Inter can have the nobody. We'll take Hazard.Arsenal's hopes of signing Ricardo Alvarez are in the balance after Inter Milan submitted a bid for the Velez Sarsfield midfielder.
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Chelsea are to launch a shock bid for Arsenal winger Theo Walcott.
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Arsenal face a battle to sign Belgian international midfielder Eden Hazard, as Inter Milan are poised to make a bid for the Lille player.
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rsene Wenger and the Arsenal fans are not the only North London club to be suffering player unrest during the close season.
Puzzled?
Tottenham Hotspur have been stunned by the news that star player Luca Modric has filed official discrimination charges against the club.
The Croatian maestro said that he could no longer accept his ‘disgraceful treatment’ and the time had come to make a stand. He could not understand why Spurs had turned down his recent transfer request and he had no other option than to go on strike.
Wearing a duffle coat and sporting a Prince style slave symbol across his left cheek an emotional Modric said:
“Why is it that when Michael Carrick and Dimitar Berbatov wanted a move they both got their wish? This is Tottenham Hotspur we’re talking about….. we always sell our best players?”
“Is it because I’m Croatian? Is it because I’m small and they think they can push me around?”
“I held a ballot and I came out 100 per cent in favour of industrial action, this is the Club’s fault.”
His agent Steve Ramsey:
“He loves the fans and would do nothing to hurt them, but when he signed for the club he was sold a dream. Play for a couple of years, become one of the best players in the world and and then move to Manchester United or maybe even Arsenal, that’s what they said and that’s what we want”
“He only wants the same rights as every other Tottenham player”.
David Rice, a football lawyer, believes that Spurs would struggle to win a case in the courts:
“I’ve looked through the record books and found nothing that Spurs could use in their defence.”
“I’m afraid that Modric could cite the Paul Gascoigne precedent that clearly shows that no matter how much Spurs need or want to keep a player they always sell when the money gets high enough.”
http://www.themondaysupplement.co.uk...modric-strike/
Why doesn't Wenger sign a reasonably well known, experienced footballer for once? They don't always cost the earth. But hey, we're just inarticulate football supporters, what do we know? We must worship at the altar of Wengerball, because his philosophy is so esoteric that us simpletons cannot comprehend his plan, so we should just keep paying for season tickets and be happy with our lot.
I wonder how much of the 'unhappiness' reported about this and others - our players, players from lots of clubs - which is reported in the media is just the agents stirring the shit so make more money for themselves, the greedy shits. A lot of these players are, I'm sure, manipulated by these bastards. They are probably very skilled at feeding things into the player's psychy.... "He earns 5k more than you so clearly the club don't like you and club x would pay you much more because they think you are so good... " and such. Probably done more subtly and with more skill by the agents. I might be wrong of course, but I am pretty sure that they are a significant part - maybe most of - why players seem to be causing problems for clubs.
He wants to do everything on the cheap, that's what keeps him in a job it seems. If he spent and failed he might actually lose his job as profits won't keep him safe. At this stage he needs to go out and sign quality which may well make all the difference, he won't fo course because as usual he's only seemingly inetrested in relative nobodies.
@youngunsblog - #MCFC look to have signed Stefan Savić. On trial at Arsenal last year. Club didn't seem to rate him. Struggled in trial game v Dagenham.