Call me crazy, but I'd sign Zlatan. Even at 35, that guy is an instant game-changer. Still a deadly goal scorer AND has the technique to keep up with Arsenal's style. IMO, these are the kind of risks that the top teams make to put them over the top.
We wont go after Zlatan but we obviously should. He wouldn't be that expensive relative to other CF options and is probably the one guy available that could make us clear title favorites. -----------------Zlatan Alexis----------Ozil-----------Gotze / Mkhitaryan ----------Ramsey----Xhaka Nacho---Benatia----Kos----Bellarin ------------------Cech That's a title winning team that wouldn't cost that much. Seems too simple to happen though....
I'd be game for Zlatan. Would still go after another younger ST or ST/W guy incase of injury. Would hate to start the season with only 2 30+ STs available for selection.
I'd love to see him at Arsenal, but he's going to want (and get) 250k-300k. Wenger will never pay him that.
Wenger runs Arsenal like he's going to own it for 100 years. I think a move for a 35 year old Zlatan is implausible.
Wenger wouldnt pay 35 million for a central midfielder either. We not getting Zlatan, but football economics have changed. Arsenal are loaded and dont even have to dip into the bank coffers to get players. There is not a player in the world Arsenal cannot afford.
I don't who said Arsenal wouldn't pay 35m for a central mid because I didn't. Didn't say Arsenal couldn't afford him but said Wenger would never pay Ibra 250-300k per week.
i didnt say you did say that about buying a player. My point is that Arsenal could do it. I even think Wenger would. The club's pockets are just not as deep as United's.
I have long criticized Wenger's stinginess and transfer dealings. And I would love Zlatan, but there is no one this side of Messi that I'm giving 250k a week to. Certainly not a 35 year old player. Sent from my SM-G928T using Tapatalk
Wenger is not stingy. Stop saying it. All of you. In the last four years, we're third in the league in net transfer spending. This after being dead last for a decade. Spent more than Chelsea too (though I suspect that will change this summer). Now what happened between 2004 and 2013 that would possibly explain low transfer spending?
No one's saying he's stingy. We're just offering our opinions that Wenger (he of the nearly-mandatory one year contracts for players over 30) would never pay Ibra 250k-300k per week like PSG did (and probably United will).
Normally I would be right there with you but I'm actually going to politely counter your point. Last summer Arsenal was the only Prem side not to sign any new field players, one of many years where everyone has recognized the team is still 1-3 new players away from taking a step up in calibre. We know Wenger has passed on, and even sold, players based on price, and that this has in part contributed to the team's build up of reserve funds that could be used to strengthen the team but hasn't. Not to the fullest degree, anyway, and even after the refinancing of the stadium debts was completed. Much of this net spending has been on mid-level younger players that in hindsight some might consider overpriced gambles. (Ox, Chambers...) And even when it's known there are players considered top-talents available in positions where they would clearly strengthen Arsenal (Zlatan, Higuain...), Wenger has almost consistently opted for financial prudence over chasing a trophy at all cost. Maybe that's not complete stinginess, and I'm certainly not saying it's all bad as I'd rather take this than financial doping a la RA, but clearly Wenger has historically been more a miser and Scrooge than not. Maybe this is finally the summer that changes but we'll see. Until proven otherwise I think Wenger is clearly one with scarlet-tinted glasses who sees the Arsenal roster as ever fully capable of winning "if only they'd all stay healthy and play up to their potential!"
Zlatan would be a dream!! Obviously a maybe 2 year experiment but if AW is going to retire in style then why not bring the best available with that so called treasure chest .
I'd pay him that in a heartbeat. He is out of contract, no? So 300k/wk on a two year deal plus 6m signing bonus is 37m total cost. He will have no sell on value of course. So 18m a year to have one of the most clinical strikers in the world? Don't see how we get more talent from less money over the short term. To top it off, it might keep him from a competitor.
It's a huge cost--but a short term cost. I'd do it if it gave the team the best chance to win. He's the deadly finisher the team so badly needs. A little confidence & attitude probably wouldn't hurt either.
Maybe it's just me, but I've not been that impressed with Zlatan. I've only ever seen him in the UCL, and I don't think he's anything special in this past couple seasons.
At the end of day.. I think zlatan is going to Man U... Question is does he want to play in Cl or not
You are missing the bigger picture. If you sign to pay him 250-300k, tomorrow Alexis is in the office wanting close to the same, and Özil behind him ... Sent from my SM-G928T using Tapatalk
Zlatan drops a lot to get on the ball would be interesting t LOL the only one who should dare step up for more money is Ozil and so what they want more money? People in hell want ice water. They'll get over it.
Bullshit that Özil would be the only one. Many would come for raises, and Alexis clearly seems to be unhappy andwould be first imo. You can't blow up your wage structure like that. And you can't tell your players "feck off, we'll pay him but not you " unless you want that player to walk out of the club. Sent from my SM-G928T using Tapatalk
http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/..._rodriguez-vor-dem-absprung.html#omsmtwkicker Apparently Arsenal are interested in Ricardo Rodriguez from Wolfsburg. Means Gibbs is gone?
You're making up questions to answer or statements to rebut that I never made. Perhaps you should circle back to what I posted and we can go from there. But replying to this statement you made which wasn't in anyway connected to what I actually said, if Alexis wants to leave he's not irreplaceable. I'd be glad if he leaves. People act like he's something he's not. We can find someone else to run around for 90k a week and fuhk up the positioning and flow of the team.