Originally Posted by Zak
We are definitely getting Kalou.
He'll be partnered by Marica.
He's quality and a Must Get!According some rag online Draxler's had a tour of our training ground and was left impressed by it.
http://www.fanatix.com/news/arsenal-...ground/174610/
Last edited by Özil's Panoramic View; 07-01-2014 at 10:51 PM.
I would tend to agree with that PGTips..... although I'm still not convinced Di Maria's overall impact on the left would be greater than Cazorla's when he is on form. Mind you, it needn't be, but if we are spending 30 odd million on Maria, we should expect his contribution to be significantly greater than Podolski, Cazorla, Ozil or anyone else we can play wide left currently.
Isn't Jackson Martinez' clause at 38 million? Did somebody say that the other day?
And yes Zak, for a long while I was convinced Wenger was desperate to sign Kalou.....fortunately I think the fever has left his system finally.
£34m, I heard? Probably closer to 38m in euros...
Oh right. Sounds like one of the better options available. Who can second guess Wenger though....
PGtips!
We're unlikely to get Di Maria when we have Cazorla. Wenger likes his wide playmakers or wide strikers. Cazorla is a fantastic player and I say he'd do more damage playing in the middle because he doesn't drive at defenders with his runs and take them on. But there isn't a place for him there so Wenger will keep him on the left.
In theory, Gnabry and Oxlade are skillful, pacy dribblers. With Podolski, Cazorla and Ozil (and of course Theo when he returns) all being productive players capable of doing good jobs out wide too, I'd say signing another winger is not even on Wenger's mind.
A striker who is quick, fast and has pace and is therefore able to stretch opposing backlines and give us a completely different option up front is required. Even with Theo fit, this was a necessity. If Sanogo wasn't always dead, he might have genuinely been a useful, if erratic, option. But with one proven provider of goals now out, getting someone who will bring the goals, pace and be a viable alternative to Giroud is essential if we don't want to regret throwing away promising positions in all competitions.
If we can find a bargain that will do a decent job, that's not the end of the world, but why not splash the cash that the club has mainly stashed in the last ten years? Even if we end up overspending on someone not quite in the elite bracket of strikers or if a player ends up being a misfit in our system, it's still better that we actually tried rather than another season of letting an opportunity slip by and getting left behind by oil-fuelled clubs.
Even the least technical striker ever would score in our team anyway, so just go mental Wenget.
As for the cash, I don't think we should have any qualms about spending big again. This isn't like the days where, we might have had money, but where we had to sell all our best players for 8 years to get it, and if we'd spent it it would have been gone for good - we'll now be getting an extra £70m a season from Emirates and Puma, and we can now spend a fair amount knowing that it will be back in the account every summer. Obviously that doesn't mean we can now spend infinite sums like some clubs, but by the same token the thought of spending £30-40m on a single player on a fairly regular basis shouldn't cause anyone to break out in cold sweats - providing we stay in the top spots, this should be the new reality for us now...
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