Never any doubt about it.
We're 100% going to sign him.

Kla surprised you don't like matty much

He's quiet italianish about his play

He's okay. It just bugs me that we'll spend £12 million to weaken the team compared to last season. He's 29 too. There's very little upside to this. We'll probably get two 6/10 seasons ouf of him and that's that.

Sagna was a 6/10 player too.

Sagna was at least a 7 on average.

Debuchy will win PFA Player of the Year this season. If Wenger transitions him into the #10 slot then he will win the Balon D'Or as well.

Klaus wrote:

He's okay. It just bugs me that we'll spend £12 million to weaken the team compared to last season. He's 29 too. There's very little upside to this. We'll probably get two 6/10 seasons ouf of him and that's that.

i agree. 12m over 3 yrs is equal to 80k/week. which means if debuchy will get, say 50k/week, we should've offered sagna at least 130k/week, since he's the better player and can deputise at CB as well.

think sagna was going to leave regardless, though.

Rumour has it Newcastle will replace him with Aurier or Jamaat. Why don't we just sign Aurier?

Wenger doesn't fancy him?

We should sign both and let the corporal go on loan to Newcastle for the season.

Oh well this is good news for Jenks. Hopefully he'll get more game time this season if this is true.

bad news for the arsenal though. debuchy is nothing special.

if we blow this transfer window like we usually do, 5th place will be as real a possibility as it has ever been.

If it happens it'll be a really disheartening start to the window. Worse than last season already.

kamikaze wrote:

bad news for the arsenal though. debuchy is nothing special.

if we blow this transfer window like we usually do, 5th place will be as real a possibility as it has ever been.

Just because we sign Debuchy we are going to finish 5th?

He might probably just surprise all of us and be a much better fit than Sagna. 3 France manager have played him ahead of Sagna now.

qs! wrote:

If it happens it'll be a really disheartening start to the window. Worse than last season already.

Worse than signing Sanogo?!
I think not...

Clrnc wrote:

kamikaze wrote:

bad news for the arsenal though. debuchy is nothing special.

if we blow this transfer window like we usually do, 5th place will be as real a possibility as it has ever been.

Just because we sign Debuchy we are going to finish 5th?

He might probably just surprise all of us and be a much better fit than Sagna. 3 France manager have played him ahead of Sagna now.

Yep.

We will lose aerial strength obviously, but with the ball we will be much, much better. He makes the runs in the final third.

He's also better with the ball in tight spaces. Used to infuriate me just how often Sagna would receive the ball, not get his feet and angles right and end up going back to Szczesny

That's quite important actually. Build up play on our right side between Per and Sagna was very poor. I think Sagna is the better right back but I'd be hopeful that Debuchy will more or less be as effective as Bac as his style is a better fit. I guess the worry would be that that side will be weaker defensively and Per will be easier to get at. As some have said its important we get the right midfielder in as well, someone who can cover ground a lot quicker than Arteta.

Armor wrote:

That's quite important actually. Build up play on our right side between Per and Sagna was very poor. I think Sagna is the better right back but I'd be hopeful that Debuchy will more or less be as effective as Bac as his style is a better fit. I guess the worry would be that that side will be weaker defensively and Per will be easier to get at. As some have said its important we get the right midfielder in as well, someone who can cover ground a lot quicker than Arteta.

If we get Morgan or Sami to come and sit for us, while Debuchy and Gibbs raid forward we could be a great counter attacking force. Considering we will have Sanchez + Theo on the wings, making runs for Özil to pick out.

Gunner89 wrote:

“Arsene Wenger knows Debuchy so well. He’s a proven Premier League player who has some Champions League experience, from his time at Lille.

“That’s why Arsene wants him so badly.

Just like Silvestre.

qs! wrote:

Gunner89 wrote:

“Arsene Wenger knows Debuchy so well. He’s a proven Premier League player who has some Champions League experience, from his time at Lille.

“That’s why Arsene wants him so badly.

Just like Silvestre.

Ooooh yeah !

nahoum wrote:

qs! wrote:

Just like Silvestre.

Ooooh yeah !

Thanks for that nahoum, I had just about driven the image of Silvestre in an Arsenal shirt out of my brain, now it is back again

let's not be over dramatic. in a situation where a coach has the choice between sagna and debuchy, debuch is the one selected. this isn't some wenger project player or some washed up player (silvestre).

maybe we just overrate our own players. i'm watching the game right now and it just hit me that of the 3 (the 4th couldn't even make a weak england team) first team defenders we sent to the world cup none of them are starting.

Meatwad wrote:

let's not be over dramatic. in a situation where a coach has the choice between sagna and debuchy, debuch is the one selected. this isn't some wenger project player or some washed up player (silvestre).

maybe we just overrate our own players. i'm watching the game right now and it just hit me that of the 3 (the 4th couldn't even make a weak england team) first team defenders we sent to the world cup none of them are starting.

Per started until he got sick. Starting Sahko ahead of Kos is quite obviously idiotic. I've spoken to plenty of non gooners who all think Kos and Sagna should start.

Wonder how long this will take to be finalised?
I'd say within 10 days

No fuss replacement at right back. Just do the same for backup GK and move on to bigger targets.

L'Equipe reporting that we've agreed a fee of €10m or roughly £8m.

Noice. Confirm and move on to that star attacker

Debuchy has supposedly confirmed the move to Arsenal on French TV.

Underwhelming, but right back sorted.

Next.

Buzzing.

ludovic van zis wrote:

Buzzing.

Signing of the year...

Still hope they've all gotten this as badly wrong as they got the M'Vila transfer a few years ago.

Rohit wrote:

Underwhelming, but right back sorted.

Underwhelming is the word, nothing worth getting exited about with this potential signing

Klaus wrote:

Still hope they've all gotten this as badly wrong as they got the M'Vila transfer a few years ago.

its been confirmed on the french stock market.