Arsenal are after M’Biwa by KJ
After the Stoke match today, the ever reliable @AFCAMDEN released some interesting information on Arsenal’s next signing. His tweet essentially said:
“There is serious interest in Mapou Yanga M’Biwa”
This is some great news personally. I’m a big fan of his. Once I found out that we were signing Giroud, I watched a couple of Montpellier matches where M’Biwa was domineering. He currently captains the club and you can see why, he leads by example and is still relatively young.
His versatility is probably why Arsene is looking at him. He can play anywhere across the back 4 competently which is highly valued by any manager.
I’m guessing that Sagna’s injury is worse than first expected and Wenger isn’t going to take any chances. This is why he’s after M’Biwa so he can deploy him as right-back.
M’Biwa is in the last year of his contract and hence I’d expect somewhere in the region of £7-£8m would get our man. At only 23, he has massive resale value meaning that if he even doesn’t work out, we’ll retrieve nearly the same value we sold him for.
Also, being at only 23, he’s the perfect age for us. Koscielny, Mertesacker and Vermaelan are all 27 meaning that when they’re 31/32, we’ll have M’Biwa who’ll be in his prime at the ripe age of 27. This gives us the perfect cycle.
It looks like Wenger will be hard at work this week making sure that Arsenal can return to its former glories.
Mapou yanga mbiwa is a good option considering his age and versatility .
Great player and if i am not mistaken he also plays DM. i am sure it was him who got motm when i watched montpellier last season and he was playing DM that day. hopefully squillaci can go the other way or chamakh or park or even bendtner as he wants a champions league club.
when i see this kind of speculations,i only resort to say that the media are simply out of information,as far as i know it’s a speculation,if u doubt it,then wait untill next week WENGER will come on a press confrence & tell the world he never made any bid for MBIWA.U will also wonder how some jounalist run this transfer speculation as a mathematics.what do i mean,especting Mbiwa to join arsenal @ 23 then stay @ arsenal up to 27 when mertesacker & vermaelen must have been 31/32 respectively without joining any other team as usuall,wake up mate this is not a scientific statistics.
Umm Wenger said that Sagna was doing better than expected. IMO its the fact that Jenkies isn’t ready or even a good backup, although hes improved a lot from last year. Also, its reported in more than one place that it will take at least 10m to get him and also that he would prefer Milan over Arsenal (starting vs. backup?). Competing with Milan is another point as well as Mont. wanting to part with their two best players exclusively to arsenal. generic, inaccurate piece….
Baba should just bring in quality and experienced player to the team,trouphy is a must this season.