While little is certain in this crazy, mixed up game that we call football, some transfers just seem destined to happen.
Reports to today suggest that one player is not happy and may look for a move if his chances of first team football don’t improve. That man is Lukas Podolski.
‘Lukas who’ I hear some of you say, tongue in cheek. Because here is a forgotten man of club football.
A German international of with 118 caps – yes 118 – and 47 goals to his international name. But he’s also a striker who is regularly overlooked for the not considerable talents of Yaya Sanogo.
Podolski has appeared 4 times for Arsenal this season, mainly from the bench (he’s only played for 25 mins in the league) but his patience is wearing thin and, at 29, he’s every right to expect first team action at a decent level. He is quoted in The Standard as saying:
“If I don’t have that competition every weekend then a change must occur.”
“We will have to see,” he said when asked if he would see out his contract. “It is certainly something one has to think about.”
Podolski actually has a decent goal record at Arsenal too with 28 in 73 games in all competitions But, perhaps due to a lack of pace and dynamism, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger just doesn’t seem to rate him.
Wenger could never be described as anything less than an honourable man and he will want to put the lad out of his misery if he doesn’t think that Podolski has a future at the club. Providing Arsenal don’t have a striker crisis come January then we can easily imagine him being sold in the next window.
But one thing is almost certain – sooner rather than later Podolski is surely on his way out of Arsenal.
Let’s see the lad in action. Gunners fans: Underrated or just pony?
