A quick round-up of where we stand on various transfers as we approach the final few hours of the summer transfer window:
Ju Young Park was officially announced this afternoon, the arrival means that the exit of Nicklas Bendtner is more probable, though nothing is currently in place. That situation could change very rapidly, especially considering the players desire to leave the club. It is very unlikely at this stage that the rumours of a Marouane Chamakh loan will come to fruition.
Per Mertesacker is poised to join Andre Santos in signing for Arsenal. Though not officially announced, medicals were completed yesterday and personal terms have been agreed. Santos has been granted his work permit already and both deals look set to be announced by the club Wednesday morning.
Arsenal have made an enquiry as the availability of Owen Hargreaves recently, the perma-crock is set to sign for Man City for some unbeknown reason.
Other names mentioned are Yossi Benayoun, of whom we have made an enquiry about, we have had a reported €40m bid rejected for Mario Gotze and Dortmund are unwilling to sell at this point in time – Arsenal also inquired as the availability of Marouane Fellaini of Everton, who would sell at the right price due to financial troubles. Everton are tricky negotiators though and time would be against the move.
As well as Benayoun, Arsenal are also keeping their options open on Florent Malouda according to John Cross – it seems that there is definitely something brewing between the two clubs but nobody has no real idea of what it is. It wouldn’t be surprising if we did some business.
Armand Traore has left the club for QPR.
As things currently stand, there are no deals in place for Eden Hazard or Yann M’Vila – both clubs are demanding massive fees and there is just not enough time to really get the deals done. Both clubs would be reticent to lose players of their importance at such late notice in the window and their value is highly unlikely to drop over the period of time the transfer window is shut. These two will probably run on into January at least.
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I hope there are alot of players in EUROPE so we still have a chance to find a best solution to replace our former captain FAB and missbehavier NASS I hate him now after every time when i visit sports website i see he is talking about arsenalin bad way .since fabregas is Silence since he arrived ,
For me M’Villa is nice one if we still wanna build the our rock .Hazard is nice also , if we dont look well, we can just dream about even TOP 4 see LIVAPOOL, CHELSEA,MAN CITY, AND MAN UNITED all have made very good signing to compete for title atleast if we sign to superstars at the MID F we gonna threat them, and they will know who is Asenal and Arsene,
thanks
we desperately need a creative midfielder. As for me Marvin Martin or Arteta would be enough ( wouldn’t cause too much) if we fail to get Hazard/Gotze
I think wenger now realise wt is @ stake now. He should pls try nd conclude d deal b4 12 today. Lets all keep d hope alive. We can make it, i beleive wenger can turn things around. Let all b patience.
Who wil new fabregas & Nasir
As for me I see that the time is very shut so we creative let go for one instead of two and I think Hazard is okay
I think another centre-back is needed. Mertesacker just fast enough to deal with fast players, he also doesn’t have any experience in the Premier League. Someone like Cahill would be good, but that seems to have gone pear-shaped.
Glad we got a couple of players yesterday though.
I think Felliani and Arteta will make d GUNNERS a strong force in d Premier League.
We bought Per Mertesacker, Ju Young Park and Andre Santos at less than what we got for Nasri. For all his qualities, losing Nasri and getting these three has significantly strenghtened the team.
The cup is half-full. Mertesacker is by far a better option than Cahill. Almost of same age, Per has 75 int’l caps to Cahill’s few minutes as a Three Lion. Per has played 14 World Cup matches, 6 Euro Cup matches, winning medals in all occasions. Take it from me, cahill is not even a better defender than Koscielny. If you’re not a regular in your National side at 25, you can only be average. The Bolton man would have only added to our squad’s depth but believe me, Per is an automatic choice.
Clichy’s best is well behind and I believe Santos, being a Brazilian, will be an improvement. Park? As long as he is better than Chamakh and Bendtner.
Would have preferred Hazard as final addition but from the way we ‘stole’ Park, that seems very unlikely. M’Vila can do for now while Ramsey and Wilshere take turns on the creative side until one masters the act, Wilshere most likely.
With Szceszny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Vermalene, Santos, Song, M’vila, Wilshere, Gervinho, Van Persie, Walcott starting while bench has Fabianski, Koscielny, Gibbs, Frimpong, Ramsey, Rosicky, Arshavin, Park. Not even Barcelona can intimidate this team!
Wenger should learn to be flexible. Koscielny can play anywhere in the back four. verm can play as CB and LB. Wilshere, Ramsey can play anywhere in the middle. Van persie can draw back to create behind two strikers in a tricky 4-4-2 or false 4-3-3. Gervinho, Walcott, Van persie van alternate positions throughout 90 mins. Walcott is best finisher in team right now as should be made to have sight on goal more often.
Come Gunners. Let’s go!
Those news were good 4 hearing. But we stil need Hazard’s deal 2 b concluded. Up gonners.
Per, santon, park, good, wenger please try your best to get one of mvilla, harzard or arteta any amount please, to help our striker with enough passes, EZEGUNNER.
M’vila why him everyoone wants him, when we already have two good holding midfielder Song and Frimpong. Not M’vila is he going to diplace song???
lets go indeed. though hazard looks amazing he has been know to have an attitude, and i cant help believing if arsene wanted him we would have got him by now. before gevinho even. unless he was the bait?
happy with signings so far, hope santos can defend as well as he goes forward. to think we’ve upgraded for less. mint.
and am i the only one who sees park playing in cesc’s position? on tube he’s making the same kinda passes cesc use to. doubt he’ll be as good but he’s an option i think.
a mid and prolific striker wit chamack moved on instead of bendy and ill be happy.
what a beautiful development!wenger should be blame for the trash arsenal had gone in the past and present.why?coz he fail to make hay while sun shine but, i still love Him.let him buy creative middle fielder in place of cecs i am 100% sure that arsenalfc will become a terror in the world for all the so called best club
That’s interesting AK47.
Hazard in my view is not as beneficial to us as Gervinho.
My most wanted player is definitely M’Villa. He will single-handedly double our defence.
I read somewhere that Hargreaves is going to City, because they need another English player in the 25-man squad.
The rest of the day will be going to the wire – can’t stop till you get enough!
to think i havent even tubed m’vila yet, is he that good?
i think arsene might agree wit u a1a bout gervz.
i like the look of shaqiri though young i gotta say. imagine him at 23, reminds me of tevez a little.
Hazard, Benayoun, Fellaini, Goetze, Hargreaves and Malouda are players who will not come to Arsenal for the simplest of reasons: Arsenal doesn’t need them. Goetze is a fantastic player, as is Hazard, but they would still benefit from a year or two at their home clubs. I don’t know if they would ever be EPL material, they don’t look the part now as far as I’m concerned. And they would cost the club massive amounts of cash already. As would Fellaini, since he’s already in the EPL. Benayoun and Malouda are aging slowly, and I don’t think the squad would seriously benefit from having them on. Hargreaves is known not to play too much due to injuries.
The M’Vila rumours is very exciting, mostly because it would break our transfer record for sure. But the question is, how much money can Wenger still spend? Transfermarkt.co.uk claims the fee for Park is 10,5 mil, which means Arsenal have already spent over 30 mil on transfers and there’s only som 5-7 millions left from the initial 40 mil Gazidis granted Wenger. Unless there was some undeclared move of the money from Cesc and Nasri sales, the funds are almost over. It’s really bad that the club takes no position whatsoever as far as the transfer money is concerned. I hope they expanded the sum, though, which means the Mertesacker and Santos story is true and there still could be a massive signing coming. I would like that.
let us unite together at this period.Man u victory against Arsenal should not taken as weapon of frustrating us.Solidartity forever.The recent signing will restore arsenal as previous years.i believe the club will bring trophy this ‘season.
The players like Chamakha and Bertner are not wanted at the time.We are now at reforming by signing the top quality player who realy love the club and commited at large.
wenger took long 2 do this,we shud alwaiz buy gud n experienced player then buy a few young ones,da policies have 2 change,i really hate 2 see Arsenal sinking,we now need m’villa da rest can wait,wenger should keep buying da right without waiting 4 man.u’s humiliations.
the signing of mertesacker and santos will bring us experience, quality and strength, they are proven players with vast amounts of experience, leadership and experience is what arenal lack so much, mertesacker is a leader leader, highly experienced, great at organising the back four, his reading of the game, positioning and tackling are fantastic, our young defenders have some one to learn from now aswell, im very pleased with signings and the future looks bright
Hey Martin i remember you saying Arsenal had first refusal on Eden Hazard but right now press are reporting that liverpool has it since they loan Joe Cole over. So whats the real deal now?
Oh know we bounce back,i can see it……this is more physical.
i think HAZARD, M’VILA,SOW & SHAQIRI shld b added to tha squad
Out of all our signings the one that excites me most is gervinho,i think this guy will be a bit special for us.He certainly has the ability and confidence to take on his full back.Well done arsene for your new recruits and i really hope for you and us gooners they prove a big success.Im looking forward to seeing how mertesacker copes with crouch when delap uses his long throw ins.M.Arteta is a super talent,fingers crossed he stays fit and healthy in our famous colours.Finally we all love you arsene really,its just in recent times our frustrations have reached fever pitch and we all rightly had a go at ya,just hope this is the new unstubborn and willing to change you and arsenal.