Arsenal Close In on Impressive £13m Playmaker: Agent Claims Turan Wants Move
by Christian Bailey on November 26th, 2009 416 words | 25 commentsGunners target wants Emirates move.
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Turkish winger Arda Turan wants to join Arsenal, according to his agent.
The Galatasaray star has been linked with a move away from him homeland in the past, and was expected to leave last summer when the Istanbul club finished fifth in the Super Lig.
The 22-year-old produced some fine individual displays despite the poor team performances from his side, ending the season with seven goals from various midfield positions.
His versatility would be an added bonus for any side, and Arsene Wenger has previously moved for the star of Euro 2008. It is thought that a £13 million bid would be needed to complete a deal.
Agent Ahmet Bulut said: “In the summertime Arsenal made contact regarding him, but the club did not want to sell. He is interested in working under Arsene Wenger because he is very good at working with young players, and Arda wants to work in England.
“He is now the new captain of Galatasaray, so I don’t think he will be sold in January. However, I do think he will be sold in July.” (Give Me Football – Official PFA Website)
Arsene Wenger is known to be a fan of hugely talented Turkish international Arda Turan and for some time now a move for the midfield playmaker and wide flank player has seen pretty close to becoming a reality. His agent coming out and stating that he believe his client will be sold in July seems to lay it all on the table.
The quoted £13m valuation also seems more than reasonable in today’s inflated transfer market so I can’t see that being an obstacle to any club looking to snap up the 22 year old Galatasaray player. The one stumbling block to a move to the Emirates could come down to the fact that Arsene already has very similar players filling the positions that Turan would inhabit should he indeed be sold to the north London outfit.
Turan is adept at playing in a number of attacking midfield roles both in the centre of the park, to out wide or indeed in the hole behind the striker but then the Gunners already have a great many top notch options in these spots such as Andrei Arshavin, Samir Nasri and Tomas Rosicky, however given the Turkish international’s age he is still very much a player worth making a move for.
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anonymous - November 26th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Good player, decent price, time to make it happen.
anonymous - November 26th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Why is this article on the Liverpool archive?
Grow a face!
anonymous - November 26th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
arda is worst for arsenal arshavin and walcott plays well now.arsenal ‘ll not buy him.
anonymous - November 26th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
If this does happen I can see Walcott leaving. Which would be a shame since he’s a great player and one of the few at Arsenal that are actually English
anonymous - November 26th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
do they even need him tbh? arshavin and walcott r gonna be wanting a world cup place, wenger will have to shift them around and and he might not be happy with regular first team football with galatasary
anonymous - November 26th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
What has this got to do with Liverpool???
anonymous - November 26th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
13mil £ …
I think Eden Hazard around 10 mill £
who U gonna choose?
In my opinion it’s obvious..
kermit - November 26th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
well we ll have turan for 13 million at liverpool
anonymous - November 26th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Yes! wenger
Get him his a sick player
Get him before benitez gets him and then he’ll do the same thing he’s gonna do to babel
anonymous - November 26th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Arda Turan is a great Player Howerver so is Elia and K.honda
anonymous - November 26th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Kop King
Arda Turan would be a superb signing for liverpool. I said in pre season that we should try and get him, is better than Elia and honda. His all round game is excellent.
anonymous - November 26th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
i agree with…
anonymous – November 26th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
i think we should get eden Hazard.!
anonymous - November 26th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Fuck
anonymous - November 26th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
i hope arda comes to arsenal, we love impressive desplays, gets the croud going, pluss turkish players now havent made it in to highflight football. I think it would be injoyable for the fans and ofcorse injoyable for the coach
anonymous - November 27th, 2009 at 2:19 am
anonymous at 5:10pm
Unless he can mysteriously acquire a new nationality in 10 months, Arshavin will almost definitely not be fighting for a World Cup place.
anonymous - November 27th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Just what Arsenal need another playmaker – Fabregas, Arshavin, Nasri, Rosicky and Denilson clearly are not good enough.
anonymous - November 27th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
GET THIS OFF THE LIVERPOOL FC ARCHIVE!
WE DON’T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT TARGETS OF THE ARSE, THATS JUST GAY!
X
Poor Spuds - November 27th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Well… nice player… but tel me wher wil wenger play him? he wud be surplus to the requirement….we do hav a lot of talent coming up from our reserves who can match (if not exceed) his potential…
All that we need to concentrate on are :
1> Get 1 good proven experienced goalkeeper…We often blame our defenders tat they are’nt up to t task… but we also gotta look at t fact tat Almunia has been given many chances n he’s just not of t same league as lehmann or seaman… manone seams to hav done far better than almunia… but usin manone wud be risky since he’s too young n can get carried away…
we need experience n quality in between t bars…Igor akinfeev sounds good (only if fergie takes his hands off him though) otherwise artur boruc or ny good experienced goalkeeper who has proven himself in the highest level wont be a bad idea.. this is 1 place wher t prof just cant compromise…
2> get rid of senderos n silvestre n get a couple of defenders… good tall fast 1s who’re only concerned about defending n dont giv a shit abt scorin goals…even if they havn’t score for 10 seasons in a row… pretty difficult to get somebody with such a profile but definitely ther aint any harm in tryin…. besides gallas’s gettin old n injured too often… djourou’s injury certainly has come at t worst of times…
3> we should strengthen our defence n stop worrying about defensive midfielder… cuz we gotta remember t point tat if 4 defenders cant do t job then wat impact wud a good central defensive midfielder hav on t game?? let t defenders do their job of defending while t midfielders win possession n create chances… this is easier said than done…
but for now we can play denilson n song together for tat 1 cdm role… it further reduces our attackin chances… 1 CDM, 2 wingers n a CAM would have been ideal… but lookin at t rate at which our defenders r goin we surely need both of them in t middle of t park….
4> I wud definitely recommend more playing time to t likes of aaron ramsey n fran merida in crucial games… they’re talented… ramsey show’d his worth in t wolves game… he can become 1 of t world’s best… but we need to giv him enough chances… Besides t returnin nasri n rosicky wud be deadly once they start peakin….
in Arsene we trust…
anonymous - November 28th, 2009 at 1:07 am
Arshavins out of the world cup mate, but he’s too brilliant to sideline to arsenal really need another lightweight playmaker?
anonymous - November 28th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
get him rafa
anonymous - November 29th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Arsenal dont need another playmaker we need a new
Goalkeeper- Almunia is shit
fabinski isnt exactly one of the best
wenger obvs dont have enough faith in mannone
look at the goalkeepers other teams have
Chelsea- Petr Cech- played for country
Man United- Edwin Van De Sar- played for country
Liverpool- Jose Reina- played for country
Man City- Shay Given- played for country
Tottenham- Hulero Gomes- played for country
Aston Villa- Brad Friedel- played for country
Fulham- Mark Swazsher- played for country
West Ham- Robert Green- played for country
Everton- Tim Howard- played for country
Stoke- Tomas Sorenson- played for country
Sunderland- Craig Gordon – played for country
EVEN Portsmouth- David James- played for country
Arsenal – MANUEL FUCKING ALUMINA-NEVER PLAYED FOR COUNTRY
i dont think i could make myself more clear
portsmouth have got a better goalkeeper than arsenal
so green, valdes or foster needs to be brought in
now on to defence
senderos obvs is gonna be gone in january
silvestre is getting on abit
djouoro out for rest of season
so basiclly weve got vermelean and gallas
with out clichy at right back were weak gibbs is out for a while and traore is poor
left back were fine with eboue and sagna
so another centre back is needed maybe richards or Puyol
since gallas could soon be off if no trophies come in this season
midfield were good at the moment
but when we lose Song in january were in trouble since denilson isnt as good as Song and diaby is just crap
but attacking midfield wise were fine with arshavin, rosicky, nasri, fabregas and walcott
upfront
were nothing without van persie
and with van persie out for rest of season
2 new strikers are needed these 2 strikers need to be either
Van Nistelrooy and huntelaar
Van Nistelrooy and chamachk
or sign all 3
anonymous - November 30th, 2009 at 10:01 am
wot the hell happened yesterday wenger we need improvement
anonymous - November 30th, 2009 at 10:45 am
2 the idiots who left early yesterday, you r embarasing perhaps adebayor had a point bout arsenal not having real fans
anonymous - November 30th, 2009 at 10:49 am
well done 2 the true Gooners who stayed 2 the bitter end, we need a striker and possibly a defender, chelsea were just at another level, i don’t care i we get chamakh agbongalohor someone please wenger if u r reading this somehow a goalscorer otherwise this will be another season where we win nothing, spurs r above us cum on
Poor Spuds - December 1st, 2009 at 6:58 pm
To ppl criticizing gunners for leavin t stadium early:
Its sad to watch arsenal to lose at the emirates…
Its heartbreakin to watch them lose a derby… n
Its absolutely devastatin to watch them lose against a team like chelsea (They sure r a good team but t their way to glory has been thru roman’s purse… nothin else)
I say carlos ancelotti aint a great manager at all… he sucked in his entire last season with Milan… even wit kaka at his disposal…
Leonardo without kaka seams to be doing far better (2nd place in serie-A for milan without kaka)…
he may be doin gr8 with chelsea… but who wudnt??? I mean Avram grant managed to get them to 2nd spot without movin much of a muscle… does tat make Mr.grant great??? no… definitely not if u watched his 1st game in charge of t pompeys against t red devils….
Chelsea hav t kinda money to blow tat they can bench talented players like zhirkov for their entire career n still manage to keep winning game after game…
Its sad tat wenger got only vermaelen in t transfer window… he shud hav used some of t money he earned by sellin adebayor n toure… instead he keeps bargainin upto t point tat he’s ready to hav no player n make us go thru this kinda misery season after season… he’s ready to forgo trophies for profit…
No doubts tat he’s a great manager cuz he’s built this arsenal squad.. no doubt tat watevr arsenal has become right now is all thanks to him… but he’s just not willing to spend…having faith in players is a good thing… but wen u hav something as unpredictable as injuries then u gotta make some backup plans… sadly wenger’s backup plans r next to pathetic…
To start with the strike department…
vela :wud be lucky if he scores in t prem…
Eduardo: injuries hav changed dudu who aint t striker he was post injury… he’s turned into another wiltord…
Walcott: has been 1 of t most hyped arsenal players ever… i havent seen him win a game single handedly yet for arsenal… T soda without t fizz in short…
except for arshavin, fabrergas n RVP nobody look like potential match winners… n t very fact tat wenger’s ready to keep experimenting wit almunia every season raises real doubts about his ambitions…almunia wud be ideal for some team in t coca-cola championship… he aint cut out for t premiership… n its a good thing if t FA deny him a place in t english team for t forthcoming world cup… else england wil be returnin failry early from t tournament…
wenger needs to buy a Good goalkeeper… some1 like Lehmann who wud be ready to get ugly but gets t job done… (remember it was he who helped us reach t champs league finals by concedin just 1 goal in t entire tournament n saving a penalty against villareal)… after he left our defences hav looked clueless… we hav blamed poor galla n toure for this… but no fingers hav pointed to almunia… he’s t real weak link in t arsenal squad…. In t coming JAN transfer window we need a couple of MATCH WINNING strikers.. n also we need to buy atleast 1 backup defender who can replace senderos who finally looks set to leave (somethin good happenin to arsenal at last)
In Arsene we still trust…