Arsenal Line Up Mata And Benzema As Fabregas Nears Exit
Arsene Wenger is resigned to losing Cesc Fabregas to Barcelona and has earmarked Juan Mata and Karim Benzema as big name replacements.
wearethenorthbank.com understands that Arsenal have opened discussions with Valencia over the signing of Mata, who recently starred for Spain during their U21 European Championship win.
Liverpool are also interested in signing the left sided attacker, who is due back from his holiday in the next few days.
Wenger has also set his sights on Benzema, who has experienced a tough time in Madrid.
The Arsenal Boss has long been an admirer of the France striker and Real Madrid would be willing to sell for €30million in order to fund the signing of their two main transfer targets; Neymar and Kun Aguero.
Arsenal are keen to make big-name signings to ease the impact of Fabregas’ impending departure, and Benzema is seen by Wenger as a player that can ease the goal scoring burden on Robin van Persie.
Barca have been keen to drive down the fee for Fabregas as they are looking to offload players in order to free up funds for the signing of the Arsenal captain, as well as Udinese winger Alexis Sanchez.
Having first offered £27million, the Catalan club are looking to meet Arsenal’s £40million valuation by offering Maxwell as part of the deal.
Wenger who has been looking for an experienced left back to compete with Keiran Gibbs following the departure of Gael Clichy to Manchester City and this may be viable way of reaching an agreement.
Meanwhile, Arsenal will finally announce the signing of Gervinho by Friday after the player underwent a medical today. The official announcement of the signing has been delayed due to administrative issues. The Ivory Coast striker will sign for €11million on a four-year deal worth up to £60,000 per week.
Benzema ain’t going no where. We have a better chance at Falcao or Higiuan
Nice read
I only see Mata coming out of the two as Benzema’s agent says a deal wont happen.
If this is true then it is amazing news. Imagine if we signed both these guys? It would be brilliant, losing Fab wouldn’t seem so bad, and same goes for Samir, but he wouldn’t leave if we were to sign these too. Especially Benzema! Would just be great if we got them, plus a great CB & LB.
Jesus.
NO! Don’t accept Maxwell ffs!
I hope both happen. If Karim comes on board, guaranteed Samir stays. They are best mates so let’s hope. Also Mata would be a terrific signing.
Re Maxwell, no thanks!!
If they offered Affellay, Mascherano, or even Abidal then maybe.
i prefer meta to benzema
Maxwell is of no use for us.let use afellay,pedro or abidal as part.
Is there any reason why Arsenal have not tried to sign Kun Aguero?
too expensive, hes rated 40m at least.
What the fig is Wenger playing at. We don’t need Mata or Benzema. What we need is some decent defenders and a defensive midfielder to compete with Song. With Gervinho already in the bag why on earth do we need Mata and Benzema. It’s the same problem we’ve had for a couple of years by overloading on attacking midfielders – they can’t all play.
this is what i think is gonna happen.. nasri will definitely go to chelsea/man city/inter.. wenger will buy either mata or some other player for the left wing position..
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barcelona will come up with the cash for fabregas only if they fail to sign alexis sanchez.. since enrique and mata are linked to arsenal … wenger might be hoping that fabregas will feel more at ‘home’ with two spanish ‘friends’
if not.. fabregas will be sold to the highest bidder or to barcelona if they are near his valuation and wenger will buy either benzema or falcao from the proceeds.. if one of these forwards is signed persie will play in the hole with ramsey as backup..
one of cahill/samba will be signed from the existing funds at arsenal… this is just a figment of my imagination.. but what do you guys think?
Since Mr Wenger said that we are going to sign 1 or 2 players i think he will sign a cb ( samba, cahill, jagielka, mertesacker etc. ) and a st ( falcao, rodallega, benzema, unknown french kid etc. ). Nasri will probably leave and i hope with the cash he will sign mata and if cesc leaves i don’t think he will sign anybody becase we already have wilshere, ” the new signing” rambo, frimpong, ozakup who doesnt have first team experience, the mighty denilson and ofcourse rosicky.