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Arsenal Confident Of Landing £20m-Rated Striker As Wenger Eyes Four New Signings
Arsenal are growing increasingly confident of signing Fiorentina’s £20m-rated striker Stevan Jovetic as boss Arsene Wenger eyes four new signings this summer.
With the summer transfer window set to re-open, there is plenty of gossip doing the rounds in the newspapers so we’ll keep you up-to-date with the latest transfer rumours. Today, Arsenal are confident of landing Jovetic.
Arsenal are growing increasingly confident of signing Fiorentina’s £20m-rated striker Stevan Jovetic as boss Arsene Wenger eyes four new signings this summer, according to the Mirror.
We’ve been strongly linked with the Montenegrin international hitman in recent weeks with Wenger seemingly prepared to splash the cash on a top drawer striker ahead of next season.
The Mirror suggests Arsenal players have made it clear that Jovetic will be a Gooner this summer as long as we secure a top-four finish, with the boss confident of seeing off interest from Juventus to lure the 23-year-old to the Emirates.
We’re currently sitting in fourth position in the Premier League table with just two games left to play, so Champions League qualification is in our hands. The newspaper claims we’ve already opened talks with Fiorentina over Jovetic and the Italians will demand around £20m for the player.
That would represent a record signing for Arsenal but with the coffers boosted by recent commercial deals and the wage bill set to be slashed with the sale of several fringe players, it seems this summer could finally be the one where we see Wenger spend some serious money.
The Mirror claim as well as Jovetic, the boss has his eye on Hamburg goalkeeper Rene Adler, a holding midfielder and is weighing up a move for Borussia Dortmund right back Lukasz Piszczek – who’s seen as a potential replacement for Bacary Sagna.
If we could make these four signings this summer and keep together the existing first team players, we’ll have a well balanced squad going in to next season that would be capable of challenging for trophies.
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What do you think Arsenal fans? Who would you like to see the club sign this summer? Get involved in the comments section below.
Sylvester Shima
May 11, 2013 at 10:58 am
I will love to see arsenal signing Jovetic, bony, ben arfa nd adler gunners for live
Jeo
May 11, 2013 at 11:16 am
Hope we don’t sign him, averages 1 goal nearly every 4 games, not good enough, we need world class not second class
davi
May 11, 2013 at 12:13 pm
He was a winger/AM/SS when he first joined Fiorentina, and he was very young, which is why his goals record wasn’t that great. He’s hit about 1 in 2 for the last 2 seasons, which is pretty good, again accounting for the fact he isn’t meant to be a pure goalscorer and it’s not even clear what position he would play were he to join Arsenal. IMO he is a world class talent, but not (yet) a world class goalscorer. He could get there, though. That said I’d rather sign Higuain if there’s any chance of that rumour being true, because he certainly is a goalscorer. Wouldn’t complain if Jovetic was signed though.
kingsley
May 11, 2013 at 11:17 am
I will realy be happy to see arsenal sign jovetic.ben afra,durtmond hitman and mario gotzy
atid
May 11, 2013 at 11:18 am
If we qualify for champions league we need more than 4 signings. For me we would need a GK RB CB DM AM(or winger) and another striker and they need to be 6 top players. However we only need 4 players if we fail to qualify as then we could probably cope by retaining sagna and rosicky then only needing gk cb dm cf. Either way fabianski mannone squillaci djourou santos denilson arshavin park bendtner chamakh should all be moved on with question marks hanging over sagna and rosicky as mentioned. However if anyone was foolish enouvh to be intefested in diaby and gervinho I would rip their arm off and bring in replacements there too.
manu
May 11, 2013 at 11:21 am
i think all we need is shack silent stan…
nihan
May 11, 2013 at 11:27 am
i think higuain is best striker for arsenal. most impotant one is goal scorer plx sign higuain, falcao, cavani
Sajo Manase
May 11, 2013 at 11:29 am
Let we wait on what will happen with transfer signing.but wenger must be serious this season
abdul-plats
May 11, 2013 at 11:40 am
Oga wenger pls help us nd sign first class players. Gunaz 4 lyf
Adams Adewole
May 11, 2013 at 12:04 pm
i wil like to see a jovetic,a clinical centre back like Mexes or Miranda a defensive midfielder,a winger yohan cabaya,a winger lyk ben arfa or bale,i just hope we buy real talent and finished players
Sunji
May 11, 2013 at 5:12 pm
I believe you are just chatting B.S. so if I were you I would go die!!
Tom
May 11, 2013 at 2:45 pm
Micah richard or ashley williams for defence, fellaini for dm, julio caeser for goal, Isco for lwf and higuain or jovetic for attack
sylvester cesc
May 11, 2013 at 5:37 pm
julio cesar will do
prince armani
May 11, 2013 at 9:28 pm
All we need is clinical finisher,experienced goalkepper and a holding midfielder
Aussie Jack
May 12, 2013 at 2:06 am
You`re damned right!
Abdul karim
May 11, 2013 at 11:20 pm
As 4 me i would love to see julio caesar gk,piszech cb,m’villa dm,jovetic cf,isco lwf,rami cb all in arsenak team next season if we really mean business.
benard oriedo
May 12, 2013 at 7:31 am
wenger sign for u Gonzalo n david villa.
Justice
May 12, 2013 at 7:36 am
Arsenal does not sign world class players even from history,rather they produce world class.so stop day dreaming guys.lets just hope wenger stengthens his squad for next season,so lets keep our fingers crossed.but nomatter i believe and have faith in Arsene wenger.Arsenal to the death.
Walitin
May 12, 2013 at 8:08 am
Mr wenger it wil b my pleasure 2 see u sign four world class in gonzalo,cabaya,julio cesar nd piszech.gunner 4 lyf
gjo
May 12, 2013 at 9:50 am
Jovetic and Benteke/Higuain, Saesar, Williams, Fellain and we can dominate the PL. It’s wengers era now, fergie is gone, we have the Moneys and a current decent squad..COYG!!!
siraji halfani
May 12, 2013 at 10:54 am
“In fact any success has a source”me i think wenger should sign david villa &jovetic so that they boost the team towards the competition.
Tim
May 12, 2013 at 9:17 pm
Those of you saying “Wenger, sign Messi, sign Ronaldo, sign Falcao, sign Lewandozski”, tell me one good reason why any ambitious player would want to come to Arsenal. Thanks to Wenger and the greedy board, no serious player wants to come to Arsenal. I mean even Zaha said something about being a fan of Arsenal but it made more sense to go to ManU. Not to talk of our qualifying for Champions League. Spuds are fourth and we are fifth. I am not ready to bet even my lunch that we would qualify. We need Usmanov and Wenger has to go. Why cant he borrow a leaf from Sir Alex?