Benik Afobe

[Marsbar100]

[quote="Sims"]Apparently Arsenal weren't sure about his injury and wouldn't renew his contract so had to sell

And I think comparing Wilshere to Afobe is a bit of a stretch in terms of the massive gap in quality[/quoe]

It was 2m for 2m if he came back and broke his leg it is worth the risk.

Yeah Wilshere might have better quality but aesthetics mean nothing afobe would be contributing a lot more

[Sims]

Said at the time we let him go, he was the best finisher we had at the club. A striker with natural finishing ability is usually going to do well, let him do his thing at Bournemouth and we can laugh at Wenger later.


The value we got was the terrible part, 6 months later Wolves had bids of 10m.

his contract was expiring iirc

[Cripps]

Wenger being humiliated.

Oh well. We have Sanogo.

[Marsbar100]

2m sold, welbeck purchased 16m, sackable offence tbh

[Cripps]

We haven't scored in 3 league games. Giroud started all 3. Afobe has scored in his last 3. Coincidence?

[Santi]

oops did he score again?


seriously this kid could always finish, said it the second he was linked to be sold.

[Marsbar100]

oops did he score again?


seriously this kid could always finish, said it the second he was linked to be sold.

The thing that is disgusting is he actually started scoring and was then sold if Wenger sold him before he was scoring fair enough it wouldn't be as big a f**k up. He loaned him the point of a loan is to improve and come back better and afobe was on course to do that. If we had a leathel strike force I could understand but we don't.

Considering he was a youth product from 6 years old and smashed youth records this is going to turn out to be one of Wenger's biggest f**k ups.

[Highbury Hillbilly]

Said at the time we let him go, he was the best finisher we had at the club. A striker with natural finishing ability is usually going to do well, let him do his thing at Bournemouth and we can laugh at Wenger later.


The value we got was the terrible part, 6 months later Wolves had bids of 10m.

his contract was expiring iirc

This wasn't Sagna or somebody in their 30s asking for a 100k+ contract (even though Sagna is still better than Debuchy). He was a proven young goalscorer in the Championship who could have stayed here for what, 15k a week? We have perma crocks like Welbeck, Arteta, Wilshere and Rosicky eating up 20x that much sitting in a physio room 10 months of the year.



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[Sims]

There were fears that Afobe could've been one of those players consistently in the physio room

[Big17]

Very pleased to see him doing well.

He's definitely in his honeymoon period at the minute. Let's see if he can keep this up consistently.

[Marsbar100]

There were fears that Afobe could've been one of those players consistently in the physio room

With us you can't even use that as an excuse

[Santi]

dude on rowdy's vid nailed it


why sell this guy and give more faith to players like sanogo and akpom? seriously...

[Dai_Dillinger]

Killing it..

[Pudpop]

f***ing Sanogo is still on our books and last night we couldn't even bring on a striker because 'no-one was available in the summer or in Jan'.

[henrysghost]

Yet one more example of how utterly clueless wenger is.