It’s only The Sun, but it’s worth reporting if only to get your synapses firing, as to who could arrive at Arsenal this summer. The tabloid reckons that The Gunners face a fight to hold onto Lukas Podolski, with Juventus and Atletico Madrid both interested in taking the player this summer.
The Sun says that despite scoring 13 goals and providing 10 assists, the player
‘has fallen out of favour with boss Arsene Wenger and his previous three Premier League appearances have been from the bench.’
In truth he hasn’t exactly set the world alight since he joined Arsenal and it wouldn’t come as a great shock if he did depart. He looks like the sort of forward who, given good service, should bang the goals in for fun. But his international record has always been superior to his club stats. He can look a bit one paced and conventional. Arsenal perhaps need a striker with a little more guile.
Meanwhile the highly speculative Daily Mail reports that Barcelona expect a bid from Arsenal for their 31 year old stopper Victor Valdes. The player has been instrumental in Barca’s success over the last 5 years but has just one year left on his contract. The quoted fee for his services is £8.5m.
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SIMON KARANJA
Mar 12, 2013 at 8:38 am
If Arsenal and Wenger does not buy best news players, your following especially in Africa will fade out. You have sold so may players and have spent almost nil in buying new players.
usman
Mar 12, 2013 at 8:44 am
arsen wenger has lost it all he does,,t know who to buy or not victor valdes is not better than schezny so he should just leave arsenal alone let another coach come in to manage the club we are sick n tied of wenger principles.
Tioum
Mar 12, 2013 at 10:26 am
Mr Wenger, dont forget that we missed many chances by poor goalkeeper like Almunia, Lehman etc, why again you are unready again, schezny is good but QPR goal keeper(Julios Cesar) is at your hand. Goal kepper today is more than any player to trophy;;; GOAL KEEPER,GOALKEEPER
Tioum
Mar 12, 2013 at 10:27 am
why byou put your supporters in agomy,,,,,, buy good goalkepper even with 20 million USD.
luca
Mar 12, 2013 at 12:23 pm
spend fucking money wenger coz we have no podolski jack , and diaby sagna tomorrow and giroud is shite and we need center half someone that has better leadership than vermaelan and koscielny a center bak who knows how to show commitment 2 team for 90 mins like what neil warnock said i would bring in jagielka or i would like sakho psg defender so gd leadership in team but someone like tony adams coz vermaelan is having bad confidence and on recent poor we need left back coz santos is crap and gibbs gets injured all time so i want baines but baines is going man united and maybe decent left bak i would like contero from real madrid and 2 DM’s coz arteta not dm coz he always out of positon and probelm is when arteta plays in DM that allows 2 center halfs to come forward and they lose ball so we need winner that can go bak and be DM for 90 mins so that won’t allow 2 center halfs to go forward i would like fellani and capoue and world class striker someone like David villa or cavani please spend money coz bayern will win 4-0 tomorrow don’t care bout game tomorrow i care bout premier league games coz we have swansea i think we get draw out of that and we have 123 million so i want fellani capoue cavani and conterao from real madrid and world class center half
Clive
Apr 16, 2013 at 5:47 pm
Luca…you are an idiot. ‘I want’…you sound like a baby.grow up. Lets live in the real world shall we? Why on earth would over half of those players come to us? Stupid twat. This ain’t football manager…