Monday, July 1, 2013

MONDAY 1ST JULY 2013: TRANSFER WINDOW OFFICIALLY OPENED!


ARSENAL £19.7m BENDER BID DISMISSED BY BAYER LEVERKUSEN.


Dear Gooners, hope all of you are in a perfect condition bleeding Red & White as always.

I will start with some discouraging news that our 19.7m bid for German international midfielder Lars Bender (24) has been dismissed by his club Bayer Leverkusen and later skysports reported on of their club officials saying he has a contract until 2017 so he will not leave this summer at any price.

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Lars Bender playing for Germany.

We are faced with a very difficult summer, you may call it a 'do or die' summer if you like where we have to strengthen due to the intense and ever increasing competition in the Premier League. Majority agree that current champions Man United, Man City and Chelsea are better than us on paper, besides that Chelsea have already added players as well as Man City, Liverpool has also added some player who can not weaken but strengthen them plus Spurs who are not so far away from us and have been improving over the years to an extent of threatening our top 4 status.

Some gooners said when we failed to land players in the January window bar Monreal that all players who moved where not Arsenal quality, I remember arguing with one gooner from South Africa on twitter. I do not believe that at all because you make players move, even if they fancy playing for you, you have to show interest in them and they will do. We are not that attractive club that we used to be before 2007 as the departures of our stars have exhibited in recent years.
Vieira,Henry, Fabregas, Nasri, Van Persie left us not because they did not want to play for us but they went to achieve something and have achieved, isnt it?

The bottom line is that we shall not reclaim our status (Big club) on a cheap, you cannot get a certain Patrick Vieira nowadays at £4m even if he is 20 years old, you can take an example of Kadongbia of Seville go with £4m and see whether you will get him, never.
The socialist wages we pay are also a very big obstacle to us winning again, not that players are money-minded but that is where the game has gone oligarchs have come  in and now money is the game changer, look at City they celebrated of recent and now are bigger than us but just because of money.
I understand that is not the Arsenal way but we have to live the real world if we are to win again. Many want the ideal world but I ask you a question, Shall we win again with it?

Over the barren seasons (2006 to date) we have built a great financial base and signed awesome deals, this is the right time to tap into our reserves and buy quality players earlier, make them get full pre-season training and gel well with the rest of the lads then by the start of the season we are good to go.
In my opinion, we need: an experienced goalkeeper, defensive midfielder and a striker if we do not get any departures apart form the so-called dead wood. (Begovic, Capoue and Higuain preferably)

The more Arsene and the board spend on quality players to strengthen the squad the earlier we shall get back to the winning ways and viseverser.

You are free to comment and give you opinion.

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