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Tottenham and Arsenal are both interested in Netherlands World Cup centre-back Joel Veltman, 22. Daily Mirror
Barcelona are yet to reach an agreement with Liverpool over the signing of Uruguay striker Luis Suarez, 27, with a deal not expected until next week. Guardian
Debuchy posts: 'Goodbye Brazil, hello @arsenal on Instagram'
Fee rising to £11m thought to be agreed between Arsenal and Newcastle
Also favourited a tweet saying he should be unveiled as Gunner soon
Top Londoner wrote:Debuchy posts: 'Goodbye Brazil, hello @arsenal on Instagram'
Fee rising to £11m thought to be agreed between Arsenal and Newcastle
Also favourited a tweet saying he should be unveiled as Gunner soon
@ dailyfail.
And so it begins .......
WENGER OUT
Another guy set to help us defend our vitual trophy.
The oracle himself David Ornstein has said talks are definitely on with Sanchez and that we are confident in the deal but complicated due to Barca & Suarez move.
I'm okay with the Debuchy signing.
Admittedly I haven't been crying out for us to sign him whenever I've seen him play but seems solid enough and has enough experience to hit the ground running.
Not sure who people wanted us to sign as right back..Some people said Coleman but I'm not sure that was ever on the table and would have cost a lot for a player who's only had one or two good seasons...Aurier was rumoured but would have been a gamble.
As I said before, I think Jenkinson will be good enough to make it one day (obviously work needed) so would prefer us to buy an experienced player for a few years until he's ready...Debuchy ticks that box for me.
Personally I reckon sagna has been poor to average for a couple of seasons now, so hopefully Debuchy will be an improvement.
At the end of the day when was the last time anyone was excited about signing a full back? The position needed to be covered and job done as far as I'm concerned...move on...and let's get Sanchez (please).
If orstein says we are after him, then I take it we are.
I remember watching Sanchez in the WC2010 and there were rumours utd were going to buy him, I watched and thought if only Arsenal could get players like him.
Well if we get him, I will blow everywhere, and I won't really care.
Not gonna get too excited before anything happens but it would be a great sign for this club to get our hands on this, delicious Chilean.
clockender1 wrote:debuchy is 28, almost 29. so one 3 year contract and he's gone.
thats a lot for 11million, and does nothing for the club post wenger.
i hope he can cross better than Sagna. personally i would have gone for that american kid.
I'm just glad he is a player ready to go straight in to the first team and not "one for the future".
That American kid did look good but may have just been a good game...who knows?
Does seem like a lot of money but it's a problem solved and hopefully Jenkinson will kick on and be ready to take over in a few years...at least the tight fuckers are spending some of our money at last.
silus wrote:I'm okay with the Debuchy signing.
Admittedly I haven't been crying out for us to sign him whenever I've seen him play but seems solid enough and has enough experience to hit the ground running.
Not sure who people wanted us to sign as right back..Some people said Coleman but I'm not sure that was ever on the table and would have cost a lot for a player who's only had one or two good seasons...Aurier was rumoured but would have been a gamble.
As I said before, I think Jenkinson will be good enough to make it one day (obviously work needed) so would prefer us to buy an experienced player for a few years until he's ready...Debuchy ticks that box for me.
Personally I reckon sagna has been poor to average for a couple of seasons now, so hopefully Debuchy will be an improvement.
At the end of the day when was the last time anyone was excited about signing a full back? The position needed to be covered and job done as far as I'm concerned...move on...and let's get Sanchez (please).
£10m is a fucking waste of money for Debuchy. Even with the current market and our desperate need for a RB it's far too steep. For less than £10m more we could have got Coleman who is over 3 years younger for his 70-odd more PL appearances and for my money is a miles better full-back than Debuchy. If we wanted a short-term solution we should have just extended Sagna's deal last year and given him a bit more money, huge net saving overall and Debuchy is no better.
I always used to laugh off the suggestions of bias towards French players in the early part of Wenger's reign because the likes of Vieira, Petit, Henry, Petit, Pires etc were class. Bias towards French players was a great advantage because we had far better knowledge of France and there was fantastic value there. Now every top-flight club scouts in France and the selling clubs have far higher expectations. It's not that the quality hasn't been there - Chelsea have picked up some quality Ligue 1 players in Cech, Drogba, Essien, Hazard - but you have to pay a fair price for them which we don't want to do.
