Jack Wilshere is expected to complete the formalities on a 6 month loan move to Bolton Wanderers this afternoon. The 18-year-old has had offers from Burnley, Celtic, FC Twente and West Brom but has elected to work under The Trotters new coach Owen Coyle.
Wilshere has been used sparingly this term after a phenomenal break through campaign last year and Arsène Wenger believes some games in the Premier League will be the finishing touches to his development. Following his return from loan, Jack will be assessed as to whether he needs a second spell or he is indeed ready to realistically fight for a regular spot in the first-team. The winger also harbours international ambitions and although he started the season in the Reserves, some consistent performances would put him in an outside position to earn a call up to Fabio Capello’s World Cup squad.
Arsenal will also monitor Wilshere’s treatment with Bolton in the aim of sending players to Lancashire in the future. They may be one of the Premier League’s least fashionable teams, but Wenger is believed to be keen to sending players there to learn the physical style of the game instead of enhancing their ‘total football’ mentality. News on the deal will be confirmed later today.
In other news, Young Guns is going through some changes as we celebrate our second anniversary today. It was two years ago that we began our coverage of the Arsenal Reserves & Youth teams and we’d like to use today to extend our massive thanks to all readers, commenters and fellow bloggers who have all assisted in making the website so popular.
We’ve had over 9,300,000 hits and well over 40,000 comments and the feedback and response as been amazing. To celebrate we’re planning on making things bigger and better for the coming year. You may have noticed we’ve moved to a brand new domain name at younggunsblog.co.uk and a new design is also being planned. So while we enjoy today and offer thanks, we’d like to ask you for your imput and ideas on what you’d like to see added to the site.
This would include colours for the new design, features and article suggestions. Feel free to leave them in the comment section and once more, a massive thank you and we look forward to your continued support.
Article By – J.Sanderson
think chamakh maght be in the bag for summer hence no arrivals
Many happy returns Young Guns!
It’s an excellent blog.
Man Utd have confirmed Smalling deal
Fulham got 10 mil for a guy they bought for 10k 18 months ago, great business by them and would have been a massive risk for arsenal one which wedont need
I think Smalling is very overrated, did not play much at fulham..
He is not this money worth…
I think you all have to realize that the majority of the strong strikers you want are not for sale, and alot of those players do not want to play football in england. That is one of the reasons AW has not been able to buy a decent striker in this window.. but yeh hope he gets Moses that would be fun. Young and talented.
guys you reckon some of the palace academy kids will come over to us? just like Gibbs etc did from Wimbeldon back in the day?
I haven’t seen this guy play but what about Arnautovic from Inter?? He is about Bendtner’s age but looks to have a bit better touch. Now don’t hold me on any of this cuz I haven’t seen him play, just some videos. He is tall too. What happened to Traore?? Now he looked like a monster!! lol.
Actually forget that. He’s not going to buy anyone and we all know it. Not unless something crazy happens. And that’s ok. As long as Bendtner turns out to be the player he expected, and Van Persie returns to the form he had before his injury. If he does buy someone I think it could be someone like Moses or someone who isn’t an immediate threat to Bendtner, Van Persie etc.
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Happy B-day!
Keep the up the good excellent quality bro.
2 years olds shouldn’t be drinking!
Happy birthday J and various contributers. <3 this website. And high five to other regulars.
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/jack-wilshere-joins-bolton-wanderers-on-loan
I wish him the best of luck.. I hope he brings Gary Cahill with him at the end of the season..