Mario Gomez, 22, plays for Stuttgart, is Germany’s player of the year, scores lots of goals and is being talked about to play for the Arsenal, YaYa Toure and Belgium defender Vincent Kompany have also been linked, add that to Barry, Veloso, Ben Arfa, Benzema, Diego, Mertesaker and two girls from the double winning Arsenal ladies team and we really have a mouth watering list to choose from.
Arsene says he will start today and have deals tied up within 3 weeks. I know we spent all weekend speculating on the why’s and the wherefore’s but to be honest all of them tick the boxes for me, though I can’t see him signing a striker, unless of course one goes, and if you count Hleb as a striker it’s a possibility.
What we desperately need is a world class centre back, a strong midfielder and a winger, if we sign those we should be okay, but we do need to bolster the squad.
The kids did great yesterday, yes I know it was Sunderland, but we only just beat them at the Grove and they must have fancied their chances against our third team, it was ‘the Sunderland’s’ that cost us the title, so the big question today is, are our kids ready to step up and make our squad bigger, rather than bringing in 5 new players.
Randall, Djourou and Theo were pretty good by all accounts yesterday, Theo I think will be like a new signing next term.
Gibbs and Vela will step up on the wings but are they ready? I’m not so sure, but I won’t say no, Wenger’s confident that’s for sure, one thing is apparent though, we can’t go another season without a pot, and he needs to have a squad that can realistically compete for all four trophies.
Other news is it looks like Milan won’t qualify for the Champions league, so ha, ha, ha, you greedy git Flamini, he won’t be meeting us in the Final next year.
I would like to ask Jenas how he expects Top4tottenham to finish above us when they finished 11th and 37 points behind us, and I think they over achieved as well. What a dipstick!
We will be doing player analysis over the next few weeks and Pedro is offering an email service for those of you who can’t get Le-Grove from your PC’s at work, or in me and Pedro’s case, Macs.
Any suggestions you have for making the time go by through the summer will be gratefully received, this is your blog as well as ours so we appreciate your input.
I took a bet yesterday from Wrighty7 that Theo would score 15 goals or more in the League and Carling cup, I think I’m onto a winner.
If we can sign a winger, a good solid midfielder and an animal at the back we can score a lot more than we did this season, and that was a lot.
It was a great debut season for Le Grove and we’ll be here all summer, so you won’t get bored at work anymore.
Have a great week, this could be an interesting few days.
I have been a Stuttgart fan all of my life and have had the pleasure to watch Mario Gomez over his short but illustrious career.
Stuttgart has had some excellent young forwards in the past – klinsmann, Bobic, Elber, Kuranyi, just to name a few.
Gomez from a talent standpoint is better than all of them, that’s how sick his skills are.
Get him the ball near or within the penalty box, and he’s money. He can make a shot from anywhere at the most impossible angles, head the ball, and is just as accurate as they come. He just has a knack for where the goal is that only few people have. And he is a competitor and doesn’t mind helping out on defense. He’s worth every penny. A great kid with loads of intangibles. In one particular way, he reminds me of Cantona. He only needs half a chance to beat you.
That said, he is injury prone, and he will have to go through a long and gruelling Premiership Season. I hope Arsene uses him wisely.
If he can play 30 premiership games, you will have a lot of fun with him. He is a nightmare for any defense.
I see Man Utd are/have signed Aaron Ramsey from Cardiff. That was a youngster that Wenger definately wanted so he’s missed one target already. Not a big problem as we need experienced players but he will be a good player one day.
so i wonder if Wenger will tempt any loan deals as well as signings?
i think he should loan SWP from chelsea
Big question marks hang over several of Avram Grant’s high-priced Chelsea players.
The Daily Mail says Juliano Belletti, who picked up the club’s goal of the season award for his spectacular effort against Tottenham, will be asked to leave, along with winger Florent Malouda and forward Claudio Pizarro.
Khalid Boulahrouz, who has been on loan to Sevilla, will also be released when a fee can be agreed for the central defender. And a Chelsea source admitted on Monday that, despite Andriy Shevchenko’s goal against Bolton on Sunday, “they will personally drive him to anyone who will have him”.
There is also the curious case of Branislav Ivanovic, who has not played since he joined from Lokomotiv Moscow in January. At 24, he should be involved with the first-team squad, but no one in the reserves can understand why Chelsea paid £9million for him.
i wont mind taking florent malouda for £5m
G’Day all
Andlon, you sound resigned to the fact that Gomez is a done deal?
we can say good bye to robinho
Real Madrid have opened new contract talks with Robinho’s representatives.
The Brazilian winger’s agent, Wagner Ribeiro, and his father, Gilvan de Souza, have met with Real sports director Pedja Mijatovic to begin negotiations over a new six-year deal.
Robinho’s current deal runs to 2010 and with a new Spanish passport set to arrive this year, Real are eager to tie him down to a new, improved long-term agreement.
as soon as they get a spanish passport they value goes up even more
maybe arsene got a deal for Adriano in place
Guys please help me out here, did it make sense for us to sell Flamini because we didnt want to give him an increase of 20K?
now we are going to buy someone for 16 million pounds who is going to require as much wages as Flamini…
Was it the issue of wanting to save money or there was something behind the scenes that is being covered up??
http://www.latest-arsenal.blogspot.com
Latest Arsenal News, we covered that last week, we got a lot of AKB’s on over it, go into the archives, it’s a good read!
read some report….
arsenal never disclose infomation about their transfer budget in case of player value inflation….
wenger has signed someone but we dont know who it is, just finalising the deal right now
NEW POST!
… in 1 minute!
AW has alternatives for defensive midfield within the club. The best option is to repeat the Emauuele Petite turn of magic and play the left back in midfield. He has the speed to get back to cover and is one of the cleanest tacklers in the game. Perhaps Thuram at centre back to lead the team and play alongside Kolo and Gallas alternately till Northfeldt comes of age. Ben Alfa to come in on the left flank with Traora at left back. But Robin Van P could to a good job on the right wing, similar to Robert Perez opn the felt, to play Sagna up the wing or find Chesc on a mid field run, or squeeze the ball through to Ade or Theo. Thuram and Ben Alfa would add the 8 points we were short of last season.
I am very dissapointed in Mario Gomez for joining Bayern Munich for the next Bundesliga season. He could have continued his success at Stuttgart, and chose to go with the money!
Mario Gomez is turning into a Ronaldo of Bundesliga!