Arsenal prepare Transfer another French player. Gunners ready for pay 12 Milion £ for Marvin Martin
Currently, Martin has 111 games to his name at Sochaux with 10 goals and 24 assists. He has a contract until 2014 and wears the 14 shirt in homage to the arrondissement he grew up in. He is an attacking midfielder who plays out wide with the freedom to drift inside, similar to Samir Nasri. It is understood that contrary to initial views that Mata has long been Wenger’s first choice to replace Nasri – his first choice was Martin, who he believes to be a more cost effective signing.
He has excellent passing skills over long and short distances, hitting the ball with exceptional technique. He has the understanding of defenders movements to collect the ball in pockets of space and move quickly to hurt oppositions with a pass or a shot. He made a superb 15 minute debut appearance against Ukraine whereby he scored 2 and made 1. Overnight, his profile shifted completely to a name that is known across Europe as one of the top emerging playmakers. He left the Donbass Arena to be hailed predictably as the new Zidane. The iconic Zidane also scored twice on his international debut.
Ultimately, Martin is an extremely intelligent player with a big future. His being a target for Arsenal tells me that Wenger is not prepared to give up his project to turn Arsenal into a Diet-Barcelona. Unfortunately, the project basing our game on small technical players is unsustainable in a division as competitive and hungry as England’s. Arsenal forged a terrific fast-paced, entertaining format of play based on creative smaller players and it has not succeeded. Can Arsenal – within their budget – replace such talented playmakers as Fàbregas and Nasri with like for like players whilst still expecting to progress? Fàbregas has been a prodigy at Arsenal, but the current style is easy to play against.
Marvin Martin and our other diminutive playmakers, in spite of good workrate and effort, are going to need more ‘away-game players’ in their side to resist the vicious thuggery of our division to avoid being bullied. They need colleagues that can play in cold, rainy evenings and stand nose to nose with the giants at Stoke or Blackburn. They are going to need players who can handle holding the ball when the tackles are coming in too fast and dangerous. Van Persie is too lean and brittle a forward to be a target man to relieve this pressure, and Walcott too unreliable in possession due to a lack of maturity and concentration.
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