Matteo Guendouzi: Arsenal sign France Under-20 international midfielder
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Arsenal have signed France Under-20 international Matteo Guendouzi from Lorient for an undisclosed fee.
The 19-year-old, who started his career in Paris St-Germain's academy, joined Ligue 2 side Lorient in 2014 and made his first-team debut aged 17 in 2016.
Guendouzi is Unai Emery's fifth signing as Arsenal manager following Lucas Torreira's arrival on Tuesday.
"I want to become part of the club's history and to achieve great things here," said midfielder Guendouzi.
"Arsenal have always been the team closest to my heart and a side I've wanted to join since I was a child."
Guendouzi made 30 appearances for Lorient during his time at the club and will wear the number 29 shirt at Arsenal.
The Gunners have also brought in goalkeeper Bernd Leno from Bayer Leverkusen, defender Stephan Lichtsteiner from Juventus and defender Sokratis Papastathopoulos from Borussia Dortmund.
"[Guendouzi] has big potential and gained good first team experience last season with Lorient," said Emery.
"He wants to learn and improve and will be an important part of our first-team squad."
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Arsenal have signed and nurtured many English players. Walcott, Chamberlin, Wilshere, Jenkinson, Akpom , Maitland-Niles, etc.... A lot of others were developed and sold to Championship clubs.
If you watched Europa League and League cup games you would have seen the likes of Eddie Nketiah, Joe Willock, Reiss Nelson, Ben Sheaf and Matt Macey all playing for the first team.
Top class midfielder from Sampdoria who has a great World Cup costs only €26m. The same type of english player excelling in the World Cup would cost double.
SO WHY BUY ENGLISH
And Spurs are owned by a company based in the tax haven of the bahamas.
What a surprise... Not...
"the English talent is simply not there at the moment, cant just play them for the sake of it."
Absolute rubbish. There's so much talent! We as a country are investing so much money into grass roots football and you can tell it's starting to pay off - but we just all need the "big" clubs to start investing into it as well.
Every club has their share of idiots and fools, some even think Ozil is a bad player :)
Still banging on about your bitter Arsenal/ Spurs rivalry during the World Cup, most sensible true England fans will be cheering our National team for a place in the final. If Kane scores a hat trick I’ll be chuffed to bits for him, if Wellbeck comes on scores the winner no doubt you will be gutted. Grow up you weasel your folks must be so proud of what they produced
I also wish every single England player out there all the best for tonight... no matter WHO they play for back home.
As for all the assumptions - i put that down to anglo world cup hubris.
To claim Spurs are more English is either ignorant of intentionally misleading.
"Watch all the Spurs players bottle it tonight! Then it'll just show you why they can 3rd in a 2 horse PL race!"
What a pathetic comment to make. I really hope you're not a fellow Arsenal supporter.
I'm beginning to Like Unai... wish you lads the best in this season.