Juventus are willing to strike up a potential swap deal with Arsenal, with Marouane Chamakh heading to the Stadio Delle Alpi and Alessandro Matri to The Emirates, according to reports.
The Serie A champions have earmarked the Morocco international as a possible replacement for Nicklas Bendtner, who is currently on loan from The Gunners, while Arsenal have been linked with a move for the Juve forward, following unsuccessful pursuits of Demba Ba and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar.
Chamakh has yet to make a single Premier League appearance for Arsene Wenger’s side and has only managed to feature four times (two as starters) in cup competitions this season.
Fair to say, the 28-year-old’s future at Arsenal has plunged further into uncertainty and looks almost certain to depart the club following the summer arrivals of Olivier Giroud and Lukas Podolski.
Meanwhile, Matri, who, judging by his appearances in all competitions for Juve so far this season – 15 (seven starts) – looks to be nothing more than a cameo player at the Turin club.
The Italian international has only bagged three goals so far for Juve, two of which came against Genoa six days ago, and like Chamakh, his future looks uncertain and is behind both Giovinco and Marko Vucinic in the striking pecking order.
So, would this be a good deal for Arsenal to undertake?
Personally, I would just like to see us sell Chamakh, recoup some cash and put it towards acquiring that exceptional player Wenger is always on about.
As for Matri, I think he would struggle with the pace of the Premier League. Besides, replacing the Italian for Chamakh wouldn’t really change the dynamics of the squad would it?
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The thing is if they’re willing to swap him for Chamakh you have to wonder how high they actually rate him
……obviously higher than Arsenal rate Chamakh!
Arsene has always said he would only buy exceptional players in january.he needs an explanation to do if he doesnt buy David Villa..he needs to tell why David is not an exceptional player and matri is..SMH WENGER
I believe Wenger is not happy for his long term injure we already have Diaby excellent player but always out and as you se they do not even have long term contract with Bacari even i love his moral and the way he play but broken leg twice. But anyway we should not have any high expectation for big world class player from Arsenal’s today. We are not like Mnu pay 24m for like Rvp and he rip every team apart i will say WE DO NOT HAVE BIG BALLS, if we had we will paid Robin.
This will break down as soon as Chamakh wants his £60k per week. Signed in on a free on high wages to compensate. Turned into a nightmare as now can’t give him away.
Yes which is sad since he is at the prime of his career and should want to play football.
I think matri is still better than chamack but the different is not much. They are both 28 years of age, they both lack pace, chamack is good on air while matri is good with the ball in his feets. Chamack lack confidence in going forwand and he is not a clinical in front of goal.
the sad thing in all this is that bendtner is better than both of them as 45 goals in 79 starts at arsenal will tell you. if we got bendtner back and matri, at least we would have bendtner or matri or both to sell, if it didnt work out. lets face it michu was crap in the spanish league and look how he has turned out.
Think you’ll have your wish with Bendtner coming back. Played 9 times with 0 goals for Juve’ and injured for 3 months. With his reported £90k per week wages no chance they’ll take up option to buy.
Bc is correct,Bendtner is better than both of them,and when vanPersie did himself in three seasons ago he manned up and led our line with some elan.Arsene is obviously out of patience with his egomaniacal ramblings but a year at Sunderland and this current spell at Juve might have softened his cough.Give him one more chance but sign Villa as well.If we got two or three years of his Valencia or Barca form, or even half of it, we’d be on a winner.It’s unlikely that any of the Other top English teams will want him as,apart from spurs, they all have a surfeit of centre forwardsand anyway city and Chelsea will be holding their fire for. Mr.Falcao in the summer