Wenger says “quality and availability” drives Arsenal transfer dealings
Arsene Wenger has admitted that he is looking to strengthen the Arsenal team this summer, but he says it all depends on who becomes available and whether they are of necessary quality to improve the squad.
He makes absolutely no mention of the price or the age of his transfer targets, in fact he gives absolutely nothing away and is very unlikely to in the future!
“It is down to availability and quality,” said Wenger. “We don’t rule out any position and we don’t target any special position before the transfer market.
“We look to strengthen every year of course. But first we look not to weaken because we want to keep all our players, and then we try to strengthen.
“It’s not about the number, it’s the quality. I don’t want to give out a number we’ll go for.
He went on to tell the assembled media: “I promise you that if we sign a player we will inform you and when we sell a player we will inform you as well. I would like to keep out of all the other speculation before that.”
So, no change there then!
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He means…I will not pay over the odds for any player !
As much as I would like to see splash the cash on a marquee signing, I know he won’t.
So we’ll wait and see what happens in the summer.
With Arsene’s penny pinching …I get the feeling it’s gonna be a long one !.
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well if its players that are better than the ones we have hes looking for then they dont have to be great because the ones we have are pure shit. This is his easy way out where when he doesnt buy a player he can say there was no players of quality available. typical wenger bullshit. iF he means business this summer then he will have all players bought before the club goes on pre season tour.
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simple: gameiro and vertonghen in
squillaci, almunia, denilson and bendtner out
youth upgradements: bartley, frimpong, lansbury and JET
loans out : miguel and vela
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Wen u tel u r looking for quality,i wonder the kind of quality u saw in chamakh..boss know that cheap is expensive.ow much is yaya toure?he has given a trophy to man city after ages.its high we spend we judge success with wat we win not how u play soccer.
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no to gamerio, yes to vertonghen. benzema would be very nice..
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Falcao/scott parker/vertonghen if these three come in we will win the premiership next season parker will provide that hard tackler element we have been missing along with falcao a clinical scorer to take the pressure of van persie and stability to the backline from vertonghen! But i believe we must keep fabregas and tie down nasri or it will only weaken the team and if arshavin goes hazard would be amazing but then again the odds that wenger will splash so much cash is impossible to see..if no improvements are made ill not be surprised if we finish 6th or 5th
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Totes kev, totes!
Same rubbish we hear this time of year from the crackpot professor.
You can make the right players available if you try hard enough.
Trying to forget arsenal this summer otherwise it will depress me even more
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Hmm it will be a similar transfer season as before.i think no big signing will happen this season .may be one or two addition absolutely underdeveloped players .they will have to take two to three season to get develop. Then they have the guts to say I have to go wherever I get a better opportunity.similar to bendtner merida.during the time of playing with us nothing could bring into our game similar to diaby denilson some rare good performances only.nothing to take as negative only the youth blood in has the problem that they will have completely down when important situations .a completemixture of established experienced players will bring some courage to fight the young blood with circumstances .otherwise the overall result of the next season will always same.i think our current team is excellent but some psychological problem is there.that is always the downward going confidence as the season progresses.our senior players are not good enough to bring the season confidence because andrey rosicy and others all have their own problem with inconsistency.therefore some stubborn finished products have to be added.onething is sure if no such additions takesplace we can surely predict that we have to wait one more year .next season liverpool mancity will be much stronger than today.chelsea will try toeliminate the problems happened this year.man untd will strengthen surely.that is the competition will harder than ever.this years crown was ours but that will gone to united
.wait and see what will happens.
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True official transfer policy = skint. Sell for the money, buy nothing.
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Charlie Adams is more of the boss of midfield we need rather than Parker.
Take £30m for cesc all summer long, he has been poor this year or injured.
His heart is elsewhere so let him go along with diaby, denilson, rosicknote, ebousless, bendtner, vela, clichy (how nice would bastos be?), squallaci and arshavin.
Mass clearout of the underperforming overpaid dross
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WENGER OUT! KLOPP IN!!!
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Whatever Mr.Wenger.Youre a joke.
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blah, blah, blah….
Better not be the same old story this time around, esp. with Man City, Chelsea, & Liverpool all spending big.
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ronnie corbet in full blown drag and heels would surely improve this squad the way were playing at the momment! the world and his dog knows who the quality players about are, and what to do to get them “cough cough benzema” so stop piss arsin about and just do what needs to be done otherwise shut up about transfers completely.
a quick note of recognition to the city boys! well done for doing what we could not and holding it together to win the f a cup. city stepped up today why the bloody hell couldnt are lot manage it against birmingham ?
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Yes BC, the right price will make any quality player available..but we all know how that works at Arsenal don’t we!
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MASS CLEAROUT…
OUT
DENIFLOP
CRAPMUNIA
DIABOLICAL
ROSICKY(HAS JUST LOST TOUCH)
CLASHARVIN(HE’S GOOD BUT NOT WHAT WE NEED)
NO-CLASS BENDTNER
FLOPIANSKI(WE JUST CANT EVER TRUST HIM AFTER FC PORTO)
SEB. SQUID
BARTLEY
RANDALL
EBO-USELESS
CLICHE
TRAORE
IN
PATO/AGEURO/BENZEMA(not Falaco)
HAZARD
PHIL JONES
HUMMELS/SUBOTIC/THIAGO SILVA
BOJAN
FABIO CONTREAO/ALY CISSOKHO/BASTOS/BAINES(LAST RESORT)
DAVIDE SANTON/VAN DER WEIL
NEUER/LLORIS/AKINFEEV
CHARLIE ADAM/PARKER/M’VILA
IF UNFORTUNATELY WE LOSE CESC AND NASRI ALL WE CAN DO IS PRAY TO GET PASTORE AND DAVID SILVA/JUAN MATA/GOURCUFF/GANSO
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Seriously man i can respect a man who played Almunia in goal for FIVE years. I could say more but i think that says it all
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When Wenger talks of quality, it leaves me wondering what is the real meaning of “quality”. If he was referring to the qualities we saw in the 2 defenders and 1 attacher he added this season, then he really needs psychiatric help.
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Wenger is a complete facade!
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Bob, i do agree with you entirely. You sound like a manager!
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Well lets see who he bought last year.
Koscielny
Squillaci
Chamack
Not a lot of quality there then. Does anyone really thinks these guys improved our team, I don’t. There’s no point in value if they don’t have the quality!
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Typical Asinine stuff. The Wenger youth camp set to comtinue. According to Forbes magazine list of august last year we are the third wealthiest club after Man U and Real madrid and far ahead of Barca, Inter, Ac Milan and ….. Chelski. This must come as a shock to those who keep parroting the propoganda that arsenal “doesnt have the money” to buy players.
Funny how all those clubs have won titles and trophies in the last two years. I wonder what the reason could be? – AW!
Even with this huge advantage and the untapped (arsene “i wont go to Asia preseason” Wenger) potential of the Arsenal brand around the world to generate revenue he cant translate that to a cup.
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NickW –
Chamakh was important in the absence of RvP during the first half of the season. We wouldn’t have been in the position we were in at the beginning of 2011 without him. I am concerned with his “burn out”, some of his nice guy comments in deferring to RvP, and his shooting from distance. His strength is aerial, and we need to sort out our delivery from the flanks to get the most of him (and possibly change to a 4-4-1-1).
Kos should be one of the best CB’s in the EPL next season – the problem for him was that this season was supposed to be one of getting upto speed, but then Verminator got injured.
Squillaci is the signing that was most iffy. I blame it on AW fannying around at the world cup and leaving things till the last minute of the transfer window.
In addition to some of the more sexy transfers (e.g. Benzema, Hazard), it would be nice to get some more homegrown talent and steel into the squad this summer, e.g. Phil Jones, Jack Rodwell. One can only hope…
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Are most of you thick or what? Wenger is hinting to the fans that he plans to spend money in the summer, WITHOUT suggesting to other clubs what position or price he is looking for. This approach means that Arsenal appear to be less desperate for a new CB, CDM and ST and therefore Wenger is able to bargain for a better price.
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I HAVE STOPPED LISTENING TO WHAT WENGER SAYS. I WILL SIT UP AND LISTEN THE DAY HE ANnOUNCES HE IS LEAVING.
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Wenger has bn directly or indirectly linked with lots of players who went 2 other clubs & achieve greatness, e.g Drogba, Peter Cech, CR9 & lots of them out there. What’s he talking about. Wenger don’t formulate his though b4 expressing it. Nxt season wil stil b fruitless so long Wenger is there as the damn coach.
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Just listen to all u haters.. Talking absolute crap .. What do u think this club is?> Man.City??,. You talk about mass clear outs, teams are not made overnight.. look at man.shitty, they can buy all they like but wont win the title for the next ten years. U dont understand what Wenger has done for this club, all u fickle hypocrites. Go support chelshit or Man.shitty..
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“We look to strengthen every year of course. But first we look not to weaken because we want to keep all our players, and then we try to strengthen.”
Says it all really.
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i don’t know, but expectations are very low in general and that is definitely not good for business. So keep thinking in reducing you spending, but you are also reducing your revenues. so yeah great business!!!
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Kronkie knows nothing about football, but he surely likes money. Wenger will not want to change and no one is there to see that he does. It’s over.
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Sell:
Clichy – $10m
Ashavin – $10m
Bendtner – $10m
Squillaci – $5m
Eboue – $5m
Total = $40m
Buy:
Subotic – $20m
Baines – $10m
Vertonghen – $15m
Hazard – $20m
Benzema – $25m
Total = $90m
Total Loss = $50m
Team:
Scezneny
Sagna Subotic/Koscielny Vermalaen Baines
Vertonghen/Song Wilshere/Ramsey
Fabregas
Hazard/Walcott Nasri
RVP/Benzema
-Surely Nasri and Fabregas would be convinced to stay if the club invested that well?
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I’ll reserve my judgement until after the preseason’s over…
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I feel really sorry for those who think wenger is gona go if they say wenger out, wenger looser, wenger this, wenger that. Some are even saying klopp in. WTF! that klopp guy just won one title and that too in porto, Portugal! Portugal is not england and their league is not even close to english! and people now want to trust a new guy who just won one trophy instead of trusting the most successful manager in the history of our club. Im not a die hard wenger fan and this doesnt mean that i am saying he has done everything right this season. But that doesnt mean we can trust a new guy more than him.
About the mass clear outs i’ve been reading for a while now. You know people that its not gona happen so stop wasting your energy for such foolish talks. For gods sake why would we wana have a mass clearout? whats the point of nurturing and playing together for so many years if you’r gona change them in just one month. Were mancity successful in the first year they spent so much? Even to win a FA cup it took three years of gelling in! Even real madrid with jose mourinho-the self proclaimed special one, won only the spanish version of FA cup this term! This is not your fantasy football manager where you get results even by changing the whole team every year.
Bottom line is, you’re just wasting your breath talking about mass clearances and wenger outs cuz thats not gona happen. Be realistic. I do believe that there must be two or three players out but just to bring in two or three new quality and experienced heads. Thats it. No more.
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Gooner, Kronkie likes money and is totally ignorant about football, but is not a complete idiot, he already has doubts about wenger. Nothing lasts forever. Much of this squad has been together for years, it’s not getting any better with age.
Oh and Klopp manages Borussia, in Germany.
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Wenger can afford to let four or five players leave and still retain a good nucleus. He doesn`t have to replace all five, two in the right positions well priced, not too cheap, not too dear will do but ,they have to be bought in June or before and ready for training first week July. None of this last minute bargain hunting.
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@AJ sounds like another load of excuses to me typical of Wenger and his disciples. I don’t see how you can call Koscielny and Chamakh successes when overall they have been poor. Chamakh hasn’t scored this year as far as I can remember he’s also too slow and too light weight. Koscielny is too small, can’t head a ball and mis-times loads of tackles. Look at how easily Stoke beat us last week and Bolton 2 weeks before. Bottom line is fans know good players and these aren’t good enough.
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NickW@ fans havn’t got a clue who good players are.. you have to play with, know how a player works inside the team to know how good a player is, so shut it. Without chamakh and koscielny we would have been doomed, so lets be a little grateful and hopefully next year they will improve to be more consistent, till then, get lost?
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wenger must sell about 7 players this summer n sign 4 players if he want to remain as manager for arsenal next season.
SELL OUT:
1.Almunia……free.
2.Fabinski…..3m
3.Eboue……..6m
4.Denilson…..8m
5.Daiby…….10m
6.Bendtner….10m
7.Vela………8m
8.Rosicky……6m
Sign INN:
1.GK………..4m, decent n experince. wojo is young for the job..
2.CB……….16m, Adil remi/samba/cahill.
3.LW……….14m, Podaski have good pace, shooting power.
4.CF……….24m, Aguero/Benzema…
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@dan: Ok i made a mistake about klopp about where he manages. Got confused with him and André Villas Boas. But this doesnt change anything. He was managing a second division side before. This is only the third season with Dortmund and he has only won one title in this time. How can you put a trust on him? and how did you know kronke has doubts about wenger? did you talk to him? or do you work for him? I dont remember him making a statement about him having doubts over wenger.
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Benzema for bendtner sturridge for vela sturridge shouldn’t break the bank that would be a good start at least!
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Same old wenger, its not like we have a squad like real or barca, there are quite a few players at lower position teams in the premier league that would improve our first 11 or atleast our squad!
Charlie adam, scott parker, samba, baines, phill jones, odemwingie, nzogbia!
just to name a few and all these players would jump at the chance to sign for a top 4 club “fingers crossed on next year”
2011-2012 arsenal first 11
schezney
baines samba/jones vermaelen sagna
scott parker song
nasri/adam
nzogbia wallcot
van persie
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IN:
chamberlain £8m
Hazard : £18m
gemeiro : £12m
parker or diarra :£10-12m
vertonghen : £15m
total: £65m
out:
denilson :£12m
squallaci :£2m
rosicknote £5m
diaby £10m
vela £8m
flapianksi £5m
traore : £7m
total: £49m
difference:
-£16m (7 players out, 5 in so saved on 2 first teamer wages)
bartley, j.e.t and lansbury back into squad oh and frimpong.
send out on loan: eastmond, sanu, cocqulin, miguel
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NO NEED TO BUY GOOD PLAYERS WE ALREADY HAVE THEM. WENGER SHOULD GO. HIS FORMATION IS GETTING WORSE BY THE GAME. GET ANOTHER MANAGER LIKE HIDDINK WITH SAME TEAM AND WE WILL WIN AND PLAY BETTER NOT PASS PASS PASS EVEN IN THE BOX. DON’T BLAME PHSYCOLOGICAL PROBLEM IT’S WENGER. BALLS ALWAYS WHIPPED INTO THE BOX AND THERE IS NO-ONE IN THE BOX. CHAMAKH SHOULD STAY AND PLAY. VAN PERSIE CAN GO(ALWAYS INJURED AND HE IS NOT A MAIN STRIKER)
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Sure because Squillaci and Chamkh were quality right?
Come on Wenger, you know you HAVE to spend this season! many of our players are simply NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
Get Jan Vertonghen, Eden Hazard, Hulk and either Radamel Falcao or Karim Benzema.
Get rid of Almunia, Squillaci, Clichy, Denilson, Diaby, Fabregas, Nasri, Rosicky, Arshavin and Bendtner.
We don’t need Clichy, we don’t need Nasri and we don’t need Fabregas! if they wanna leave then let them leave! they clearly aren’t focused on Arsenal! so screw them! as for the others I mentioned… THEY SUCK! ANYONE WOULD BE AN IMPROVEMENT.
Szczesny
Sagna Koscielny Vermaelen Gibbs
Vertonghen
Wilshere Ramsey
Hulk/RVP Falcao/Benzema Hazard/Walcott
Lets do something because if we don’t Man City will take our Champions League spot.
Please Wenger! do what’s necessary!
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Wenger is a joke now we have lost 3rd place!!!
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There are plenty of Quality players out there.But Mr Wenger just won’t pay the price. After today,s result I think the players have lost faith in Mr Wenger.You can see it in the way they play heads down. Mr Wenger you need to sell a few players and buy Some men with a bit of steel, that what Villa had today Steel.We need a new Goalkeeper two CB a left back and a striker.Then we can win something
an egg cup anything I don’t care a long as we start winning something.
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He and the Arsenal bord will not pay another clubs valuation for a player…they think it is too mush…and they think that prices for players are too high….but when they are selling a player like Fab, they want big money…this is mot right.
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elvi, i agree the 7 players you have picked out must go (diaby, denilson, rosicky, eboue, bendtner, almunia, squalici). the question is who is gonna buy them on that price. I say set them free!
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I wouldn’t mind us getting our head out of the bargain bin now. Let’s spend some money. Time to let Denilson, Eboue, Rosicky, Almunia, Squillachi and Bendtner.
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Arshavin needs to go so Hazard can take his spot.
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all arsenal need is one inspirational captain who can get respect as well as talk the players into winning….like terry or puyol…not saying buy them but look for players like them…
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