So both Robin van Persie and Alex Song have both departed and because of this we now have £39 million to spend – unless this sum is going straight into the club’s vault!
Arsene Wenger has already said that the club have ‘already recruited to replace him’ – obviously referring to Lukas Podolski and Olivier Giroud – so another striker coming into the club does not look plausible.
Santi Cazorla has been brought in to fill the creativity void left by Cesc Fabregas last summer and with Tomas Rosicky still at the club, it doesn’t look like Wenger will look to bolster this department either.
The central part of our defence looks pretty solid, but perhaps strengthening the full-back positions would be ideal as we are short of cover in my opinion.
We still don’t have a goalkeeper at the club who can challenge Wojciech Szczesny and with Song gone; signing a replacement is a must
So how should Wenger look to splash out £39 million?
Well this is how I would spend it:
Firstly, I would like to see Jack Butland of Birmingham City come in to challenge Woj for the number one spot.
The 19-year-old is a bright prospect for the future and showed what he is capable of this summer in London. He would definitely keep Shezza on his toes.
Southampton had a £6 million bid rejected by Birmingham for Butland and manager Lee Clark admitted that it would take a ‘crazy’ offer for him to consider selling the young Englishman. I’m guessing a bid in the region of £8-10 million would do the trick.
Defensive midfielder? I would go for Nuri Sahin, Yann M’Vila, Etienne Capoue or Lucas Biglia.
We could easily afford to snap up one of these four players and anyone of them could fill Song’s boots in my opinion.
Sahin would cost us nothing, as the Turk would be coming in on a season-long loan.
M’Vila can be signed if we offer Rennes £16-17 million, while Capoue would cost half of what M’Vila is priced at, and Lucas Biglia is valued at £12 million by Anderlecht.
The full-back area is a tricky one. I don’t necessarily think we need to sign a left one as we already have Kieran Gibbs and Andre Santos. I believe It’s the right side we need to strengthen.
We have been linked with a move for Swansea’s Angel Rangel in the last few days, which would bolster this area but I don’t think the Spaniard would suit Arsenal. If it was up to me, I would make a move for his team-mate Neil Taylor. He can play either side of the defence, is 23 and is solid in his position.
Taylor could easily fit into our team and would suit our style of football. He would make a great understudy to Bacary Sagna and give the French full-back a run for his money. In addition, I reckon we could acquire the Welshman for around £5-6 million.
So that’s approximately £16 million for both Butland and Taylor, leaving £23 million to splash out on one, maybe even two of the abovementioned midfielders.
So that’s how I would spend the cash, but what would you guys do with £39 million if you were in Wenger’s shoes?
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Dont forget the amount of money we have saved and will on wages.Almunia 60 grand less,Van persie 80 grand a week less and Song 60 grand less,Vela 50 grand less,Kyle B 30 grand less,Bendtner 50 grand less and whatever dross will be shipped off.It is a massive wage cut and even though we have signed 3 costly players we are once again more then balancing the books.
I think what we need is a player in the Eduardo mould. Someone who is clever and finds space in the box and who is a clinical finisher. Can you imagine how many goals Cazorla would assist a striker like Eduardo?
Also this supposed War-Chest is non-existant. For some unknown reason Arsenal FC never seem to actually spend any of their own cash on players. If you have a look at http://www.transferleague.com you will see that most years we actually make a net profit on player transfers. In other words Wenger pays for his new players by selling others.
I would guess Wenger was only allowed to spend £44million on Podolski, Giroud & Cazorla if he raised that amount from player sales. As it stands we have made £42million from the sales of RvP, Song, Vela & Bartley. Once we sell Bendtner we will have once again made a profit on player transfers.
One day when I have the time I will go through Arsenals Financials to try to figure out where all the money goes since it so obviously does NOT go on the signing of new players.
And one other thing – we have been called a selling club because we let our best players go every season… If you look back down the years you will see we have ALWAYS been a selling club under Wenger. If you make more money than you spend on player sales you are a SELLING CLUB.
We had better get those players fast. M’villa, Sahin and Llorente would be good and the cash can buy them since Sahin is on loan.
Nice regurge of all the midfield links. Real opiniated stuff!!
I hate book balancing.. and there will be strong protest if no more players are signed.
What about the next window? Who are we gonna lose again?!
Right now, just bring in Sahin + M’Vila.
Coquelin slot to RB to ease defender crisis.
Can’t trust Djourou or Diaby.
If Walcott doesn’t stay, we’ll look for replacement again, just get the lad to decide fast, I highly doubt anyone would offer him 20M & 100k/week too.
splash that on lorente and forget the rest , gunners is okay we just nid to be commiyted and have faith in what we having ryt now……….. let’s be hopeful and believe in our own guys . we wil be there beofore you even notice it
i would love we get van der viel for about 8 million, biglia for 12million and llorente, i think 15 million would get him. then we can contest for all the championships this season