He'll be like a new signing.
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Classic Wenger signing, cheap, under the radar and a development job. Dont know anything about him apart from the fact he has CL experience with Basle.
On BBC now, this has got to be a joke? Oh no wait this is Wenger we're talking about, the king of joke signings, typical cheap nobody Wenger considers to be super super quality.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35187793
Why are we surprised! Le Boss is some sort of idiot! Oh well, one more season to go!Originally Posted by Özim
We need proven players especially at this stage in the season.
Title is there to be won, but it'll probably mirror our 13/14 jan window when we got Broken Back Kallstrom
Well if he comes, welcome. Hopefully he does well for the team.
Sounds like this one is all but done then? Nice that it's getting done early for once - we need it!
Can't say I've seen anything of this guy other than YT clips, but he sounds like he could be a smart buy? From what I've read, he sits somewhere between a DM and a holding midfielder (ideal, as we're currently without our two!), although he's sometimes talked of as a box-to-box player because of his stamina and tireless running? He's mostly deployed as the deepest midfielder for club and country though, so I would expect that he's being bought with a defensive role in mind? But even if I'm wrong on that, it sounds like he has all the attributes to be a solid DM at this level.
One big plus for me is that it sounds like we're buying a good personality and mentality again - something that we've not always done in recent years. The lad sounds really eager and humble, with a great work ethic and team mentality, and everyone who's worked with him has nothing but positives to say. It also sounds like another purchase that's being informed by this statistical analysis whathaveyou that the club purchased, so his numbers are going to be good: good tackler and interceptor, covers an insane amount of ground per game, very high pass percentage from deep (both short and long), is starting to score fairly frequently from range, etc. Very clean / fair player too, who doesn't give away a lot of fouls. Weakness is possibly his dribbling ability, but that's arguably something we don't want to see our DMs attempting too much of anyway? Arial usefulness is unknown - need to look into that - but I can't imagine he's any worse in that department than Coquelin, and he's got to be better than Cazorla?
Experience in the Swiss league doesn't really tell us much (although winning it 3 years straight won't have done him any harm), but he has a lot of European and international experience under his belt, so that might tell us more about his level.
Edit:
On a side note, I wouldn't be surprised if this turns out to be the first move in a bit of a midfield rebuild over the next couple of windows? Very easy to believe some of the recent talk that this could be the last season for Arteta, Rosicky and Flamini, and Wenger is starting to sound a little exasperated with the vague, never-ending nature of Wilshere's fitness problems? I don't think he's completely sold on Ramsey playing in a midfield 2, and Cazorla has just done his knee at 31 - doesn't necessarily mean he's finished by any stretch, but it's maybe a sign that we shouldn't be heaping 50+ games a season on his shoulders from now on? Could be wrong, but I can see several CM 'outs' and maybe another 'in' before the start of next season...
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That's a great read and sounds very promising. I've said it before, Elneny sounds like a classic "Wenger" signing, a young under the radar midfielder with heaps of potential.
I'm looking forward to him hopefully contributing this season, should be interesting to see how he gets on.
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