Lars. Better of the two in my opinion and at a 'smaller' club. Would be a great signing.

General Mirth wrote:

Lars or Sven?

Who cares?

Tambourine Man wrote:

Lars. Better of the two in my opinion and at a 'smaller' club. Would be a great signing.

Agreed. Would love Lars here.

Lars is more Vieira and Sven is more Gilberto. Both good players.

Vieira and Gilberto? Let's get both then!

He's supposed to have a 15m euro release clause, don't know if it's genuine.

Make it happen.

would be an extremely useful buy. seen plenty of bundesliga on setanta, and bender has impressed me alot in the last year. good age, experienced, plenty of stamina, good timing in the tackle. would be a good arteta replacement.

Lars deputized at RB for Germany at Euro 2012 and he did remarkably well. Shows his versatility and general football intelligence.

How big is he? I know he's fairly tall, but is he powerful?

Irish gunner wrote:

How big is he? I know he's fairly tall, but is he powerful?

not a brute, he's actually quite lean, but he's not a push over. what i like about him is he doesn't 'sit', he covers alot of ground and supports his teammates defensively. his timing, positioning, and stamina are his best traits. his passing game is pretty basic though

Similar build to Koscielny I think. Hard to tell by just tv sometimes.

I'm not even that bothered about signing a first choice CM, i think a decent squad player would be ok and leave us with 4 good options in midfield. However a good squad player might cost 7 or 8 million - if Bender is available for around the 15 mark then we should be very interested.

Nice! The better one of the two Benders. Surprised that Dortmund haven't signed him yet.

I wish this was in another paper than the dailymail so that I could get excited by this link. They seem to be churning out endless articles about Arsenal and who we're going to buy.