Arsenal: Alvaro Morata Rebirth Simply Never Going To Happen

Alvaro Morata is once again being linked with a move to Arsenal. Such rumours of a rebirth, though, suggest little of the truth.

The January transfer window is beginning to hot up. What is often considered the little brother of the blockbuster summer months, the winter window does sometimes, throw up some surprises. Those surprises, though, very rarely pertain to Arsenal and Arsene Wenger.

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Wenger is famously distasteful towards the January transfer window. He believes it is difficult to find value and makes players nervous, itching for a move away from their respective club:

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"“I am for [scrapping the transfer window]. I would leave it completely open all year, or you close it for a whole year. But that’s in-between. Everybody becomes nervous [from] November until January. Then players maybe think, ‘if I don’t play then I will leave in January’. They are already less committed to the cause, it gives them an opening. We have gone from a period where we knew that if we didn’t play, we [still] had to be committed to the club for your whole life. You had no other option but to fight for your place. There is not a position where the players have a quick and easy way out if it is difficult.”"

With Wenger’s renowned saltiness with the winter window, you may expect many aspects of the media to back off from ambitious rumours claiming rather sensational moves for some of the biggest players across Europe. You would, predictably, given the media’s fascination with Wenger and his apparent unwillingness to spend, be wrong.

The latest big name to be linked with a move to the Emirates this January is Real Madrid striker Alvaro Morata. The Spaniard grew up and developed at Madrid, establishing himself as a major talent early in his career. However, after becoming disillusioned with a lack of game time, primarily because of the big spending culture that engulfs the club, he left for Italian giants Juventus.

After two successful years at Juventus, there were significant rumours suggesting that he would leave in the summer, with Arsenal repeatedly linked with a move. However, Real swooped, exercising a buy-back clause in his contract. Since then, Morata has started only four league games under Zinedine Zidane, is suffering from the same issues with a lack of game time as he did in his previous stint in the Spanish capital and is once again looking to the exit.

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However, to think that Arsenal and Wenger will offer Morata a chance for rejuvenation and reinvigoration this month is utterly absurd. Wenger laments the window, has lambasted the lack of value and often looks to undertake much of his major transfer work in the summer. The Morata rebirth is simply not going to happen.