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Per Mertesacker

Kraig

L'Equipe reporting that we have signed him

http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/breves2011/20110830_101313_mertesacker-serait-gunner.html

Would be a strange one. Wouldnt mind so long as its one of two CBs coming in.

Curtis

A good, experienced centreback (that's tall). Seems to be a good deal (he's won the bundesliga too!). The only worry would be if he can play with a high line.

Clrnc

Oh dear.

Kraig

I know alot of people worry about our high line, but it hasnt exctly been doing wonders for us recently. might be time to bin it off. If we signed him and Cahill, id be VERY happy.

Captain

Noooooooooooooooooooooo...

y va marquer

L'equipe is usually reliable.....they say he's going to sign this evening.
He was wishlist material a couple of seasons ago?
Has he deteriorated that much?

Does this mean we're not getting Cahill?

Clrnc

Certainly mean we won't get Cahill. Wenger is pissed off with Bolton it seems. What happened to getting a defender with PL experience?

Mertesacker won't come cheap considering how much Bremen want to keep him, don't make any sense. I mean most of us wanted him here the past few seasons but recently he regressed alot.

Curtis

Mertesacker has one year left on his contract too.

And according to a Werder fan I know, he's still very good.

About the high line - Germany play with a high line as well. And he has 75 caps for them.

Ricky1985

Please say it ain't so.

Gunner89

You know it ain't good if ricky is dissing him

Timbob

I think he's a really good player. But this does sort of look like we failed to get our top targets and we're now settling for whatever we can get. We could have got him 2 months ago easily.

Anyway, he's a shit load better than Djourou and is more accomplished than Kos imo.

Captain

On a serious note, L'equipe has been shocking this summer so there's still hope.

Gunner89

gunnerblog
Can confirm validity of L'Equipe Mertesacker story. Not done yet but should be by end of the day.

Rohit

I hope this is just being used as an exercise to make Bolton panick a little.

Timbob

Cant see us going back for Cahill. Maybe if Bolton come to us sharpish to get something done. Wonder if We'll get him on a free next summer.

lorddulaarsenal

I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt. wouldnt be my first choice but atleast he's big and experienced!

Clrnc

If we wanted a quality defender outside of England, we could have gotten Hummels/Subotic/Godin/Howedes/Schmelzer or even the one Liverpool signed, Coates.

Now that someone mentioned Mertesacker only had a year left, that makes sense now.

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Not really a top class defending lineup

Timbob

Not that I've seen many of Germany's games recently, but doesn't Mertesacker usually keep Hummels, Howdedes and Schmelzer out of the team?

Clrnc

Those 3 only pretty much came to prominence last season and have been playing ahead of Mertesacker for Germany the past few months, but no real clue there seeing Mertesacker was injured. Suspect it would be hard to him to get back into the Germany squad.

Just think he won't be a right fit for us and the other options would have been better. Not so easy playing our high line, with a need to be composed on the ball.

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