Jul 28
Wenger looking to bring in experienced Mertesacker
Germany defender Per Mertesacker is the player Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger wants to bring in to solve the club’s defensive crisis, according to Mirror Football.
Wenger wants to make at least two defensive signings, with both William Gallas and Mikael Silvestre departing. Sol Campbell’s imminent medical at Newcastle also means that Arsenal are left with just two senior defenders, Thomas Vermaelen, Laurent Koscielny and Johan Djourou.
The latter sustained an injury in last night’s pre-season friendly win against SC Neusiedl 1919, which leaves Wenger itching to bolster his weak back line before the Gunners’ first game of the season at Liverpool next month.
Mertesacker, 25, has been on the Arsenal’s radar for some time with German scout Thomas Kost – who spotted Lukasz Fabianski and Philippe Senderos - regularly making personal checks on him in action for club side Werder Bremen.
Wenger has been linked with several defenders this summer and recent reports suggest that he’s made a paltry £6million offer for Everton’s Phil Jagielka.
want metesacker very much – he was a wall against argentina and he can single handedly end our defensive corner kick deficiencies. however, knowing arsene and the press, that it is rumored undoubtedly means it wont happen.
I’ve heard on good authority that the centre half we Will sign is martin caceres! Remember where you heard it wink wink! And the goalie could well be muslera of lazio! Two uruguayans are in discussions with gazidis!
@ afc: hope you arent right about the keeper. Muslera is sh…!! Cant command his box!!!! For the CB Caceres wouldnt be bad but still would prefer Mertesacker!!
i was thinking why arsene never think of signing scott parker at all…he is still far better than dat shit denilson dat we got..
one more player i want his exit so bad at the emirate this season is denilson…i dnt want to see the guy in an arsenal shirt this coming season for real…i want wenger to sell his shit ass off and replace him with a better squad player…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwEG4N0PYMo
he annoys me, too, like no other player of our club, him and Fabianski
Arsene Wenger need to buy a reliable player at the right time, Am tired of hearing this linking stuffs. make hay while the sunshine, I remain Gunners, Please Arsene Wenger dont break our hearth this season, use the right player at a particular match, no sentiments. we need cup, players need it as well. tanx
Hell yes. Then we can look like this:
New Keeper
Sagna, Vermaelen, Mertesacker, Gibbs
Song and Melo (swapp for Clichy with Juventus)
Cesc and Nasri
RVP and Arshavin
Sounds like a good team to me !!!
Rick, are you serious? swap clichy for melo….!? i wouldn’t swap a rubber duck for melo. he is a total liability (or weren’t you watching the WC?) and by the way – clichy is probably the most important player we have outside of fabregas. so please shove your bright ‘idea’ where the sun don’t shine!
@M.. i believe fabianski can still turn out to be the real deal for us…but as for dat stupid ass denilson, he will continue to be shit in our squad mark my word unless he is transfered out of that team…
@rick… I dont want melo either cos that will even make the matter worse..i prefer someone like scott parker, gokhan inler, blaise matuidi or jan vertonghen…
gr8, now newcastle will use campbell against us
hahahaha…i said the same thing..
@ Gunningooner
lol we won hardly any of games with sol last season, he is a liability:
lost to stoke
lost to porto
beat wolves (he was under no pressure)
beat porto
beat stoke (he couldnt handle the long balls and the adrenilin got us through it)
drew against birmingham
lost against spurs
lost to wigan (he was captain and we defended too deep, it was his responsebility to move up the back four)
lost to blackburn (once again he didnt stop the other centre halves from blocking our keeper)
beat fulham
All you Denilson haters are just showing your ignorance and lack of understanding of the modern game. A couple of bad games during an injury-ravaged season does not mean he is a bad player. You can vent as much as you like, but Arsene is not going to get rid of a player of his quality to put in one of your unproven favourites.
There are a number of rumors now out there that Arsenal is trying to beat Genoa to signing Veloso as their deal had long seemed ‘just about complete.’ There are a lot of people here and on the youth blogs pumping up the chances of Frimpong and Eastmond, but they’re just not ready. If Song went down with an injury, the team would suffer if Denilson came in to replace him. And while it might be good for the youngsters to get some work with the first-team at this point in their careers, it wouldn’t be good for Arsenal. They might “do well considering” their age/experience, can anyone honestly say that Eastmond came anywhere near “marshaling” the midfield like Song does? Not a huge fan of Veloso, same with Melo, but they’d provide a good backup for Song, as well as pushing him, but also push Diaby/Denilson/Ramsey for the box-to-box CM role.
all denilson has to do to be better is play the simple pass more instead of trying to be ambitious… all flamini did was win it and give it to cesc.
Any way what is with this love of melo, he cannot play football and isnt iterested in playing football all he wants to do is tackle.
i would rather get a midfielder who can play football like
khedira
fletcher
carrick
diaby
song
diara (tolouse)
ramires
toulalon
these players cover the back 4 and can also spot a pass
I’d love Khedira to come to Arsenal and don’t know why he’d consider going to Real Madrid. Why? So they can stifle another promising young career? Unless you’re a superstar, you’re probably not going to play regularly. Real is for the likes of C. Ronaldo and Kaka. If you take a little bit to adjust, then you’re going to be sitting on the bench next to the uber-talented Benzema.
@ amerigoon
good, let him rot for a year then get him for half the price. like robben, hunterlaar, snjeider etc
Lol carrick he was the worst player in united’s team… I think diaby is a much better player
Its a bit win/lose for incoming young players to Real Madrid. Mourinho isn’t an idiot and won’t be pressured into playing someone. On the other hand, he isn’t a fan off blooding youngsters.
Maarten Stekelenburg played today in the champions league for Ajax so that means we will not get him
Need to concede less goals. This is whats killing us. Top priority – quality CB and goalie.
more like need to to change the way we play to stop conceding goals,wenger also needs to sign the correct players to carry this out.
@passenal…what fucking quality denilson got???pls tell me..i prefer frimpong to denilson all day…and are u telling me now that scott parker, gokhan inler are unproven??? yoo u have to think well bro before putting a comment here cos u will look stupid..am sure that 80% of arsenal fans worldwide will also want denilson out of that team…you may be right that wenger might not sell him but am telling you again that denilson is shit and he will continue to be shit for arsenal…he got no quality at all….period
Denilson is not as bad as a lot of you claim. The problem is that, he’s not a defensive midfielder but he’s constantly being played there when Song isn’t available. Denilson is a solid squad player. As far as qualities, he does offer a quality that a lot of our players don’t often exhibit and that is, long range shooting. He’s our only player who consistently shoots outside of the box and he scored a few beautiful long range goals last season if you think about it. He needs to be more consistent but should be retained in the squad.
yeah, and he usually hits the target… look at hull away, the keeper had to make a save a nikkie b tapped in the winning goal
@damstar:
Well said.. Couldnt agree more!
@impeccable1 & the left hand of henry; whatever u said i dont care..but am reaffirming again that Denilson will continue to be shit for arsenal unless he is sold out of the team…you right that he is not a DM but i guess that is where arsene like him to be playing..and as long as he keeps playing at the DM position for us, he will never flourish and produce for arsenal in that position mark my word..Right now he has got many players in front of him fighting for his position in that team like ramsey,frimpong,eastmond,coquelin…And in the next 1 year or two Denilson will be driven out of that team by the likes of frimpong and ramsey am sure about that..also rite now he wont find it easy to get into the first team anymore cos we now have diaby looking good, we have song of course, we got nasri, rosicky, wilshere, and i wont be surprise if arsene promote frimpong into the first team this season…Denilson is turning out to be useless in that team mehn and am sure if he cant produce well enough for us in this coming season, Arsene will most definitely sell him off and that is it…This is probably his last chance to prove to wenger and the fans what he can do and if he fails to deliver, GOODBYE TO DENILSON forever!!!
@Ricky; thanks mehn..
@Impeccable1: dont make a fuss of denilson’s shooting. So what if he can shoot from long range, almost all brazilians can do dat, nthing new!!!!!!!!!
He’s finally ours!