Francis Coquelin has joined Ligue One side FC Lorient on a season-long-loan. The deal was announced on the French club’s official website this morning, and as revealed by Young Guns earlier this month, the signing is separate to Arsenal’s hunt for Laurent Koscielny.
Coquelin has signed on loan for the season, and was presented to a small section of fans this morning. He will go straight into the Lorient first-team for pre-season next month. Coach Christian Gourcuff expressed an interest in Francis earlier in the summer, and was initially included in an €8 million euros offer for Koscielny as a ‘sweetner’. However, this was withdrawn when a €10 million offer was made shortly after.
You will be able to follow Coquelin’s progress on Young Guns throughout the season.
Good move dere goin 2 b less pressure on him dere dan dere wud hav had he gone 2 a championship club
ahh cheers mate for the news
great work and hope he does well and hope we can now tie up kolisceny
this signals that it’s a WIN-WIN for arsenal & lorient:
– we get our man Koscielny
– we give coquelin some valuable first team experience
– we get coquelin back next year ready to challenge for 1st team
Any idea when his contract expires
when player signs his first professional contract its usually for 2-3 years
I am scared we will lose him because he will want to play week in and week out and he wont get it at arsenal for quite some time
move might be unrelated but this almost confirms that Laurent is coming to Arsenal.
Lorient is managed by christian gorcuff and they play awesome football so great loan for the kid.
I hope he has a good time there but this might turn into a permanent move which I dread
no he will come back after the season. no buyout clause included!! Wenger rates him highly!!!
J
coquelin signed professional contract om July 22 2008
so he has maybe one year left on his contract shouldnt Arsenal renew his contract before sending out on loan
the last thing we want is to send him out on loan and lose him for minimal fees when he’s a free agent
Still for Coquelin this must be an awesome loan playing in the top club and at the top level in france.
If he can get into the first XI by the end of the contract then that will be a huge success in my book
You say its a seperate from the Koscielny deal but it must surely at least bode well for a deal to be struck for Koscielny soon??
Dont know anything about Koscielny so ill have to trust the scouts on this one. Still though we need a second centrehalf to come in. I cant see a really big name coming in so Id go for either Cahill of Bolton or Vertoghen from Ajax. Vertoghen might have the edge as he can play DM too
Although it may be seperate from our hunt for Laurent i personally still see this as good sign of landing him. And considering AWs latest statment on the case about the negotiations and how it is still going on, i think Koscielny is an Arsenal player within 2 weeks….
Good luck Francis!
a good sign for the koscielny deal and a good opportunity for coquelin. happy days!
really though, with gilbert going and now coquelin going too, the club really need to bring in some good young right backs. we’ve got no one behind sagna and eboue. hoyte? don’t think he’s that great there. come on arsenal, spend a couple mil and get a few 16-21 y.o right backs in. not doing so is exposing the club to a technical risk.
we always buy a player if needed
Eboue is 26 and Sagna is 27 so they both have a lot of years ahead of them and theres no guarantee that the youngster we buy will make it into the first team
yeah but behind clichy on the left we’ve got gibbs, traore, botelho, cruise, evina…
behind sagna and eboue on the right we’ve got…erm…???
in almost every area of the pitch the club has a conveyor belt of youngsters coming through
but at right back for some reason there’s just no-one.
the club need to remedy that soon because if anything happens to eboue or sagna we’ll have to go out on the market. better to have ready-made youngsters already queueing up inside the club, like in every other position.
@gunner 17
we can buy a player when needed
I still think Braidy should try to bring Spain under 17 right back to arsenal
Van der Wiel
hey any idea what position he will play in
DM/CM or RB
if we have so many leftbacks coming thru, cant see why it would be difficult to switch a couple over to the right surely. are all the left backs left footed?
Right Footed CB’s can play in that position
Djourou can play there
Norvedit too
Koscielny too
i’m all for having versatile players, but i really think it is pushing your luck not to have 2 specialists in every position. you need 2 specialists in every position before you rely on other players’ versatility for additional cover.
last year wenger said we had enough in central defence, and one of his justifications for this was because Song could play there if needed. to me this is spurious thinking. he’s basically double-counting players who are versatile. it’s false accounting of the team’s capabilites. we did need Song to play there and he did, but that meant he couldn’t play where he plays best.
i say again, we need at least two specialists in every position, otherwise we are gambling bigtime.
and in addition to having 2 specialists per position, we need a string of successors in all the age groups just under the first team, to act as an insurance policy for the future of the club.
for the right back slot we’ve got our two specialists, but we don’t have our string of successors.
I Want him to play DM and I reckon that’s where Lorient will use him. He was effectively bneing blocked from that position at Arsenal due to a couple of slightly older players in the DM position. He needs to prove he is the best of our youngsters in that position if he is to take it from them and so the move away is the only way to do that.
i want him to play both
we can use a versatile player in our ranks
&
he can do a great job as a RB he just has to learn the positioning and crossing
he’s already great on the ball
has a tank that never runs out
tought tackler
technically better than most
I do agree tht we need 2 start developng some right backs from withn the club. I mean look at our midfield. Theres a congestion already yet not many r.backs r coming through! Btw, did we realy let simpson go? I always thot he was a gd prospect..
I don’t know but I think Lansbury could have some sort of shot at RB, he played there in the CC and CMid is where everyone wants to play
Isnt lansbury an attckin midfieldr? Woud he realy b gd defensively?
Lansbury can play anywhere in the midfield
Lansbury is a decent RB. Can cover for Sagna and Ebuoe. Not forgetting Djourou either. What about Hoyte? I remember him marking Robinho while still a tot of 17!
A good move for Franny. Competitive top flight football in an established league and facing good opponents.
He needs to use this to push on and make the step up to the first team when he returns.
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They want to play at 1rst team level with not much input. When asked to giv 100 out of 100 you hav to giv 101+ always, here r sum gut examples. look at A.song, verminator (consistantency) is what matters even look at rvpersie his always dangerous in the area these guys giv everything they hav all the time.
J.
Forgive me if this has been covered already, but when Coquelin was included as a “sweetener” in the original Kocielny offer was he offered on loan or did we offer to sell him (or trade him) for good as part of that first deal?
I think it’s great that we are getting Kocielny as everyone seems to hold him in high esteem as a player, but it’s a little alarming that we would offer up such a talented prize from our youth system when it may not have been necessary. (if that is indeed what happened).
If they did offer to give him to Lorient for good, do you see that as a sign that they are not all that high on Coquelin anymore. I would’ve expected them to protect him and groom him rather than offer him up like that….