Arsenal: Manchester United can have Serge Aurier

Arsenal’s right back situation is as solid as can be, but apparently missing Serge Aurier is some great loss. Not really. Manchester United can have him.

The Sun is reporting that Manchester United are ready to land PSG’s very talented right back/right midfielder Serge Aurier, who was once heavily tied to Arsenal. Naturally, it is being pitched as some great coup for United, but when you really look at it, the truth is so far from that.

This is Manchester United’s solution to everything – keep throwing wads of wet toilet paper at the wall and see what sticks. This is the strategy that has Ryan Giggs gushing over the ‘positive changes’ his former club have made. But what is really going to be different? They have the same tendencies, the same types of players and the same overall mindset for how to make things work.

There was a time when Serge Aurier was so close to coming to Arsenal that he even supposedly told a Gooner that he couldn’t wait to finalize the move.

It obviously never happened, and the Gunners are doing quite well without him. Hector Bellerin has emerged as the best young right back in the world and when it comes to the new wing back utilization, well you can’t do much better than what Wenger has to work with.

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Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain makes Aurier look like an amateur and Bellerin just needs to adapt to the role more, which he is going to do quite easily given his insatiable speed. Then there is Reiss Nelson, who at 17 looks like a footballer going into his prime.

Yet the headlines spin this as “United beat Arsenal to Aurier signing.”

That’s not the case at all. Far from it. Arsenal no longer need Aurier. I won’t deny that he is a solid player, he obviously is. But when you look at what the Gunners currently have at his position, they have long since moved on – and improved – without him.

So while Mourinho is moving players in and out trying to figure out how long his big time signings are actually going to take to figure out howto be successful in England, Wenger can have the opposite stress. Wondering who, among his gobs of proven options, to select for the first team.

As much as I have admired Aurier, I am far happier to see Arsenal products fill the position that Aurier was – so long ago – ticketed for. Because there is that added enthusiasm to do it for the club that raised you.

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Also, let’s see if United start pushing towards a three at the back system to mimic Chelsea and the Gunners switch to it. Again, assuming this deal goes through.

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