It’s not true though. He’s not a regular starter for Arsenal, he’s a rotation option & deemed by most to not be good enough to start regularly.

These injury prone “maverick” big names don’t actually inspire me all that much at all. To me they just highlight a lack of global footballing knowledge from our scouting department. I don’t think we’ll ever move forward that much if we continue to confine the majority of our biggest signings to has beens, or coulda been great if hadn’t spent majority of career injured, or only way we know he’s good is because its someone we had on loan who’s price is now through the roof.

There are options out there in world football. European markets have a whole host of young creative midfielders with similar qualities to Wilshere. Who are younger, who aren’t a sick note, who have the potential to be infinitely better than him. I could do a mattteo style list of them. But we’re so obsessed with premier league experience, it ends up holding us back.

Would a fully fit Wilshere improve us? Probably. Is he the best option for the type of money we will have to spend on him? No, almost certainly not.

Edited by Mstrobez (17 Jun 2018 10.12am)

We're the Arthur over ere!

Brilliant post.

Under stand your point but still don’t see how taking a chance on a couple of young European players for say £10m is less risky than Jack at £25m.

We did however do very well buying Luka and am totally behind more European signings. But should we not go for JW whilst he is available as he is clearly a very good player.

Very surprising people are arguing about his quality on the basis he might or might not be arsenal first team quality.....

I understand your point also.....

BUT, no-one is mentioning if he's good enough for Arsenals 1st team, they are arguing if he's FIT enough, what with his fitness history.

So, going to Wet Spam

Edited by eagleman13 (17 Jun 2018 4.03pm)

This operation, will make the 'Charge Of The Light Brigade' seem like a simple military exercise.

Roy would of seen close up whilst Wilshere was in the England squad with him. He will know exactly what his personality and ability is like and whether he can fit into our first team.
The only question would be his fitness, but there is no guarantee with any player you sign ie Wickham was hardly ever injured before, but out for 18 months since we signed him.

Let me just disagree with the bolded part. Premiership players are never cheap. They are over inflated and always cost more than they could offer. And by the way, this is not a rant at English football, but being the league with the most money and highest earnings, it's normal that the same quality can be found somewhere else for less money. Even if Wilshire won't cost anything, he's Wilshire, You'd still have to pay him the biggest salary in the squad. Is he worth it? No.Get Gonzalo Castro for that money or Daniel Wass or Aranguiz from Leverkuse (double Copa America winner with Chile). What did Wilshire win?