelona to want Wilshere. Then he can say … it’s no good, you lot at Barcelona have better players than me in your reserves !!
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love 4 a club is beta dan d love of money! Madrid shud luk else where cos jack is planin his future with arsenal! He is nt 4 sale at any prize!
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i’v got something in common with jack, we both promised never to leave arsenal.
arsenal till death do us part
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Trust nobody but God – Psalms 146:3
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All respect for writers in this amazing blog, but Luke T. I wonder sometimes if you really are a Gooner. Yesterday you were honoured that Song was a target of Inter, now Jackie is target of big Real Madrid. You think that Arsenal is not big? Sorry but I really miss Admin.
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gunner fan-what if wilshere been offer 50 milion + cristiano ronaldo+ozil+benzema+sergio ramos??
stil wud prefered young jack wilshere..cus he loves arsenal..hes a true gooner and he has a true gooner DNA
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Madrid is like a spoilt child never happy with its got and always coveting what everyone else has. Jack would be better of where he is truly loved and appreciated ie: at Arsenal.
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I think he will decide he’s real future after watching arsenal finish the season… just like van-tastic…
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some people keep promises and others don’t. lets wait and see attitude parhaps
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As d richest club in d world,we wil b tempted 2 give in on wilshere ,if they are able 2 pay atleast 400 million pounds.im not joking.if they can pay 23milion 4 anelka in 1999,they can do it nw.
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Real are not the super rich club but they are mentally rich they have got goals where as arsenal it’s totally oppsite anything thing can happen if perez say.
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So we have Song to Inter, Wilshire to Real Madrid, Chamakh to Bourdeaux, Van Persie to Man City hhmmmm. What a load of rubbish!!
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I would doubt Wilshire would want to go to Spain, not just because of his affections for Arsenal, but because of the language barrier (very few English players leave for foreign clubs) and the fact that his son has just been born and he will want to be around his family.
I’m more worried about what might happen in 5-6 years if Wenger were to leave and Arsenal still weren’t winning trophies.. Then a lot of these up and coming home grown players may well decide Arsenal is no longer the club it used to be and they would be better of in Manchester or somewhere warmer (like Spain)
In any case, Wilshire should by that point be one of the top players in the World (and certainly one of the very best in the England squad) and will command a transfer fee, far higher than £25M – so it would make no sense for Arsenal to sell him now.
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kack?
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Real is real crook that spoil the soup because they have unlimited resources from the Spain Goverment. Puuii.
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he will get a better wage
arsenal gets a big transfer money
he will get trophy
he ‘ll get fame
he will play among stars
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Love for Arsenal
You Know What, ARSENAL DNA remains…. ARSENAL DNA
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wat part of “Gooner 4 life” dont these spanish pr*cks understand? jack is our steven Gerard hence his not going anywhere
GOONER 4 LIFE
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i trust Wilshere he is smart enough to know that it too early for such.
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We are talking of Jack Wilshere here,not the ingrate called Samir Nasri.
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I trust our man jack he will stick to his words.
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JACK IS NOT FOR MONEY JACK IS FOR LOVE, STAY AT ARSENAL HE LOVES ARSENAL…………I LOVE ARSENAL TOO
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I wonder y ! Arsenal is bigger club than Real madrid, how can Jack move from the big club, well talented,displine players,and the only coach who is professor Wenger, accept it or deny it Arsenal has more fans in the world than Madrid………….Jack is for Love not for borrowed money…………………stay Jack Stay ! money cant buy happiness, you are happy with Arsenal…………..
who will see you when yo shift to Madrid, the league of two team,remain to the league of 20 teams………wow….at the league which QPR can beat Chelsea, norwhich city can stop Man U, birminghma City can take trophy from Arsenal and so on……………big league, see in spain we know Mess and Cristina Ronaldo only, but in Englan we can talk of VAN PARSEA,ROONEY,GERAD,TORRES,TERRY,SAGNA,ASHLEY YOUNG,BALE,WALCOT,SHEIK TIOTE,PIENNER,DROGBA,KALOU,SUAREZ,GERVINOO SO MANY MORE……..I LOVE U JACK U LOVE ARSENAL NOT MONEY.
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i know wilshere is not going,he will stay at arsenal,we are wating 4 his arrival to strenthing d midfield,so madrid u are going to fail
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