Kashmaster – A full analysis of Arsenal’s transfer plans this summer
The players that will leave and come in next season
An interesting comment on JustArsenal the other day by Travis_Bickle has given me the basis for this analysis of Arsenal’s fortcoming transfer window. His comment was based on the idea of working out who exactly would leave this season and then working from that a rough estimate of the number of players that would come in.
This article takes no account of how much money Wenger has available to spend, but I don’t think it will break his bank or need him to win some casino real money to finance the moves. In fact he may even make a profit at the end of it!
Okay, so here is a list of the players that are expected to leave and why:
Sebastian Squillaci: He is guaranteed to leave Arsenal at the end of the season. He signed a 3 year contract with us when he joined and has had a torrid time whilst playing for us. He has been unable to adapt to the English game and as a result, Wenger must sell him to progress this squad. He still has a year remaining and we could make some sort of money back on the £3 million we paid for him. Will most likely go to a lower Ligue 1 team.
Almunia: He is another guaranteed departure for Arsenal. He has been terrible as a goalkeeper for Arsenal. His contract will finish this summer and because Arsenal won’t renew it, he will be a free transfer for anyone stupid enough to get him. I have no idea where he will end up.
Bendtner: He looks certain to leave Arsenal. He has been a decent player and has potential. However, his arrogance and lack of patience has cost him his career at Arsenal and I’m sure Wenger wouldn’t want him back.
He has also made it perfectly clear that he does not see his future in an Arsenal shirt. I expect him to go to a Premier league club (Possibly a permanent Sunderland deal or maybe Bolton).
Denilson: Another youngster who has failed to make the bill. He looked promising in his youth days but has failed to make the transition to Premier league quality. As a result, I can see a permanent move to Sao Paolo.
Arshavin: The Russian was the most expensive player ever bought by Arsenal and he started well but faded away because of bad attitude. He looked lazy even though he was and still is a world class player. It is upsetting because he had so much potential to make a career at Arsenal but we must cut our losses. He looks likely to be sold to a Russian club and we may fetch £5-£7 million.
Chamakh: The Moroccan had a lively start to his career at Arsenal but like Arshavin, fizzled out and now is less of a threat to goal than a potato wedge. He did look likely to move to Bordeaux or maybe PSG. However, he himself has confirmed that he has told his agents to reject any offers. Personally, I don’t buy it and I expect to see him leave.
Vela: This Mexican sensation was hailed to be one of the best players of his generation. However, the Premier league proved to be too tough for him and his career has disappeared at Arsenal. He is having a good time in Spain on his loan and I expect that to become a permanent deal during the summer.
Fabianski: The Polish international has lost his starting place to his international colleague, Woijech Szczesny. As a result, he needs to prove himself to his international coach and he can only do that by moving clubs. I expect him to depart us this summer.
The likes of Mertesacker and Djourou have been linked with exits from the Emirates but they are good enough to play for Arsenal, especially the German.
So that is all the players that are expected to leave Arsenal, now we must analyse who should be coming in.
We all know that Podolski is virtually a Gooner now and we must plan on how he’ll be integrated into the squad. He will primarily play as a left winger for us. Unfortunately, that area has been a position of inconsistency and Wenger has experimented with a lot of players.
Gervinho seems to have lost confidence after the ACON. Ramsey is just not made to be a winger and even playing him as an attacking midfielder is a bit audacious for him. Chamberlain is only 18 and Wenger doesn’t want another Wilshere situation on his hands and Benayoun looks good in that position and could possibly hold it down, but his future is still undecided.
However, Podolski will also be used as a back-up striker for any possible injuries to our Dutch captain. It will be good to have that sort of depth.
Younus Belhanda has lit up Ligue 1 with his breath-taking performances for Montepellier. He has been one of the main men behind their fight for the French title. We lack any true attacking midfielders in the ranks to take up the pedestal after Rosicky. The Moroccan is only 21 and has plenty of time to make it big at Arsenal. However, there has been the suggestion that Ramsey and Wilshere could potentially play that role but I think they’re more suited to being box to box midfielders.
Matias Suarez has apparently agreed to sign for Arsenal (did an article previously on Javier Perez’s predictions). He would be an amazing signing for us. Rated Anderlecht’s best player (even better than Lukaku) and can play anywhere along the front line as well as an AM. He would provide the depth that title contenders need and would be a signing that could change a match if we were losing.
And that’s it. These are the signings that I realistically expect to come to Arsenal come the summer. People may go on about M’Vila or Vertonghen but we do have Coquelin to take up the defensive duties and he’s got a bright future ahead of him – I wouldn’t expect Arsene to slow down his development by buying a player the same age as him. Other departures will be purely based on too many squad players and therefore do not need to be replaced.
If we buy the players I’ve listed, there is no reason why we can’t fight for European honours let alone the league. However, we must take small steps at first and title contenders is definitely on the cards for Arsenal next season.
by Kashmaster
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This article first appeared (in two parts) on JustArsenal.com, but we thought it worthy of more discussion on here.
i agree with these analysis,but we do need a playmaker in the fabregas mode.rosicky has rediscovered his form but he is 32.i would loan out ramsey and get a young better playmaker and man u is our meat
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I hope for a clear out as well. There’re just too many players with no real perspective at the club and the author mentioned them all.
Not sure though if coq is ready to take over from song already and there aren’t many who can play the dm role… :/
Belhanda, Podolski and/or Suarez would be great.
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Dont see how any of your list are guaranteed to leave apart from almunia. he is the only one out of contract. sure the others may all go out on loan or may be sold but first a buyer has to be found or a loan club willing to pay their wages. apart from almunia these are the other players out of contract and as yet have not been offered a new one benayoun hoyte murphy meade brislen-hall and mcdermott. benayoun is certain to leave unless arsenal.decide to pay the 4m fee and the 75k a week wages. he has 2 years to run at chelsea so theoritacally we have got to find £11.8m to sign yossi for 2 years very unlikely for a player who is 32 next year.
simarlily who is going to buy squillaci unless the club give him a free? 3m a year salary err i dont think so.
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Remember that selling someone who does not play regularly and replacing him with an expensive player makes no sense.everyone knows you need a strong bench ,but making signings like that will only leave you with expensive bench warmers.imagine signing someone for 15 mil and he ends up featuring like park.
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Considering our injury history and the number of tournaments we play each season, the concept of an expensive bench warmer in arsenal is a problem we should be delighted to have. We need depth and without depth, you cannot challenge for titles. Simple as that. If Balotelli breaks his leg, City still have Aguero, Dzeko and Tevez. If Rooney cannot play, united have got Welbeck, Chico, Berba and Owen. Now that is a bench! I am not saying we need all these players. But please, we do need worthy replacements for play makers like Van Persie, Song and Rosicky and at the moment, we have non. Coquelin cannot do what Song does. Not now and not anytime soon. Experience comes with time and lots of different kinds of games. Of course I will be stating the obvious by saying that Chamak and Park cannot do what Van Persie does. If they could, they would have proved it against Milan and we may still be in the champions league.
So yes we need that selection headache. We need that fierce competition and more than anything else, we need reliable insurance in every position.
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Uche, you got great insight.Good talk.
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players i feel need to leave to create room for the really talented and focused guys to play are:
almunia, squid, fabianski, denilson, diaby, bendtner, arshavin (sadly), chamakh, ramsey (loaned out or something cos he could eventually be good but he is messing up our game now), Vela and Park (very sadly).
I believe we could get at the very least (at about 5m each minus almunia, the squid and fabianski) about 35m from the sales of these players. with that money arsenal could do with players like:
Podolski (cos he plays wing, can score goals and can deputize VP), ventonghen (cos we need more than 4 CBs as our injury history has proven – Djorou can back up), and suarrez M (cos the guy is good, period).
I truly believe that had we played ramsey a bit less and Mozart a little more it would be a 3 horse race for the title. All I would like from wenger, regardless of if we buy, is to get rid of the dead weight, pay players like VP more, sign 1 or 2 very good players and play your best players more often than your rubbish players.
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Also let’s not forget that player like Bendtner who will feature in the Euros will not be sold until after the Euros to maximize profit. Bendtner is quite consistent for Denmark. I also have a feeling that Wenger will pull a rabbit out of a hat and promote Lansbury, Miyaichi and perhaps Campbell to the first team. He may even decide Eisfeld is ready. We have some seriously great youth players on our books, Toral, Bellerin, Afobe, Miquel, Ozzy etc.
I don’t think Chamakh is going anywhere simply for the fact that even if we do get Podolski the chances of Germany, Holland (Van Persie) and yes even England (Walcott) going far in the Euros is quite high and we may down 3 of our forwards from the very start of the season, especially when you consider that our preseason now means a hell of a lot of long distance travel. Something which not enough people truly look to as being at least partly responsible for our miserable start.
Next years season is going be a far tougher start for us than last year because of both the Euros and the pre-season travels and that’s assuming everyone comes back fit.
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this is a 4 3 3 formation
with first /2nd /3rd choices etc next season
keeper: szczesny / someone new / martinez (maybe loan)
left back :gibbs / santos /miguel
right backs :sanga /koscielny /jenkinson (dont think hes ready yet for games like barca ,manu etc yet )
center backs : koscielny / vermaelen / vertonghen /mertesacker /djourou /miguel (would like a loan for him )
defensive midfielders : song / vertonghen /coquelin /frimpong (on loan again next year ) /arteta (emergency)/diaby (emergency )
ceter mids :arteta /wilshere /ramsey /diaby /coquelin
attacking mid : wilshere /chamberlain /rosicky /ramsey /
my midfield first 3 would be song arteta and wilshere with chamberlain being second choice in 4 positions center mid attack mid left and right winger .
left winger : podolski /gervinho (worried both wont track back though like benayoung and na$$$ri uded to in that position
right winger: walcott / chamberlain
striker : van persie / podolski (giroud maybe )/park (third choice again with hardle any game time)
important loan players : ryo miyaichi /ignasi miguel / afobe /frimpong /joel campbell —– top five to break in
wild cards … ozakup ,henderson /eisfield
hoping that theo and van persie sing again or else who foorward line will next a shuffle
everyone else not mentioned sold …
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We should promote Henri Lansbury-AMC,Ryo Miyaichi-LM,RM.
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i would like to see all of those mentioned as well as another striker and a top class defender. for the striker i would say either giroud or probably a less popular option, adebeyor. for defender i would say sakho because he is a top notch defender and he is a born leader already the captain for psg at 21 and wenger is a very keen admirer, 20 mil tops will secure him a very good price for a really good defender
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Rudraraj Dasguptckey please stick to hockey and cricket.
what a say silly comment you made. You are not playing championship manager on your pc. Wenger is not a chodu. Give him and show him respect.
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Cham must go. And Johan for me dont cut it.
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Great post. For me it’s easy. The board should ask aw how the perfect arsenal squad looks like for next season and ten try to offload and buy the relevant players. If aw is happy then so am I
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OUT- almunia ,fabianski ,squlacci , mertasacker, denilson, arshavin, bentner, vela, chamack, park and benayoun.
Profit- 40-45 mill
IN- poldi , matias suarez, younes belhanda, vertonghen, mannone[ 2nd choice golie]
money spent- 35 mill
go gunners
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Wenger was interested in M’vila last summer despite Coquelin being very much there. Watch M’vila, he goes forward a lot. You would remember Fabregas was purchased as a defensive midfielder. I have a feeling AW will still go after M’vila. It is Hazard I am sure he won’t buy.
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