Manchester United and Arsenal have both been in search of a quality defensive midfielder and one player is in the lime light.
The player in discussion is Portuguese international and Sporting star William Carvalho.
Carvalho is one of the most highly rated central defensive midfielders and it seems that Arsenal are winning the race to secure his signature.
According to reports, Arsenal have reached agreement with Sporting Lisbon over the transfer of Carvalho.
As per the provided link, the fee agreed is 21 million pounds and that can be called a massive bargain taking into consideration his qualities.
Manchester United have been scouting William Carvalho for quite some time as well but the player is heading towards North London.
The only concern with Arsenal is that they already have an established central defensive midfielder in the form of Francis Coquelin.
The French international has been brilliant for Gunners this season and deserves his starting role. On the other hand, Arsenal also signed young DM in the form of Bielik as well.
It will be intriguing to see how Arsene Wenger will include Carvalho in his starting XI as he normally plays a system with only one holding midfield player. For now, Coquelin and Ramsey start in midfield.
Nevertheless, Carvalho is a quality option, one that can help Arsenal become serious title challengers next season.
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I would like to see a fully loaded arsenal in all areas en an arsenal side that can compete for all trophies.
Bonaroca:- Carvalho should have been signed ages ago, the good news now is that Mr Wenger will have good replacements to have his side playing in a rotating system which gives his players ample time to recover after
a number of matches. It will also be a good excuse to introduced some of the up and coming youngsters in the meantime give a chance to claim a place in the premier team. This could perhaps solve the question of injuries which from time to time have let the team down.
Really gud news if true n w@t about sneadalin
Please wenger, go ahead and sign Cavalho, these will give room to Ramsay who is prone to injury whenever we have an important march at hand.
For Arsene, I believe the handwriting is clear for now! I followed his pre-match conference against Chelsea tomorrow(Sunday) and learnt that he is disheartened over most of the chances he missed in signing some top quality players in the football game.
Since taking over the leadership of Arsenal FC, his team scouted players like Messi, Ronaldo, D’ maria, and recently the inform EPL outstanding Chelsea star, Hazard among host of others to no avail.
Of these, he is utterly uncomfortable with how the Hazard deal slipped over his reach for want of funds to meet the player’s parent club demands. I strongly believe, he learnt his lessons, and now that the club’s financial stance are good, he will rise up to the ocassion.
He has the experience and knows exactly what problems the club is facing. The holding midfield position is one of the key areas he has to strengthen to make our beloved club serious title contenders once again.
This is the type of physically imposing player the gunners need.For far too long Wenger has loaded the team with ballet type players. This type of player may thrive in Spain but the epl is a physically demanding environment where the the gunners were simply and regularly bullied or brushed aside by side like Stoke and some other teams with big boys.