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But maybe Arsène Wenger has other ideas. Jack Wilshere plus Yann M'Vila behind Aaron Ramsey. M'Vila is a French international. Word now (except at Sky Sports) is that Rennes have allowed Mr Wenger to talk to him. ...
According to Sky SportsReal Madrid and Liverpool have been trying to buy him. According to Sky Sports he has a contract lasting until 2015 which he signed in May.
According to Sky Sports the defensive midfielder believes he is better off continuing his development in France as that gives him the best chance of playing at next year?s European Championship.
M?Vila is a French international. Word now (except at Sky Sports) is that Rennes have allowed Mr Wenger to talk to him. Oh and he is talking to Sochaux?s attacking midfielder Marvin Martin.
Such buys would come as no surprise, given that Mr Wenger tends to buy French, and at around the price level being quoted here. Petit, Henry, Pires all fit this sort of purchasing mould. Vieira is the obvious odd man out as he only cost £3.5m. The purchase of Vieira today would be met by those highly knowledgeable bloggers who comment on such things with howls of derisive laughter.
M?Vila has played83 times for Rennes, and scored three, over three seasons; he is married with two sons. He previously played for Amiens SC and FC Mantes.
And here?s something to warm you (if you are of that sort of mind) ? his father is Jean-Elvis M?Vila. I mean with a name like that, what more do you want.
M?Vila has played for France at under 16 and higher levels all the way up to under 21. On 5 August 2010 he joined the senior squad under Laurent Blanc and got his first international cap, getting very positive reviews from the French press as a player of the future.
On 25 March 2011, M?Vila created a record completing 92.5% of his 134 attempted passes in a 2?0 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying win over Luxembourg.
And finally, one more player we may have forgotten: Coquelin. He has been playing in the under 20 world cup, and surely must be in line to help out in the defence.
I think most arsenal fans will be happy with these signings, if true. Our need for defensive reinforcements cannot be understated, however, especially with gibbs, traore and dj being injury prone and squilacci being, well, squilacci.
Frankly, i wasn?t entirely disappointed by the liverpool game considering the injuries. Just a thought: How come the only two players who trained with the first team squad(traore and benik) and played in the reserve game vs man u went off injured(I?m not counting mannone coz he?s a keeper). I think our medical staff needs to reconsider some of the training techniques.
I am not positive about the weekend at all. the Whole game I thought a draw would be a good result! First time in my life I have thought a draw at home in the league is a good result.
With all due respect Tony aren?t these just rumors from various journalists and media outlets? Or do you really think this will happen? If not should it be on Untold? Just asking.
Training style isn?t d problem. The problem is dis boys r young & in-experienced. How many times do u hear a CR7 injured or a messi & d likes, AW should go & sign quality players: period.
Hmmmmm? I rather Ramsy not play at all? wat all the hype about him is i?ve no idea? i watched him play in the pre-season and him play the two league games. i can count on one hand how many creative and positive things he did for the team?neither effective offensive end and useless in the defensive end,?.
Wenger will not buy ? an injury list with 8 players, suspensions with 3 thats 11 players out, therefore read between the lines. Too many seasons with the same outcome and thats not about to change.
What odds M?Vila playing against United with Song and Frimpong being suspended ? It?ll do us good to have three DM, it gives Arsene the option to play with two and maintain possession to hang on to a lead. Then we just need someone creative like Hazard to solve our problems creating chances.
One point that you are forgetting is about ?home grown? rule. I think arsene will have to buy 1 or 2 players from england or whatever country counted as home.
I think that the rumour building around Kaka to be much better. I assume Wenger sees Ramsey as the next Fabregas and all he wants him to take one more year..
So I very much believe that Kaka on loan is really a great option.. He can also keep Kaka for longer if he is good this year.. I also think that this would satisfy many fans who demand a BIG signing..
I think this is quite likely because we?ve lost Denilson and Fabregas. Diaby has disappointed over recent seasons. He is bringing in Frimpong and moving Nasri into the Cesc role but Frimpong was already in the squad last year before getting injured and Nasri might still leave so potentially he could still feel that we?re 3 players short in central midfield. If that?s true M?vila because a very likely prospect, he ticks all the boxes to make him a typical Wenger signing.
Tony, I?ve got to say a Alex Song is one of two players in the Arsenal squad who you could genuinely classify as not being inexperienced, injury prone, probably leaving, lacking the required ability to perform at the highest level or starting to look a bit long in the tooth. The other being Sagna, you could add Vermaelen to that list but seeing as he?s just spent a whole season out injured, I?d classify him as a injury concern for now. As such I?d be happy to see Wenger Sign M?Vila to play along side Song and Jack to sure up the midfield, making us very hard to breakdown and revert back to more of a fast breaking counter attacking style, which does seem feasible if you look at the pace of all the young front men we?ve been accumulating. But simply replacing Song with M?vila doesn?t do much if anything to sure up a team that?s won 5, drawn 11 and lost 8 in it?s last 24.
As for Coquelin he?s another good prospect but, we fielded 5 good prospects at the weekend and had a couple more unused on the bench. I?ve got tremendous faith in a lot of those young players, but too much responsibility is being burdened on to many young shoulders.
I really do not get the noise Mancini is making. What right does he have to talk about a player who is under contract! Have we fallen so low to the allure of money that nobody can see that what he is doing by saying all these things is wrong and against the rules? This is a manager with around 4 players costing 400K a week he plans not to use this season and he pines for another team?s player because he can afford to. This is frankly disturbing that not enough is being said about this. Sad times for football. Damsel in distress (Arsenal in this case): ?Jack Wilshere, Help, We need you!!!?
Mancini senses the distress or realizes our board are only concerned about money! Nasri being 25mil in the bank for our directors and they aint about to risk that.
That?s all well and good and still remains conjecture! Mancini is the manager and as such should focus on manage his team not ours. He has made his desires for the player known to his board and its left for his and out board to haggle over the details. Coming out to speak and in ways imply that he would fail to lift the champions league if he doesn?t have A player (for upwards of GBP 25m no less!!) is not only conveying a lack of confidence in his ability but it suggests that the GBP 300m already spent on his squad is ?simply not enough? and he?d struggle.
very apt comment on Patrick Viera. Thierry Henry was another knock down ?damaged goods? signing when he came over. Pires? career was stuttering having left his first team -Metz- for the cauldron for Marseille before jumping on to Wenger?s ship at the first opportunity.
Rushing out and signing 4 or 5 ?experienced? players is not the panacea people seem to think although it may increase your chances of getting that rare nugget of gold like Liverpool seem to have picked up with Suarez. And buying those players to have them play bit rôles is just inviting more Squillaci type dramas.
Arsene is hurting bad though because although he has seen it coming for the last couple of years Fabregas? going must lead to a big rethink on playing tactics and teambuilding strategy.
Ironically it is the going forward part of Arsenal?s game that is looking flaky and has taken a huge it with el Capitan?s departure. The defence looks very good and full of potential.
Arsene probably lack teh inspirational qualities of an Elx Ferguson but they are very different people but his basics are as good as ever ? and way beyone anyone else in the EPL ? witness the praise being poured on young Frimpong, Miquel and Jenkinson after Saturday?s performance. In 3 months time people will already have forgotten that Szczesny got his first game as the emergency replacement after two goalkeeping injuries, and Wilshere is a veteran whose return to the team is waited on with bated breath.
Ajax won the European Cup with a group of kids in the early 90?s with one old guy ? Danny Blind. Most of the team then left for richer pickings elsewhere, not all went on to splendid careers but many did ? Seedorf, Van der Sar, Davids (!?) ? but they had all been to a master school of football which is what Arsenal have now created. Don?t let that get forgotten in all the current hysteria.
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