https://www.suburbangooners.com/2017/07/19/alexis-plan-b-for-psg-arsene-becoming-reactive/ The talk in Block 5... Wed, 19 Jul 2017 07:53:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.suburbangooners.com/2017/07/19/alexis-plan-b-for-psg-arsene-becoming-reactive/#comment-13616 Wed, 19 Jul 2017 07:53:18 +0000 http://www.suburbangooners.com/2017/07/19/alexis-plan-b-for-psg-arsene-becoming-reactive/#comment-13616 Although their two new additions might indicate otherwise Arsenal’s transfer policy remains “reactive”.The Manager never brings in a player until he feels that he has no other option.It finally dawned on him that Monreal can no longer play as a traditional left back and Gibbs is incapable of playing in any defensive system that you care to put on to a football pitch.Lacazette had agreed to join Athletico and it took their subsequent transfer ban and the Alexis saga to trigger his subsequent purchase.The fact that both Walcott and Giroud had become nothing more than impact substitutes and Welbeck’s injury problems should have forced the Manager’s hand some time ago…if not last season.
Meanwhile Arsenal have a number of players who cease to have any use as far as the Club is concerned but cannot be moved on for their market value due to their ridiculously high salaries.Debuchy was unable to tie up a free transfer for this precise reason…likewise Jenkinson in January.Who will want to pay £10m for Gibbs when he’s reportedly earning over £60k per week…A perpetually injured Wilshire on £90k is a similarly expensive risk.Keeping Alexis until he sees out his contract and then watching him flit off to the highest bidder in the PL next year is just delaying the inevitable.Like RVP before him he needs to be sold to the highest bidder..right now and Arsenal need to focus upon the team development in his absence…not a policy of hoping he’ll stay…hoping he’ll be just as motivated as ever… hoping that he’ll change his mind.Ozil of course is a different matter…no one wants him for a fee and certainly not for the type of wage he’s demanding…so he’ll remain our “luxury” player…picked every week no matter what.If he can reproduce his FA Cup Final performance on a weekly basis then he is certainly worth his salary…but then the same could be said for the likes of Ramsey,Xhaka and Bellerin…otherwise challenging for the PL will remain a distant dream…We all hope that a newly contracted Monster Wenger is able to consistently motivate in the way he did in May…but that’s a big hope!!

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