Gosh, that would be original :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ashburton2006
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Gosh, that would be original :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ashburton2006
he'll run the rule over it though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimandi's Perm
£17m?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Boss
Is he even that good?
Eden Hazard has agreed personal terms ahead of a €35m switch to Arsenal - Mercato 365
Their best defender, PL ready, only 25 and five days before the window shuts. Plus he's English and he'll have a sell on value of at least 10M.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grebbo
Worth that, IMO.
We're not in any hurry. We're probably going to lose at OT new signing or no. After that we don't play till the 10th so we've got a while to sort things out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boss
I am really nonplussed over all this. Its been obvious that Fabregas was going from the end of last season. Nasri says that he made it clear to AW that he wanted out in June. Why have we left it this late to make signings that AW said were needed months ago? I understand that the manager may have wanted to see who else was leaving, but why do we seem to be putting business before football when we're swimming in cash?
BTW I met a guy on holiday who did the financing for the stadium. He says that none of these transfer funds can be used to pay off the stadium debt more quickly, as paying off the bonds will incur a large early payment fee. The company that holds the debt also receives matchday revenue, from which the loan repayments are made.
I just cannot understand why Arsenal is dithering over transfers.
A must get.Quote:
Both the Gunners and Liverpool have signalled their interest in the Portuguese 19-year-old, whose versatility in both attack and defence has had prospective scouts salivating.
Likened to Patrick Vieira with his tough and uncompromising approach, Danilo shone during the recent U20 World Cup in Colombia where Portugal made the final - only to lose 3-2 to Brazil.
Parma paid Benfica just €150,000 (£133,000) to secure Danilo, who emigrated to Portugal from Guinea-Bissau.
Fittingly, the name Arsenal resonates with the young starlet - who played for a high-performance youth development team called Arsenal 72.
Gunners manager Arsene Wenger may look to use Danilo in a central role alongside Emmanuel Frimpong, and the pair could form a formidable partnership if given the chance.
The only downside to Danilo's game is that he lacks appropriate first-team experience and has yet to make his full Serie A debut for Parma.
The Crociati decided to loan him out to Aris Saloniki last season as a trial, but after making five appearances for the Greek side and scoring twice Parma were more than happy to bring him back to the Stadio Ennio Tardini.
Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/footbal...#ixzz1W85ID4pP
The English Pique.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grebbo
Without the derp.
No point in crowing about the price, he is Boltons biggest asset and Engish, there is no working around the premium, they know we have money to burn as well and a heap of expectation to buy. Either we pay what they want or we move on, we need to bring in some players and time is running out.
No surprise, given that everyone knows we have around 50M to spend.Quote:
09.06: Twitter has an interesting RT from Bolton chairman Phil Gartside. A fan had written: ''#arsenal are you taking the p*** £6m for Garry Cahill f*** right off!!! #BWFC #wengerisabellend''. In response to a Mirror story today that suggests the Gunners are being a little cheeky with their offer.
Buying Cahill must be quite painful for Wenger, as it is almost an admittance that he wasted £10m on Koscielny, who isn't up to it (although I do think against teams who play on the deck, he is excellent, but struggles physically).
Unless of course he is planning on moving our best CB (TV5) to left back, which would be totally counter productive.
Buying Cahill must be quite painful for Wenger, as it is almost an admittance that he wasted £10m on Koscielny, who isn't up to it (although I do think against teams who play on the deck, he is excellent, but struggles physically).
Unless of course he is planning on moving our best CB (TV5) to left back, which would be totally counter productive.
It was a foolish move to post your address on the Internet. I knew you'd slip up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
11.31: Bolton boss Owen Coyle says Arsenal and his side are a distance apart in terms of their valuation of Cahill. He said: "There was a conversation between (Bolton chairman) Phil Gartside and a representative of Arsenal. I'm only passing this on as a third party, but the word derisory doesn't even cover it. When I make an offer for a player, I'd like to think in the right ball park, but this wasn't even close. I spoke to Gary Cahill about it before the Macclesfield game, and he knows everything that's going on.''
We sold Clichy for a similar amount to the Cahill bidQuote:
Originally Posted by Joker
Squilliaci cost only £3mill
Joker in another blinkered shocker.
Yes, but Squillaci is 30 and complete shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by AKBapologist
Bad example.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/b...blog-26-augustQuote:
10.56am: David Hytner's been fraternising with Arsene Wenger this morning and tells us that Thomas Vermaelen remains a doubt for Arsenal's clash with Manchester United. And Wenger is confident of signing M'vila. A fine recruit he would be, too. He has a midfield presence beyond his 21 years and is a ball-winning midfield who can actually do more than just tap it to a more talent team-mate to create: his passing is swift and shrewd.
Interesting re: M'Vila.
Look, Coyle has been popping up every 5 minutes with his, "No bids for Cahill", routine. Now he has a bid. Obviously there's no pleasing this guy! You try to help him out and this is what you get. He must know we can't go the whole hog and make a serious bid in case he pulls a fast one and accepts it.
I watched his highlights on youtube versus England and I wasn't too impressed tbh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boss
:coffee:
No, I'm correcting Jokers accusation that we spent more on squid than the current Cahill bid... Which is bollocks. But let's not have reality get in the way of yet another boring whine about our manager.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aaron Wilshere
Of course, England is shite. :coffee:Quote:
Originally Posted by Grebbo
Ah, sorry mate - didn't see that bit. I thought you were benchmarking Squillaci's value against Cahill.Quote:
Originally Posted by AKBapologist
£7m is fine - think of Clichy going for £7m - he is a proven Premier league, CL and international performer. All about the English premium.
So we're in for Cahill then? Great news!
The Cahill bid might be misdirection to keep Liverpool busy. After all their entire transfer policy is based on waiting to see who we are linked with before making a bid. Maybe we're after Jagileka instead? Maybe we're after someone, anyone, just a single player, that we actually sign, this transfer window, who's decent and would add quality to the squad, and could get up to speed immediately, and didn't have Barcelona DNA and is a heterosexual. Just one...
Please.
Koscielny is up to it. He's had a year to settle and looks to me like a really good defender. He's cut more in the cloth of a Vermaelen and has a similar skillset.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aaron Wilshere
What I don't understand is why they'd wait until now to make an offer. It's seems clear Cahill is not their top target unless they've been playing a very long game. I think in the end if they work themselves up to £10-12m that would be a more than reasonable bid. The £17m Bolton snatched out of the air is what they would like to get - it's not necessarily what he's worth, all things considered. So they call our bid derisory and by the colour of our bid, we call their valuation ridiculous. So we'll see if they can find the middle ground in the next few days.
What's promising is that they are now at least actually in a dialogue which confirms that we are interested in buying and actively and visibly doing something to make that happen.
Given their chairman retweeting the comment by an irate fan, I really don't think they want to sell to us now. They'll probably be offering him around the Premiership, and someone like Liverpool will probably end up signing him.
Another fantastic transfer success by Wenger and Gazidis. If we're willing to pay £20M for M'Vila, why not £16M for Cahill? I'm sick and tired of Wenger and his excuses to be honest, he's destroying our club at the minute.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/b...blog-26-augustQuote:
11.38am: David Hytner is loitering with intent around Arsenal's training ground and here's how things are shaping up there: "Arsene Wenger is keeping it low-key at his press conference this afternoon, according to the official line or, according to the non-party line, he has thrown a strop at all the negative coverage and cancelled his newspaper briefings. He'll still hold his general conference and he should be in decent spirits after Udinese on Wednesday night, despite his splitting selection headache for Old Trafford. I can't remember Arsenal being bigger underdogs ahead of one of the season's showpiece fixtures."
Only bad things can come out of press conferences not held at 7.
Maybe we offer them Squidacci as a makeweight or else Miquel on loan for a year free of charge. That solves their problem with filling the gap at CB and injuries and also reduces their salary bill (unless they're silly enough to take Squidacci of our hands)
I agree. Cahill coming to the end of his contract, wants to play for us, I think this is a decent strategy. £7m as an opening bid, then try and seal the deal for £10m plus add ons. Think we'll go for Jagielka on deadline day too, got a feeling Bendtner will be used as bait.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jam Persie
Not Miquel, we'll need him for when Cahill gets injured for six months, two weeks after signing. Squid can go though, although I don't think another stinging insult at this stage is going to cheer Bolton up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jam Persie
Oh NQ, you really do amuse me. Thanx for lightening the mood from the Doom and Gloom of this transfer window.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
£6mil plus Squid and Almunia. Great bargain for Bolton tbh. :coffee:Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
It's humorous because it's accurate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
This strategy of bidding low and then giving up seems not to be working somehow.
but at least we made a bid lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Fist of Lehmann
takes the piss TBH no wonder they always say its difficult
******* may say we are "working day and night" trying to bring in new players, but by making pathetically low offers it doesn't matter if you're working 24 fucking hours a day, you'll never complete the deal. But hey, ******* will defend himself when the inevitable happens and we don't sign a centre half, by complaining the market is inflated and blaming City, even though they have nothing to do with this deal.
GTF Wenger, Gazidis and Silent Stan.
Tried and tested failed strategy tbh. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Fist of Lehmann
I guess the positive thing is that we are actually in the market and actively seeking players like Cahill. I'd be very surprised if we got him for less than 15m but lets see what happens I guess. Exciting 6 days ahead.
:lol:
6 million. Even if add-ons would take it up to 10, they'd still not accept it.
We need to overpay to get the right player atm, even if he'd only be back-up or part of a rotation, having one more defender between us and the doomsday option of playing Squillaci is a necessity.
Bolton are stupid cunts
Give us Cahill for 6 quid or we won't send you any more Wilsheres on loan