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Arsenal’s latest young transfer target by SS

The latest youngster to be linked with a move to Arsenal is the Guingamp holding midfielder Gilbert Imbula. Imbula has been on Arsene Wenger’s radar for a while as well as many other top clubs, but Guingamp value him at around £8 Million which is a little bit too much for a player that hasn’t really been heard of by football fans in Europe and is currently in the French second division.

He plays as a defensive midfielder which would fix Arsenal’s need for the position to a certain extent, but not too many Arsenal fans would be happy with the injury prone Diaby and a young, unproven, inexperienced Frenchman protecting the defence next season. .......Read the full article here

The news that Abou Diaby is stepping up his recovery from injury should really make most Arsenal fans happy, but it has got to the point, with me anyway, that it just makes me even more worried. The Gunners were in exactly the same situation last summer, although the French international midfielder was closer to being fit then.

So, Arsene Wenger sold Alex Song and did not feel the need to sign a replacement for the tricky defensive midfield position. Diaby had already been out numerous times during the course of the season when the big one hit. A cruciate ligament problem in March saw him miss the rest of the season, and he will not be ready to play again until around Christmas. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal and Wanyama by Stefan

Victor Wanyama has admitted that he is in talks with several clubs over a possible transfer in the coming weeks. This news will come as a good and positive sign to the Arsenal fans who have been calling for the club to sign him up immediately, although Wanyama refused to reveal which clubs were talking to him, meaning that it could be several totally unexpected foreign clubs.

The Celtic and Kenya midfielder has been wanted by Arsenal because of the lack of defensive midfield options since the departure of Alex Song a year ago and the injury problems of Abou Diaby. Mikel Arteta and Aaron Ramsey have been playing deep to try and protect the back four recently but they are not as effective as a physically strong midfielder. .......Read the full article here

I can just hear it now, Arsenal do not need to sign nay more strikers, because Gervinho has decided to stay. While he’s at it, Arsene Wenger could also say that getting Andre Santos and Nicklas Bendtner back from their loan spells will be like signing two new players. Oh, and Abou Diaby might be fir sometime around Christmas, so we will manage until then and have a good end to the season, narrowly beating Tottenham into fourth place. .......Read the full article here

Defensive midfield has been a problem position at Arsenal ever since, well Patrick Vieira really. The Frenchman was such a great player, breaking up play brilliantly as well as driving forwards brilliantly and linking up with the attack. He could also get into the box and finish goals as well.

In a way, Vieira caused the problems that Arsenal have had in recent years with that position, as Arsene Wenger compares any other player in that area to his former captain. That is probably why Wenger has given Abou Diaby so much time and opportunity to overcome his recurring injury problems. Diaby could have been the perfect replacement for Vieira, but it now appears that injury will not allow him to fulfill his potential. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal are apparently closing in on the signing of young Manchester City midfielder Abdi Ibrahim who has been on loan for the last few seasons away from his parent club. This would seem like a strange move for Arsenal to make but the Norwegian has been on a host of Premier League club’s radars for many years and it appears that City have resigned themselves to selling him because of a lack of room in his favoured defensive midfield role.

Ibrahim has been compared to the likes of Patrick Vieira and Yaya Toure throughout his career and when Vieira was still playing for Man City, he took it upon himself to tutor the young player and teach him all he knows about football. .......Read the full article here

Most Arsenal fans seem to agree that the Gunners definitely need a top top top striker, a hard defensive midfielder and maybe a new goalkeeper to improve us for next season, but if Wenger finally actually manages to get rid of most of our deadwood this summer then we may need more than a few players to make up the numbers of squad players.

Just as an example, I have been looking at the midfielders that Wenger had in the squad at the beginning of the season after selling Alex Song, and here is the full list: .......Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger seems to have made his decision to include Jack Wilshere in the Arsenal starting line up today. Unless he is doing another of his old Jedi mind tricks, of course, and Mikel Arteta and his unmovable appear on the St. James’ pitch this afternoon. Assuming the Spaniard has failed to recover from his calf problem, it will be Jack who plays alongside Ramsey.

This has sparked a lot of concern among the Arsenal fans, as Wilshere is our talisman and we have already lost him for over a year with injury problems. We know that the 21-year old is due for a minor operation on his ankle this summer, so people are naturally worried that the injury could be aggravated today, perhaps meaning that he is not ready for next season. .......Read the full article here

Surely Arsene Wenger will sign a defensive midfielder for Arsenal this summer, surely. I know that Mikel Arteta and Aaron Ramsey have been doing a great job recently and that there is the versatile Francis Coquelin breaking through from the reserve ranks, but the need for a proper, no-nonsense midfield general has been stark at times this season.

I think that the recovery of Abou Diaby was a big factor in Wenger not buying a replacement for the departing Alex Song, because the Frenchman had time before the transfer window closed last summer. Even in January, when most Arsenal fans were thinking about who it would be rather than whether Wenger would sign one. There was Diame from West Ham definitely available, but Wenger obviously did not think he was the right man for the job. .......Read the full article here

The end of the season is unusually tense at Arsenal as we are sitting two points behind Tottenham in the race for the last Champions League spot and we have to play Wigan and Newcastle. The club gets a lot of criticism these days but the club always manages to finish in a safe position, however, this season things could be different.

When I think about the squad and how well they do considering how many players we have lost in recent years I begin to think that there is a lot to do before we can compete for titles again but the first thing is that we need a defensive midfielder who can be relied upon to protect the defence at all times. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal fans are used to seeing a long list of injuries for most of the Premiership season, but going into our final two games, we are down to just one person left on the treatment table, and no prizes for guessing who that is!

Last week, there was Kieran Gibbs, Lukasz Fabianski and Abou Diaby on the list, but Wenger revealed yesterday: “The news is quite good, we have everyone available. Kieran Gibbs should be back too, he has a test today.

“Fabianski is available as well.”

So Diaby must be feeling quite lonely in the medical department at the moment! But Wenger also finally announced the fact that Jack Wilshere was definitely set for summer surgery, as we revealed three weeks ago. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal are going to be without the extremely gifted but equally unlucky French international Abou Diaby until the end of the year. Some Gooners will say that we have had to do without him for the last couple of years. Every time he comes back, it is not for long and he is not playing often enough to get back into the form we all know he could have.

Whether or not it is the end of the line at Arsenal for Diaby, it is clear that Arsene Wenger needs to bring a top quality, all-round midfielder to the Emirates during the summer transfer window. The latest player in this position to be linked with the Gunners is 23-year old Morgan Schneiderlin from Southampton. .......Read the full article here