Redknapp wants Arsenal target Diame
If Arsenal are serious about signing the West Ham midfielder Mohamed Diame as a permanent or temporary replacement for the injury prone Abou Diaby, then Arsene Wenger might need to act sooner rather than later, as the new QPR manager Harry Redknapp has identified the 25-year old Senegal international as the man to help him avoid relegation from the Premier league.
The Mirror reports that Redknapp is ready to activate the release clause in the dynamic midfielder’s contract when the January transfer window opens in just over a week. QPR can easily afford Diame and will be able to offer him a good wage, but Arsenal would surely make a more attractive proposition.
I am not Deputy Dawg’s biggest fan, but he does seem to have an eye for a player who will prosper in the Premier league. Also, Diame has been very impressive for West Ham this season until he picked up an injury recently.
He may not be the archetypal Gunner, but Wenger could add some finesse to his game and Arsenal need his sort of player to complement the silky skills of the likes of Santi Cazorla. He has Premier league experience and will be back from injury in January. I think he would be ideal, and if we can scupper the plans of Redknapp who is always ready with a bad word for Arsenal, it would be an added bonus. Is he good enough for Arsenal, Gooners?
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Diame has alot of finesse to his game already did you not see his goal against us! Just because he doesn’t ‘look’ like a skillful player he’s actually more yaya toure/diaby then papa boubba dioup. He can drive through midfields and can pass too. In my opinion it’s an absolute no brainer to buy him. If we could also loan david villa and sell some of the dead weight would be a very good window
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Diame’s goal against us this season says it all. If you don’t know what im talking about then go and search it on yt.
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Wld prefer Capoue/M’vila but if we buy anybody
it’ll probably be Diame. I thinks hes a gd player
who knows the EPL&i’d be happy to have him
however i feel we shd be aiming higher with our
choice of transfer targets.
Dont let is down wenger!
COYG
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So let him pay a lot of money and we buy M’Vila instead!
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It all depends on if Arsenal really want him,if they do I don’t see him turning us down for QPR COYG!!!
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If there’s one player that we should sign in January, it’s Swansea’s Ashley Williams! Legend!!
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If we want a strong powerful midfielder who hardly ever gives the ball away and has the technical ability to pick the right pass we should go for Cheick Tiote from Newcastle.
He also has the added bonus of a wonderfully odd shaped head.
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‘He may not be the archetypal Gunner’ – what, you mean like Gervinho, Ramsey and Chamakh.
The guy is a monster and looks more disciplined than Song. And for £3.5 mil he is most definitely worth a punt.
Forget about Diaby, its a shame, but he’s finished.
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We do need a physical presence in midfield and for me the only that suit arsenal’s style is M’villa (good but has a temper) Diame (good again but has had gervinhoesk finishing in his wigan days and waiting for diaby to overcome his problems whihcseems imposible) Wengers choice.
ps. wait till summer as coquelin can do a decent enough job while arsenal have seem likely to sell frimpong in the summer and diaby may be the key to beating Bayern as he comes back md to late January i think?
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I hope QPR go down – all Harry does is spend spend spend and then gets credit for being a ‘great manager’???
I still cant believe how he got away with allegedly stashing nearly $300K in Monaco in an account named after his DOB and his dog and then denying he knew it was there!
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What do you mean he’s not the archetypal Gunner?Patrick Viera spring to mind.
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Are we going to sign anyone or is it again gonna be the same old story of rumours before every transfer window. Huntelaar is not coming which was confirmed today and we are just getting linked to all available players.
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Of course Arsenal could use one good DM and an Attacker…. Whatever is done, DEPTH is the Key to Arsenal Transfer Needs – both short-term and long-run. It is the Arsenal soft belly that finally needs to be covered.
Remember what has happened when Arsenal had just a few injuries and a packed schedule? (And Wenger had an excuse to start Ramsey) Disaster.
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Don’t understand why some of you still want M’Vila. This guy got banned from a national team for 2 years because of his discipline issues. This guy is a disaster. Why would Wenger buy a ‘Joey Barton’ kind of character to disrupt our team?
Never gonna happen.
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@gunner4life Diame’s goal was nice and like him as a player but… Diame could have never scored if Jenk had been goal-side instead of our boy. With Jenk waiting to take over, Ramsey occupied the defensive space and made a 10 year old type of lunge to free Diame and then stepped to his right to block off Jenkinson from any attempt at picking up Diame. In a horrible display of defensive ineptitude, Ramsey just handed Diame the deep penetration – from there Diame was awesome.
But you are right I think in principle. Diame is a fine player.
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Andre ayew and jordan ayew of marseille anyone???
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Sign this, sign that…!!!
Some of you are just so hopeful… That’s good, but hang on to your seat for the disappointment coming…
We need more than Diame to resolve our problems and finally get close to Man U and Man City. Diame? is that what Arsenal is attracting or only capable of signing??
Well, I will let this season pass, because it is a DISGRACE, A TOTAL DISGRACE…
I will hope for better things next season… Hopefully without Wenger, Gazidis and their cronies. THEY PUT US DOWN FOR TOO LONG.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
Top four? is that all we can aim for??? DISGRACE, WHEN OTHER CLUBS AND FANS CAN ENJOY THE THRILL OF FIGHTING FOR THE TITLE ( and we are paying the highest price seat in the land to watch that bullocks )…
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yes diame would be great for starters offer west ham chamakh for exchange they are looking for a striker.
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Is Afc_camden a good source? According to AFC_CAMDEN the zaha deal is done!!! How true that is I don’t know…. But I want us too sign capoue!! Think he’ll bring a more physical presence then diame.. Diame is decent but I just don’t think he is the man we’re missin in midfield.. Capoue can also play defence aswell.. But let’s wait and see.. I not gettin my hopes up for anything major as its the jan window… But by summer I’m expecting us to be on course to having real special (self made) team.. That to challenge on all fronts..
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Diame is out for three months with injury and i think we need someone who can come straight in!
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Lockay,
just piss off then mate and go and “support” another club.
So called supporters like you are a cancer that needs to be removed sooner rather than later.
Just look at Leeds, Shitty (in the old days)Pompey and rangers supporters…then compare their SUPPORT to your bitching…your not a gooner your a trophy hunting prawn sandwich!!!
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you can always tell when redknapp is back in the game. He goes for every Arsenal target. He must think if Arsenal want him then we must have him
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gooneray,
never a truer word said mate, perhaps he’ll join the race for Walcott.
Hope so, cause if he’s worth £100,000 a week Arry can fund him from his doggy account!!!
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Lockay,
how do you explain the supporters of clubs like Newcastle, Sunderland, Spuds, Liverpool and all the other premier clubs who will never have “the thrill of fighting for the title” but SUPPORT their clubs 100%?
Again, supporters who turn on their club if they dont win are a cancer and should just go away.
By the way, my season ticket costs me £380, what does yours cost you?
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@IHaveADream:
I like most of your fanatsy squads but you pair Eisfeld with Ramsey in the “future” category as if they are equivalents. Eisfeld is a young reserver looking good in most every game while Ramrod is an adult whose playing patterns have been established. You can still hope but….. well, it is just that – hope. I think you would have a better bet with Bendtner.
Now go ahead and slam me for insulting the adult-aged teen idol.
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Huntelaar signs new deal, thank god that removes any chance of Arsenal signing him, now we have to hope that Ba signs at Newcastle as I don’t want short term solutions, if project youth is starting again but with British players, I’d take Walcott over either of them
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We should sign michu from swansea! The guy is pure class! Prob just a dream! Coyg
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Everybody’s in a thumbs down kinda mood today!
All the people on here sayin “Diame is the one” if we buy him and he turns out not to be the one then dont start hating on him, like y’all did with Ramsey.
COYG
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Diame is nowhere near the level of a Diaby, in fact I believe Frimpong very soon will become a better player. It’s not the likes of Diame that will get us back to a competitive level. There are numerous CDM’s that can do for us: Lars Bender, Fellaini, M’Vila (attitude problems though) or De Rossi.
We haven’t had a decent DM since Viera and Gilberto left.
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According to Metro, QPR are favourites to land Yann M’Vila as they are weighing up a 7.5m bid, so i doubt they will go for Diame and M’Vila, Personally i prefer Diame as he is a powerhouse going forward and gets stuck in makes alot of interceptions and tackles
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I would prefer m’vila or strootman. Even though m’vila has attitude problems. I Think its advantage that he is banned from his national side
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Virtually every player Redknapp goes for is either an Ex-Arsenal player or somebody Wenger has been linked to. Twitcher thinks, “Well, if Wenger thinks he is good then he must be. Break the bank, get this player.”
Redknapp needs to be certain Wenger is genuinely interested though and not just dropping the names of players to steer attention away from real targets.
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@ken and @Lockay;
I agree with ken, yes it is disappointing, and yes we should be up there with the $hitties and the Utd$ but we are in a transition period. I knew it would be like this when we moved stadium, and what we have achieved, Champs league every season for 13 years… absolutely amazing when we are in the toughest league in the world.
Shouting for peoples jobs is not what we are about! We are not Abramovich, We are not Liverpool! We are better than this and we need to show it when we go undefeated in a season but also when times are tough!
Lockay: Grow up a bit and support your team! I would happily pay the highest price in EPL to see Arsenal because I LOVE ARSENAL! And I will always attend games to support and encourage and drive us forward!
COYG!
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forgot to mention:
Diame is good, hate Redknapp but sometimes he is right. I would rather see Fellaini come in though, give the chance to rotate and rest key players i.e. Jack and Santi as he can play CDM and CAM/CF. Has a year more English football experience and has always looked pretty good! I really do like the idea of pushing the Verminator forward into CDM though, Can remember some of his runs and goals in early Arsenal career… Someone Phone up Le Prof!
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Diame would be a good player for the current Arsenal team
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