Written by Sean Oakes.
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is eyeing a January swoop for highly rated Lyon midfielder Maxime Gonalons, according to reports. The French u21 international has been a long term target of the Gunners boss who now looks likely to approach Lyon for his services.
Wenger sees Gonalons as the ideal shield for his back four. Technically excellant Gonalons is tall, strong and a natural defensive midfielder. A large fee of around £10-12million is expected as Gonalons has a contract until 2014 but with record profits and a hefty transfer kitty available Arsene Wenger will not be put off by this fee. Lyon will not want to lose their home grown star but the lure of Wenger and Arsenal will be too much for the young Frenchman to ignore….
antoine
October 23, 2010 at 10:43 am
NOOOOO not another french player!!! nothing against the french but we have way too many in our squad!!!
TAR
October 23, 2010 at 10:48 am
Agreed…
T2T
October 23, 2010 at 10:50 am
And why does anyone believe we need one – we have several full internationals capable of doing that job (Song, Diaby, Wilshere, Nasri, Djourou have all played as DM) + Eastmond & Frimpong.
Saddiq
October 23, 2010 at 11:21 am
We need a golie not a DM
Akeem Adetu
October 23, 2010 at 12:23 pm
That will be nice,its does matter where he is from.As far as he is good,tall,strong(i mean an enforcer in the midfield) and if does violate the home grown rule.If we do this and sign a goal keeper in the class of chech, Vanderser, or Jaaskelane(pardon for the spelling,i mean Bolton goal keeper)i can bet it we will win something atleast any of FA,Champions league or Premiership.
Akeem Adetu
October 23, 2010 at 12:37 pm
That will be nice,its does not matter where he is from.As far as he is good,tall,strong(i mean an enforcer in the midfield) and if does not violate the home grown rule.If we do this and sign a goal keeper in the class of chech, Vanderser, or Jaaskelane(pardon for the spelling,i mean Bolton goal keeper)i can bet it we will win something atleast any of FA,Champions league or Premiership.
silentstan
October 23, 2010 at 12:37 pm
i believe we DO need a defensive midfielder.
denilson is more a link player, song is good but not on the level of the best, wilshire is not one- that is plain silly to say, djorou is c/b with emergency fill in duties, eastmond and fromp[ong too young, diaby-defensive-??? he never holds his position, nasri is aqn engine-wasted on pure defensive duties. have the number of goals conceded not convinced people we need one and quickly
daywalker
October 23, 2010 at 12:59 pm
i think apart from havin to many french players,they succeed better in d premier league take d likes of henry.pires,lauren,anelka,viera n even didie drogba evn tho an ivorian grew up playing in french clubs n now clichy,sagna,evra n malouda i mean we need to give it to d french even tho its an English league!
samuel
October 24, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Rather French players with great technical ability than rubbish English style kick and run mentality ?
samuel
October 24, 2010 at 12:06 pm
Song and Gonalons as defensive midfielders ,sounds good to me ,with Sagna and Arshavin sold on ?
richard ruzvidzo
November 1, 2010 at 9:50 am
we need three quality players in the goalkeeping,defensive midfield and central defense areas.Let’s go gunners