Why Arsenal will sign Adrian from Athletico Madrid in January
Arsene Wenger has suggested that he will be allowed to spend some money in January, which is great news for Arsenal fans, as long as we get the right players. There are a number of positions that need strengthening and the number seems to be growing every week at the minute, but that is because the team as a whole is struggling. A defensive midfielder who can play seems the first choice because we cannot rely on Diaby being fit. The Frenchman is brilliant but he is no use to us in the treatment room, and it looks like we might have to accept that he will never be right.
The second priority for me is in attack. Gervinho started the season well in his role as striker, but has been poor since returning from injury. He will also be going to the AFCON in January. Chamakh is reported to be leaving in January, which leaves us with Giroud, Podolski and Walcott. Arsenal definitely need another forward or two to help these three and allow Wenger to rotate. It looks like Klaas-Jan Huntelaar will be heading our way, but that might not be until the summer.
Adrian Lopez from Athletico Madrid plays as a support striker and winger, similar to Walcott’s role. He is fast, skilful, available and cheap. Athletico have money problems but are sitting second in the Spanish league and should easily qualify for the Champions league next season, as long as they can hold on to Falcao. In order to do that, they need to raise money somewhere else, and Adrian is the man who will go.
Wenger spoke last week about how many good players there are in Spain and the financial situation there means bargains can be found. We should be able to get Adrian for less than £10 million and he will be an excellent addition. At 24-years old, the versatile Spaniard is just the sort of player that Wenger likes. He can play on the right and allow Walcott to play in the middle or, God forbid, replace Theo if he moves on.
Not gonna say anything until it’s official. And wenger claims this is true. Then we’ll talk. Besides, this is Arsenal remember?
COYG TILL I DIE
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We need more pace up front and a bit of steel in midfield
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Why would they sell Lopez on the cheap when they can sell Falcao for 35-50 million to a Chelsea/City and use those funds? Seliing Lopez over Falcao makes sense only if you need a story to post on JustArsenal.
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We need WANYAMA or even M’Vila, I think Adrian is the right type of player we need but I don’t know if he will fit in tba but its gotta to happen b4 we worry about anything!! I would rather get players who are consistent every game never get injured and have high aggression with over average pace!! If I was a scout for arseanl I would find them but I don’t have the time to do what our shit scouts can’t! We should start copying swansea n everton and nick there targets coz they pick quality transers!!
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“He is fast, skilful, available and CHEAP!!!”
Look at what cheap material (players) is giving us…
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He bought two strikers in the summer.
The already established Podolski.
The up and coming Giroud.
You would expect Podolski, you know the guy that is the German international and has somewhat of a prolific scoring record, would be played up front in a team struggling to score goal.
Well apparently not. Wenger thinks he is a winger and that our winger (if you can even call him that) Gervinho is a striker (definately can’t call him that!).
My point is – don’t put too much hope in new signings. Wenger is making a career out of playing players out of position until the fans turn on them.
Wengers transfer policy –
Wenger: *picks up phone and calls scout*
Scout: Hello
Wenger: Hello pimp oh sorry Mr Scout. How is the wife Janice.
Scout: Fine Mr Wenger. How is your bit on the side?
Wenger: We don’t speak about her. Anyhoo, I need a winger.
Scout: Excellent. We’ve been keeping tabs on Jesu……..*Wenger interupts*
Wenger: Look lets not go down this road again. I said winger. That means you will find me a dopeass striker that I can play on the wings.
Scout: This is getting boring can’t I just find you a winger?
Wenger: How am I gonna get my props if I just sign a winger to play on the wings? You forgotten about Henry? I changed is position and look what happened.
Scout: you have been playing Ramsey on the wing. Don’t you think you have taken this far enough.
Wenger: *trying not to raise his voice* How dare you. Ramsey is the bestest ever.
Scout: OK I’ll get you a striker. Anything else?
Wenger: yeah I need a midfielder. Needs to be tall. Know any good tall left backs I can play there?
Scout: No left backs. But there is this guy called M’Vill…….
Wenger: Once again Mr Scout, how do I get my props if I just buy a DM and play him as a DM? Remember Arteta, he used to be an attacking midfielder.
Scout: He is barely a midfielder anymore:
Wenger: How dare you! He is Spanish! Do you know how good Spanish players are!
Scout: Actually yes I do. I recommend them to you all the time. You just go and buy a cheap one anyway.
Wenger: Hold on, need to put you on speaker phone, Diaby is ready for me to give him his calf message.
Scout: OK, so we need a winger that isn’t a winger and a midfielder that is a left back. Anything else.
Wenger: Yes a left back. Can you find me a good winger please so I can play him at left back.
Scout: OK………………….
Wenger: Oh yeah we are short on Korean players. I don’t care where they play because they sure as hell don’t play in my team *chuckles*
Scout: *Chuckles*
Wenger: Got to go. There is this thing called ‘training’ that Steve keeps on harping about. Apparently something to do with tactics. Anyway I have my football tactics for dummies here so I guess I may as well just pop in and see what Steve is up to.
Scout: Smell ya later, dude.
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Sign the contract mate
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Adrian is on the fringes of atletico Madrid team if he was so good he would play regularly but obviously not in falcaos position. This is exactly what I’m talking about we don’t need these kinds of players we need classy players like lewandowski or villa. We have the money buying cheap is not an excuse anymore
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Did somebody actually just call the Arsenal scouts shit?? Lol
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Why not get David Villa,Navas player like this
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adrian 1 goal in 13
chamakh 2 goals in 2
lopez is basically a 1 in 5 thats 1 goal every 5 matches.
scoring goals is not our problem our front 3 (walcott, giroud, podolski) have 24 goals between them this season whilst the back up chamberlain, gervinho & chamakh have notched 8 in just 18 starts between them.
our problems lie further back as well as off the field.
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All share holders sell your shares to the Russian on a buy back basis once he takes over.
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Go bananas.
Get real Wingers, Gaitan, Navas. Keep players like Walcott and Sagna happy. Walcott can then play where he wants to, down the middle. Sagna will think he hasn’t wasted his footballing career here, unlike people who leave as they think they will retire trophy-less.
CDM- I like Strootman or Wanyama
CF- Huntelaar
Just to give us squad depth and competition- Adrian Lopez as we know we are light up front and can’t stay injury free. Felliani as he is versatile and proven in the premier league..but why he would leave an up and coming Everton side for us…I have no idea..he has been the difference for Everton this season just how RVP was for us and now is for Man Utd.. It makes me sick we didn’t replenish our squad in the past with talent. If we did we would have Fabregas, Nasri, RVP, Song. What reason would they have to leave if we were actually competing with 11 world class players on the pitch ever week? Instead of looking around and seeing Gervinho constantly lose the ball, Ramsey try a diagonal ball only to see it go to the opposition keeper or off the field, Squid, Chamakh do nothing, and Santos making jokes and hugging the opposition players.
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“god forbid theo leaves”- ur living in a dream land he would of signed if he was going to stay, get real
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WENGER WENGER WENGER, PACE PACE PACE PACE THATS ALL WE NEED NOW. GET PLAYERS WHO HAS PACE AND STRENGTH LIKE WILTORD, LJUMBERG, HENRY, PIRES ETC AND ARSENAL WOULD COME CLOSE TO THE TOP BEFORE MARCH. THIS TEAM CAN WIN IT, THEY CAN DO IT. THE NEED TO BELIEVE AND WORK HARD. ONE OR TWO ADDITIONS WOULD DO THE NEEDY
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I agree with you,and i agree with Alan Hansen except i dont think we need 2 fullbacks just a leftback i still have faith in jenkinson.but we definitely need a holding midfielder and at least 1 winger/striker
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@robin payslip – haha nice one !
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i dont care who we sign…..as long as its QUALITY…and i dont wana hear IF WE FIND THEM PLAYERS THAT CAN ADD MORE THAN WHAT WE HAVE ALREADY…….wenger trust me thers lots and lots of players out there….just pay good money…its not like r squad is ouzing with class…..get a DM….STRIKER…..VERSATILE AM AND A VERSATILE DEFENDER..
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It’s rumour time GOONERS!!!! Yeah, all hot air and no top quality signings!! We all know we need exceptional players now as striker, DM,top CAM, versatile defender and somebody, anybody who can take a corner and get ball in the box!!Not much to ask for when we have peanuts again to attract with……
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Buy arda turan instead of adrian he is more the kind of player we need
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Yann M’vila is all we need we need a player with a bad boy rep
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@Robin Van Payslip I love the boss but that was f brilliant. lol!
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I say buy adrian lopez, m’vila and huntelaar in january
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WE LOVE ARSENAL BUT I DONT EVEN HAVE CLUE WHAT THE PROBLEM IS. IS IT THE BACK THE MIDDLE OR THE FRONT. WENGER IS CLUELESS AND SO AM I. HOW DO WE SOLVE THIS PROBLEM.
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@Arsenal-999
Lopez is cheap… Does not mean he is not quality though does it?!
Look at Michu… £2 million scored TWICE against us and is one of the top scorers in the League… SO think about that yeah?
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Theo sign da ting..theo theo sign da ting
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No y d cheao option go for d best n dats Falcao
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I don’t know if that signing will solve our problems. I trust all the strikers we have. Our problems lie in midfield .I think we need to embark on a project that will reduce the squad first I think our squad is huge with players who do not make any contribution to the side you all know who they are. I think Arsenal has to allocate some money to pay off contracts of players we can’t sell because Arsenal is now a “Business” companies do what is called Write Offs and show this in their balance sheets.Then we can properly rebuild a squad look at what Rodgers is doing at Liverpool (Carrol) you sometimes have to clean your house.
Keep the faith
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we have to buy Ben arfa and bezema or a DMF like yaya toure
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@George is right.
Firstly, majority of you guys dont know sh*t. Adrian Lopez is a very good player and is quality. Get your heads out of your asses because we wont get 30-40mill players you all seem to think we can get.
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If we make it into to the 4 by january, anything can happen 75% chance but, if still 6th 7th 8th or 10th…. 5% chance, as no top players will come…. only a Daran Bent kind of player..small club type players.
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All this team lacks & need to become like the unbeatables is just pace, dribbling skills & killer runs off the ball, but U need quality players to do this, U can’t expect average pLayers that are slow & unskillful to do miracles, & quality players these days cost money, som are very expensive, but som are relatively cheaper, we need pacy skillful players like:
WINGS: ada turan, navas, zaha, ben arfa,
STRIKERS: adrian, jovetic,
CAM: thiago alcantra, erikson,
CDM: mvilla,
CD: mbiwa,
We can get some now & get som more in the summer, but if wenger is rat all feeling regretful then he must get atlist two fierce tacklers both in the midfield & the defence, get atleast two pacy dribblers in both wings, get a creative & inventive match winning attacking midfielder, & get atlist two pacy dribbling strikers too that can also shoot from outside the box, simple!!!
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You can’t compare Theo Walcott to Adrian Lopez. If anyone actually watches football closely, they will understand that the technical skill level difference between the 2 players is enormous. Please don’t even try to debate that Theo is a better player. You guys must be blind if you think otherwise. I would trade Theo for Adrian in a flash, but if we can have both of them in the team then excellent. I just want to see more possession on the wing, more skill and more taking players one on one! Plus Theo can dream on about playing striker. He has NO first touch (wonder how he handles his GF), no brain, no dribbling skills but heaps of English HYPE!
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I Believe that gone are the days of getting players cheap. Like the case for Giroud etc… they will need time to develop their skill and and adapt to the Premier League.
Wenger needs to make a statement and buy someone who could single handedly force a win in difficult games thus increasing confidence of the whole team. Our finishing is really poor and the players like ramsay and gervinho in front of the goal does not even reach as the same level as pirez and ljumberg.
The Bundesliga is the best place to go shopping this January Mr. Wenger preferably ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI.
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robin van payslip, scout vs wenger class!!
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mazee give mr bean time coz kama arsenal havent got a trophy 4 7 yrs thats means they still believe in him.
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WAKE UP ,STOP DREAMING,HE GOT HENRY FOR ONE MONTH,HE IS NOT GOING TO BUY ANY WELL KNOWN PLAYERS.LOOKING FOR A CHEAP ONE.GAZIDES AND WENGER ARE WORKING FOR THEIR BONUS ONLY,
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