would be a good buy to improve us domestically, but not so much in europe imo. with coq's emergence i'd prefer it if we went for a midfielder with a more progressive passing game. our build up from the back is still too flabby for my liking.

I see the same old routine of over-rating players on the basis of 5 months of good football is prevalent everywhere.

Wasn't it a month ago that Giroud's upgrade was confined to Aguero.

Schneiderlin is one of the better passing DM's anyway.

Don't rate Schneiderlin that highly. Is a good player, but not so much better than Coquelin to spend £20m+ on him.

Gunner89 wrote:

Schneiderlin is one of the better passing DM's anyway.

Yeah he's not just been Sotons best midfield defensively he genuinely runs their tempo. I think he is somewhere in between Coq and late career Arteta. He's a well balanced mid IMO. He'd be a good partner for Ramsey or for Coquelin depending on what you want. Shame he's not taller though.

He wants a CL team in England. I could see that changing but lets say he sticks to that then it could be anyone bar Chelsea I reckon. He'd improve all of us, City and United.

DK Gooner wrote:

Don't rate Schneiderlin that highly. Is a good player, but not so much better than Coquelin to spend £20m+ on him.

After 3 months of decent football he's not much better than Coquelin like Giroud is close to Aguero after three months of football.

Maybe we shouldn't spend any money. Ospina's had 2 good months too.  😆

It's the same people who will be complaining when Coquelin loses form or gets injured for an extended period or people realise that Cazorla is not the go-to man to be put in a deep midfield role when we play teams who press a lot.

Good player, but I hope we aim a lot higher this summer. Schneiderlin will improve the team, but not enough to significantly close the gap between us and Chelsea (and definitely not the top 4-5 clubs in Europe).

qs! wrote:

He wants a CL team in England. I could see that changing but lets say he sticks to that then it could be anyone bar Chelsea I reckon. He'd improve all of us, City and United.

I think he might even end up at Chelsea. He's a typical 'boring but effective' Mourinho player that's available for a reasonable amount and knows the League. Also applies in our case, just don't think Wenger will pay the money now that Coquelin has shown his quality.

Yeah, Chelsea seems a good fit with Ramires/Mikel on the outs.

Schneiderlin will always be my first choice for this summer's CM transfer unless theres someone significantly better available. (Along the lines of Martinez, Pogba, Vidal)

I just do not understand, so he can join Chelsea, who have matic, Ramires et al plus young guys like Loftus-Cheek, and we who only have Coquelin (who just came on the scene in the last few months), can't buy him?

If Wenger has this same logic I will furious.

QS is right, Schneiderlin's passing is actually extremely good, I fact I would say he is a more consistent passer than Ramsey, and more range than arteta. It like no remember the way Southampton's midfield have handled us over the last couple of seasons.

He would be a superb buy

Kel Varnsen wrote:

Good player, but I hope we aim a lot higher this summer. Schneiderlin will improve the team, but not enough to significantly close the gap between us and Chelsea (and definitely not the top 4-5 clubs in Europe).

I think that is my feeling about him as well. No doubts about the player but I think we need something different.

Schneiderlin also has the added bonus of being a homegrown player.

Clrnc wrote:

Schneiderlin will always be my first choice for this summer's CM transfer unless theres someone significantly better available. (Along the lines of Martinez, Pogba, Vidal)

I agree.

He's right kind of player, hopefully he's good enough and we sign him.

The other thing is that if you want to bring in 2 or 3 new players to the first team it helps if they have PL experience. Wenger seems to like PL players now but usually signs them at a much lower level (Debuchy, Welbeck) or young guys who need time (Chambers).