Young Arsenal striker doing well on loan

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Bob

Loan Watch – Benik Afobe at Bolton by AM

Benik Afobe, who was loaned out to Bolton at the start of this month, has said that Jack Wilshere and Ryo Miyaichi’s experience at Bolton helped him make his decision to switch with ease. In an interview Afobe said –

“I spoke to both Jack Wilshere and Ryo Miyaichi before I joined Bolton and they both told me how good a club it was and that the fans are great, so it made the decision very easy for me,” the 19-year-old told Sky Sports.

“Being out injured for over six months last season meant that I missed an awful lot of football, especially for a young player.

“I spoke to the boss at Arsenal and he told me that he couldn’t guarantee that I would be playing regularly, which is fair enough because there are quality players ahead of me there and I fully understand that.

“Hopefully I can stay injury-free, play 30-plus games and do well here.”

Afobe has made a great start to his career at Bolton. Although he made his debut in a 3-0 defeat to Portsmouth in a pre-season friendly, Afobe more than made up for it in his next game. Bolton travelled to Prenton Park to meet Tranmere Rovers in their next pre-season friendly. The Arsenal Loanee scored a wonderful hat-trick in the space of 30 minutes to light up the occasion.

Afobe has come on as a substitute in all three of Bolton’s league games so far and will be getting used to the pace of the Championship. The powerful and pacy striker was always earmarked to be the next big thing from the famed Arsenal academy, but his injury last season did slow down his progress a bit.

Now it seems, Afobe is at the right club to develop further and maybe he will return next season to challenge for a spot in the first team. Bolton are a wonderful club for players to develop, with their present manager and wonderful fans as Jack Wilshere and Miyaichi would concur. Afobe would certainly comeback a more experienced and finished article.

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Wenger doing everything to stop Van Persie moving to Man United

So now we all know that Sir Alex Ferguson really is trying hard to get Arsenal to sell Robin Van Persie to Manchester United from his comments last night, but at least now we also know that Arsene Wenger is doing his utmost to find a different buyer (hopefully in another country) to keep him out of Ferguson’s clutches.

The last thing Arsenal fans want to see is our captain move to a direct Premiership rival, but the absolute worst-case scenario would be for him to go to Old Trafford. Thankfully for us, Ferguson made it clear that Arsenal are completely ignoring their offer and refusing to even talk to them about it.

“We’ve made a bid, they [Arsenal] have been trying to negotiate with other clubs,” said the Man United manager. “I don’t have a gut feeling about it. We can’t get a breakthrough with Arsenal.

“I don’t know what Arsenal’s thoughts are because they’re not giving anything away,”

“It’s difficult to say why they’re operating this way. I can’t give you any more information. We just have to persevere.

“We are trying our best and hopefully it will come our way but there’s no progress at this moment in time.”

Well Ferguson if you really want to know why Arsenal are “operating this way” it is because you are the devil incarnate and we wouldn’t sell you Sebastien Squillaci if you begged us too (Okay I may have gone a bit far there!)

One thought comes to mind. Perhaps Wenger should string Ferguson along and then when it is too late for him to find another target tell him we have sold Van Persie to someone like AC Milan. It seems that Man United’s previously all-powerful ability in the transfer market has come to an end. Man City have already blown them out of the water, and just this summer Ferguson has already missed out on Eden Hazard who went to the European Champions Chelsea, and this week he lost the talented young Brazilian Lucas Moura to the big-spending PSG.

The Scotsman is obviously is not happy about it. He said: “To tell everyone that PSG are here they’ve signed Thiago Silva and Zlatan Ibrahimovic,”

“They must have spent about £150m in the last month.

“When somebody’s paying 45 million euros (£35.5m) for a 19-year-old boy you have to say the game’s gone mad. I find it quite amazing.”

All I hope for is that United get the hat-trick and miss out on Van Persie as well!

Get in there Wenger!

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