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Wenger to go back for Burkina Faso ace in the summer

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alain traoreArsenal are plotting a summer swoop for Lorient’s Alain Traore, reports the Metro.

The Gunners are believed to have been tracking the versatile forward for several months now and were trying to sign the 25-year-old in the final days of the January transfer window but the move was called off after he suffered a thigh injury in the African Cup of Nations.

But it seems Arsene Wenger is eager to land Traore, who is contracted to Lorient until 2016, and is expected to try again when the summer window opens for business.

Lorient are understood to want up to £5 million to even consider selling the Burkina Faso star, who has netted six goals in 13 Ligue 1 appearances so far this season.

Before making his move to Lorient in 2012, Traore has played for Planete Champion, Auxerre, and was loaned out to Brest in the 2008/09 season,

His career total, excluding his Lorient stats mentioned earlier, stands at 25 goals in 92 appearances for the three aforementioned clubs.

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17 comments

  • diego says:

    So this is what wenger calls top class?

  • EIE says:

    No Africans please, we’re slowly getting rid of them, let’s not go back to the bad old days!

  • ken lo says:

    Diego,
    what makes you say that Wenger thinks he is world class?
    It’s the “Metro” thats reporting it not Arsene!!!
    That’s the trouble with gullable Arsene haters, they believe everything they read!!
    Thats why Kemp and talksport can keep breeding unrest in the ranks…funny hes not commented on the match yesterday isnt it?
    Just leave it to the Professor, cause in Arsene we trust..yes indeedy we do!!!!
    By the way, as long as a player wears the Arsenal shirt with pride and loyalty, who cares where he comes from!!!!!!

  • AFRICAN says:

    who says that the white dudes are better than the blacks…? Ask yourself one question, why is wenger and other top managers in England after black players? GUNNERS FOR LIFE

  • ivorstephens says:

    Please desist from starting race war on the report.I dont think we need another unproven forward african or not lets give giroud theo et al time to develop an understanding over the next season or soand try and eliminate the defensive errors which have cost us so much in recent years.Then trophies shall follow once again

  • pl says:

    Nobody knows who wenger is gonna sign, if they scouted him, someone like spurs or liverpool will get him, just for the fact he’s linked with us. Really hope we sign a world class defender, maybe strip vermalen off captaincy, his performance has been rubbish, he bottled it as captain. Also mertersacker should be used in rotation, makes too many errors. The defence cause us problems, by being so error prone.

  • Zman says:

    Wat d hel do u mean by no African?, can u suport ur trash wit resons?!

  • Androus says:

    How can this article be credible! Traore played all games in the African cup including the quarter final against Togo which they won. He has so far scored two goals. He did not look injured to me.

  • EPOSA says:

    either africa or not arsenal need players that can make us proud @ any competition…………..leave sentiment apart…………..days of KANU NWANKO he is an african and he performed to expectation…………..so forget about sentiment here………….we are here to make good suggestions

  • EPOSA says:

    RVP a white guy………….prone to injury was been kept and well treated by arsenal but when the time came for us to reap what we had done for him ……….he needed us to sign some qualitiy players …we broght carzola, podo anf
    d Giroud but at the end he left…………how many teams can keep such a player?………..ingrate white man RVP

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