Wenger may be excited about Jenkinson, but the fans aren’t!
Arsenal fans are used to being disappointed transfer windows, as we always here about how massive amounts of money are building up in the “transfer fund” but find out that Wenger has bought a few 17 year-olds for the academy, but this year was supposed to be different…
Wenger has (yet again) acknowledged that the defence is a big problem, and he admitted that he needs to buy strong, tall experienced and mature players to counterbalance the youth in the side, but what have we been treated to so far?
Today it’s been announced that Wenger has finally secured the Southampton youngster Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (that will look good on the new shirt!) for £12m, BUT the only definite signing is the 19 year-old out-of-contract Charlton defender Carl Jenkinson, who will cost a couple of million in compensation.
As you can guess, the Arsenal Blogs were a bit underwhelmed by the news, especially as this was common knowledge a couple of months ago (I reported it on April 6th), but Wenger is suddenly very “excited” by the deal!
He said: “We were watching Carl for some time and he is a player with great talent and natural defensive ability, but also a powerful player who likes to go forward,”
“He is a strong defender who has made quick progress with Charlton and also with the younger age categories for the Finland national team, showing many great qualities.
“We are excited that Carl is joining us and he will add strength to our squad.”
Jenkinson may add “strength to the squad” but what happened to “experience and maturity”?
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i ve got nothing against the boy but i wish someone buy the club and kick all the board including wenger out of arsenal fc
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nothing wrong with praising your new player, providing arsene does the right thing.
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I am willing to give the lad a chance, but if Wenger only buys youngsters in this transfer window then he clearly has learned nothing from our recent failings. Hopefully all these signings for the future are just the calm before the storm, as far as play acquisitions go.
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I wish we could buy a new manager…
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How can they say that the increase in ticket prices is due to the large transfer amounts? WTF is going on with Squallci, they need to drop him for sure.
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Carl Jenkinson is just another youth non-story. It will make no difference where this player is this season, next season or five seasons from now.
Phil Jones on the other hand…
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why are you complaining?
with virtually everyone brandishing eboue as a liability, having Jenkinson can only be good and he is seen as the heir apparent to Sagna. We all know he is not the major signings that Wenger was talking about but continuous improvement in the youth is required (especially with a lack of a right back in the reserves)
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Wenger is killing us….he is too much of a financial manager, rather than a football manager. I mean spend some money , winning trophies also brings in cash…manure got +\- 50M for reaching the CL final…and 80+ M merchandising y??? B/c they WIN!!!…wat happened to adebayor and toure money?? Winning is what got us the Emirates …one more season AW or ill also hav to fly to london and join the protests….spend that 20 or 30M…AFC can afford it!!!!!
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If Wenger doesn’t bring in the kind of players everyone expects, combined with all the rumours surrounding the departure of our star midfielders… the fans might turn on him if he only brings in underagers.
I’d do the same… but I live in Montreal !!!!
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settle down there bud its not august yet….its not even mid june from what i have seen no experienced player has moved from any club as yet cept friedel just wait its coming
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Great signing. Eat shit whoever disagrees. In a few years hell be Englands number one right back and every one will acknowledge what a bargain the kid was! Not to mention an Arsenal supporter. Welcome Jenkinson, from a real Arsenal fan.
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its only been a few days in give it a bit of time. at the moment there is a lot of talk about transfers and it looks like a diffencive one very soon. at this point in time wenger will be working hard to keep out players as well as get new ones he will have to work this well. so dont get all p*ssy that nothing has happened its been 5 days
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Seriously who cares what the fans think.
Only in England would fans be upset at signing a one million pound 19 year old back up right back. And wish for 20 million plus signings for people who have only played a season of top flight football, the transfer window is only 10 days old for fucks sake and “fans” are already throwing their dummies around.
This isn’t football manager whereby you spend 20 mil on a defender one day and 24 mil on a striker the next.
The only reason why Arsenals young players are highlighted is because there is a chance they can succeed, Chelsea and United sign over ten of youngsters a year yet no one cares because they will be flogged two years later for nothing.
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he better sign Sakho / Hazard And Falcao or he can pi$$ 0ff..
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its good to buy Home grown Talents good for the future…
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Arsenalhad squillaci, Djourou, and Laurent in defense and they lost terribly. Wenger is too stubborn and he will suffer again for it. What does the 19year old stand in defense against people like Drogba, Messi, Rooney. With Chambalain and Jenkinson in the first team Arsenal is heading for anotherfailed season and hopefully the 7th consercutive season without a trophy to show for their interesting but pathetic style of football.
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Wenger can do one of two things, surprise us with quality signings or shock us by resigning in January, which is it to be? I`ll go for the former.
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Who has been our stand out player this season? Wilshere surely has to be at the front of that list. Everyone is saying we need more like him, with both an English and Arsenal connection, creating a passion for our great club. Jenkinson and Oxlade-Chamberlain (if indeed we have signed him) surely both fit this bill. Both want to play for Arsenal and I can see both carving out successful careers.
The fact of the matter is yes we need some established, proven quality but if we do get that its unlikely they will be gooners through and through, at least not to begin with.
For this reason I see these two as definitively something to get excited about. We need players that support Arsenal and that will grow into our future Arsenal stronghold positions.
I look forward to seeing who (and if) we bring in for immediate impact but surely any Arsenal fan should be pleased to see real prospects coming in. When I say this I don’t just mean young talent I mean people who can reignite that desire to be Arsenal for life.
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espnstar says arsenal have sign gervinho is it real??
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Phil, dumbest boy on the thread. Thinks this will keep cesc and nasri, moron.
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apparently
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Oxlade-Chamberlain, Jenkinson and Gervinho… hardly signings that will have United, Chelsea, Citeh, the Spuds and Liverpool shaking in their boots.
WENGER OUT, NOW!!!
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Arsenal fans are really starting to annoy me now cmon give thE guy a chance and whoever sed sign sakho he’s like 20 u moron and ur havin a go 4 not signing experienced players? And hazard who will turn 19 nxt year u retard and then falcao when he’s not the striker we need the striker we need is chamakh! And as for jenkinson bein a star for the future 3 words SO WAS DENILSON
And we all know how that turned out
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agree with everything you just wrote ryan…Arsenal fans have been spoiled…could be worse, at least we’re not Everton who never win anything ever or Man $hitty, who have to buy trophies…they are rumored to be after EVERY striker in Europe! they have Tevez, Dzeko, Ade, Santa Cruz just to name a few! they have so many they have to loan them out! financial fair play is going to kill some of these clubs! Arsenal fans need to remain SUPPORTIVE! Wenger will make moves this summer, be patient, transfer window isn’t even officially open until July 1! sit back, relax, have a pint and smile mates!
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come on guys i know it frustrating but transfer window doesn’t officially open till July 1st and Arsenal do generally keep very hush hush about transfer deals till it finalised so hold your judgement till window does open then you can truely see if Wenger has kept his promise
PS. when Wenger said bout big signings he didn’t say he wouldn’t bring a couple of talented youngsters as well so don’t think this is his so called big signings
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Take a chill pill !!
We are only 10 days into the transfer window.
We have bid for Jones and lost out on that signing. its only 10 days, we have been waiting 6 years for a trophy. surely we can wait a few more weeks for some signings.
This is the same Arsenal that take forever to sign players, constantly haggling and trying to get the cheapest deal possible. Arsenal very rarely do quick transfer deals so all this moaning is a waste of time.
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Lets jst w8 n see what happens, Wenger knows dat he needs to spend to keep d team in the CL
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The truth is great we buy youth over experience but when we do this they try to leave like flamini or pleb when the become big headed over there talent as nasri is doing now the players must feel the same as us buy some experience not more youth if we lose nasri and fab and clichy we won’t be winning anything again then next year it will be Walcott let spend now win something and sell them after.
Soon players won’t want to come to arsenal because we don’t win a thing. EVERYONE DON’T BUY ANY SHIRTS or MERCHANDISE UNTIL WE BUY SOME QUALITY TO THE SQUAD.
That’s what I’m doing.
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It’s over.
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i dont know about u guys but i say giv him a chance the one we know for sure abt arsene is his ability to make players into big stars like these ungrateful brats nasri wud still be in mariseille fabregas never wud hav got to play if he stayed in barca clichy well wow he sucked shit yet he has demands wtabout wilshere ramsey walcott rvp vermaelen all of them were youth signings and look at them now
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The fans were not excited about Vermaleen.
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Everybody stop complaining. Gervinho is very likely to sign for Arsenal very soon, and i am sure Arsene will spend more money!! HE ALWAYS conducts his business in late-June or early July, give him a chance ffs.
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this site lost its credibility from the last post..just gonna look on this site as “they aint got a clue what they are talking about”
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if we don’t pay the salaries nasri is requesting we would not sign top players.
We might not pay that salary to nasri, but we would need to start paying bigger salaries if we want to sign bigger players.
by the way, refusing to pay nasri’s requested salry is stupid because we would end up losing 10-15 million in his transfer fee instead of spending 3-5 in raising his salary, and porbably eran more by selling him later (if is worth to sell him)
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ryan shut up. 1st of all I am very pro getting Carl. you cannot argue that fact that he lacks maturity and saying that sakho and the hazard do as well because they are also young. Each has been playing for their team for atleast 3 years now and has been a big part of their respective teams/league. Age does not always definde maturity and experience(I.E cesc + verm). Sakho has been capt for like 3 years now and I’m sure hazard could be given to tempt him to stay
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Arsenal 4 life
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Ffs shut up. The manager buys a young player for very little at the start of the transfer window and the idiots start complaining “this isn’t what we wanted”. Well the window has just opened so stop your sensationalist c**p and articles simply designed to breed hatred for Arsene Wenger and write some real articles. This site is always just hate, hate, hate with articles so one-sided against the manager and with no intelligence to them. I only come on here because i don’t think Arsenal fans should have to be influenced by this c**p.
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U all will see the light!!!!!!! come 1st July!!!!!!! ARSENAL 4 LIFE
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ALL U TRUE GUNNERS!!! STOP THINKING OF THE INVINCIBLE !!!! OUR TIME WILL COME AND ITS COMING.TRUE GUNNER ARSENAL 4 LIFE
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This is the leader we’ve all been waiting for, so relieved. Hahahah, this club has officially lost it.
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plz..Mr.wenger
all of us are expecting a big signing…
plz dont kill us
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FANS BE COOL LET PROF DO HIS WORK .BUT WE DO NO MORE TRUST ANY FRANCH TALENT——NO MORE FRENCH PLAYERS
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GOD! FAnse dont only want a huge signing, but they also want it NOW! The transfer window has only been open for 10 days! Give him a chance then lodge your objections.
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Here is what the lad said to Arsenal.com and you’re slagging him off before he’s even pulled on the shirt …
“My dad has been a season ticket holder for 40-odd years and has been going regularly since he was a kid.
“He brought me up as an Arsenal fan and I’ve been going since I was young. I even went to a few games last season. My whole family are all massive Arsenal fans.
“I was always a big fan of Tony Adams and I’m reading his book at the moment. He was always someone I looked at as a great leader. He is a player I can learn a lot from and I will be looking to follow in his footsteps.”
… I think a lad like this is going to be playing out of his socks to help the team he supports, to do his dad proud and please the rest of his Arsenal Supporting family. We should go for that other Arsenal Supporter now, Ashley Young. Sell Nasri to pay for the deal. I want players who want to be at the club and if they support the club too, it doesn’t get any better … unless you’re a mobile phone advertising Judas called Ashley Cole.
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Wenger needs to start the build up now. We need trophies and it doesn’t come on a platter of gold it is only when he adds experienced and matured players to our depth. Gunners 4 Life
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the kid will have to prove himself to be on the first team nothing wrong with getting quality youngsters to use i the squad or second string squad and to sell eventually once he continue to show is ability anything can happen.
Yea would like to see the experience buys and the talented players and the earlier we do the quicker the team will gel together
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keep the faith,gunner for life
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there is nothing wrong with signing young players but you need to get good, proven, experienced players to balance out the squad.
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I want to give the lad a chance, he seems like a player with a good attitude, this is what he said in his first arsenal interview:
“It’s amazing to have joined. Words can’t really describe how it feels to be honest, being an Arsenal fan, it’s an amazing thing for me and something that I am really excited about.My dad has been a season ticket holder for 40-odd years and has been going regularly since he was a kid.
“He brought me up as an Arsenal fan and I’ve been going since I was young. I even went to a few games last season. My whole family are all massive Arsenal fans.
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