Arsene Wenger: What I think about this ex-Arsenal man's £10m transfer

ARSENE WENGER believes that Benik Afobe is value for money at £10m and the Arsenal academy graduate’s price tag is merely a reflection of where the market is at the moment.

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Benik Afobe only left Arsenal for Wolves last January

There was an air of disbelief when just a year after Wolves ended his nomadic Arsenal career for just a fifth of that sum.

His five years at Arsenal had seen him sent out on loan to Huddersfield, Reading, Bolton, Millwall, Sheffield Wednesday and MK Dons before me made the permanent move to Molineux and even though the fact he has not yet played in the Premier League makes him something of a gamble, Wenger believes he has what it takes be a success on the south coast.

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