Arsenal News: Santos departing to Gremio on loan
According to Gremio’s executive director Rui Costa, Andre Santos is set to leave on a year-long loan away from Arsenal to the Brazilian outfit.
Since the arrival of Nacho Monreal from Malaga on deadline day, Santos’ hopes of playing have been reduced from slim to none with Gibbs and the new Spanish arrival Wenger’s viable options at left back.
The Brazilian has fallen out of favour heavily this season with dreadful performances against Manchester United, Brighton and Liverpool demonstrating his poor defensive skills. While positive on attack he leaves his fellow defenders stranded and helpless with his poor decision making and positioning.
According to the goal.com report, the 29-year-old is expected to arrive in Porto Alegre on Sunday morning to finalise the switch, with the Wenger able to cut the move short after six months if they desire and either sell him this summer or bring him back into the fold.
Rui Costa said:
[Santos] is coming from Arsenal to Gremio. Naturally everyone is talking a lot about [Hernan] Barcos, but Andre is a huge signing for us.
They are both players who want to be part of our project, who come to add a lot of depth to our squad and to win titles.
The deal will be perfect for both parties. Santos requires regular gametime and a move back to his homeland always looked like a positive outcome for the struggling, but skillful marauding left back. The most important thing for Gooners is to get him as far away from North London as possible before Bayern come to town.
Monreal will be ineligible to play, so fingers crossed that Vermaelen will return to action and able to fill in at left back.
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Rarely have I read such a stupid and ignorant headline to a post.
To call the departure od one of our players who always tried his best but hasn’t quite made the grade as “fantastic” just illustrates illmanners and sheer ignorance’
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I always thought of Santos as an attacking player and he certainly has a way of cutting into a defense. I would have thought that Wenger would have tried him on the left wing in the less important games just to extract his true talent. As a defender he simply didn`t exist.
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I can’t tell whether santos just couldn’t be bothered or whether he was just poor. Throw in his weight issues and his speeding ticket and you have a picture of someone who was less than professional. Fantastic news indeed!
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So sad that we the likes among us. How you start to badmouth your own players is a mystery to me. That he was poor on some occasions ia no reason to diss him the article above has done. Remember when he played and scored againat Chelaki last season? Those are things i prefer to remember. What article does is wrong. Its like havng a sister, brother or mum who abuse alcohol and you badmouth them. Man you have no class.
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