either he has a new CB planned or his master plan is to play fullbacks in as many positions as possble
either he has a new CB planned or his master plan is to play fullbacks in as many positions as possble
The new CB is called Holding imo. Chambers will stick around.
This is all very strange. a week left and we are still ****ing about.
No doubt we'll sell but then there 'won't be enough time' to get replacements.
Anyway Lacazette was clearly signed as Sanchez's replacement, It wasn't a direct like for like player but if sanchez goes I don't think we'll be signing a big name.
Like when we sold Podolski I knew all along he was brought in to replace van Persie.
Exactly, my posts are like jazz,
lunch, what is good for?
He sounds like a man who is fúcking deluded.
The sales pitch to Chamberlain is embarrassing. We should not be grovelling to the bang average shít****.
“In all the conversations that I have had, I say that I want him to stay and be one of the big players of the future of this club,” Wenger said. “He is one of the players this team has to be built around in the future. Personally, I want him to commit to the club and be one of the carriers of the values of our team. I want to keep my best players. I only have one target – to keep everybody on board. I think we invested a lot of time, confidence and money on players like Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who we bought at a young age. For me, they have a responsibility for the future of this club because Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will be one of the big English players in the coming years. I, personally, am highly determined to keep him here at the club and I hope he will commit.”
Then on Lemar. Fair enough to try and move on from it but if you take the last sentence as read then why would we be offering 50m in the first place.
“It’s dead because Monaco have closed the door,” Wenger said. “They are still on cases like Mbappé and Fabinho [in terms of selling them]. They’ve already lost Mendy, Bernardo Silva and Bakayoko, so Monaco is at a stage where they have closed the door. Is it a frustration? We have the numbers and we have the quality to deal with that."
He has never been so consistently vociferous in the past, though. We've not sold our best players for a few years. And when we did it was when the club was in a poor financial state.
He even said that just because Sanchez is in the final 12 months of his contract that it will be impossible to renew it.
Told you guys...he's desperate to make Elneny the main man in the back 3...the Egyptian Mattias Samner
I am sure we all want to keep our best players but I doubt there are many on here who would consider it wise to allow Sanchez, OZil and Ox all to leave for nothing next summer. THat is a massive loss in terms of potential fees.
I expect Sanchez to leave. If wenger seems like he really means it this time then hopefully it will drive the price up a bit.
I half expect OX to leave as well.
Ah come on now, you are being unfair.
His sore tummy was basically his reason for not attending work. Having called in he is then free to spend the day as he pleases.
I defy any man to deny he has called in sick and then within an hour or two went to the pub for the day.
Quite my Swedish friend, I am in 100% agreement here.
He has identified a weakness in his squad and correctly sought to address it, having failed in his quest for target 1 he will now just sit back and make do. Lots of history in this respect.
I had always thought of Lemar as simply being Sanchez' replacement so perhaps that is a key factor here.
"best players", like clubs are queuing up for them, Sanchez not included. We've not had top calibre players here for yonks, that's why we win **** all, ffs!