Arsenal: Gonzalo Higuain Bid Massively Disturbing

Arsenal supposedly bid actual money for Gonzalo Higuain before Juventus snapped him up. If that doesn’t disturb you, I don’t know what will.

There is not a single Arsenal transfer rumor that I am more drastically opposed to than the whole Gonzalo Higuain epic. The Argentine striker has been linked with the Gunners ever since they missed out on him when he left Real Madrid for Napoli. At that moment, I have no doubts that he could have been a great striker, but this far down the road, my doubts are mounting.

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As of now, he simply offers absolutely nothing that the Gunner’s don’t already have and the very idea of him being linked to my club has me incredibly bothered. Not so much worried, as the move will not happen at this point and never will, just bothered.

Through it all, I held the belief that nothing would come of it. He was going to cost Pogba-like money and Wenger was too smart to pay that kind of money for a guy that was unnecessary.

When Higuain went to Juve, the links ended, and, as alluded to early, should be over forever. But that doesn’t mean the talk will die down.

Only recently, it has been revealed that Arsenal did indeed bid money for Higuain, but it wasn’t enough money.

I find this disturbing. What was Higuain going to offer Arsenal? What was he going to bring? The man is not a speed merchant – he’s actually rather slow. He is mostly an aerial threat and he has a tendency to be inconsistent. Sound like someone we know?

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Sounds like Olivier Giroud, someone who is already being weened out of the club. Moving Alexis to the front has proven to be a better transfer than whatever other transfer we were hoping for, including Higuain.

Higuain simply wouldn’t have progressed this attack. He would have kept the side mired in the same ways, lacking in speed and having a tendency to choke. Plus it would have prevented Alexis from making the switch which would have blocked Iwobi. The list goes on.

I don’t get why any sort of bid in the form of any monetary value was made for someone like Gonzalo Higuain. Unless Wenger’s first plan of action was to replace Giroud with a smaller, unproven Giroud rather than switch this attack into the driving engine that it is now.

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Whatever the case, we don’t (well, I don’t) ever have to worry about seeing Higuain come to Arsenal. And I like that.