Transfer News, Rumours and Bollocks Thread

[The Realist]

Tottenham has signed Aston Villa and former United States International goalkeeper Brad Friedel
http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/1614/...nited-states-?

That article says 'reportedly', therefore the deal hasn't been completed yet (if it is true).

Doesn't bother me anyway - we've got Szczesny.

[Flavs]

Sevilla are set to offer Arsenal £8m for unsettled Brazilian midfielder Denilson.
Full story: Daily Mail

[AKBapologist]

Alternative quotes from wengers interview
http://www.ashburtongrove.co.uk/2011...Grove.co.uk%29

[Japan Shaking All Over]

Sevilla are set to offer Arsenal £8m for unsettled Brazilian midfielder Denilson.
Full story: Daily Mail

there you go.......he will join that team, become the team's passer percentage wise due to his forte to play square balls all of 2 feet and then get himself quoted in the paper for claiming that he wants to leave because the team lacks ambition!

the career of Denilson wrapped up in a nutshell

[Özim]

Sevilla are set to offer Arsenal £8m for unsettled Brazilian midfielder Denilson.
Full story: Daily Mail

8 million
This will be a bigger mugging than when they ripped us off for Reyes!

[Marc Overmars]

8m eh, nice little earner for the annual figures.

In other news Scholes has retired. Just Giggs and Fergie to go now.

[selassie]

We all have opinions and that's a good thing. But our opinions don't change the evidence. This guy probably did more to induce the latest annual end of season collapse than any other player. When he was called to perform, at that key moment he failed catastrophically. These moments count. Like Bendtner's miss that would have made all the Barca hoopla this week never happen because we would have knocked them out. What would a quality defender have given us in that one moment against Birmingham? What would a quality striker have delivered in that one moment against Barca? It's all fine margins and when you have the best you can tip those margins in your favour. When you have second rate players like Koscielny and Bendtner then you end up on the losing side of the equation. Just as we have year after year after year. Unsurprisingly, when we had quality players the outcome was reversed - we won. So no, I'd rather not see another Koscielny in the team. I don't see what that would give us other than more of what we have become used to. Absolute failure. I would rather we spent the money and bought a decent defender, in the same way Utd, Chelsea do. You can see their results too and examine their trophy cabinets. Even City have a trophy stashed away now. Nothing for us thought because we buy sub-standard and so we get sub-standard performance. What I'm saying is not an opinion, it's just a summary of the evidence.

Yup NQ, with you all the way on this.

[AKBapologist]

Decent(ish) article on our finances -

Arsenal’s wage bill of £111 million is still substantially less than Chelsea (£173 million), Manchester City (£133 million) and Manchester United (£132 million), but it is also a lot higher than the chasing pack. In particular, it is a hefty £44 million more than Tottenham (£67 million), who finished just one place lower in the Premier League.

This sometimes comes as a surprise to many fans, given Arsenal’s well-publicised sustainable model, but is due to a couple of factors. They have a large squad and, while the wages at the top end might not be the highest, the fringe players like Denilson and Rosicky are handsomely awarded, as are the young players.

This is a policy that is worth reviewing, as a degree of complacency would appear to have set in at this level and some judicious pruning of the dead wood could free up wages for a couple of genuine world class talents. In addition, it would be worth introducing a higher element of performance-related pay to concentrate the collective mind on striving to win trophies.

http://swissramble.blogspot.com/2011...r-budget.html?

[Marc Overmars]

I wish Nasri would just make up his mind. What a prick.

Pretty damaging to the club and Wenger to have key players in limbo like this.

[selassie]

I wish Nasri would just make up his mind. What a prick.

Pretty damaging to the club and Wenger to have key players in limbo like this.

http://goonertalk.com/2011/05/31/the...#ixzz1NsxYKal5

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has revealed that discussions with Samir Nasri over a new contract extension have slowed down due to a ‘little’ disagreement over the financial terms offered to the 23-year-old.
Nasri has just one year remaining on his Gunners contract and while talks have stalled recently, the possibility of a move to Old Trafford has been reported in the French media since last week.
Speaking with France legend Bixente Lizarazu for radio station RTL, Wenger said despite problems over the terms of Nasri’s new contract, he is still confident of sorting out a new deal.

“We’ve got a little financial disagreement but I’ll try to make him [Nasri] sign a new contract. I’ll work on that this summer. What is certain is that we won’t be selling Nasri to Manchester United.”

Since joining from Marseille in 2008, Nasri had struggled to make his mark after suffering a spate of unfortunate injuries. However, this season he has established himself as one of the Premier League’s top stars being rewarded with a place in the PFA Team of the Year.

Very worrying, esp the bit where Arsene states he'll try and make Nasri sign a new contract. Very reminiscent of the Flamini situation back in 07.

Initially I wasn't worried about Nasri's contract..but now I actually think Nasri is 60/40 to leave, I think the only thing that will keep him will be if we pay him a big salary (on par with Fabregas) & show some ambition in the market. The problem we have is we won't do that and Nasri knows full well he will get that big salary elsewhere.