Wiltord

[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

 

[GoalsFrom50Out]

Will be gone. We're "gunning" () for Kluivert.

 

[windyhill]

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.

 

[Dipper]

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.