Aug 29
Arsenal set to sign André Santos
Arsenal have agreed a fee in the region of £6million with Fenerbahce for Brazilian left-back André Santos, according to reports in Turkey.
The Turkish side confirmed to the Istanbul Stock Exchange that Santos is in talks with an un-named club, although Gooner Talk understands that a £6million bid from Arsenal has already been accepted.
Santos, who will provide competition for injury-prone Kieran Gibbs at left-back, is expected to fly to London tomorrow ahead of penning a 4-year deal with Arsene Wenger’s side and undergoing a medical.
The 28-year-old has played for Brazil on 22 occasions and joined Fener from Corinthians in 2009, while his signing will provide much-needed cover in the full-back position for Wenger after the departures of Gael Clichy and Armand Traore.
Meanwhile, myself and The Goon Blog will be hosting a Live Transfer Deadline Day blog from tomorrow morning, with all the latest information being sourced and revealed in what is expected to be a busy day for Arsenal.
He is exactly the same as Gibbs but without the injuries. Gibbs is good at going forward and Gibbs is more like an out and out left winger rather than a left full-back.
The Brazil team always plays with a pair of wing-backs 2-5-2-1
Attack is the best form of defense. Santos signals a change in formation.
Some of you guys are a disgrace! Short term fans with memory loss! Arsenal have been punching above their weight for years and has been instrumental in bringing the club amazing players. You haven’t seen some of our new signings play and you’re already writing them off as failures!? Arsenal fans, really!? You need to go and support a team that can guarantee you silverware immediately. Man utd, Man city along with Chelsea are probably your best bets. Be gone! If the Guardian do a poll to see if we can get rid of the fake spoilt fans I will sign it and develop alias names to sign it again! In Arsene, Wilshere, Frimpong, Van Persie and all the others I trust
Andre Dos Santos Oliveira is a good player. Thank God we had him for cheap bcos he is coming from the Turkish league. And i bet u, i ve watched Park play, he is a brilliant striker with better strikin rate, good assists and good with free kicks. I think this is a time we get behind the team and support them
Well said Edub.
We’re supporters, so lets support teh club through thick and thin!! I remeber teh times when Arsenal finished 12th, we’ve been spoilt with this caviar football.
@Youri:
Bro, he has 22 caps in the national team and won the Confederation Cup with them, plus has CL experience, so good enough for now.
Baines was probably not possible (if he was, then I bet Citeh, Chelsea or sb else would lure him out), and yes, I would prefer Aly Cissokho, but Santos still seems to be a quality signing.
I love santos he is very skillful on his overlaps dis will be a very gud addition 2 the team. pls more of dat mr wenger bring in cahill zarate arteta n harzard. dont 4get dat we will lose Gervinho in january 4 Afcon
There are hundreds of great players outside of England and Spain you know, how people can think that Enrique is better than this fella is beyond me. We now have have 3 of the best 10 left backs in the world Vermaelen Santos and Gibbs.
FFS, just chill. The cash is being spent, this is great hunting by Wenger and his wing play is something else. And yes i have seen him play many times, my best pal is a fenerbache fan and has turkish satellite.
I am telling you he is the Brazilian Gareth Bale but with more tricks and without a Monkey’s Head!!
He has actually been playing as a winger recently and scores lots of goals…… This lad is a good good signing
at last some good news,,we could be in for a few suprises by wednesday night,,,,,,fuck the useless so called fans who are already talking shit about this lad,,,he is 28 years old,,plays for brazil ,,,leave the scouting to the real scouts and stop taking shit on a computer pretending to know how good he is…..AFC4life!!!!! not just when we are winning!!!
@LeePitt:
It is refreshing to read well thought out and mature comments from some Arsenal supporters rather than the immature ijaculations of so many media hoodwinked pseudofans. Respect.
I am so happy to night about the new of Andre Santos arrival,I just hope it is true,seen the guy a few times already,he is very slik,fast and ready to roll,I have been depressed since yesterday,I just wish we can bring in CahilL and may be a more attack minded midfielder if not wait till january for Hazard. For those who dont know Park the south Korean attacker,He is far better that Bentner and chamark
Hi guys,
I am a Fenerbahce fan, who live din the UK for quite long time so I know the both leagues.
First of all Fenerbahce is in trouble at the moment thats why we sell players otherwise we wouldnt sell Santos.
Santos has a great technique, his finishing is better than most of the world class wingers. You can search on youtube. His dribbling skills are awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OQv7x_DDkw 2:06 tells it all.
However he might be a lazy player sometimes. Having difficulties coming back and he is not very strong. He likes defending more with his mind than his power.
He played with Roberto Carlos at Fenerbahce for a year so he learned from him as well.
I can easily say that he is much better than Enrique. I have been monitoring Arsenal for years and you never had a left back like him before. He has a different style. Real Madrids Marcelo is his substitute in the Brazil national team!
Good buy!
Enrique is better.
U gunners fan u kan say it al ova again?
Some arsenal fans dnt av d hrt n mind 2 have a patient b4 arsen is nt d rite man 4 d job bt now wenger is d best man 2 handdle d job, shameless fans?
Ball control and attacking are amazing. Big hopes for him
whoever blames the board n not wenger u better think twice!! lets assume that the board r cheap n they dont give wenger any money. he still could’ve bought PROVEN players like mexes (free), brown (4 million), barton (2 mill- i know no one wants him), parker (10 mil), arda turan (10 mil), mexes (free), forlan (10 mill), shay given (4 mill) there r HEAPS of more players that i can name but htis is just to name few of them, so whoever keeps on defending wenger better think twice! he doesn’t buy proven players just cuz he wants to show the he can buy unknown players from mickey mouse clubs n turn them into great players. We all respect wenger for what he has done but he takes us for granted n now were joke!! nothing against jenkinson but who knew abt him?? he wasnm’t even one of the best young talents in championship! he couldn’t even break into charltons’ first XI n now 1 month in arsenal n he already played against manchester united, liverpool n champions league football. I bet he cant even believe it. when was the last time we bought a player for a club as big as arsenal? liver, inter, ac ? henry, bergkamp don’t tell me silvestre. the thing is all of the players who come to arsenal view us as a step up n if we buy players from a top team it would probably be cuz they cant even break into their team, lassana diarra, silvestre etc. im telling you wenger buys young players so that he has an excuse after every match we loose “our players r young” sounds familiar right? 5 years ago every1 expected by now will have an experience team we had hleb 24-25 rosicky 24-25 van p 22-23 reyes 23 toure 25 senderos 22 then walcott bendtner denilson song djorou etc 16-18, so by now we should have a fully exprienced team but guess what the expeirenced players get sold n the kids walcott n djourou n song take over n r replaced with other wallcots n bendtners who r 17-18 yrs old like frimpong joel campbell n chamberlain. WE WILL ALWAYS BE A TEAM FULL OF KIDS AS LONG AS WENGER STAYS! HE THINKS HE OWNS THE CLUB N TAKES US FOR GRANTED + we pay for the most expensive tickets in the world to see the likes of jenkison chamberlain frimpong gibbs djourou (no disrespect) NOT the likes of fabregas iniesta xavi messi (best players in the world). dont get me wrong ill always support arsenal with or without wenger n the board n fans hast to realize that wenger is not bigger than the club as it may seem now that he is. whoever says in wenger we trust, i say in wenger we fail!.
We lost 8-2 at man united but we did score two goals including a missed penalty without wilshere and gervinho and any other attacking signings we might get. And our whole back four could be different against swansea after the break with sagna vermalen cahill/Alex/jagielka and santos now!.. And players coming back from injury and suspensions, a bad start to the season but things looking up for the Arsenal!
I am Brazilian so I know him pretty well and I tell you: he is reeeally shiit!
I don’t know a single person here that supports him even as a substitute for the Brazilian national team…
You can’t imagine how happy I was when I found out he was not called up for the upcoming friendly against Ghana. Marcelo from Real is miles away from him!
Bad news this one… really.
The SUPPORTERS & FANS MUST NEVER GIVE ME UP ON ARSENAL ….. it is your club.
The new signings are treackling in and they are good ones.
I am sure at least 2 more will be in before the window ‘of opportunity to purchase’ closes!
Lets keep our heads up and support The Gunners ALL THE TIME ……
we want DAVIDE SANTON from Internazionale!
Andre santos is a good LB and atleast he has experience. Jenkinson and Gibbs are too young and need direction by experienced CB’s and considering Vermaelen is the only experienced good CB they always stray away from their positions. to be honest he is not ‘world class’ but the only ‘world class’ LB’s in the league are Cole and Evra. Thank god we signed him.
According to several german Media, we have agreed terms with Mertesacker for a
fee in the region of €11 million
I’m pretty confident that this is legit and I’m very interested to see if how he performs in the PL. Imo he is a little slow/clumsy, but I’m still happy with this transfer
@dan: No we don`t, Mertesacker is done, Santos and Park. Good work in two days, midfielder and a winger will be next and even another centre back;)Or not, its going in the right direction.
@Edub:
can say better than this brother, you hit the nail.