He’s been capped 95 times for his national side and has hit the back of the net 43 times throughout these appearances.
He’s made 168 league appearances for his current club and has scored 78 goals in total for them in his two spells at German side.
He’s also made 71 league appearances for Bayern Munich in his time, netting only 15 goals in what was viewed as a very unsuccessful spell.
He’s primarily used as a striker but can be deployed as a winger.
He has excellent ball control and technique, a deadly left foot, is a superb counter attacker and reads the game well.
The player I’m talking about, if you haven’t already guessed it, is 26 year-old German international Lukas Podolski.
Reports suggest the FC Koln man is practically an Arsenal player, and one striker, whose career at The Emirates is surely over as a result of Podolski’s arrival, is Marouane Chamakh.
There isn’t much left to say about Chamakh that we don’t already know about him or his current situation at the club.
The 28-year-old has fallen out-of-favour at Arsenal and Robin van Persie’s superb form has played a major role for Chamakh’s downfall. But if you can’t play up to the standard set by Van Persie where else will you be but the bench.
Chamakh has been poor when he has played for us this season. Yes you may say that’s due to the lack of games, but he hasn’t, when he’s featured, offered us anything to suggest he deserves a starting role in our side. Had he been up for it more and showed that he wanted to contribute to the team’s performances he would certainly be getting more game time.
Podolski is surely someone who will give ever Arsenal striker and winger something to think about, not just Chamakh.
PSG have shown interest in Chamakh, so I say we sell him to the French club. If he stays he will only fall further down the pecking order and we will lose value on him. To make matters worse for him Carlos Vela and Nicklas Bendtner will be returning from their loan spells at the end of the campaign and I don’t think the Moroccan will even make it on the bench! Van Persie, Podolski, Bendtner, Vela will all stand in his way.
Before the Podolski deal was done, Chamakh probably thought he had a chance of rebuilding his Arsenal career.
However, the imminent arrival of the German seems to have been the cue for Chamakh’s agent to start looking for another club for the former Bordeaux forward this summer.
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Chamakh was never the man, admittedly he scored a few goals in his first season, but then went off the boil and has never regained his scoring boots, and when he does play he can’t score for love nor money.
Lucky we got him for free, smoking or not smoking those pipe he still rubbish anyway, sell him while we could, before it’s too late.
Podolski is Arshavin’s replacement. We still need Chamakh’s
shut up u FOOL
Chamakh never fell off the boil; in fact, he was better and more consistent than Bendtner, which is why Nik left. What Chamakh isn’t is Robin Van Persie, who has just had an almost unprecedented run of uninjured high performance games for his career. Wenger got Chamakh for the times Robin was injured. he did not go off the boil, or lost form: he lost time to Robin, and he also suffers from Arsene’s belief that he cannot play Robin and Chamakh at the same time, something he said early last season.
I agree that Chamakh may leave, but I understand why he doesn’t want to. What I don’t understand is why so many Arsenal fans want to slag him off with unsupported criticism. Seems pretty immature.