JamieDalton82 Jamie Dalton
Eljero Elia has been on Dutch TV tonight admitting Arsenal and HSV are in talks and he'd prefer a move to England via @Sned777

Another quick pacy wide man. I'd like this as long as this isn't the 'midfielder' that Wenger is after.

Would be the club taking the cheap option again. He's a decent player, better than that actually, but he's not Hazard or Goetze.

Forgot he existed to be honest. I'm guessing he's not done too well in recent times?

Didn't really know he existed to be honest.
An indicator that we may sign him.

He supposedly been absolute shit in Germany.

Typical of Wenger and his crew. Hazard, Kaka, Gotze? Screw that lets go for Elia.

From what i remember of him he's pretty much a worse version of Gervinho.

this guy is mediocre from what i saw of the bundesliga. reminds me of babel, and not in a good way

You lot are way too harsh. Elia has impressed me everytime i've seen him play for the Netherlands.

He has quality but he is too much of a project at this moment. We already have the flakiness of Theo and Arshavin to contend with, Gervinho to bed in and the development of Chamberlain and Miyachi.

We need a more 'stable' player if we are bringing someone in; Elia is reminiscent of Nani when he went to ManU (not Babel), very obvious quality but very obvious need of time, training and development.

Never rated him, hope we don't get him.

Unless he don't affect our interests in a playmaker then I am all for it. But I have a feeling we are only looking to buy one midfielder so I hope it isn't him

I think Capi has it spot on. For the right money and with the right players ahead of him, Elia would be a nice project, but in our current predicament it doesn't make any sense.

Apparently he's just tweeted he's on his way to Italy.

LiveWireSport Hamburg winger Eljero Elia tweets he's on his way to Italy. Set to sign for Juventus

Thank fuck for that, didn't want him. We don't need any more wingers. Give me a central midfielder.

We do need. Ideally we should have someone ahead of Walcott. Not Elia though

Clrnc wrote:

We do need. Ideally we should have someone ahead of Walcott. Not Elia though

We have Gervinho and Arshavin ahead of Theo. Anyone else to come in ahead of him should be super quality.

Arshavin is barely ahead of Miyaichi at the moment.

Theo is well worth a starting spot in our team on form.

I agree, as long as he keeps scoring and getting into those positions.

Hazard, Goetze, Kagawa, Honda. Those kind of quality should be what we need.