Wenger Arfa-ter Lyon Winger

YES PLEASE.

LOL Olasal, it wouldnt surprise me. From the little I've seen I'd say Arfa is exactly what we need. You can take Benzema OLASAL, and we'll have Arfa.

Amos, you should know that we can't believe anything Wenger says publically ..... that wiley ol' fox is always hiding something. lol

Its safe to also say we wont buy him. At the end of the day people have half heard of him. We will buy some sierra leone 16 year old who is the next George Weah for 125,000K

If reported acurately, these quotes from AW are very disappointing. Only three days ago he was complaining about Inter tapping up Hleb. Recently he also complained about Bentley's comments about Walcott. We no longer have a leg to stand on in that particular frustration. Talking about other team's players is totally out of order and I hate it when Barca or Madrid announce they are going to sign our players, it's arrogant and disrespectful.

I dont see whats wrong if asked about a player , Wenger saying "i would be interested if he was for sale". Its not quite the same as meeting representatives of the club. If someone asked Wenger if he would like Ronaldo, is he meant to lie and say no?

Arfa is what we need.

You guys may not be aware of the background context to speculation re Ben Arfa and his situation at Lyon. Ben Arfa is not happy at Lyon. He and Benzema detest each other. Ade and Bendtner are bosom buddies in comparison. The situation between Benzema and Ben Arfa on the pitch has become so bad that Perrin has stopped putting them on together for a full 90 minutes. Pity, because when they combine together, they're magic. Months ago you'd see the 2 on the same pitch for nearly a full game but the personal animosity started to deteriorate that it began to hurt Lyon's performance. It's something often reported in the French press. (I follow Lyon and French football in general pretty closely). I love both players, tho Benzema is the better player. Personality wise, however, Ben Arfa is much easier to handle. Benzema thinks extremely highly of himself. Benzema has repeatedly said he prefers to stay at Lyon and if he ever left, he'd go to Italy or Spain. He'd be incredibly expensive, AW would never go for him. Ben Arfa, however, is already unsettled but has had fewer offers in comparison to Benzema. Ben Arfa feels (and many fans agree) that his talents are not being used to their best because Perrin has sidelined him in favor of Benzema. All this is widely known in France, AW certainly knows this. All that said, I doubt this is a genuine AW quote. Since the mid-90s I've followed the French football press closely and have seen many quotes from AW, some of which I've believed, some of which I've dismissed as exaggerations or invented. I don't ever recall an explicit quote like this from AW in the French press, it's just not like him.

I don't believe this quote for one second. I would love to see him in an Arsenal shirt, but if Arsene wanted him, this is not how he would go about it. Apart from anything else of course it would not exactly be a typical Wenger signing. It's not like Arsene to declare intereest in a player with a contract in the middle of a season. Nothing happening here.

It's all bull I'm afraid, even if Wenger actually said something like that, it's a bluff. How many times has he gone and spent money on a player after he admitted he likes them in public? Never. He knows everyone will go after any player he's interested in, so maybe it's a decoy for somebody else? Who knows? Well, Wenger does, of course. As for Ben Arfa, I've only seen him come off the bench for France a copule of times (I only watch highlights of Lyon in the CL) and that's it. He looked good, but always seems to be in the shadow of Benzema, who is a quality prospect, but he's not what we need. Perhaps Ben Arfa is, I don't know, I haven't seen enough of him, but like I said, don't get your hopes up, there's probably as much chance of Liverpool winning the title! ;-)

I never queastion mr wengers signings because most of them end up becoming the best players in the world however what are the odds on wenger paying more than 10mil for a player?

If this rumour does have some truth in it, then Eboue will be off in the summer. There's no way we can have Walcott, Eboue, Vela, Ben Arfa, Hleb, Rosicky and even Diaby to some extent all competing for two places on the wings, having too many players in one position drove Diarra away, we don't want that to happen with Vela or Theo. But having said that, there won't be any truth in this

Arfa is quality. Question is - what kind of price tag would you see on him? I think it'd be an awful lot. Besides, the one you're loaning out in Spain at the moment is plenty good enough to be brought in next season.

At around £20m, anyone who thinks Arsene will buy Arfa must be dreaming. You can well expect to see someone like Charles N'Zogbia or Sidney Govou arriving though!

Well.. if you're reading today's papers.. Kuzmanovic is the name.

Nasri? He said he wants to stay at Marseilles and to buy him, you'd have to cough up considerably more than you would for Arfa, I feel.