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Arsenal paying anyone £200k a week is hilarious.
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Arsenal paying anyone £200k a week is hilarious.
Why would we get rid of one traitorous scum just to bring another in, and at twice the money we wouldn't pay the first piece of filth? Sun making shit up again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
More realistically, Craig Bellamy is available. Good player, good worker and one of the best wind-up merchants in the business. Trouble is he's not French and shite so he wouldn't really fit in here.
True, but he's a top four player, and about 3 years ago one of the best in the league. Maybe they're hoping that with a change of scenery, and perhaps playing for a club that wants to win things, he'll recapture his original energy?Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimandi's Perm
If anything, he's decent backup
We the fans are, i'm not sure if one of Wenger or the the board areQuote:
Originally Posted by Darth Vela
7 mil on a left back that many on here believe to be better than gibbs ain't exactly splashing it
Those quotes are solid btw (not The Sun garbage).
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/f...-2336707.html?Quote:
Arsene Wenger delivered more bad news to Arsenal fans yesterday when he announced that the club's interest in the Valencia midfielder Juan Mata was officially over, as the club braced themselves to complete the sales of both Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri with the manager refusing to discuss either player.
Wenger would not offer any insight on the departure of his captain to Barcelona or the impending deal with Manchester City for Nasri, even claiming at one point that he did not "expect" any player to leave. All he could say for definite was that Mata, the £20m-rated Spain international, will not be joining Arsenal. He said: "We will not do Juan Mata. I don't have to give you a reason, I just said to you we will not do it."
There is an expectation that Arsenal could complete deals for Fabregas and Nasri, worth a total of around £60m, at any point this weekend. Neither player is in the squad for today's game against Newcastle United. Wenger claimed that Nasri has the flu while Fabregas is in the puzzlingly ambiguous situation of being "not injured, but he is not match-fit," according to his manager.
Last night Arsenal refused to confirm reports that Fabregas was on his way to Spain to sign for Barcelona.
The closest Wenger came to admitting that his team is facing up to the prospect of the new season without two of their key performers was when he contended that the team was not reliant on one individual. "You always hear that but football is not about one magical man who can make miracles when things go badly," he said.
Earlier he said: "We are all replaceable. All the centuries are full of replaceable people. Sometimes when you lose a big player the game changes. A big player attracts the game to him. Sometimes [when he leaves] other people stand up and take more responsibilities and the game is a bit different, but not less efficient. But you do not want to lose big players, if that is the question."
The one player whom Wenger conceded will be leaving the club is Nicklas Bendtner, who is not included in today's squad. Bendtner's departure has been messy which was reflected in Wenger's ambivalence towards him when asked where the Dane was going. "He looks like he knows but I don't know," he said. On Jadson, the £12m-rated Brazilian midfielder at Shakhtar Donetsk he said, "We are nowhere near doing that."
Nevertheless there was a promise to buy a centre-back by the end of the month. He said: "We will have a new centre-back by the end of the transfer window because [Thomas] Vermaelen only played five games last year. To buy just for the sake of buying you won't find me there. If I'm convinced the player has the qualities I will always do it if he's better than the players we have.
"If I'm convinced that the player brings some extra qualities to the squad, we will always [buy] him. If we overpaid a little bit... but to pay three or four times the price you must really be convinced that this is the player you need. At the moment we have not found that player."
While refusing to talk in specifics about Fabregas's departure, Wenger defended the time it has taken to sell the captain to Barça. "It does not depend only on me. You have three parties in the deal and the pace is not necessarily set by you, it is set by people who want to buy, by how much you resist to how much you defend your property. That is logical [to negotiate hard]. If I didn't do that I would be unprofessional."
Some random guy tweeting about The Sun article?Quote:
Originally Posted by GunnerFan4Life
Once again, I find myself on the arsenal rollercoaster of emotion.
One minute Im really happy that we've signed Campbell as he looks like a genuine no nonsense striker, then I read this news that 'we will add a CB but he has to be better than what we have and we havent found that yet'
Your having a fucking laugh mate, there are hundreds of CB's that are better than Squillaci!
Anyone that believes the Tevez-Nasri swap has any basis in truth needs to be slapped in the face by Letters.
Two good players on the cheap/free... Bellamy and BartonQuote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,195...096082,00.html
Young but he looks dangerous!!! Good signing.Quote:
Arsenal have announced they have agreed terms to sign teenage striker Joel Campbell on a day when Cesc Fabregas stands on the brink of joining Barcelona.
Nineteen-year-old Campbell was in his country's squad for the recent Copa America and the Under-20 World Cup.
The Gunners, who at the same time insist a deal has yet to be agreed for the sale of Fabregas,revealed on Friday night the transfer is subject to the completion of 'formal agreements and processes'.
Manager Arsene Wenger told his club's official website: "Joel Campbell has already shown that he is a player with great ability, and has also performed well on the international stage at a young age.
"We look forward to the formalities of the transfer being completed and working with Joel when he joins us at Arsenal."
Campbell is predominantly left-footed and has made six full international appearances, scoring twice.
He scored on his debut in a 5-0 win over Cuba at this year's CONCACAF Gold Cup, helping his side to the competition's quarter-finals.
Campbell has had two seasons in his native Primera Division, where he played for Deportivo Saprissaand on loan at Puntarenas, making a total of eight league appearances.
Im quite happy with this lad, at least he's got some experience at international level, probably equal to Lukaku tbf, but doesnt get the media pluadits for not being european.
anybody know what the visa situation with Campbell is like?
will he slip through like Miya - excaptional talent
Well he's a full international, so I don't think it will be a problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Japan Shaking All Over
My concern is the work permit.
He looks a big lad, strong, has a good left foot on him, freekicks, can dribble, pace....the type of striker we haven't had since Henry left. Pace and power.
So a like for like replacement in terms of quality then :yawn:
So not Mata and not Jadson, wonder if we have a rabbit or two coming out of the hat.
Dead rabbits perhaps.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith
PLEASE BE TRUE:cloud9:Quote:
Originally Posted by AKBapologist
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by ItsMe
+1 that'll be a great reason to celebrate!Quote:
Originally Posted by Alias
Ha ha, so he becomes City manager in the summer and his first signing will be ... Nasri on a free.Quote:
Originally Posted by AKBapologist
I take it back, the man's a genius! No wonder he's being so coy.
(I am joking by the way. I think. :unsure: )
I can only think he's p*ssed off beause of the criticism so is f*cking us over before leaving next year....it can be the only logical reason he's acting like this.
That is in no way logical, he wouldn't have done all this if he didn't care for the club so to suddenly turn to hatred to the point of trying to screw us over as much as possible makes absolutely no sense.
He's going to try and see out his contract but if he fails this year I reckon the board and him would come to a 'mutual agreement' about leaving.
goal.com, is about as reliable an information stream as Fox News.
If its true, then it will be because Cesc abs Samir were sol above his head by stan.Quote:
Originally Posted by ItsMe
I've come to the opinion that we must sign Joey Barton.
He's a wanker and I'll cringe whenever I hear him speak in an Arsenal shirt.
But....
He's a good player, far far better than Song and he is free.
We must sign him.
Bellamy, Parker, Barton, a keeper, one from Cahill, Samba or Jagielka, plus I'd get Defoe if he was still available or Cahill from Everton. Then I'd set out to break the world record for red cards in a season, just like the good old days. Apart from the CB this lot wouldn't cost much in transfers and if we could ship a few players out we could afford the wages too (assuming Bellamy is not seriously going to push for Man City level wages). Maybe we could even get a major concession from City if we agree to speed Nasri the other way. Get this mob and this would be a mirror image of the usual crap, we'd have all the other smug gits who boast about Arsenal not "liking it up them" shitting their pants and moaning about being kicked 20 feet in the air. Hell, get Mike Tyson too and make him official club spokesman on the pitch for dealing with the referee.
Would be interesting to see Wenger continuing not to spend at PSG
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-arc...r-centre-backs
Meanwhile
Liverpool offer 12mill +Ngog for Cahill who's on the last year of his contract. (twitter)
I'd take that if I were Bolton, with less pressure and more space I can see Ngog being a very useful striker.
Has he just said we are also looking for a forward?
"We have specialised people to work everywhere but we are not in a supermarket where you go to a shelf and you ask where are the centre backs or the strikers."
No.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith
No Arsene, your the awkward customer who doesnt want the CB's on the shelf right in front of you because they cost too much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith
Your instead hovering around the reduced items shelf waiting for someone to chuck a cheap, slightly damaged but heavily reduced one on there.
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Originally Posted by Grebbo
for free Barton would be a good purchase, his salary would be payable,
we were talking about the footballing risk of selling Cesc and Nas at the same time
it would make footballing sense to purchase Barton,
we are going to have to look away at his prick side
According to unconfirmed reports coming to us, Manuel Almunia is on his way out of Arsenal and will likely sign for Malaga very shortly.
What does that actually mean? It sounds like something I wouldn't enjoy doing very much.Quote:
we are going to have to look away at his prick side
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Originally Posted by The Realist
Eboue and Vela are set to go next week too. Bendtner transfer is on hold until we find a replacement I think.