28-year-old star agrees €186,000 deal with Arsenal
Olivier Giroud has made an initial agreement with Arsenal over signing a new bumper contract.
The Frenchman has received mixed reviews over his ability to remain Arsene Wenger’s first choice striker but the Gunners have now chosen to stick with the squad’s top scorer in the league last season.
Giroud moved to north London from Montpellier for a price of £9.6m three years ago, scoring 41 goals in 97 Premier League games for the Gunners so far.
According to a report by Italian outlet Tuttomercatoweb, the 28-year-old and his agent are set to complete talks with the club over a new three-year contract worth £130,000-a-week (roughly €186,000).
Giroud’s form in March saw him join Wenger as a winner of the Premier League’s monthly award
The deal will see Giroud become one of the highest-paid players in the Arsenal squad, but Arsene Wenger insists that he is now financially capable of bringing in another striker to challenge the Frenchman.
“We now have the stability that gives us strength. Before I was more exposed to ‘Who will go?’ and now the question I get more is ‘Who will come?” the Gunners boss told the Telegraph
“The transfer market is not over. We can still buy but I don’t think we will sell. Our potential on the market has changed.”
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I still ask my self why we cant land a world class stricker, Diffensive mid fielderand a prominent left back. Giroud is too weak and sloe on ball. See how he plays with his legs. See the stricking force for our competitors Chelsea- E Hazard. Diego Costa and falcao. Man-cty – S Aguelo etc. Arsenal is realy Gambling up front wth the likes of – D Welbeck, Akpom, the real gambler O Giroud. Who is to compete wth who coz all just gambling. The Gooners are not at all happy wth this. Tell us to fund for our lovely club to see that world class players land at Emirates. Vidal is for sale bt the board is just looking off. We need a clinical world class stricker-benzima. Deffensive mid- Atulo Vaidal. Left back. We cry for our nice passes from Ozil and Sanchez being wasted by that gambler – Giroud. Its time we need a change to compete for trophies. Flamin, N Monreal, Diaby must leave our team. Arteta is olso not reliable. I wish Wenger knew how Macos leus could add in our team. Karim Benzima, Atulo Vidal and a left back. Otherwise we are still gambling with places.
Pretty spot-on considering that English is not your first language. I say Snatch Samper, Benzema and a world class LB and we´re good to go. Also, one of the three between Wilshere, Ramsey and Cazorla must go by next season.
Do your homework properly. Olly has done more good than bad and I personally think we have answers to this Striker crisis in our squad..Vidal is not a DM.
Of course Giraud is an important player but up to now we need another striker like Karim benzema or others wish Arsenal to win EPL UCL FA Carling and so on
I love Wenger
giroud must go come karim benzema and vidal
We should sign benzema by all means
we do realy need a prominent striker, the likes of k.benzima, o.giroud cant lead our attack he cant force any defender he his too weak we cant win epl with him also d.midfield we cant leave the load for f.coquelin alone to handle.
we need back up.
We may need Benzema but i think i will go for Zlatan Ibra,he is a treat to defenders believe u me. A good DM and a good Left back and sell Monreal.
Monreal should not be sold yet. i believe he is at his peak and we can get a season or two of excellent form from him before letting him go. Otherwise, I agree with most other opinions expressed here.
For me all we nw is good FW and CM and we are done maybe player like pjanic or muntinho and benzimer or Dzeko. With dis kind of player we can definately compete.
There is no need for another striker. The way AW has set up they way they play, anybody can score. Anybody can move to the CF position and score especially the midfielders. It would be interesting to watch
we need marque striker like karim Benzema, i think Giroud is an important player but he can never be our Gunners first choice striker when we see others teams striker like chelseas they have Diago costa n falcao Remy so what about our strikers? our problem not only striker also DM transfer window n’t closed we have time to sign playrs we need two new face in our squad please!