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Arsenal Set To Bid For Wenger’s ‘No.1 Transfer Target’ – Report

By mac14 on May 1, 2014

Arsenal are ready to table another offer for Lars Bender after Arsene Wenger made the Bayer Leverkusen midfielder his No.1 transfer target this summer, according to reports today.

Bender has been on Arsene’s radar for some time and we were widely reported to have seen an £18.5m bid turned down by Leverkusen last summer.

However, we’ve continued to have the 25-year-old scouted this season and the Daily Mail claim the boss is ready to make another attempt to land the defensive midfielder after making him his No.1 transfer target this summer, and the club believe Leverkusen may now be ready to cash-in.

A midfield enforcer has become a top priority with Mikel Arteta beginning to show his age and his lack of pace and athleticism has been badly exposed in the big games this season, and Arsene believes Bender is the ideal candidate.

It’s not clear what kind of offer we’re going to submit this time around but it will need to be at least £20m to persuade Leverkusen to sell and I hope we try and get a deal done before the World Cup kicks off in mid-June.

We have the money to spend this summer so there’s no excuse not to go out and get our business done early, and Bender would be a superb first signing. If we could bring him in along with a top quality striker, a replacement for Bacary Sagna (if needed) and a few squad players then we’d be well-placed heading into next season.

7 Comments

Bawa Bashir O

May 1, 2014 at 11:11 am

Yes it’s very impressive to hear that, bringing Lars Bender In, Is a very good suggest atleast arsenal should do something possible to bring the man In.

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- rapheal
  
  May 1, 2014 at 11:44 am
  
  bring him. and stop making mouth again idiot Wenger.
  
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  - Arsenal
    
    May 1, 2014 at 2:14 pm
    
    You sure Bender really good for Arsenal? No to Bender. I rather have Wanyama than him. An idiot like to call people idiot!!!!
    
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oguntola segun

May 1, 2014 at 6:16 pm

wenger is a bunch of fools, he wount do anything reasonable b4 june.

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isaac wale

May 2, 2014 at 5:26 pm

pray 4 yr team even wenger

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dops95

May 3, 2014 at 1:10 pm

Wenger STP making mouth jare, dats all we hear nd nofin is dne

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Alaye

May 3, 2014 at 3:45 pm

wat arsenal need is a quality player dat wil fit to the current squad not just discovering players up gunners

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