Transfer News, Rumours and Bollocks Thread

[Darth Vela]

Might as well cash in while the Sheikh is around. After all, everyone knows deep down that football is about money as much as anything they just don't like to be reminded of it (myself included).

Touche.

Maybe we should.

[Sirjackofwilshere]

Talking of Citeh, their fans have got themselves into a tissy as their club has yet to go into its annual spazz fest. They're panicking as they haven't brought Sneidjer, Bale, Fabregas yet...all listed targets according to them.

Morans

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Hopefully if Rafa does join Villa, he'll have some more crazy rants during the season.

[AKBapologist]

wearethenorthbank.com can exclusively reveal that Arsenal had a bid accepted by Blackburn Rovers for Phil Jones last night.
A bid of £16million was accepted, along with the same bid from Liverpool and Manchester United.

Arsene Wenger was granted permission to talk to Jones last night but it appears that Jones has chosen to stay in Lancashire by opting to sign for United.
The 19-year-old was due to fly out to Denmark with England’s U21′s this afternoon, despite rumours that Jones was due at Liverpool’s training ground, Melwood, for a medical (which we correctly quashed), the defender was then reported to in fact be at United to finalise a move.

Arsenal did however announce the signing of Carl Jenkinson from Charlton, a story broken by wearethenorhbank.com back in April.

http://wearethenorthbank.com/arsenal...ones-accepted/

[budesonide]

http://wearethenorthbank.com/arsenal...ones-accepted/

so the youngsters don't even want to come to us where they will be guaranteed to start and have excuses made for them constantly? ha

[AKBapologist]

Dodged a bullet I think, not sure what we're doing bidding 16mill on a 5ft 11 defender... even if he's English. Would rather the English quota went to getting Baines and someone else in as we're set to lose bendy and denilson.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Dodged a bullet I think, not sure what we're doing bidding 16mill on a 5ft 11 defender... even if he's English. Would rather the English quota went to getting Baines and someone else in as we're set to lose bendy and denilson.

well at least no one can accuse AW of being tight, maybe he is serious about spending money after all. end of the day we would never have beat UTD for him because he is a lad from up north and that was always in their favour.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Udinese have dismissed reports linking Samir Handanovic with a move away from the club this summer.
The Slovenian has enhanced his reputation with a string of assured displays over the past few seasons and is now regarded as one of the finest goalkeepers in the business.
He has reportedly attracted the attention of several rival clubs in Italy as well as some other European teams.
Arsenal, Roma and Atletico Madrid are among those to have been credited with an interest but Udinese sporting director Fabrizio Larini does not expect him to go anywhere.
"These stories are just rumours," Larini told calciomercato.it.
"As it stands, Samir is our goalkeeper right now and he will probably still be ours during the next campaign too."

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,195...971009,00.html

[AKBapologist]

well at least no one can accuse AW of being tight, maybe he is serious about spending money after all. end of the day we would never have beat UTD for him because he is a lad from up north and that was always in their favour.

I think we already bid £30mill for Falcao, so wenger's ability to spend money, for me at least wasn't really a question.

[Power n Glory]

I think we already bid £30mill for Falcao, so wenger's ability to spend money, for me at least wasn't really a question.

I guess we don't need a sugar daddy after all if we can bid that much on a player.