Arsenal Finally Speak About Merida

Hes a very good signing will do great for our reserves

he is has bright future ahead, in the mould of fabregas, great technical skill and fantastic vision. also has an eye for goal. now that the team have enough 'skills', i hope we could reinforce some 'steel'. we were deemed too lightweight in the midfield last season & our latest recruit rocisky who is dimunitive but very skillful hasnt changed a thing

Only concern i have is if Merida and Fabregas play together in the center, doesn't that leave us alittle bit vunrable as both are attack minded center midfielder players who ain't the tallest around or strongest? Maybe Wenger will adapt the team around these two young gems as so far Fabregas has proven his worth and if Merida can have half the impact they both deserve to play and can both influene the game. Can't wait to see him in a competative game in carling cup or so, just hope not to much pressure is heaped on his shoulders after Fabregas's raise and hes allowed to develop at his own pace and into his own player. Wenger once again prove's hes the best around when it comes to finding young talent. Diaby in the holding roll with Fabregas and Merida infront of him in a 4-3-3? Now that seems intresting.

Another "steal" for the Gunners, how much compensation is being paid?

You know, you guys always think you are whiter than white and that Chelsea is corrupt. For a change look yourselves in the mirror. Barcelona do not use shirt sponsorship, as a Yank I believe only the team name should be on the shirt, and I wish CFC would adopt the same approach. Barca donate, I believe .5% of their take to charity, and now you are taking another product of their youth system for free. This is clearly the result of agent and team colluding in advance, does this sound similar to "tapping up"? Of course it was just a coincidence that a year ago this player decided to go hide in the countryside and avoid any direct connection to Barcelona after the earlier signing of Fabregas. During the construction of Ashburton Grove a lot of promises that had been made regarding issues such as community sports were allowed to lapse, again I am sure this had nothing to do with Islington councillors being paid by Arsenal at the time. I know this is unfortunately a business now, but at least be consistent. CFC have paid well over the odds on a lot of deals, but at least this money is going back into football, seems to me that the Arsenal philosophy is to extract the money. I am not taking the pi**, tis is really happening and I would encourage a healthy debate. I just ask for some consistency. Thank you.

Arsenal also donate directly to Israels army...

Arsenal do not donate money directly to Israel.