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Seems to be on his way out of Arsenal at the end of the season, if not in January. I remember Anelka said something last season that he considered Wiltord to be his ideal striking partner, and I always thought he was a top quality player (always scores against City :(). On a Bosman I would think he would be a great signing for a club like City, but Arsenal fans don't seem to be that keen on him.

What say you gooners, a good signing? premiership class? is he a chance of staying in England?

Moomba
 
He goes through patches Sylvain. He has scored some absolutely crucial goals for The Club ( he loves old toilet) He has stood up when injuries have hit, he has done alot of Henry`s donkey work.
To me, his biggest problem seems to be coughing the ball up, does it too much for my liking.
Very good player and to get him on a Bosman would be daylight robbery, he is over due to score, this will be the week.
 
Originally posted by moomba
Seems to be on his way out of Arsenal at the end of the season, if not in January. I remember Anelka said something last season that he considered Wiltord to be his ideal striking partner, and I always thought he was a top quality player (always scores against City :(). On a Bosman I would think he would be a great signing for a club like City, but Arsenal fans don't seem to be that keen on him.

What say you gooners, a good signing? premiership class? is he a chance of staying in England?

Moomba


Personally I've been disappointed with him ever since his first game for us, considering he's the club's record signing I just think he is pretty poor technically, as windyhill says he gives it away too easily becasue he's got average control & a poor touch, his passing is not special either, he scores a few but he rarely seems to hit the ball really cleanly.
Most Arsenal supporters I know don't rate him that highly.

The thing is he kicked up a fuss when he first came because he wasn't first choice, instead we stuck with TH & DB, but when he was given a chance he hardly pulled up trees.
Then he found a role for himself playing right midfield & did fairly well & he actually got into the French team on the strength of this, but this summer he complained & said he didn't want to play there anymore & Wenger seems to have yielded to him on this issue.
The stupid thing is as a centre forward he would never have got a sniff of a France place in front of the sort of players they have but by playing right midfield he found a way of breaking into their team.

As far as I'm concerned he's got an over-inflated view of his own ability & to add to that he's selfish in the way that he continually moans in the press & makes threats about not playing a certain role.

I won't miss him that's for sure, in fact I'd rather have kept Franny Jeffers on the pay roll & offloaded Wiltord this summer.

Ironically I had high hopes that when Anelka was moving from PSG that we could have done a swap deal for him with Wiltord, of course we'd have had to pay a few quid (which we didn't have) but a front pairing of Henry & Anelka would have been sensational in my opinion.

Unfortunately I think he'll resign for us but ideally I'd like us to resign him in January & then sell him for a fee next summer, but considering no one wanted him this summer I suppose that's too much to ask.

We've got a young player called Dave Bentley, who plays in a similar way to Bergkamp, plays up front but likes to drop deep & conduct things, he's been a star for the youth side & England age level sides & from what I've been reading he's ready to get the odd game here & there.
The problem there is that for some strange reason (not French maybe?) he's behind Aliadiere in the pecking order for a first team place, hopefully Wenger will feel the full force of the youth coaches to get Bentely in, I know Liam Brady thinks he's going to be a top player, takes one to know in my book.

By getting rid of Wiltord we move closer to seeing Bentley playing for the first team.
 

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