OK still no news on the Ade, Hleb, Nasri, Velosa, Santa Cruz, Villa, YaYa, Silva, Richards, Eto’o, Huntelaar or Gareth Barry front, but the news you’ve all been dreading is surfacing again, yes you guessed, we’re keen on one Obefemi Martins, who even at 43 years old, still excites Wenger.
Please let this be one of those ‘we’re close to signing Robinho’ rumours, that has no chance of happening, why is it that we all want a Villa, Huntelaar or Eto’o but we know if he’s in for anyone it will be another troublesome African than sulks and talks about playing for another club all the time.
‘Arsenal is a big club that everyone wants to play for. I am thrilled and it will be nice to play for such a team’ the 23-year-old told The Sun. …Oh bollocks!
Now I’m not against Africans, Kolo is fantastic, I think Yaya would do us some good but every two years they go to the ACN just like Kolo did and cause us problems with their form on their return.
Some are also called Eboue and I won’t go there.
So stick to Europeans, or at least latino’s whose Copa Cup only gets played when our boys are building sandcastles and eating ice cream, bad analogy I know!
Onto other more interesting and far less worrying news is us, Le-Grove, it doesn’t seem that long ago when we launched with the news that we had tied Wenger down to a new and improved contract, we have met many friends since writing our witty ditto’s and debated much over the last 10 months, having our very own Arsenal family has been awesome, having someone to share the burden of being an Arsenal fan with has been a wonderful thing.
Since we wrote that first post we have found out that what the boss doesn’t spend on players gets split between the stadium mortgage and his pension fund.
Well it’s the only explanation we can find! So if it’s not true, please don’t sue us!
Anyway, sometime today will be our 1,000,000th hit, we will try and find out who that will be and of course our customery Ferrari 360 Modena will be speedily on it’s way to that lucky blogger.
We seriously thank you for blogging on our humble site and value your company, you make this site what it is - light hearted, tongue in cheek, but always Arsenal and always friendly.
Have a great weekend!
July 5, 2008 at 9:26 am
1st
July 5, 2008 at 9:27 am
1st
July 5, 2008 at 9:27 am
There’s something fishy going on here
July 5, 2008 at 9:28 am
4th?
July 5, 2008 at 9:28 am
i bet martins is in…
July 5, 2008 at 9:29 am
Morning everyone!
Martins…. noooooooooooooooooooooo!
July 5, 2008 at 9:29 am
It’s 4:30am .. i’m going to bed
July 5, 2008 at 9:30 am
GMR and Rico how quick was that!
July 5, 2008 at 9:31 am
Morning Grovers
Martins………………………. Please please NO NO NO….
And you all thought I was mad yesterday suggesting Jones from Sunderland!!
July 5, 2008 at 9:31 am
Not quick enough in my case!! ha ha
July 5, 2008 at 9:32 am
unfortunately what we want we wont get and what we dont want we will get!
ill have money on it!
July 5, 2008 at 9:33 am
Morning Grovers, been away most of this week.
I had hoped to return and debate all our new signings.
I can’t belive this Martins rumour is still kicking about
July 5, 2008 at 9:34 am
morning all!
July 5, 2008 at 9:35 am
I dont know about Martins. Mostly cause i havent seen much of him to form an opinion. I do suspect if ADE does go, that Arsene will look for someone within the EPL so there is no ‘intergration’ waiting time which Arsene usually states as 6 months.
July 5, 2008 at 9:37 am
@AR
I’d rather Santa than Martins any day….
Oh to hell with it…. i’d rather Crouch than Martins….
July 5, 2008 at 9:40 am
can anyone tell me what is so bad about signing martins???he might be the next drogba….so please trust in arsene…he know what he is doing……so just relax…
July 5, 2008 at 9:40 am
I don’t rate Martins at all. If we do sign him it will be clear to me that Wenger has definately lost the plot.
July 5, 2008 at 9:40 am
I’d sooner no one than Martins!
July 5, 2008 at 9:41 am
43 years old?
July 5, 2008 at 9:42 am
43 y.o? am i missing something?
Don;t know why there is so much hate for Martins. He is quick and powerful, and produce something from nothing.
July 5, 2008 at 9:43 am
Crouchie over Martins…………….interesting
July 5, 2008 at 9:43 am
1,000,000th gun?
July 5, 2008 at 9:48 am
here here Geoff.
I wish this whole Nasri thing would get sorted
July 5, 2008 at 9:48 am
bring on the robot
July 5, 2008 at 9:49 am
Happy 1,000,000 birthday guys. May all the rest of your days be in peace with a lot of smiles due to cups won, opponents rubbished and trodden over plus achieiving the domination that AW has promised.
July 5, 2008 at 9:50 am
It says something when he cant get in the Toon team !!!!
If we were gonna buy from Newcastle surely it should be Owen he would be good not a great player but a born goalscorer like Lineker.
Keep up the good work Le grove only 5 more saturdays till the Emirates cup.
July 5, 2008 at 9:50 am
Well done on the million, and on the Martins story I think we’re better off saving the money and going with what we have, although it could be a Davor Suker type signing, with him playing his last couple of seasons for us and helping the youngsters develop.
Or of course this is all Wengers little game, and we have already done our transfer business for the summer and AW and the team can take a well-deserved holiday now and then when they get back reveal our 3 super-super signings.
Nothing’s going to happen is it? We’re going to have to make another improvement next year, and if we can manage that improvement, what will follow naturally is domination.
July 5, 2008 at 9:53 am
Michael Owen is a piss poor player and Martins is worse.
July 5, 2008 at 9:55 am
Sorry for the delay letting the new people on but welcome! the 43 years old bit has always been a cloud over Martins head, with many saying he tells fibs about being 23, 43 is our trademark irony.
July 5, 2008 at 9:55 am
how good are the beers this arvo!
July 5, 2008 at 9:55 am
“There are also some called Eboue and we won’t go there”
Classic!
Great Post, well, as always!
But why doesnt anyone want Obafemi Akinwunmi Martins? Just cos you cant pronounce his name… (then again, neither can I)
Strange, Martins seems to have gained 20 years… But if we are grabbing a newcastle striker, why not grab a better or more well known one?
On second thoughts… They only have two decent strikers, Viduka and Owen… Both are past it, but id take Viduka simpley because hes an aussie and his last name sounds like hes just stepped out of a DragonBallZ cartoon.
Slightly ironic that, seeing as the team he plays for are “The Toons”….
July 5, 2008 at 9:56 am
Rico
are you actually married to one of Geoff or Pedro, or maybe a close relative. You have to be getting tip offs from someone on the inside.
It is the only way I can explain how you hit 1st every morning within seconds of them posting.
I think you should have a lie in tomorrow and give everyone else a chance.
Anyway Martins please no
I think the press are just speculating and someone has asked him a leading question, I think and hope we are not in for him
The press know that Ade is pretty much fucked at Arsenal now. They must read the blogs as press are starting to include the fact that he has alienated the Arsenal fan base in their reports. So the press are now going to link us with every striker in the world until it is resolved.
On that I am a bit fearful that Wengers poker face may have ballsed this one up. If that vote of confidence goes wrong tomorrow, we will either be stuck with the lanky piece of shit, or will have to sell at a lower value to AC.
July 5, 2008 at 9:59 am
Nice one Pat! I don’t know how she does it, every post for 6 days and all at different times, the last 5 I wrote in Spain, todays was here in England, so unless Rico has access to my mac…
July 5, 2008 at 10:02 am
Mornnig everyone
Now Martins nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo for me too Stay away AW he is nasty
July 5, 2008 at 10:07 am
Hey,
Just to remind people of a Martins story I heard a while back…
Apparently he played in the same youth team as Babayaro… who is 31…
No one is sure of his age and he doesn’t look like a 22 year old (Or whatever his purported age is)!
Good player, inconsistent and short…
I think Arsenal are there to boost his profile.
Mind you, he’s scored a few against us over the years right?
I’m not married Pat… and my GF would rather clean toilets than post here! Think the same goes for Geoff’s wife!
July 5, 2008 at 10:10 am
Rico is a online 1st comment Poster Demon.
Someone needs to see if they can Break his record hahahaha!!
and Yet again we are after that shit Martins. they day we sign him is the day i loose all faith in Mr Wenger. and to be honest i would take Crouch over martins. i dont know why i just would.
lets just hope in the Next few days we get some decent Developments
July 5, 2008 at 10:16 am
I’m sure Martins is 32 or 33 b/c i remeber about 6 year ago their was a disput or his nationalt b/t cameroon and Naigeria by then he was allready 21 in Nigeria 17 in Inter
July 5, 2008 at 10:17 am
I just saw a clip of Santa Cruz, I didn’t realise he was 6′3″ tall, if we had him he’d score a shed load, and we’d be able to understand what he said in press conferences, have a butchers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6EogpgUdwo
July 5, 2008 at 10:17 am
maybe he can be a supersub but not in satarting XI
July 5, 2008 at 10:18 am
43 year old Martins - made me laugh at loud. It reminds me of a few years ago, my dad used to work in Lagos, Nigeria a few months each year - his African colleagues knew he was a huge gooner and used to ask him what he thought of Kanu (who was with the Arsenal at the time) and how old Kanu was - when he used to say “about 23-24 years old” they used to roar with laughter - and swore blind that Kanu used to ply his trade in the Nigerian leagues (pre-Inter Milan) in the late 80’s! If you couldcut off his leg and count the rings - he’d be at least 43!
Just saw on Sky Sports News that Nasri will not be signing his Arsenal contract until after he has returned from hoilday… I dont mean to be precious about this but what ever happened to “the player cut his hoilday short in order to sign for his dream club”. Clearly no rush there.
July 5, 2008 at 10:23 am
Santa Cruz is a top player, but a bit slow, although an improvement on Ade and Bendtner. Anyway, we’ve got enough pace in the team, and with Vela and Walcott ( Nasri ) and co supplying for him we wouldn’t miss ade at all.
July 5, 2008 at 10:25 am
Highgate Gooner - hahaha thats the thing mate, we are not his dream club and in this day and age Dream Club dont mean nothing unless it comes with there Dream Wages aswell.
July 5, 2008 at 10:25 am
Sorry cant agree crouch over martins never,crouch will be as good as chapman was for us in the 80s.The mighty Arsenal are forever going to be linked to players whose agents are looking for a new deal from their existing clubs,thats why when checking out some of the shite put about in the media a large pinch of salt is required.
July 5, 2008 at 10:27 am
We have as much chance of signing Santa Claus as we do Santa Cruz. It’s not going to happen, Wenger won’t buy anybody that we’ve ever heard of. Infact I’ll be shocked if he buys anyone at all.
July 5, 2008 at 10:27 am
is their no any Scientific way of knowing un age?
July 5, 2008 at 10:29 am
G’Day all, i’m in disguise coz I made a stuff up.
Pedro/Geoff, could you delete my comment July 5, 2008 1.38 am please.
July 5, 2008 at 10:31 am
id prefer santa cruz over martins
July 5, 2008 at 10:35 am
Gnarley I’m holding you in moderation because your IP address is different from the real gnarley and I can’t allow people to steal others identities.
Come back with your real name and you’ll be welcomed, providing you’re not an AKB of course!
July 5, 2008 at 10:36 am
congrats to geoff and pedro on this massive mile stone,
July 5, 2008 at 10:37 am
Geoff, yes its me, When I activate my wordpress, the link activates as well, so for security, could you delete that comment with link?
July 5, 2008 at 10:40 am
Ha ha you lot, you just need to be up with the Larks!!
The thing is, I have to try and keep up with the level of knowledge on this site, so I am on the computer early. Sadly, I have to do a bit of work on it too. Trust me, I just got lucky over the last few days, and I am not hacking into either Pedro or Geoff access, gee, I can only just manage to use this thing myself
Crouch or Martins - Crouch!!
Ade or Crouch/Martins…………………..???? Crouch!!
July 5, 2008 at 10:40 am
That’s a relief Gnarley, will do.
July 5, 2008 at 10:40 am
abent arsenal: the only way that I can think of knowing Martins’ real age is to cut one of his legs through at the thigh and count the rings.
I would do this before the signing rather than after, but AKB!
July 5, 2008 at 10:44 am
Cheers Geoff, coz I don’t want anyone to stumbe upon my details by clicking on that link.
July 5, 2008 at 10:45 am
If Ade goes, AW will probably sign a striker we have heard nothing about, my hope would be he turned out to be as good as Anelka, but without the attitude.
Would we be happy then??
July 5, 2008 at 10:46 am
Gnarley there’s nothing wrong with that comment, don’t worry mate!
ArsenalFCnot ArseneFC I think we could hack an arm off and find out, if he loses a leg it will be like having 2 Eboue’s!
July 5, 2008 at 10:48 am
Gnarley, I removed the link not the comment, OK with that?
July 5, 2008 at 10:49 am
I won’t do that again, Cheers Geoff. Anyway 6 in a row for Rico
July 5, 2008 at 10:50 am
1,000,000 hits, thats more than The Beatles.
July 5, 2008 at 10:51 am
Hey Grovers, take a look a few comments back, I thought I’d put this on for your amusement, we are all racist cunts.
July 5, 2008 at 10:53 am
Gnarley… the link only activates because your PC remembers your login details!
No one else can get in!
July 5, 2008 at 10:53 am
You guys are stupid for writing that Martins is older than what he says. Martins did not play club football in Nigeria, he moved straight from a football academy to Inter Milan’s reserve team, so he can’t be as old as some of you fools are making him. If you know any thing about where he comes from, you will shut the hell up and appreciate the young man’s talent. For the fools talking about Kanu’s age, well he just won the FA cup for Pompey in which he scored the only goal and still ready to play next season at the highest level. Now tell me that English man who can still perform like him at the age you racist cunts are suggesting. I know Kanu from secondary school and he’s not as old as you lot suggest, so lay off king Kanu.
July 5, 2008 at 10:55 am
Crouch - do me a favour…
Martins - do me a favour….
Santa Cruz - one season wonder…..
I would rather keep Ade - all day long.
July 5, 2008 at 10:55 am
No worries Pedro, but I thought I’d better be more cautious, especially when the Uzo’s of the world are about.
July 5, 2008 at 10:56 am
Kenichi:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/article59577.ece
Even Harry laughs about Kanu’s age, because Kanu doesn’t even know!
Playing the race card… how boring…
July 5, 2008 at 10:56 am
Just because you comment on someones age doesn’t make you a racist you muppet, calling us racist makes you a racist you humourless wanker.
July 5, 2008 at 10:58 am
so who can we actually sign, other than nasri?
July 5, 2008 at 11:01 am
4 people have found our website today by punching the following into google:
‘man fucking asheep’
There are some freaks out there…
July 5, 2008 at 11:02 am
Kenechi - nobody is being racist. I was telling a story about what Kanu’s fellow Nigerians think of his age…
The joke goes that Kanu enjoyed the best 10 years of his career between the ages of 29 and 30.
Dean Windass also scored against Championship opposition at Wembley in May to win a final - he’s 39. Though I have heard rumours that he was 30 in the 70’s.
July 5, 2008 at 11:07 am
Was is is with the Sun and Martins? It’s like they’re trying to play matchmaker or something. They must be under the mistaken impression that we want the squat ball of erraticness to keep bringing it up.
July 5, 2008 at 11:08 am
is Arsenal TV on the improve, can anyone comment?
July 5, 2008 at 11:09 am
HEY GOONERS.. rico i have been thinkin bout how u get 1st for the past 6 days and ive come to d conclusion that from 6am or maybe 5.30 u are hittin F5.. on both newsnow and le-grove..if not then u are on some magic sumthin sumthin
todays matter - first of all, im nigerian, 24 years old, grew up in lagos, same city martins did.. so belive me when i tell you this martins is OFFICIALLY 27 years old.
before he went to italy(his mum was a big trader with italian clothes and used to sell them in nigeria) he used to play football in the streets and under d bridge and stuff, then there was no reason to lie about age and no1 knew where he would end up. my elder brother used to play football with them on the streets and stuff and u get into teams not my skill or my punctuality but by “how old u are”… and martins and my brother and their age mates used to get grouped together
i think he left nigeria with his mum to italy.. when he was about 18 and spent about 3 years with other clubs b4 he got to inter fc. about 21 or 22…
The reason africans tend to lie about age is just the fact that most times becus of our upbringing we are never assured bout tomoro and they know the younger they claim to be ‘from the beginning’ the more GBPs they could rake in ..in their careers..
Jay jay okocha retired last week from football at a purported 36 years of age, he is really 41
kanu is about 40 as well.. julisu aghahowa is 36, not the reported 28 , yakubu is about 33, the only nigerians we all know back home in nigeria who are using their real ages to play football is
OSAZE ODEMWINGIE AND CELESTINE BABAYARO
to be fair, martins is great player not just a good player, he scores good goals, with a shit midfield like newcastle, see what owen has turned out to be compare him to the same supersub he was in real madrid…
i think he would be a good buy.. martins.. but its the african cup of nations dat worries me about him.. dip in form and incosistency
July 5, 2008 at 11:09 am
This site, Racist, get real Kenechi, no way…………..
Its not sexist either - its just the mutts nuts
July 5, 2008 at 11:09 am
Its been ages since iv made a short comment!
hope we dont buy martins because i have a feeling arsene might play him as a left midfielder and i know newcastle are gonna demand more than £20million. Arsenal need villa, we need more world class players, “big talent” players (remember that one AW?).
I got nothing good to say about ade so please take the £30 million and buy a world class striker. why does he really wanna go? no silverware, other players screw up costing precious points, not enough world class players in the team and huge clubs wanting me. i can partially understand but still i would stay. Learn from History brother. big examples include one that has probably broken the guiness world record for having the most visa stamps and two have had a divorce. Want champions league, dont go to Milan. Barca will screw you over the minute you stop scoring (which is fair enough).
Whatever if he goes he goes, but if he stays he betta pull a C. Ronaldo and become super striker.
July 5, 2008 at 11:10 am
hi geoff/pedro….we are linked with another underrated player.
i dont like martins and his attitude as well.
but isnt this a ployl ……………..by giving us two options of santa cruz and martins and we have to decide who is less pathetic than the other.
we want our great club battling for top strikers in europe and we are linked is to these two.
i hope we sign another class striker if ade goes and this is not another season of transistion …of ifs and but(seems like that when hearing from wenger)
July 5, 2008 at 11:11 am
Evo - its extending its hours, but it does repeat a lot at the moment. I wish it would show more archieve games and player interviews etc. But I guess its still early days for them
July 5, 2008 at 11:13 am
Hey Ric, sorry for the delay, nice comment, I hope that Kenechi is reading it. Pedro, what was the sheep like?
July 5, 2008 at 11:15 am
thanks rico - i just sent setanta an email to tell them i would cancel my subscription to their channel unless they fuck off one of Man scum TV. Chavs TV. Barca TV, rangers TV or The Bhoys TV so they can put on Gooner TV instead!
see what happens i suppose?
July 5, 2008 at 11:17 am
There is somthing very worrying about this whole Obe Martins story, it never seems to die. I just don’t get AW sometimes, if he really is thinking about this move that is. As pointed out in the post, he’ll be away at the African cup every couple of years, and who’ll be first to complain about it…AW! He didn’t do the job at Inter, has failed to make a mark for the toon…why will we be different. Think i’d rather take crouch/santa cruz. Neither of which fill me ith much hope.
Well done on the million hits. mate told me about you guys last week, so im new here the last few days and think you have a great site. More on here than the bloody Afc Homepage…bugger all news on it, and I now see Freddie is no.11 on the Greatest List. I loved Freddie, and he did a great job at Arsenal…but 11! That list really is shite….the word “Greatest” seems to mean nothing to the kids who are abviousley voting! Freddie ahead of Drake, Bastin, McClintock, Merse…I could go on.
July 5, 2008 at 11:19 am
The Nigerian FA had Martins birthdate as May 1 1978 but its been removed since so that makes him 30.
July 5, 2008 at 11:23 am
I didnt realise that Setanta run the other channels, at least AFC TV is free with Setanta subscription, the Chavs and Manure have to pay extra Evo - What is good though is being able to see the reserves,
July 5, 2008 at 11:24 am
The truth about adebayor
If adebayor wasn’t a footballer do u kno the kind of person he would be? HE would be that guy in your office who everyone knows is not so smart, he talks alot and brags about himself to all his colleagues, you cant help but like him becos he is naive and doesn’t want to hurt anybody around him.. BUT EVERYONE knows he is DULL really dull and stupid..
He gets work done, because he is hardworking and is tryin to back-up his earlier bragging rights, he is not really dat good or superb and can be easily replaced so he tries really hard to impress and when he impresses and his superiors give him good appraisals he takes ALL the glory for himself and never remembers his other colleagues who helped in achieving the what he just achieved.
HE CAN BE REPLACED, easily and he would get found out big time in his new job that i tell you and the whole world would know sheyi adebayor is just another average footballer who WAS very hardworking in his previous job. and luck smiled upon..
30 million is a bargain, cant think of any better deal in the past 10 years…
July 5, 2008 at 11:26 am
1000000th? ferrari? guess not-IM not that lucky:(
July 5, 2008 at 11:29 am
Rico - Setanta in Oz run the channels daily at certain times, etc, so for me anything would be better than nothing, but unfortunately their choice of team sucks donkeys balls!
July 5, 2008 at 11:29 am
Evo, my sentiments exactly re Setanta. I emailed them about 6 months ago & said similar. Maybe more Goooners need to do the same, coz I hate Manu T V, Chelski TV, etc, etc.
July 5, 2008 at 11:31 am
ASh, the truth about the Nigerian FA was that , their incompetency lead to so many misunderstandings.
they gave some guy(1 person) the right to edit info on the Nigerian FA website, just becuz he designed the website, so only God knows what happened when martins, uche and some other unknowns in the national team had the same birthdates
but trust the english media, they only picked martins becuz he’s in england and it would generate all the needed HEAT and hits..
Im not standing up for the guy, i think he can resurrect his career here in @ d emirates, he is not an Hlebish kinda striker who just likes to pass around in the 18 yard box
he lovess to shoot, and shoot on target too..
Nigeria is blessed with so many strikers(and talented footballers) but for the average nigerian on the street to tell you that their firstchoice striker should always be martins.. that tells you sumthing
July 5, 2008 at 11:34 am
agreed gnarley! lets see what they say when i told them i would cancel my subscription!
July 5, 2008 at 11:36 am
I actually did cancel, but the Blue Square Premier was too tempting , so I got back on
July 5, 2008 at 11:40 am
man fucking a sheep……………….LOL Pedro
July 5, 2008 at 11:48 am
To allude that Obafemi Martins is 43 years old s quite disparaging.His age according to official records is 23.If you have any proof that he has falsified his age you should do the world a favour by showing this.You need not disparage a man nor his birth place.
Whether he is a good material or not for our beloved Arsenal is open to debate.
July 5, 2008 at 11:53 am
first of all i am nigerian and have followed martins career for years now. he is not 43 or anywhere near that. it was a silly error in the NFA. that same idiot gave the impression that players that played in the 94 world cupp are the same age as him…what nonsense! Martins is a kid. how can a player who scored approx 20 goals a season for newcastle…a player Inter wanted to keep be rubbish? fans need to watch football and make informed comments rather than spouting the same rubbish many people do.
If you were to say he is too different from ade and we dont need a player of his style…i would agree. but dont try to knock him because he gets the job done. Fact is if he was at arsenal he would score goals for fun
July 5, 2008 at 11:53 am
Ade… have you seen these official records?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/africa/4742321.stm
Maybe the onus is on Martins to prove his age…
Played in the same youth team as Babayaro and the Nigerian FA have the wrong date for him… sounds suspicious to me?
July 5, 2008 at 11:55 am
Sorry to interupt but i’ve got a quick message to the Nigerian pensioner who thinks he can play for us.
F**k off…….You won’t be welcome a Arsenal!
Got to get back to work now…… catch you guys later.
July 5, 2008 at 11:56 am
read the messages above pedro…if u were nigerian your age would probably be put wrong too…you hqve no idea how bad the NFA really is…i do
July 5, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Aaron… saying you have followed his career for years proves nothing… did you follow him before his first italian club?
Apparently he played for the same youth team as Babayaro… and lets be fair, he doesn’t look 24 does he? Even when he played for Inter he was incredibly developed for someone so young…
I can imagine how bad the NFA are… but it wouldn’t be the first time a Nigerian player has been caught up in an age row.
Kanu is definitely lying about his age… Harry made a joke about it in an interview and that is why they only give him one year contracts.
July 5, 2008 at 12:02 pm
no….no… just no… no martins fuck that shit stay put and only come to the emirates on your away games and only if you have too!!
July 5, 2008 at 12:03 pm
a bit off point but….to the person who said martins is at the top of the pecking order of nigerian strikers…he is not. Uche has overtaken him and yakubu cannot really be removed because he offers the big guy/little partnership (yakubu being the big guy obviously). Martins is No 3
July 5, 2008 at 12:04 pm
I think the Yak is a superb striker, I prefer him to Martins… much more consistent.
July 5, 2008 at 12:04 pm
We seem to be offending quite a few people today
Can’t any of you fucking idiots take a joke. I dont think anyone intended any offense,
And in all honesty I really could not give a shit how old Martins is anyway, as I really do not think he is good enough to play for Arsenal.
July 5, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Well you’ve all offended me you bunch of c**ts!! I’m going to find a site that doesn’t make racist comments about Red Indians!!
July 5, 2008 at 12:08 pm
pedro…where dids you hear he played in the same youth team?? provide a link or any evidence. that would certainly interest me. How can you tell how old a player is by looking at him? how many developing nigerians have you seen? have you been to nigeria? if someone told me martins is 28 i would say they are lying because he does not look that age. Go look at other nigerians of his age and tribe…you would quickly realise any judgement on appearance is very weak. i look foward to your evidence though
July 5, 2008 at 12:10 pm
12 months ago Martins turned down Arsenal, but now he apparently wants to play with Arsenal. Why the change of heart I wonder?
July 5, 2008 at 12:11 pm
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/article59577.ece
There were quotes before… I just can’t find them.
July 5, 2008 at 12:11 pm
off point again…but i come here regularly and its a brilliant site…even if i dont always agree…i guess thats the beauty of it…keep up the good work
July 5, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Gnarley, he didn’t turn us down… we just didn’t activate his release clause.
That is what this is all about… you have to lodge a bid otherwise martins stays another year at Newcastle.
Cheers Aaron.
July 5, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Im no fan of Martins, not by any stretch, but if, if AW pulls one of his odd ball trasfer moves and does sign him because he sees something in him that he can’t find in say an Eto, or a Villa (if he can explain what that something is i’d love to hear that one) lets at least give the old boy a shot. Like it or not, if he ears the shirt lets see what he does. Maybe a consistant run as a striker (instead of a winger) in a team where he will get chances…welll…..maybe, just maybe we should think twice before completely hamering the guy…
…i must reiterate though I am not in favour of this move and have always hated the way we keep getting tied in with, along with Santa Cruz and the other middle of the road talent we seem to keep getting linked with.
July 5, 2008 at 12:14 pm
I have to say Martins does look his reported age 23, 24. I don’t look at him and think he’s old. If all these players were as old as people say then it would effect their performances more. Kanu can’t be forty and still doing what he does, even if he never relied on pace. Same for Yakubu being 33 or something.
July 5, 2008 at 12:14 pm
pedro…thisw is not evidence. newcastle simply looking for a way to reduce the price by quoting a cock up in the NFA. Even the paper regurgitated the cock up in the NFA. this is not evidence. Why didnt newcastle drop their interest??? why did they still pay 10 million?? its not evidence and you know it. i challenged you to find evidence because i know there is none out there
July 5, 2008 at 12:14 pm
I heard from a Nigerian that Kanu told the doctors his real age is 27 back in 96 when he had his heart operation, It is a common theme with African players. Adebayor might also be well over 24!
July 5, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Oh, so we sort of turned him down. Well, I hope history repeats itself. I don’t want someone who turns cartwheel after hes scores. Is that racist
July 5, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Martins probably is more talented than Adebayor………
July 5, 2008 at 12:19 pm
paulinho and morrow…i totally agree with both your views. I cant wait for the next batch of nigerian players to get hammered because i have followed them as well…right from under 17 level. if any are old (by the way…kanu IS OLDER THAN HE CLAIMS) and i know it to be a fact, i would not hesitate to say it.
July 5, 2008 at 12:20 pm
I think the people who said they didn’t want Crouch are either racist or are discrimating against people who are tall and lanky.
Quite franky I find it disgusting.
Now what was that about google and something about sheep………..
July 5, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Check this out re Thiago Neves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L26umwZME8g
July 5, 2008 at 12:21 pm
he’s definitely scored some cracking goals this season and before, im just not keen on him no matter what age he is!
July 5, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Ash…kanu told my dad with his own mouth that he is in his late thirties…this was about 4 years ago!
July 5, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Gnarley (and everyone) - looks like the milligan trial was true after all, its just that he’s not good enough!
July 5, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Evo in Oz.
Word.
There’s just something that doesn’t fly with this move, I can see Martins having a game where he scores two all time greatest ever amazing goals…and all the sunday papers will headline with “ADE WHO”…then he’ll go and play 3 or 4 shit games…i could well be wrong but he seems like that sort of player.
He’ll probably make the top 20 Greatest ever gunners (see AFC.com)next season though. No doubt he’ll be right behind Ade somewhere.
July 5, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Parlour was at 19!!!! 19!!!!!!!!
July 5, 2008 at 12:28 pm
guys…a bit off point again (bear with me) but ajax have just signed a new striker fo 13 million pounds. I just hope that martins is a smoke screen for huntelaar(who has refused to sign a new contract). We can hope right?
July 5, 2008 at 12:28 pm
i would have been truely surprised if we had of signed milligan, he would have been a back up to clichy or sagna…
July 5, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Evo, I reckon Arsenal would have been more likely to sign the late great Spike Milligan.
July 5, 2008 at 12:31 pm
do i get the modena?
July 5, 2008 at 12:32 pm
so he is 40? Geez, what do they put in their food over there.
July 5, 2008 at 12:34 pm
lol funny you should ask paulinho..IT IS partly in the food
July 5, 2008 at 12:34 pm
how about now?
July 5, 2008 at 12:36 pm
ok, well im giving up my hope for the modena. Congrats on 1,000,000 hits though guys
July 5, 2008 at 12:38 pm
I am officially now 10 years younger. Why not???
July 5, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Sell ade 30mil and buy santa and martins just incase van persie gets injured and who wants to see walcot and bendtner
Up front
July 5, 2008 at 12:39 pm
aaron u and i know martins is nothin less than 27.. as i have previously said.. if u think he is 23 or 24, well….
and he never played in any youth team with babayaro.. that is tru, i dont think he ever played any youth football in nigeria even…
July 5, 2008 at 12:43 pm
i agree with most of what u say..i cannot ever recall seeing him play youth football for nigeria so i knew the talk with babayaro was nonsense. However, why do you believe he is 27 or 28? and not 24?
July 5, 2008 at 12:45 pm
mike, as much as i like nigerian players as i’m nigerian…i would rather see huntelaar than martins. forget santa cruz. If we had huntelaar i wouldnt care where adebayor is because he is a complete striker. I dont even care about Villa or Eto’o
July 5, 2008 at 12:51 pm
i see news now has a top rated sources only section now - guess that means no tribal football links then???
July 5, 2008 at 12:52 pm
congrats on the 1,000,000th hits!
still no news on who’s coming in next, huh?
July 5, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Ajax have confirmed the Dutch transfer record signing of one of the most exciting rising stars of European football, the 19-year-old Serbian Miralem Sulejmani. The teenage starlet arrives from Heerenveen with a glowing reputation and is a major coup as his impressive debut season in Holland had the likes of PSV, Feyenoord and Chelsea chasing him.
Should we now make a move then for Huntelaar??
July 5, 2008 at 12:54 pm
i reckon Rico! i was reading that earlier thinking the same!
July 5, 2008 at 12:55 pm
i hope and pray le boss will go for him. I dream of an all dutch front pair. we would be awesome. lets hope wenger is at it again
July 5, 2008 at 12:58 pm
well i am 31 and i was asked in aldi for id and in dubai by some monster of an African gentleman bouncer, looks mean nothing,
why do people pick the bones of the posts, we are hear to chat not write abuse and then fuck off, if you have a complaint email the site not bore the tits off the rest of us that want to talk about …well everthing really
fucking nOObs, piss off back to myspace/flicker/etc
from the archives on martins 2003
http://www.newswatchngr.com/editorial/allaccess/bob/10929105339.htm
July 5, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Evo - how much would he be, RvP would over the moon, bloody hell, so would I
July 5, 2008 at 1:01 pm
The martins story is absolute rubbish. I actually feel sorry for newcastle now that martins has said what he said. Someone please show me any evidence that wenger remotely even likes him. The papers/agents/blogs/websites make all this shit up because there’s no real news or to push up values.2 weeks a go clichy was leaving for about 3 hours until he signed his new deal. If he hadn’t signed we’d be reading about the 10 left backs that Arsene wanted to replace him (and no doubt at least one of them being “flattered) If martins goes to arsenal I’ll eat my own shit
July 5, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Don’t hold me to that
July 5, 2008 at 1:02 pm
martins mistake on age
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/4745717.stm
July 5, 2008 at 1:05 pm
chris…i dont think anybody would say martins is rubbish. at least i dont think that for one moment. I just dont think he is what we need. we need someone tall who can hold the ball and score. Huntelaar, ibrahimovich and adebayor’s of this world are few and far between. if adebayor goes huntelaar is the most realistic target
July 5, 2008 at 1:07 pm
actually aaron i havent mnade my mind up on this guy as i have not seen too much of him,
but arsene has been tracking him for a while there must be something there for him to consitantly be tracking him
July 5, 2008 at 1:08 pm
i am happy that chris has produced these articles..that would shut a few people up…nice one chris
July 5, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Huntelaar would be my choice, followed by Santa Cruz, Villa was up there but has said no.
Navez is a homeboy like Reyes, he doesn’t even like away games.
July 5, 2008 at 1:11 pm
has anyone seen the latest story that Togotwat’s Barca move will move forward until either Etoo or Ronaldinho are sold
Why dont we just swap him for either of them. And I am not sure how it has come about, but we could probably get player and cash for both
I know both had in-different seasons last year but you dont become shit overnight, they are both way better than TT25 and would probably pay for themselves in merchandising.
Our Fast East merchandising would go through the roof if we bought Ronaldinho.
And either of those guys would get me excited and re-assured.
July 5, 2008 at 1:13 pm
chris, i can only assume he offers genuine pace and a very good left foot and good spring. i know he has a eye for goal but he has to be used in the right way otherwise…well we can see what newcastle has done for his career. he is not the same player. i would still prefer huntelaar
July 5, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Well played Chris… thanks for proving we don’t produce articles for no reason on here!
I thought all that stuff was common knowledge…?
Chris, do you even think Ade is leaving?
July 5, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Hey Geoff, we agree, I wont be at all unhappy if Santa replaces Ade, but my hunch is all this crap from him and his agent is a pure money spinning exercise, and he wont get what he is after, no-one will pay 35M, so he stays. Pretty much the same has happened to Hleb - So far, anyway…
July 5, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Rico…Everyone knows the adebayor thing is all about money. its always been about money.
July 5, 2008 at 1:19 pm
I fear Ade will end up staying as well.
If Barca pull out, we should go back to Milan and take the 25M
Ade is going to really struggle at Arsenal if he stays next year. The fans will be on his back at the first moment of crapness, infact I honestly think he will be booed for a bit. It will take a lot of arse-licking for that guy to get back in favour, and I think his game will suffer as a result.
That will probably lead to more speculation next summer and you can bet his value will be well below 25m after an average season.
July 5, 2008 at 1:19 pm
What a load of poo….we were never after him in the first place! utter bollox
The Gunners’ hopes of capturing Spain’s holding midfielder Marcos Senna have suffered a setback after Villarreal slapped a £25m price tag on him.
July 5, 2008 at 1:23 pm
why are big clubs scared/reluctant to go for huntelaar.. maybe he just sounds/looks to good to be tru fairytale kinda striker… and no1 wants to gamble
aaron two reason i think he’s 27/28, that is my brother’s age who used to play football then wit martins crew @ebutemetta.. and they used to group dem by age den..
second reason.. he was shaggin this girl one time who was in university of lagos and she told us he told her his real age(dat was in 2006) and he said he was 26 then.. she claims she asked him just b4 he was about to cum.. and u kno guys we say d truth t those times!!
July 5, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Anyone here off to the Armoury later today???
I’m about to set off to go get my kits.
July 5, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Ade for £30 mill is the greatest bit of daylight robbery since the Brinks Matt job.
July 5, 2008 at 1:29 pm
I wish the Chavs would hurry the fook up and buy Eto’o, so Barca can pay for Ade.
Huntelaar and that Diogo kid from Brazil. Apparently his youtoob clips are to die for.
July 5, 2008 at 1:29 pm
treze - who you getting on the bak?
July 5, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Have it!!!!! TREZE have a nice day, let us all know what the new kit is really like.
July 5, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Isnt Huntelaar only 24??
July 5, 2008 at 1:33 pm
I’m undecided either Vela12 or Eduardo9, My 3 year old brother said he wanted Fabregas4 so i can’t get that
July 5, 2008 at 1:34 pm
LMAO very funny stuff ric-dizzle. you have no idea how bad i want to beleive you (if only for that great story) but i guess its hearsay. you could be right though, i dont know. afterall kanu told my dad he was in his late thirties some years back. interesting stuff. must say i dont really have anything to suggest he is as old as that…just as i have nothing but comments to suggest kanu is old. but you never know. he looks younger than that to me though
July 5, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Evo that is a good question for everyone
I remember a time when we were really spoilt for choice and the decision on whose name you would have on them was a tough decision. It was Bergkamp, Vieira, Pires, Ljungberg, Heny.
I would imagine Cesc is the most popular, and I bet he is miles ahead of anyone else.
I know a big name is not everything but we must suffer in merchandising by not really having any. Hopefully a injury free season for RVP, Rosicky and Eduardo will change that.
July 5, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Well im off now. Bye grovers
July 5, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Just returned from Brazil, caught the Fluminense/Quito Copa Libertedores Final. Thiago Neves; Thats who we should sogn.
July 5, 2008 at 1:41 pm
the question is will barca pay the money that AW wants,
July 5, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Ric-Dizzle; You meant martins right?
July 5, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Chris;
The answer is yes. Where you been?
Cave to cave selling Encyclopedias in Afghanistan?
July 5, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Huntelaar is 24yrs old
July 5, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Amaury Bischoff
whats the update angry……
July 5, 2008 at 1:45 pm
35 million?
July 5, 2008 at 1:45 pm
it is a tough choice.
i have cesc - 4 - on the white one. bergy on the long sleeve burgundy commemorative one. henry on the short sleeve same.
plenty of other ones i never got names on
July 5, 2008 at 1:46 pm
The Bisch got out of bed the wrong side this morning, causing him to break 3 bones in his foot and rupturing his achilles tendon.
July 5, 2008 at 1:46 pm
ive got rocky on my commemoritave one
July 5, 2008 at 1:47 pm
lol
July 5, 2008 at 1:48 pm
oh i just remembered, my old cheese brought me back an inter - vieira one from milan last year when she was on holidays….didnt even ask for it…
July 5, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Chris;
If we can believe any of these reports lately. I would say/hope upwards of £28 million!
Anything above £20 million would be amazing business in all seriousness though.
But barca, more specifically, Laporta is desperate to appease the fans so he can get re-elected, he’s promised them Ade, we aint in a hurry, but he is, Sunday is tyhe deadline to stop a vote of no confidence, so he will just have to up his bid to a level that is acceptable by Arsene and the club.
Sgit! We could really screw the bastards this time!
July 5, 2008 at 1:50 pm
how good are the Joe Crow’s going down?! - lime cut into quarters - smashed in the bottom of the glass - add cruched ice and 1 shot of tequilla, topped up with lemonade!
July 5, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Angry
I think that decision on a re-election will be decided tomorrow though
I reckon his price will go down again after that as they will not be in a rush.
July 5, 2008 at 1:53 pm
yes martins @ angry
if we sell adebayor i have info from edelman’s secreatary @ d emirates, that vela would be lined up for immediate replacement.. with walcott continuing on the wings
the 30 million would be used to pay outstanding debts
July 5, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Laporta is pleading with the fans not to go with the no confidence vote, just in case he cannot parade his numero 1 signing.
IF he is using the buying of Ade as a political promise then I dont see the price changing much TBH.
Like I said tho, anything over £29 mill will be effin top money.
My bet is £27.6 million!
July 5, 2008 at 2:02 pm
If Sp*rs lose Keane and/or Berb I can see em moving for Hunelaar…
July 5, 2008 at 2:05 pm
wenger should take berba if he’s available
July 5, 2008 at 2:08 pm
I would take anything over 20m myself.
My reasoning for the price going down is that I think Wenger knows that they were desperate so put the price high. If Barca were willing to pay the 30m They would have done it by now.
If they dont get him for around 25 my bet is they will go for option B. Which is shame as we will never have that much money on the table for him again, and similar to the Vieira and Henry moves, we end up selling them a year too late.
Someone said yesterday that Barca blogs were about as excited as Ade coming as we are about Bischoff.
July 5, 2008 at 2:15 pm
pat;
They are spent up fella! barca need to offload RonnieDino and Eto’o before they can do any more business. Just say they agree to buy Ade for £25 mill, then cannot offload Eto n Goofy.