With the January transfer window opening on Tuesday, Arsenal have once again been linked with a move for Manchester United’s Nani.
The Daily Mirror suggests The Gunners will call in a ‘favour’ after selling Robin van Persie to United by agreeing to sell them the out-of-favour Portuguese winger next month.
Nani, who has only managed to make four starts in the Premier League so far this season, appears to be heading out of Old Trafford following his drop in the pecking order and reaching a contract stalemate at the club.
Arsene Wenger could easily afford Nani’s transfer fee, reportedly at around £12 million, after being told he has cash to splash, and could also offer what the Portugal international is looking for in wages, believed to be £90k-a-week.
But would it be a good move for Arsenal to push for?
Do we really need Nani?
To be honest, I don’t think so.
I understand Gervinho is off to the African Cup of Nations next month, Theo Walcott’s future remains uncertain and Andrey Arshavin is more than likely off as well. However, buying yet another winger is not a necessity. We have enough as it is.
Don’t get me wrong, Nani is a good player who possesses great skill, movement and Premier League experience. However, his temperament and attitude stinks, and their must be a reason why he is failing at United at present.
I just think splashing out on the 26-year-old would be a waste of money, and I just can’t see Wenger handing Nani a wage packet of £90k-a-week when he is reluctant to give Walcott an extra £10k.
Even if the abovementioned players do leave in January, we still have enough about us to cope in the wide positions. And as such, I believe Wenger should strengthen other areas of the team.
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If the report from Spain that we have agreed terms with Arda Turan then I doubt we will go for Nani. We will only go for Nani if we loose a winger, which I doubt until the summer where I can see Gervinho leaving with Zaha replacing him.
As we have just seen there are lots of goals in that team already two lots of seven this season, two lots of six a couple of fives etc.I agree with bc that we should promote the more promising youngsters upwards.With a decent defensive midfielder on the firm Newcastle wouldn’t have had three goals today but we would still have scored seven.I know Walcott did well today but I think he could have had that hattrick from the wing just the same way. He still looks a little lightweight to me to be up there on his own.It was good to see the heads stay up today. Last month they would have gone down at half time and stayed down