Arsenal have announced that both Theo Walcott and Santi Cazorla have signed new contracts. It may not be the new players that Arsenal fans are craving right now, but it is an important announcement.
Walcott has signed a 4 year extension to his current deal. With his wages said to be £140,000 per week he becomes one of the top earners at the club. This puts the pressure on him to perform, I firmly believe though if he can stay injury free he will be a great player.
Cazorla gets the rewards for a fantastic season last year with a 2 year extension. He dominated the midfield through the last campaign after being moved into a slightly deeper midfield role. His ability to twist his and turn his way out of trouble, bring the ball forward and produce wonderful passes brought us much success.
So what about a couple of new signings? Well there are certainly plenty of rumours flying around Benzema, Busquets, Llorente, Reus, Lewandowski to name just a few. Unfortunately none of them seem to have much real substance to them. Benzema is looking increasingly like a pipe dream despite cryptic Instagram posts. Real would need to sign at least 1 more striker before they would consider letting him go. Busquets is a similar situation, with Barca currently under a transfer embargo they will not want to lose key players. Llorente I think will turn out to be just a rouse to secure a transfer elsewhere. Signing Reus would be strange considering our already abundance of similar players. The extension of Cazorla’s contract would also seem and odd move if Reus was being signed. I think Bayern would be unlikely to want to part with Lewandowski too, it would take an extremely large offer to prise him away.
All this said though, the news of Arsenal wrapping up these two contact extension may bring some light at the end of the transfer tunnel. Freeing up Arsenal to persue new transfers. Wenger hasn’t ruled out more new arrivals before the window shuts, I just don’t think the media has any clue who those will be yet. It may yet be another bust deadline day.
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