Wenger – We're Unlikely To Buy In January
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger remains adamant that he will not need to spend during the January transfer window, despite the Gunners being exposed defensively and mentally on several occasions in the Premier League this season.
Domestically, Arsenal’s young guns have found consistent form hard to come buy despite showing rare glimpses of quality in away matches at Bolton, Blackburn and Fenerbahce. Defeats against League newcomers Hull and Stoke City as well as relegation-threatened Fulham have shown some cause for concern though.
The North London giants have once again been linked with hundreds of players outside of the transfer window, but Wenger admits he is unlikely to bring any players in during that period.
“You can expect Arsenal to be active tomorrow at 12.45 and for the rest January is a long time away. I believe that this team personally is very strong and recently they don’t get any credit. But it’s a good moment for this young team to grow together, show resilience, show strengths and an opportunity to be a strong team in the future.
“Good players can always help you but I believe at the moment I have good players here. I do not want to focus on January and I am not sure at all that I will buy.
“The solution is not always to buy players. The solution for me at the moment is to trust the players I have because I trust their strengths and I trust their intelligence, so let’s show it.”
Tomorrow’s game against current Premier and Champions League holders Manchester United spells the first of many tough home fixtures versus England’s elite. High-flyers Aston Villa, and an Wigan side lead upfront by Egyptian marksman Amir Zaki pose a different sort of threat to the one usually given out by league sides.
Don’t forget, you can follow all the pre-match build-up here on Gooner Talk, with a match report published on the blog immediately after the full time whistle blows.
i know it maybe hard to get players during january with clubs still involved in europe, league chases etc, but we need 2 sign badly, gk, 2 centre backs a centre mid and a striker,
Thanks for the help Renna. 🙂
Pleasure.
I hate to admit it, but based on the performances this team have put in so far this season (esp. Sp*rs, Hull, Fulham, Stoke, and now Fenerbahce at home), without some strategic purchases in January I don’t believe this Arsenal side will truly compete for any silverware, let alone win any. My faith in the adage “Arsene Knows” has been shaken, and I feel the manager’s hubris may very well be his undoing.
I think our defence can cope with Djourou getting regular time, but without a DEFENSIVE central midfielder, this season (and I fear, Cesc) will be lost.
what u have 2 ask is, would Almunia, gallas,silvestre, denilson, bentdner get in chelsea, utds, or liverpools starting 11 and IMO the answer is no, with these standard of player we will always be looking at 4th place, ok the young two can get better, but not over night.
Silverware it would of been a miracle until this sides tag is Goodside not Youngside whether that be in 2 or 3 more years when they grow up or in 2 or 3 years when highbury sells relieving debt letting Wenger enter the transferr window or we are bought letting wenger buy
Wengers arrogance will be his greatest undoing. Wait until you miss out of the champions league, it will dawn on you that you don’t have a team. Do not delude yourself, the team lack character, it is a disaster waiting to happen. Act before you resign or be sacked in shame.
i have to agree with nzekwe Asugha
Asugha & Piken a right pair of plonkers. Dream on boys, Arsene will never leave Arsenal
Maybe it’s not arrogance, Arsene is just being a professional and fronting the board of director’s decision not to spend.
Yep, that’s the impression I’m getting Smiley.
Whether you believe it or not, Wenger has Arsenal’s best interests at heart.
We will not even get a champions league place if we do not buy any players. Our only hope of a trophy is the Carling cup if we don’t play the kids later on.
And fabregas will leave, let’s hope we sign players before it’s too late.
I think we’ll still get a champs league place as the chasing pack isn’t all that. Seems to be between us and Villa as I don’t see any other contenders. Liverpool didn’t look so hot in the last 20 vs Sp*rs either. We definitely ain’t gonna win the league though with these players and as much as I hate to say it, I wouldn’t be surprised if Utd deliver the knock out blow tomorrow.
we wont buy anyone!
we wont win anythin
we may just get 4th place!
bye bye fabregas!
hard times bein a gooner!
i know everybody feeling on gallas a captainbut the fact is our worst defender has been toure so i think dijouro should played alot more often. i dont know the fact is wenger seas his players not use and maybe its just that the likes of song,delinson and fab time play with eich, the fact is fab/delinson have not realy played together that mutch but delinson is very good player that is a fact, song looks very solid to.i realy dont arsenal showed up when they played hull no one played well that day,but i have never heard say that is not in the market for a player in january it would be first for wenger to make in tranfer plans to tabloads. if you lookat the amount of players arsenal went for in the summer 4 players all of snubed arsenal i feel is a strong indication that he will buy someone
he said this in the summer and look where we are now. Wenger swallow your pride! You cant just rely on youth
i think we need a cb and a goalkeeper…dats the main problem rite now…
this is from wenger:
i do not care abt titles,
i dont cos i cant get them,
finishing 4th is more important.
cos afterall its united that wins the title.lets just pass the ball around as usual.
Ok, I think Wenger needs to sign players for certain areas and that those certain areas are weak blah blah blah.
But can people stop with some of the other bullshit they write? Bendtner and Denilson are two of the best young players in the world, and while you may question whether, at the moment they might not yet be at a level of starting every week for a world class side, that does not mean they aren’t going to be great players we will enjoy the best of in the future.
We have defensive and goalkeeping frailities (sp?) and we aren’t playing a DM as a DM. But to blame this on youngsters who, lets face it, our in their first/second season playing constantly in the Premiership is not right. Bendtner clearly has the talent to become something special – he looks like the second coming of Ibrahamovich to me – but he suits neither RVP or EA and he doesn’t have the experience we so badly need yet.
It’s not these young players fault that there is no experience around them (and the experienced players we do have are acting like headless chickens). They are adapting to the step up in quality and doing so they are fourth, which is more than you’d expect for the best 17-22 years olds in the game. That they don’t have experienced heads guiding them that little bit further and their manager seems to have lost any tactical nuance is the reason we aren’t getting any further.
I agree with Samuel, but Wenger is a hero, lets not judge him on 3-4 bad results. Generally speaking though we are doing well, as long as we beat the big three in the 5 other games (unrealistic, but possible) and keep our form up from todays win we can do it, with our squad age and depth we should be concentrating on one trophy this year though, i feel wengers intentions are to go for the champions league. We’ve had the League and the FA Cup if the league comes with it, great but after barcelona and liverpool im sure i know which trophy id prefer as well but as stats go man utd lodt 5 games last season and still won it we lost 3 and too many draws caused a problem logically out of 4 games to lose two and win two will get as many points as going unbeaten winning one and drawing three, yes winning 3-4 is ideal but as stats and probability go we not written off yet and thats for sure
First of all i think we shud all get off of wengers back. he is the best thing thats happend to arsenal and we shud appreciate what he has achieved. we gotta b a bit more patient and i no its bloody frustrating that we havent got any trophies for a while but it happens, UTD went without a trophy for 3 years! i also feel we r bloody unlucky wen u think of the injuries we hav had, we hav lost big important player and not only that we have lost them for a lengthy spell – eduardo, rosicky, walcott. onto the signings…wenger has to sign some players i agree but i fink we will struggle getting “Big” players to join as this wage structure we have will restrict us. but now cesc is out for bloody 4 months (another huge player with lengthy injury- add it to the list) we have to find a replacement. i dno wot u guys think but wot about arteta from everton. everton need the money they can get at the mo, he wnt need time to adapt and he would be a great player for arsenal with the technical ability he has, dnt u agree? i also rekon gallas dnt wanna be here anymore, and i personally think he is going to leave. we need a propa english centre half who is a leader. u look at the other top three teams they all have english leaders at the back. UTD – ferdinand, chelsea – terry, liverpool – carragher. we miss that adams or campbell that used to be there leading from the back that is something we just dnt have atm and something that needs to be addressed soon i think. as far as a goalkeeper is concerned i dnt rekon we need to stengthen there, we have almunia who i think is a decent GK and we also have the gd young talent in Fabianski. we never shud of got rid of gilberto and the problem we had is we didnt replace the players that went, losing hleb was a big loss and we never replaced him. like i say we should stick with wenger, he has given arsenal FC a very bright future and i have faith in him and i tell you now things will come gd for the gunners as long as us gooners keep faith with mr wenger.
pls prof weger buy some so as to boost the team thanks.