On 23 February 1997, Arsenal signed the 17-year-old Anelka from Paris for £500,000, the first signing since Wenger became Arsenal manager, and 30 months later the professor sold Anelka to Real Madrid for £22.5 million.
After that, everyone knew, Wenger used the cost of selling Anelka to build a Kearney training base and bought Henry.
Every year I have to say it once a year, every year I am overwhelmed by the professor's eyes, this is the operation of the football manager...
Although Wenger's early days of coaching Arsenal also had expensive reinforcements, in fact, the professor did prefer to turn stones into gold, although Wenger also had a time to look away, but it can be said that most of his reinforcements at Arsenal are value for money, and the vision is ahead of the curve.
Henry, Vieira this is not to say, the professor from Barca free poached Fabregas, Bellerin, low-cost introduction of Van Persie, Song, Ebue, Sarnia, The Great Toure, Koscielny, Giroud, Adebayor and other people have grown into famous European stars, Nasri, Cazorla, Arshavin and other people seem to have a relatively high transfer fee, but it is more than ten million, their peak level is far more than this.
In fact, there are too many such transfers, too many to count, it is true that Wenger spent a lot of money to introduce Lacazette, Xhaka and Mustafi in the later stage, but in fact, compared to most coaches, Wenger has played the football manager to the extreme, but later everyone began to take this route of buying low and selling high, digging young people to cultivate (now even Real Madrid, Barca are like this), the little demon can no longer be introduced at a low price like before, so that model is not good to continue... Because everyone pays great attention to protecting their own potential new stars, the price is also rising.
Adebayor and Ebue meet in Dakar and the two will represent the African Legends against the Senegalese Legends to celebrate the opening of a new stadium.
Although Adebayor has disgusted many gun fans, Eboue is still very popular with gun fans and wishes him all the best in the future.
Eboue opened a football school in his hometown of Côte d'Ivoire, and his life was also very pleasant, and last year's reports of his mental problems were untrue, which was debunked.
Eboue did go through a very difficult time after his divorce, but the good news is that they have all passed.
Ta statistics show that Martinelli can complete 0.96 interceptions in the Premier League in an average of 90 minutes, which is the number one in the same position among Premier League players (wingers).
In addition, Martinelli has won an average of 0.77 wins in the three offensive zones every 90 minutes, which is second in the Premier League, behind Sterling.
This is the statistical defensive data of the winger, which shows the enthusiasm of Martinelli, Arte Tarcan used him, but also because Martin Jr. deeply met his high pressing requirements, which Lowey had to strengthen a little.
As long as Martin Jr. is active, there are opportunities in the future.
Arteta was present at the pre-match press conference and let's take a look at what the Arsenal boss had to say.
Your team has conceded very few goals in recent athletic battles, how did you do it? Are you impressed by this?
Yes, I was very impressed because it is not easy to do that in this league. I think it's first and foremost due to the engagement of the players and the understanding of the importance of that, and then their execution on an individual and collective level.
It's a whole thing: everybody understands, runs, stays compact, wins one-on-one, and forces the opponent to play in a way that's more conducive to our defensive system.
It all started with the forward players, who started putting pressure on the front, making the game very tight and their willingness to support the team was very important.
Cedric has been doing well lately, but With a comeback, are you ready to make a change?
Players in the same position can offer different abilities, different options for the team, and you can feel at ease because they can all come up with the top performances and that's exactly what I want to see.
Do Arsenal have new injuries?
No, everything is the same as last week at the moment.
How important is it for Arsenal to qualify for the Champions League?
I think for this club, that's the tournament we want to be in. We want to compete with the best teams every year and that's what we want.
How important is the top four battle for your contract extension?
I'm happy here, my goal is to build a winning division and when we watch this team play, we feel a clear style and show what we as an organisation want to pass on at the football level.
If you can lead the team to the top four of the league, is it a matter of course to renew the contract?
As you said, some things come naturally, they've happened in the last few months, and now our goal is to have to deliver the results and performances we want.
Now that the initiative is in your hands, how will your players cope with this pressure?
I think it should be "We will fight to the end, as long as it is theoretically possible, we must focus on today, complete today's training and preparation." We also have to mentally, physically and technically prepare for tomorrow's tough game, and tomorrow we will show that on the field. ”
Conte said "you can marry the wrong wife, but you can't use the wrong striker", do you agree with his assessment of the importance of the striker?
You look at the teams that Conte has won in the past, you look at the goals they've scored, there's a strong correlation.
Maybe he's right, I don't know about Conte's metaphor about his wife, but I think it's pretty good!
So you're not going to let Madame Arteta play as a striker next week, right? (Just kidding)
No, she is not needed at this time.
Wilshere has found a new owner in Denmark, what do you have to say to him?
First of all, I want to thank him for everything he did for us, he was really great to have in the team.
I would like to say on behalf of everyone at the club that it was a pleasure to be able to welcome Back Wilsher, to see him playing around us and to see him sharing his experience with the young players, which is great.
Hopefully we've helped him a bit because he was hesitant to keep playing or start a coaching career, and I think these players have given him another taste of what it's like to play every day and how important it feels to be a player.
I think Wilshere wants to experience that feeling again, and I wish him all the best.
Do you think Wilshere has the ability to start a coaching career?
100% of all, I think everyone at this club is willing to open their doors to welcome him and try to find a suitable role for him.
I think this will happen naturally in the future.
That's a press conference.
Arteta's improvements to Arsenal's defence are there for all to see, in large part based on the requirements of the whole team's defense, starting with the forwards, to be honest, it was not so obvious in the previous Arsene Wenger era, of course, this Arsenal team still has a big shortcoming in attack.
Tower team also talked about the renewal of the contract, it seems that as long as the results are passable, Arsenal and he will renew the contract, wait for the news. If Arsenal finish in the top four, I think Arteta clearly deserves a contract extension.
As for Willsell, Arsenal should offer him a job in the future if he wants to.
Arsenal are poised to offer Arteta a sharp salary increase of £8.3 million a year, with espanyol's contract with 16 months to go, and the Gunners hope to lock Inta's long-term future at the Emirates Stadium.
According to the report, Kroenke is willing to show Arteta a 3-year, £25 million contract to show the sincerity of retention, Arsenal boss last month traveled to Denver to meet Kroenke father and son, the Americans made it clear at the time that they would fully support Arteta.
So it depends on the results, as long as the top four, Arteta must renew his contract, if it is the Europa League qualification, I personally feel that Arsenal will also renew his contract, but my opinion is that we can wait and get the Champions League qualification must be renewed.
Official: Arsenal have announced that Ruel Walters has signed his first professional contract.
The 17-year-old Walters joined Arsenal in 2021, the right-back has played for the team in 8 U18 games and 14 U23 games this season, it is worth mentioning that Walters was previously a member of Tottenham's youth training and he also suspended football training for a period of time, but the Englander has improved quickly after joining Arsenal.
Walters is already the main player of the reserve team, it turned out to be only 17 years old, this guy seems to have a lot of potential, I feel like he looks like Gnabry!
Come on in the future!
Speaking about Saka's future on the Here We Go Podcast, transfer specialist Romano said: "The player loves Arsenal so much that at the moment he has no other plans.
There will be no renewal talks now, not in February, not in March, and maybe Arsenal will talk to Saka about a contract extension after the season.
Of course, Arsenal are very happy with Saka and Saka is happy to stay at Arsenal, so I don't think there will be any problems. ”
The SM of the Post has previously said that if there is no Champions League qualification, it may affect Saka's renewal, but that is only his personal speculation, not to get the news, I personally agree with Romano's statement, Saka is only 20, will not rush to leave the team.
Italian sports transfer correspondent Gianluigi Longari said Arsenal were among the teams interested in acquiring Leeds United wing Rafinha in the summer, although Chelsea and Barca are also interested in the Brazilian and the Blues are currently competing for the lead.
Rafinha is really strong, but he is not a center forward, Arsenal's main goal is to buy a center, I personally think this rumor has yet to be verified.
Spain's radio host and journalist Inda said Arsenal were interested in acquiring João Felix.
Inda said: "Felix is a very good player and Arsenal want to sign him. Simone, whose goal was to swap Felix for Guedes. But the problem with Atletico is that they bought Felix that year for 120 million euros, and the only way to get the investment back is to sell him to the Premier League. ”
Felix, 22, whose contract expires in 2026, has four goals and five assists in 24 games this season.
Atletico can't sell Felix for 120 million anyway, it goes without saying.
Again, Felix is not a centre-forward, and although he can play as a centre-forward, it's not the type Arsenal want...
In fact, although Felix's performance after joining Atletico was less than expected, injuries and style discord did have a great impact, he still has potential, but it may not be related to Arsenal...