Medhi Benatia

[Heisenberg]

For 15 M, he is worth the risk. He is a superb defender and a baller.

Especially when if you consider the amount of money we need to spend on an offensive signing too.

Xhaka: 35M
Benatia: 15M
Striker: 40M

Total: 90M

Would be "a new Arsenal" if we use that amount of money.

Potential income:
Whoever of Szcz, Ospina, Debuchy, Jenkinson: 10M
Walcott: 20M

Still af net spending: 60M, but the wages from Arteta, Rosicky and Flamini could also make space in the budget.
Campbell could be a funding source too (around 10M).

 

[Heisenberg]

Id rather monalas depends on the price though.

Likely to be double up. 30M mentioned by some media.

 

[Vinci]

You know that even Usain Bolt is going to their Doctor? Their head of medicine is also the doctor for the german national team.

Didn't know, but Bayern have suffered a lot of injuries and Pep had a row with the head of the medical staff as well.

Not sure if they are the cause of the injuries, though.

 

[carlito'sway]

Likely to be double up. 30M mentioned by some media.

Even more, numbers up to 40 M Euros are being floated.

 

[carlito'sway]

Especially when if you consider the amount of money we need to spend on an offensive signing too.

Xhaka: 35M
Benatia: 15M
Striker: 40M

Total: 90M

Would be "a new Arsenal" if we use that amount of money.

Potential income:
Whoever of Szcz, Ospina, Debuchy, Jenkinson: 10M
Walcott: 20M

Still af net spending: 60M, but the wages from Arteta, Rosicky and Flamini could also make space in the budget.
Campbell could be a funding source too (around 10M).

Arsène will not spend a lot of money on a defender. I don't see him forking 35 M for Manolas. That is why I think the Benatia rumors may have some legs.

 

[Sanchez11]

If we were to get this guy we would have 4 decentish cbs better than years gone by.

 

[Heisenberg]

Arsène will not spend a lot of money on a defender. I don't see him forking 35 M for Manolas. That is why I think the Benatia rumors may have some legs.

But also, £15M and if you are lucky you get a top class defender. It seems like a fair shot.

 

[GunnerBP]

I was thinking about putting this in the Xhaka thread, but the Benatia thread now makes more sense.

Signing Xhaka will allow us to play 3-4-3 when we attack similarly to how Barca and Bayern have under Pep. Our normal formation will be 4-3-3, but when we have the ball Xhaka can drop in between the CBs and our fullbacks can push farther up. And Xhaka's range of passing means that he can actually get the ball to them. Coquelin can't make that pass, so now we just had two fullbacks run out of position for no reason.

Yet playing 3-4-3 in attack requires CBs that are comfortable on the ball and quick because they have to move out to the wings and help launch the attack. Gabriel is quick, but not good on the ball, and Merts isn't quick at all. We couldn't play this formation with our existing defenders. Benatia can play with this formation, and he played it for Pep.

Signing a striker is the next piece of the puzzle, but Xhaka and hopefully Benatia will make us not only better defensively, but better offensively too.

 

[carlito'sway]

But also, £15M and if you are lucky you get a top class defender. It seems like a fair shot.

Indeed and that is my point as well. One more bonus with Benatia, no communication issues with Kos...They both speak french.

 

[Vibra]

Haven't seen him once this season but I've never been impressed with him

 

[Kotikalja]

That shiny new toy ended up blown up in a parking lot in a few days. Not sure what that means...

 

[carlito'sway]

I was thinking about putting this in the Xhaka thread, but the Benatia thread now makes more sense.

Signing Xhaka will allow us to play 3-4-3 when we attack similarly to how Barca and Bayern have under Pep. Our normal formation will be 4-3-3, but when we have the ball Xhaka can drop in between the CBs and our fullbacks can push farther up. And Xhaka's range of passing means that he can actually get the ball to them. Coquelin can't make that pass, so now we just had two fullbacks run out of position for no reason.

Yet playing 3-4-3 in attack requires CBs that are comfortable on the ball and quick because they have to move out to the wings and help launch the attack. Gabriel is quick, but not good on the ball, and Merts isn't quick at all. We couldn't play this formation with our existing defenders. Benatia can play with this formation, and he played it for Pep.

Signing a striker is the next piece of the puzzle, but Xhaka and hopefully Benatia will make us not only better defensively, but better offensively too.

Good points...Benatia is very good with the ball on his feet as well and has a good range of passing too.

 

[ModelGooner]

Do it Wengs, do it.

 

[Hunta]

Stop worrying about ****ing money, the club is loaded.

 

[Oh_Snap]

Didn't know, but Bayern have suffered a lot of injuries and Pep had a row with the head of the medical staff as well.

Not sure if they are the cause of the injuries, though.

Yeah their Doc didn't rush into surgicals and i guess Pep didn't like that. Pep liked the unorthodox way of treamtment while he was a player *cough* doping *cough*

 

[Emin-]

You know that even Usain Bolt is going to their Doctor? Their head of medicine is also the doctor for the german national team.

Doesn't say much, we have Shad Forsythe who was with the german national team before as their most important fitness coach...

 

[Heisenberg]

Stop worrying about ****ing money, the club is loaded.

Stop being ignorant about the fact that we have limited funds.
Recently, it was described in detail that we are likely to have a transfer budget in the region of £50-£60M.

The number on a balance sheet is not the same as the amount we can use on transfers.

If we want three players, we of course need to worry about money. Xhaka was expensive, so is an offensive signing. And if Wenger wants to buy a defender too, we could easily be above the available funds.

Hopefully Walcott, Debuchy, Szczesny, Ospina, Jenkinson, Campbell or whoever we are going to sell can give us some more money to play with.

- But let me add one thing:
Of course we can spend more than the £60M, but it would not be very rational behaviour, and the possibilities in the future would be decreased.

 

[GDeep™]

Pushing 30, has injury issues, hasn't been too great when he's played at Bayern.

Can't say this rumour is going to keep me up at night with excitement.

That said, Wenger probably has high hopes for Chambers and Gabriel.

 

[Kingslayer]

Stop being ignorant about the fact that we have limited funds.
Recently, it was described in detail that we are likely to have a transfer budget in the region of £50-£60M.

It was also refuted in detail, too. No one really knows how much we have to spend but best estimates say £90M-£100M. And that's without selling anyone.

 

[BBF]

Gabriel needs binning