Wouldn't mind a signing like this although we could have got him in the summer

Meh, surely there are better ways of getting this job done?

No cheap options please.

Could possibly see this happen. We were linked to him back when he played in the Spanish second division too. I think he's a very good player to be fair. He'll be gone to the ACN though so he won't be much of a squad reinforcement in the january window.

Came on at halftime against Chelsea last week and got voted man of the match. Takes some doing.

Geoff seems very confident we will get this guy and Demba Ba. 3.5m and 7m release clause each. Same agent as well

10m for the two would be great business tbh.

Clrnc wrote:

Geoff seems very confident we will get this guy and Demba Ba. 3.5m and 7m release clause each. Same agent as well

Geoff also thinks we will go for mbiwa

Good trio that. Add cabella, zaha or Adrian n I'm happy enough

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West Ham Utd's Mohamed Diame is the "mystery" player i didn't want to reveal but it has been mentioned in press today so i can confirm it.

KIP‏@Established1886

The two midfielders I have been told are Luis Gustavo and Mohamed Diame, who @GeoffArsenal knew about first. Would prefer Gustavo but also a

KIP‏@Established1886

big fan of Diame. At about £4m, it's a steal. Issues are he's had heart problems before. Although that didn't stop us from signing Kanu.

I don't think Diame's great. He's ok, and we don't have a player like him, but what would we do with him? Where would he play?

Much prefer Gustavo, more of what we need and a better player

asajoseph wrote:

I don't think Diame's great. He's ok, and we don't have a player like him, but what would we do with him? Where would he play?

He is quite like Diaby actually.

Does he have to? We could use better squad depth too.

Well, I suppose not.

Still, hard to get Get excited by a moderate player with no upside. He's fine, but surely there are better options. Can't see him having any impact, really.

Anyway, you gotta think if we were interested in him, we'd have signed him in the summer

We still had Song at the time though so there might have been less need for someone like Diame.

I think he's a good player in any case. Strikes me as a better and more disciplined version of Tiote. I'd like someone like that in the squad. The midfield wouldn't fall apart every time Arteta is out.

I would prefer Luiz Gustavo who looks a much better footballer, while also being a mobile ball winning type. Diame looks sluggish, but he definitely has the right type of game.