Chamakh deal to be announced, Wenger hints of new spending ability
Arsenal’s squad is on the verge of welcoming a new face according to Arsene Wenger.
The Gunners will face a familiar suggestion of having to spend should the current campaign end without silverware and after admitting his side needs some reinforcements, Wenger is now likely to dip into the transfer market.
And one man certainly in Arsenal’s sights is Maroune Chamakh.
The Moroccan striker has refused to renew his contract at Bordeaux and Arsenal have been heavily rumoured to have made an agreement with the player for a move to north London.
When asked of the latest on the Chamakh saga, Wenger remained tight-lipped but the manager could not deny a deal for the 26-year-old was likely.
“We will announce the deals after the league [finishes],” he said. “He is one of the players who has a good chance to join us.”
Arsene Wenger also added that the club is now ready to spend big in the transfer market and revealed the financial stress of moving to the Emirates Stadium is now over.
Thus, Arsenal may not be scared off by high price tags even though the club’s wage policy will remain the same.
“I think we can overcome [Chelsea],” he said. “For a while we were not investing maybe because we had built the stadium but I think our financial situation is now becoming much stronger and we will be capable to buy the players we need to buy.”
“No we cannot [compete] on wages with Chelsea. That is simple. I believe what is not normal is not our wage bill but their wage bill because that should not be allowed.
“However they cannot all go to Chelsea, it is as simple as that. There are top players outside of the ones Chelsea want to buy who are good enough for us.”
dont know if this is right but two signings i think will be confrrmed chakmah and sorensen which i think was agreed in the last window. The new stoke keeper cant recall his name wouldnt go to stoke unless he had guaranteed 1st team football sorensens understudy this season on the knowledge of sorensens planned move for next season
This sounds fucking great. Now the money is here hmmmmm lets go shopping :):):):):):)
In the last sentence Wenger maybe hinted that we might just have a go on Aguero, Villa , or Dzeko who are also Chelsea’s targets, to maybe go for them. 🙂
Fantastic news!!!
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Don’t get too excited though. Wenger has a habit of promising/hinting at spending-sprees at this time of the seaosn and we rather see more players leave while few come in.
Even so, I think another trophyless season could have finally drawn the club desperate to change things a bit.
Chamakh will be a great new striker force together with RvP and Bendtner. Knowing Chamakh most likley will join we can all look foward to some obvious refills; centre halfs! At least one, two if gallas are leaving.
Midfield is more tricky. Don’t really know if we need too much new blood there with Wilshere comin back and Ramsey beein injury free. I might guess for a Dm as backup for Song but I don’t think we can expect more than one new body there.
Keeper is on the other hand a must. Sorensen is quality for sure but I can’t really see him as a arsenal keeper. I might be wrong. Tops Almunia never the less so “go for it”.
Thomas Sorensen?
I dont think arsenal will buy a goalkeeper.
Sorensen i got a feeling hes going to bayern munich as a replacement for butt. Bayern have been looking for a goalkeeper i think sorensen is going bayern munich.
I wonder who the other player is. I can see the joe hart and gary cahill rumours having some truth cause Of UEFA news quota system i can see wenger going for English/British players.
I really like Simon kjaer he would fit straight away into the premersihip hes very strong physically and great technically.
Midfield i think we might buy a winger cause i can see eboue leaving on a free and we will need to replace him
two words – joe cole
sorensen, chamakh, cole will come in.
don’t know who wenger will bring in in defence though. at least one player is needed for sure.
it’s exciting that wenger referred to ‘deals’ plural!
sounds like arsenal have been busy sorting out their plans for next season already!
a few names announced before the world cup would make my summer!
Joe cole? He wants £200,000 a week the greedy bastard. He wont be him.
Wenger talks bollocks, same shit at the end of each season
Any1 see Chamahk’s goal vs Lyon today? The guy is what we have been lacking at Arsenal for a while (a target man, who sits in front of goal and waits for a decent delivery).
Lyon are supposedly going to bid for Eduardo this summer, so with Chamakh in, i think spells the end of Eduardo. If we are going to lose Eduardo, then we should do a swap + cash deal for Lloris
at d end of d next transfer window, i’ll bet ma salary we are not going 2 c more dan 1 new face.dat full (wenger) only know hw 2 talk bulshit.at d end of d day noting seen.
With Wenger i am not sure what he will do. I remember previous season he said that we need to add players in the squad and at the end we sold two players( king kolo and Adebuywh0re) and bought one(TV)and that means we didnt add players as he said b4 but we reduced our squad. So unless i see deals confirmed at arsenal website am not gonna believe his words.
wenger cant afford another season without a trophy thats the difference this time. ownership of the club is up in the air and i dont think wenger has any intention of leaving especially not by the way of getting sacked. i fancy us to spend some serious money i think wenger has run out of excuses this time.
Arsene can deceive. He always says stuff like this at this time of the year.
I took a search back into the archive and found his main quotes following our last games of the season in the past two seasons.
And here’s proof that this man says one thing and does the other.
May 2008 (after ending 2007/08 season vs Sunderland)
“I know what I want and I am very confident,” he said. “I hope to turn that around in the next two or three weeks. But the fans should be re-assured by what they see.”
“It would be better to buy someone who has played in England because they are less risky,” said the manager. “But it costs more money if they are from the Premier League, so maybe I will try to do both.”
May 2009 (after ending 2008/09 season vs Stoke City)
“I’m not chasing any player at the moment,” he said. “I believe my priority is to stay with the squad we have.
“We will try of course to bring in one or two players to strengthen the squad but we have plenty of strikers.
“And if we buy, it certainly won’t be players who lack experience. We have enough of those.”
“No [we do not have to sell] because we have a balanced budget,” he said at Friday’s pre-match press conference. “But it depends how high you want to buy.
“I believe that what is important in this stage of a club’s life is to keep the players you have.”
Oh, and remember him saying this after RVP got injured and we were desperate for a January signing?
December 2009
“I didn’t feel we were in the need to buy anybody but we will be out on the market that is for sure now. However we will only make a decision if it suits us.”
For god sakes bendtner is better target man than chamakh.
Chamakh only seems a threat in set pieces i dont see the threat in open play. Yh hes good outside the box with his neat touches, passes but he doesnt look great in terms of movement and doesnt look like a finisher.
I think bendtner has got more to his game than chamakh. Chamakh will be agood back up player for bendtner and van persie. When bendtern needs a rest chamakh could do a decent job for us
Very typical of you – “now that he is an Arsenal player, let’s bash him!”
Welcome to hell, Maroune! 😆
What the hell doyou mean-reply please
I do like chamakh dont get me wrong but i know bendtner has got more ability than chamakh. I have always said bendtner is the best arsenal youth player i have seen. I havent seen a 6ft 4 striker get the ball run at defenders for fun with his pace and skill.
However we havent seen any of that ability bendtner has hes become more of a target man but when he gets used to the premiership we will see more of bendtner. Hes got alot more than heading the ball and flicking balls through.
I hope Wenger fulfil his promises so as to wipe our tears away
I’m happy with a new solid signing!! I’ll leave the trash talking to you all! =)
Wellcome chamach,pls tell wenger to sell almunia,sylvester,eboue and buy akinfeev,boateng and villa.
Knowing chamark will join us we only need 4 players 1 keeper 2 defender and to be specific n’zogbia because i know he will be more effective on the wings than nasri and then move nasri to the midle with song and fabregas to relif the creativity burden on fabregas and to even score more goals.
if we can spend like chelsea,i say we should sign “david villa”…yah if we can negotiate with his wages,it will be a magnificient signing…rvp along with david villa, i assure u atleast 60 goals should go in total,among these two,a defender i know we will be getting this summer, its gonna be “gregory van da wiel,and /or brade hangeland.”our midfield is already quite strong and if i was wenger i would try and sign “hazzard,and andres hierra”.
re-shaping the entire squad and bringing about a balance is necessary,too much focus on 1 area is aformula for DOOM…
SPEAKING OF DOOM,I ALMOST FORGOT,WE NEED A NEW KEEPER,I SAY GO FOR NEUER OR HLLORIS…hlloris is gonna be a manutd player probably,so neuer is a more realistic option,or WHY NOT “IGOR.”
THINKABOUT IT:
60 ML
HIERRA AND HAZZARD BOTH FOR 23 ML
HANGELAND OR WIEL ANOTHER 10ML
VILLA 27 ML….WE GOT THE TREBLE
…I MAY SOUND FUNNY WITH VILLA BUT WE NEED THE BURDEN TO SHIFT FROM RVP AND BE EQUALLY SHARED,NICK ONLY ADDS SOME MORE IN MY OPINION…UP THE GUNS
Oh DKD…put yourself in, Wenger’s shoesl lol…what? No, please don’t try. lol
I HEART ARSENAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only time i’ll be happy when we make a signing is when that particular signing – big name or not- does well in an Arsenal shirt! 😀
ooh poor arsenal,wenger must spend know if we have to compete with other big clubs. Basically our areas of weaknesses are Central defence, Striking force, and Midfield. What we need is
1. Two centre backs,likes of Jerome Boateng
2. One good defencive midfielder-like Gignac,
3. One good striker-class of Torres and Rooney, David villa
4. One winger left footed-like silva of Valencia
and we are almost guarantee of success, otherwise no additions to the squad no trophies.
DK :
Gignac is a striker so he would be quite useless as a defensive midfielder
Torres/Rooney/Villa – Let’s be realistic, we wouldn’t be able to get the aforementioned Gignac
David Silva would cost around £25millon, way too much our offensive midfield isn’t in dire need of reformation.
I do agree that the centerbacks are needed, Gallas needs a new contract or it could spell trouble. If I were to put myself in Wenger’s shoes it would be my upmost priority to sign Lloris(Although the quote of Wenger saying he doesn’t think he will move anytime soon), How about we force the issue and for once put a decent bid in for a player instead of getting caught up in a transfer saga and when the player becomes unsettled another team would outbid us and get the player.
VP/B52
ARSH/WILSH/VELA CHMK/ROADRUNNER
NASRI/AARON /DIABY(if he gets his act tgtr) FAB
SONG/NEW SIGNING
CLICHY/GIBBS VERMINATOR/DJR NEW SIGNING/DJR SAGNA/EBOUE
NEW SIGNING/MANONE/SCZKKDJFKA(maybe they should loan him !?)
CAMPBELL must stay, as back up as well as to turn them from boys into men.
NORDTVEIT should be promoted to the 1st team.
OUT GOING PLAYERS INCOMING PLAYERS
ALMUNIA CHAKH(free)
FABIANKSI 1 DEFENDER 10-15MIL
DENILSON 1 DEFENSIVE MID 10-15MIL
EDUARDO – would be better for all parties 🙁 1 GOALKEEPER 10-20MIL
SILVESTRE 1 HARDMAN MID 10-20MIL(unlikely)
NET INFLOW – 15 MIL FOR THE LOT NET OUTFLOW ~45
So they need to spend about 30 MIL, the transfers are all very conservative and prices overestimated.
I think this team can win the league and challenge for the champions league.
d board should find replacement for that foolish and stingy wenger mad,if not, in the next ten season that trophy we hungry of will not come.evry department on the field need reinforcement.almunia is zero with silvestre even diaby is inconsistent bendtner is ineffective striker while manone i mean third keeper must give chance.
With Chamakh coming in, does that mean reversion to the 4-4-2? Chamakh and RVP up top (with Bendtner backing up)… very nice, size, power, some pace and experience (both will be 27).
But how do you go with the four behind? Nasri and Arshavin are both effective wide, but they provide poor cover coming back. We want Cesc to roam… so we are left with the old problem of just Song sitting in deep. What about a Brazilian box midfield, with Cesc and Nasri (or Arshavin) sitting in the middle, supported by Song + another DM? Is this maybe where a Gohkan Inler or Felipe Melo or Mahamdou Sissoko or Blaise Matuidi fit? I’m putting my money on Sissoko – 22, French, 6’2″ and strong as an ox.
Add in Mahamadou Sahko at CB to pair with Djourou and Vermalaen, with Van der Weil and Gibbs at the backs. Then Sebastian Frey at keeper.
Frey
Gibbs/Vermalaen/Djourou/Van der Weil
Song/Sissoko
Fabregas/Nasri
RVP/Chamakh
Bench – Almunia, Sahko, Sagna, Arshavin, Walcott, Bendtner, Ramsey
Ah, fantasy time.
arsene wenger we are tired of loosing trophy pls buy player
we need striker and good player