It was good for Arsenal fans to hear Arsene Wenger state this week that he knew that the Gunners are short on the defensive side of the squad and declare that he expects to be able to solve the situation in the January transfer window.
Hopefully the defensive crisis will not be as bad by then, with our France international right back Mathieu Debuchy supposed to be fit again around the end of the year, but the current problems have shown that we are very vulnerable to injury.
However, with Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny having a great understanding in central defence and Calum Chambers showing great ability as long with his versatility, there is a feeling that Wenger is not looking to add a real top quality defender to the Arsenal squad.
So we could be looking at an older and experienced centre back or a young and promising one, with the Celtic star Virgil van Dijk being strongly linked. The Daily Mail have reported that we are planning to make a £7 million offer for the 23-year old Dutchman, which should be enough to prise him from the Scottish champions, but is van Dijk the right move for us?
He is according to the former Gunner Giovanni van Bronckhorst who has said that his fellow countryman has all the attributes to become one of the best in the world in the next few years. He has the staure, at 6ft 4in, but he also has technical ability, a cool head and plenty of pace to go with his power. He also scores goals and is awesome in a one on one situation.
So would young Virgil be an FAB (Thunderbirds reference by the way) signing for Arsenal?
He is playing in Scottish League, so he must be quality.
Yes we would love him to play for us
Not bothered, I’ll always support the team but not Arsenal football club until Wenger is gone and Kroenke is bought out, after yesterdays agm the club is a bloody disgrace!!
my uncle went to the agm- told me people were openly laughing at ivans comments- thats disheartening
They were laughing at Ivans haircut 🙂
the ‘kojak’ is very sexy amongst ukrainan women apparently!!
apparent its 4 women to every 1 man there!!
that ratio means i might have a shot!!
Ivan needs to go to Russia because he is a terrible CEO 🙂
Is only now that old fart know we need a defender I don’t believe him until its done in January because he been lying to us fans, but im srry #aw time is up he needs to go some of u fans won’t argree wit me but I think his brains is malfunctioning even #if we win against hull city he still needs to go ill never pay £42mil for an cam & play him on the wing its like buying a gk & playing him cdm!! Coyg lets get this win & support the boyz #FACK AW! !!! Now thumb me down
Maybe!
We just want adequate cover. If Virgil fits in, no problem.
Virgil likes to go forwad too much like david luiz, Why not go for laporte the kid is class and he would be a perfect partner for koz
Why not go for Schar(Basel) ?
What do my fellow gunners think ?!
Schar is very good and cheap with his contract running down.
Laporte should be a summer signing he is a class act as good as varane
Schaar is excellent. Laporte has a release clause of 40 mil. But he is great too
Pls does anyone know a good streaming cite to watch the U21 match. I can’t wait to see walcot and gnabry
Its ok
ok thats enough now
Virgill flies thunderbird 2.
We need thunderbird 4 or 5.
So sign John and Gordon Tracy.
I really need to stream this u21 match too
Lol come on guys give me a break
lol- ul get used to us 🙂
We shouldn’t be in this position. Wenger is shutting the gate after the horse has bolted.
Good evening mate,still do not trust him to buy in January
I trust him to buy another CAM in January lol
It’s still amazes me that some arsenal fans still thumb down any comment saying wenger out, they must be happy with 4 th, wenger and Stan will leave, eventually I just hope it’s not if we finish put of the top 4
Do not be amazed friend. Wenger, Gazidis, Kroenke and the son visit here regularly
Budd is one of them.:)
Guys Marcelo brozovic looks like a wenger signing,do you support it?
Brozo..who?
Exactly….
Definitely a Wenger signing.
From dinamo zagreb
Is he a CAM ?
If not we’ll not sign him.We need a CAM.
ASAP.
Dm
Hahaha….Arsene signing DM. Long gone are those days.
If we need evidence of how much Wenger has declined as a world class manager it will be our team tomorrow and who plays in our back four.
Evening mate I hope you and your family are well. I also hope you watch a great match tomorrow.
Thanks mate we are all good,I’m so up for tomorrow and will sing and cheer the team on but as for the board and our out of date manager they can f#ck off
Hope all is well with you and your family
Everything is well thanks. I just need to make more money so we can get together at a game.
Good luck mate and hope to meet up soon
Wenger said he would replace the outgoing players. What happened, I know he was to busy commentating on the world cup and being a referee. Shocking for someone who is paid top money to do a top job.
Lose tomorrow and I hope Santa comes early to the emirates with the sack for Wenger
That will not happen unless the fans do something. I have had enough of blind faith.
Very true mate anyway enough time wasted on le fraud my prediction for tomorrow a tough 3-1 win with Santi scoring first and then Danny and Alexis .
Only one man can fire Arsene Wenger & that is Arsene Wenger himself.
Well if he likes to go forward a bit, has the physical size and is good at one on one’s then he sounds like a ready made DM who can start attacks from deep.
Athletico aren’t going to let Laporte go in January anyway so mute point.
would you be feeling better if we had Virgil to call on right now? Thought so, OK then he would be a good option.
He is a cb not a dm
After Spain played cazorla at RB. Wenger is thinking of playing him at RB for arsenal.
After all playing ozil on wing has paid him dividends.LOL.
At least we can all have a laugh about how our great is going down hill. If a laugh was worth a million pounds we still wouldn’t win the EPL.
Who’s having a laugh ? I go insane every time i watch my team, tearing my hair off.
Pledge not to watch a game ever again after being comprehensively beaten by teams like chelsea or city,etc. Only to find myself waiting for the next game desperately the following day.
3rd finish will be aceptable considering the state we are in
Sorry about the negative shit. Arsenal 54321-Hull 0 🙂
I will take that as a 2-0 mate
lol
The mrs was born and raised in hull but tomorrow as always she will be a gooner.
Lets hope the cannon hits their hull and we sink they 🙂
Lol
Hahahaha.
Issac Hayden not playing for the u21 team tonight so hope to see him at CB tomorrow. He has a great future ahead.
Me too. I’ll rather see hayden at CB than Monreal.
Yes mate Monreal is too small,Hayden will do a good job for us if picked
Play Hector as well we need some pace in defence.
My starting team,WS,HB,PM,IH,KG,MF,JW,SC,AOC,AS,DW.
That read like the periodic table GWO 🙂
Don’t tell Wenger as he would be happy with 4th place in that table lol
Get ride of him and we will be AU not AW
I have got a song coming on by Spandau Ballet 🙂
?
AU the chemical symbol for gold.
Atleast we know all the elements.LoL.
A great lineup
Some talk of Arsene Wenger ,
and some of Herb Chapman
Of Hector and Koscielny
and such great names as these.
But of all the world’s great heroes,
there’s none that can compare.
With a tow, row, row, row, row, row,
to Abou Diaby 🙂
Where the hell did that come from ?
U21 draw 0-0 at home to Blackburn tonight,Walcott plays the first 45 mins
At least after the cup final we will not under estimate hull tomorrow
He is a cb not a dm
Don’t buy into the media hatred towards merts he is as good as if not better than kosc. We should go for hummels or laporte in the summer because they have the potential to be the worlds best hummels is allot more advanced in his development so would become the instant 1st choice.
We should keep merts as he is a leader and one of the best in the prem in his position
In January we should get a young cb likes schar who would be happy to compete at a top club. Van dijjk is to rash in the tackle and is very attacking he reminds me of a cross between TV 5 and kompany
Off-topic
I wish they had live streamed the Arsenal AGM. Would have been interesting to watch
Night all and take care COYG
Van Dijk would be a good holding midfielder. He is a beast at 1.93 and 92 kg. He has good long shot and scores goals. With him we get cover at CD and holding mid.
Hummels is expensive. Maybe a summer transfer target.