Marouane Chamakh Chooses Arsenal: Out of Contract Striker Wants Emirates Move
by Mr Neutral on February 6th, 2010 433 words | 8 commentsIs Arsene set to finally bring the Moroccan goalscorer to the Emirates?
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Marouane Chamakh has revealed that he wants to move to England this summer when he becomes a free agent, and has stated Arsenal are the club he wants to sign for.
A host of teams have been chasing the highly-rated Moroccan international, who is out of contract at Bordeaux in the summer, but he has now revealed he wants to sign for the Gunners.
Arsenal tried to sign the 26-year-old last summer but could not agree terms, but Arsene Wengerhas retained his interest.
However, in recent times Liverpool, Tottenham, Chelsea, Everton and Sunderland have all made contact with Chamakh’s representatives as he is now free to talk terms with any interested clubs.
Inter Milan, Juventus and Sevilla have also been in touch, but Chamakh has now confirmed that he wants to move to the Emirates.
“My future? Well, I hold all the cards, I have no reason to be under pressure but everyday passing by, I am a little less a Bordeaux player,” he revealed.
“My choice is to join Premier League and if I could choose, I will go to Arsenal.” (Sky Sports)
So there you have it. Could this spell the end of this long running saga? Will Arsene Wenger finally get his man? For some time now Marouane Chamakh has been weighing up his options ahead of his contract running down in the summer and a move to the Emirates appears to be just one of many but now the Moroccan has put his cards on the table and presumably now all it will take is for Arsenal to offer the Bordeaux man a contract that is amenable to the striker.
The Gunners boss would surely have preferred it if he could have snapped up Chamakh in January but with Laurent Blanc’s men flying high at the top of Ligue 1 and still in Champions League action it was always going to be hard to prize him away from the French champions.
Arsenal will hope to be able to somehow manage through the rest of the season with a striking crisis that has left most of Arsene’s top goal getters out with one injury or another and seemingly never a pair of frontmen fully fit at the same time. Some may feel that Wenger should have resolved this issue some time ago but will no doubt still be interested to see what Marouane could do in the Premier League if he does indeed move to the north London outfit.
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anonymous - February 6th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
read few reports who dont like him but his videos look alright to me seems to score a lot of headers similiar to drogba
RaNE - February 6th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
Not highly rated in the french league, Apperently.
anonymous - February 6th, 2010 at 5:47 pm
good choice his headers are the best……go gooners ………..suck chelsea
anonymous - February 6th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
From what i’ve seen of him (only on youtube) he looks a decent player but who will he replace?
To me he doesn’t look to heavy weight and if you ask me we are crying out for a more physically aggressive team who can boss teams and not be out muscled by players like drogba.
I think this summer Wenger should adopt the policy that bigger IS better and opt for players who can mix it with the big boys!
anonymous - February 7th, 2010 at 2:24 am
this guy or his agent must be one mouthy git. he is one of those players who gets hyped up for the sole reason there are so many stories and links about him
between him, zarate, zaki, they fill some column inches.
remember afonso alves? he was another one. turned up at boro and was crap.
he will end up at birmingham or wigan
anonymous - February 7th, 2010 at 3:18 am
dont go by youtube vids. i could take any player and make them look amazing on youtube just by only using the bits that show their better side. heck you could even do it for shit players like gary neville
anonymous - February 15th, 2010 at 1:52 am
What to worried about?Your talking about Arsene Wenger.He’s the man,he knows how to transform a player into a world class player.For example take a good look at Nicolas Anelka and Thierry Henry.All was underrated at first but then become a world class striker.Just like those fans said “ARSENE KNOWS”..so have faith on him.
anonymous - March 2nd, 2010 at 12:15 am
The guy is a complete striker. He could turn things around in difficult situation. Watch out for the African Rooney…Yemi