Arsenal appear to have stopped their search for a striker, with Arsene Wenger telling Carlos Vela that he will not be leaving this summer, despite netting just 3 goals last season.
It had been expected that Wenger was going to allow Vela to leave the club to raise some funds for his spending spree this summer, but this doesn’t seem to be the case anymore.
The Mexican international has failed to hold down a first-team place at Arsenal since his move from back in 2006, and spent 6 months on loan at West Brom last season, seemingly to gain more experience which never quite happened.
Vela’s agent recently stated:
‘I have had eight conversations with Arsenal, the most recent was last Friday, and Carlos is an Arsenal player, he will stay at Arsenal and is not for sale. The process with Carlos is a little bit slow. Wenger is an extremely demanding coach, he sent him on loan for six months to West Brom not with the results he wanted, but, nevertheless, everything is going very well.’
This leaves us now with Robin van Persie, Marouane Chamakh, Theo Walcott, Nicklas Bendtner (for the time being) and Carlos Vela who could all take up the role upfront next season, but is this really enough?
Personally, I truly believe we need to sign another striker.
I don’t think Vela is good enough to play for Arsenal. He is extremely inconsistent, but on the upside, I do see the potential, but my doubts remain.
I would love to see a player like Karim Benzema at Arsenal, even though this move is highly unlikely to ensue this summer.
I would also love to see Bent at the Emirates, as he is a proven goal-scorer; then again, it’s yet another move that just will not happen.
I can’t see who we will sign upfront to be honest, but we definitely need another striker amongst our ranks, especially with the amount of injuries we get every season.
Let’s just hope Wenger has somebody up his sleeve, and that it’s a striker of pure quality. If he doesn’t acquire one, then we could be in trouble.
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Don’t really see why we need a striker, with all the wingers we are being linked to all we needto do is move Theo up front. Any striker we sign won’t want to sit on the bench and play second fiddle to Van Persie, just look at what happened to Chamakh.
I agree with Cosmos. All the wingers let’s us use usain bolt, sorry Theo walcott, up front. Id rather see Cahill, Enrique, mata, and ricky alvarez at arsenal. Vertonghen would also be a nice edition but it’s been quiet in terms of rumors about him recently
van persie (best striker of the league past season)
chamakh (scored many goals when van persie was injured)
vela (never has started 3 games in a row for us in the league, how can he show his talents like that)
walcott (great improvement last season in front of goal)
j. emmanuel thomas (he has everything to probe himself in the league to me he is a beast, the only doubt is his mentality)
we need a hard center back with winning mentality who can organize our defense, another Vermaelen who can play with TV5,
Scott Parker, no explanations needed.
maybe another central midfielder, i would personally like Alou Diarra
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miyaichi who would create space for his peers or a new creative force.
offensively we are the best, we just need to be hard at the back and on midfield to allow our creative and offensive players to flourish.
i second that!
with vp, chamakh, vela, arshavin, (probably) gervinho and the youngsters we have enough up front.
alou diarra would be great for dm, he’s big and experienced on all levels.
Whilst I would like to see Walcott playing a more direct role in the middle of the attack, the question remains as to exactly how to play him there. A “fox in the box” with his speed and deadly finishing appears to be the answer, because IMO he is absolutely wasted purely as a winger. Could he be the longed-for backup for Van Persie?
It looks likely that we are going to sign Gervinho and Chamberlain, IMO these are to replace Bendtner and Rosicky. If we sign either Alvarez or Mata then it must be surely to replace Nasri. With those kind of signings then we must surely be looking at changing from 451 (4231) to 433. Walcott, Gervinho, JET, on the right Arshavin, Mata/Alvarez/Nasri, Chamberlain on the left with RVP, Chamakh, Vela and Afobe down the middle for me that is plenty. Like everyone else is saying Walcott, Gervinho, JET and even Arshavin can play down the middle.
@bc
This is the first I’ve read about JET being considered in Wenger’s plans for next season. Do you know something we don’t? I’m not ant-JET, just asking.
why do people think we dont need a striker? all it takes is RVP to get injured and we are up the creek without so much as a paddle….
to keep up with challenging for main trophies you need top quality players. I saw JET at Cardiff last season, the guy plays with no confidence. Carling cup fodder im afraid.. Benzema .. now there is a name, quality striker this is the type of quality we should be looking at, If madrid get neymar he could become available?.
Carlos Vela; the new Jeremy Aliadiare.
We have the potential, but what we need is proven talent, the Bent notion is best, rather than Chamak, Bent has proven at many teams that he knows just where the net is! Further the games we drew despite 60% plus posession is evidence, we don’t have enough natural goal scorers, but too many ball players – RVP is our only goal poacher! Buying Gervinho would be another gamble, he is everage in France, as was Charmak! As Ray P is pleading, solutions lie closer to home!