So the Sun announced that Arsenal have slapped a £40 million price tag on Cesc Fabregas, the story goes that we have finally given in as the money is too tempting.
Arsenal mouthpiece and propaganda machine Arsenal.com have said nothing, not that that means much as they never do until the story has been out for a week! But until I hear from the horses mouth that Cesc is for sale, I will treat it with the usual disdain.
I really hate the way the media keep picking on us, if Arsenal had even the slightest clue about marketing and PR strategies they would have sorted this out years ago, obviously they don’t. Ivan if you need help, just ask, I do this for a living.
So this is for you, you nasty, seedy, lying hack reporters.
Cesc Fabregas was the original foundation stone in Arsene Wengers ‘Project Youth’ he would no more sell him than one of his limbs, period.
If John Terry is worth £45mil, Kaka £56mil and Ronaldo £80mil then why on earth would Arsenal set a price tag on the youngest of them all at £40mil?
I’m sorry but you really are a complete bunch of clueless, unintelligent, barely literate, wankers.
Enough said let’s move swiftly on to the delusional David O’Leary, he said that he would only consider being an assistant manager at Manchester United and Arsenal, really David? Who wouldn’t! Anyway you blotted your copy book when your disgusting Leeds side went out to maim us and you celebrated like you had won the world cup, all you did was to ruin our season and get Nigel Winterburn’s nose smashed in, I never want to see you in North London again, let alone Arsenal.
It’s funny because as a manager I always liked O’Leary, I’ve played golf a few times with his brother Pearce and he really is a nice guy, but after that day, he was finished in my eyes, finished I tell you.
The Sun rumour of yesterday that we talked about here on Le Grove, was that we may swap Ade for Flamini plus £20mil, I went with that story because I so, so wanted to believe it, I know it’s probably not true as it was of course a Sun story, but as Wenger has said Ade can go if he wants to, he really should get shot of him, it’s madness to keep a player you said that about.
Finally, and again another rumour, Wenger has now offered Senderos and money for Melo, I can’t help thinking there must be some truth in the Melo story because like the Nasri, Arshavin and Vermaelen rumours, this one won’t go away.
I guess Arsenal will have to publicly diss the Cesc story, so expect something there today, but we really should report Barca and Madrid to FIFA for all their bile, they are once again trying to unsettle an Arsenal player and that really is against the rules.
Finally, yesterday was a guest post on Le Grove and a well written one too, but from next weekend anyone guesting will be asked to stay by their post for the day so they can answer the inevitable questions, it was a great post though, so well done Finestcuts.
Have a great day Grovers, I expect lots of news very soon!
chamakh is average at best when it ocmes to his link up play…he holds the ball well up front but he cannot see a pass..i have to admit he does ahve that knack of getting into scoring positions but wahts the point if he is shit at actually finishing then..
imo buying him would kill the likes of vela and jay simpson..
Gs , shit defenders like Alves ? Well , from what I saw of him , not too many who ply their in around here is fit to tie his laces.
Fast ?? Well , Micah and KOlo havent done too well recently , have they ?
And you reckon Vermaelen is better than him ??? Good for you.
why buy another lab experiment
Well Stu , maybe I went a bit over the top with the Eboue analogy ; but his finishing is really awful and NIk currently is better than him for sure. Just a wee bit , tho.
GS , coz we are AW’s lab.
Anyone know Chamakh’s goal/game ratio for last season?
Arindam@KOL Dont know much about vermy yet but as Stu said conceeding 4 goals in defence against us is not a “good” record and if Real Madrid and Barca are after a player doesn’t mean they are the best money can buy does it afterall Barca are so keen on ade when we want him out out out
He scored around 13 in the league last season. But stats reveal nothing.
Or else , Denilson would have been the best CM in the world.
And Madrid are only after defenders because Pelligrini asked for some. And im not sure how great their scouting network is seeing as they are just buying the biggest names.
They probably just saw his name in the paper and thought “lets buy this guy”.
Ha fair dos – If Chamakh comes in then i’ll take full responsibility! There’s just no logic in it, and Wenger’s comments mean nothing. If he did come in then he’d be behind VP, Eduardo, Arshavin, and Bendy in the pecking order, why on earth would wenger go for him?! It just won’t happen!!
Arindam, Well that’s an over-simplification, since goals do reveal a lot about a striker. 13 isn’t very good though
chamakh is just a thinner darren bent..complete shit coupled with a few moments of brilliance…
Anyway, discussing Alves is pointless because if Barca and Madrid are after him he will be going for about 20m. No chance we are getting him.
As for Chamakh, stats dont tell the whole story but 13 goals in france isnt better or as good as 15 goals in the prem, our third highest scorer.
13 goals in Ligue 1 is so so poor IMO
Yeah but how many games did he play, and how many did he start, these all have to be taken in to consideration
if chamakh comes in, then i will trust wenger’s better judgement over mine and i will be convinced of his ability…. i trust wenger not to compromise on quality..
GS , who told you Barca are keen on Ade ?? That was a joke , I hope. They are getting 30-goals-a-season-guaranteed-Villa .
As far as Alves’ Porto getting drubbed at our hands being the basis for your idea that he is shite is a bit misplaced. You have to look beyond the scorelines a few times. I liked the loo of him – strong tackler , great in the air , composed on the ball – looked really accomplished to me.
Hope you are aware that Vermy’s team was drubbed 4-1 as well in the Eredivisie by a team thats far shittier than us. Go check it up. That didnt stop AW from buying him.
“I trust wenger not to compromise on quality..”
Made me laugh that
Silvestre , Bitchslap , Ade (was shite when he came) …
bruno alves may be good but i doubt he is better than either djourou or vermaelen or maybe even senderos…….. and now that barca and madrid have entered the race we might as well drop out..
“and now that barca and madrid have entered the race we might as well drop out..”
When the fuck were we in , Rohan ?
Looks like we are stuck with Adebayor:-
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11827_5417541,00.html
Well Arindam seems Barca and the rest are after hom and i don’t think we need another CDF again we have 5 already
If I were Pelligrini I would demand Carvalho/Alves (available) , Clichy and Maicon .
Then , Barca would have a real fight on their hands.
ARINDAM
awesome clips of Rosicky. cant wait for him to be back. the guy is class!
do you want me to name all the other great buys he has made…bitchslap was on a free so leave him out of it..
and so what if ade was shit if he came..the fact that he has transformed into a 25mill striker shows that he has some quality that wenger saw..it isnt his fault that he is an egoistical cunt..
i am the first to criticize wenger when it coems to his team selection and tactical moves and his reluctance to spend big money but you can’t say that he is not a good judge of quality..
his success to buy ratio is probably much higher than those of other managers..
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hallo mangoonian.. and watch public enemies..absolutely mindblowing..one of the best movies of the year imo..
Looks like we are stuck with Gooner786;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS5QMT-JUt4
haha , ManGoonian that was funny !!
Rohan , AW is a great judge of talent no doubt. But we dont need talent now. Chamakh may be a decent talent ; but we cant afford to wait for 2 yrs (like we did for Ade) for him to come good. We need ready made fixes now.
Get my point ?
Just wanted an excuse to post that JC Clark ting!
ade was a young kid with potential, bischoff was a kid worth taking a punt on, nothing to lose, and silvestre was brought in for experience, wenger would never buy a 25 year old who would cost a fair bit who wasn’t up to it!
KM , if we can get Rosicky and Eduardo fit again , we will be in with a serious shout right till the end.
arindam ade was a kid – chamakh is 25, so if he’s good enough, he’ll be good enough now, or won’t ever be good enough
Have we signed Chamakh??? He is 25 anyways, the same age as Ade, hardly a yute, nope, he aint David Villa, but he might be a decent player, Ade was hardly prolific in France and wassizface… Crocka Santa Cruz werent prolific in Deutchland either…
And, we aint even signed him…
Al news seems to have dried up any news???
A , I got 2 words for you : Ian Wright
i never even wanted chamakh..not good enough for the arsenal imo…all i said was that if wenger bought him he must ahve something…
and yep i get your point we don’t really need a new striker anyway..and if melo AND hangeland (??) come in we are done..
nah we havn’t mang – and we’re not going to!
Alright MG, seems to be mostly an argument about whether Shakatak is shit or not!
Nah, Juhasz is better than Hangeland.
These new faces are freaking me out. Change is NOT good.
melo AND hangeland Rohan? wake up now
Its the old scatter gun approach to transfers…. Make out we are after the Chamakhs, melos etc, then kapow! We slip in there like Our man Flint (another effin top film OGC!) and sign……
Some fucker we can all slate at a later date…
He indeed is !
Stu;
Nice selection you have there….
Show off!
Hay Zorr0!
Manure has signed a reserve player from Bordeaux. Some Obertan guy. How have the mighty fallen !
i do see both melo and hangeland coming in and possibly toure and 2 of diaby senderos and silvestre leaving…wenger did say he was going to buy 3 players did he not…but then again he says a lot of things..
What face is that?
Got it.
Sky Sports has Ronaldo being paraded infront of about 8 million in the Bernabeu!
Some kid was having his picture taken with him but looked like he had just got a season ticket to Neverland!
have you seen juhasz play stu ? if so how good is he ?
8million IN the bernabeu. Fackin ‘ell, thats a tight squeeze.
Its got….
yea zorro i ‘m watching the pony prancing about at the bernabeu on RMTV rite now..pathetic really
No i havent seen him Rohan but i like the look of him. And he is hungarian payer of the year. Not saying much i know but Hungarian are doing well and i think he won the league with Anderlecht….i think.
Selling Ronaldo Tevez and replacing them with what Owen Obertan Valencia Maybe he’s just tired of winning trophies
Thats good enough for me… Lets sign him!
Selling Ronaldo Tevez and replacing them with what Owen Obertan Valencia Maybe he’s just tired of winning trophies win win win win it gets boring doesn’t it when you win win and win and don’t loose
Fergie just wants to prove he is better than Wenger by trying to win things with average players.
Or maybe he is trying to see who can go longer without winning something.
No wenger didn’t say he was gonna sign 3 players rohan….
Obertan could be a quality player, but certainly isn’t gonna make a massive difference immediately – year or two of transition for utd methinks!
i like the look of him too, stu…
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he id say he was looking to buy 2 moe players when he bought vermaelen unless my memory fails me..
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/00UTdIb4tycO6/610x.jpg
Here is an interesting picture of him.
Think your memory fails you rohan – he never said he was gonna bring in 2 more, i’d imagine it was just people taking comments, interpretting how they wanted, and deciding it was fact! Wenger would never make a statement like that about his plans!
Fiorentina have reached a joint-ownership agreement with Juventus over Marco Marchionni which will see the midfielder play for the Viola next term, with reports suggesting Felipe Melo could now move in the opposite direction. Fiorentina have also signed defender Cesare Natali from Torino.
Rohan he says a lot of things. Dont take them literally
A, not sure, I thought I saw quotes from AW saying 2 more max and that what Madrid was doing was ridiculous.
Any joy with that physio? Looking forward to lining up alongside you in Leeds for the mighty Arse!
where did you get that from arsenal fella..
have to say i’m not too surprised as i figured that juve would be more determined in thier pusuit of melo given that the prospect of xabi alonso isfading very quickly..
Marchionni is quality. Dont know why Juve are letting him go.
Its all part fo the plan…. Now we slip in there, like a shadow in the night and sign …. NICKY BUTT….
arsenal fella is that a fact or a joke
Nah…Nicky Butt is too good for us.
yea it’s on skysports transfer clockwatch unfortunatly
“Sunderland keeper Craig Gordon has warned the club is not going to leap from a scrap against relegation straight into the top four. ”
Who on earth would think different??!
why dont we go for gago he’s pretty much surplus to requirement now
Naah , its Robbie Savage that AW is looking at for more steel.
Bye fellas !
Gago is good, nothing special really. And would probably be expensive.
Later Arindam.
why would gago be surplus to requirements anyways?? Even if they sign alonso surely he’ll still be back up for him, especially with de la red out for the season
If de la Red is out for the season, we should definitely sign him…
who said 8 million were at bernabeu naaah it’s 80000
you got to love his name though..
Ruben the Red for the ARSENAL
Ruben the Red is fucked! He collapsed and they cannot find out why!
why dont we ever do anything like that? it really is pretty boring to be an arsenal fan during the off season….
Why dont we ever do anything like what?
Im going to assume you mean unveiling players like Madrid are doing and i agree. All we ever get is a couple of shite photos on Arse.com. Wheres the fucking excitement ffs!
i do feel sorry for the guy..that has got to be one of the worst things that could happen…not being able to do anything because of not knowing what exactly was wrong…
yea stu exactly..the mos we got was arshavin coming out in the fucking snow telling us that pavlyuchenko was not his friend…
Imagine the Emirates full to witness a new player paraded? Neither can I.
Instead we’ll sign Chama-lacka-ding-dong or whatever his name is and all that will be there to witness it will be his mum, his Gran and the candid camera crew.
Im amazed the club dont do unveilings because its another way to squeeze money out of the fans.
Fuck i’d even pay and go watch if it meant we were signing someone i’d heard of for a change.
We’ve got class – what madrid are doing is a joke, people laugh at them because of it, and we’d never do it because we’re above it! We’re a football club, not a circus
No we just have no vision and no ambition. 4 rate team full of 4th rate players at the moment.
Say what you want A, but having a stadium full of fans to welcome a new player would be great, I hate the shitty photos on arse.com of him holding the shirt.
We’d fill the stadium to wave Ade and Eboue off though!
Ade maybe, not Eboue tho. He has lost some haters lately.
Adebayoooor Adebayooooooorrrr
Don’t get hit on the arse by the dooooooorrr.
Nah bollocks, organising it like that is show-business, not football, they’re like the McDonalds of the football world, we’re like an exclusive independant restaurant. Fuck the flashing lights and fireworks, I’d rather have a football club with class than turn the club into something like that, obsessed with signing big names so they can unveil them like that, obsessed with showing off. It’s a matter of principle, and we’re at different ends of the spectrum, and the respectable end.
Why the fuck didnt we get Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Elton John to write a pop opera to commemerate the signing of vermaellen???
Killjoys…
Mangoonian – i read a lot of Arsenal blogs….
What’s wrong with a bit of a show A?
Wow, you sad fuckers must buy all those celeb magazines as well, I take it. The way you are completely overawed at the circus that is Real madrid…
Big girls blouses….
Have you seen Jordans new kitchen??? Its gorgeous…
But can you read em without having to move your lips tho???
Hmmmm, tricky one eh?
No Mang… but i’ve seen your new emoticon… where did you get that bad boy from?
Everybody happy in goonerland again?
If some fans want that and will pay for it, why not give them it? We all like a bit of a show, Real Madrid have just signed one of the best players in the world, what is wrong with celebrating it?
It’s for the benefit of all the celeb gossip magazine reading football equivalents Baxter. Give me actual quality and content over showiness and superficiality anyday.
Pedro;
I learnt everything I knoew from Stu…
What is that in it’s mouth… it looks like a whistle!
Not all of us like a bit of show Baxter, I certainly don’t! Celebrate when you win something, not when you sign someone. It sums up what Madrid are all about desperately trying to sign the most high profile people so they can have the fireworks and such like. I’d much rather concentrate on the football side of things.
right A so, we know you wouldn’t go along if we bought say Messi. Plenty would though. Why deprive them of it just because it offends your delicate sensibilities?
Celebrating the fact they have spent the equivalent of the gross national product of a small country is NOTHING to celebrate…
Its fucking obscene and I just hiope it all goes tits up…
They are all new ones for some reason.
etc etc
Its like saying theres nothing i want to watch on tele so i’m going to hide the remote control so no-one can watch ‘owt.
GM, some want a circus as we announce we have signed a player!
Fine Mangoonian, you and A sit in the corner sulking about filthy commerce and the rest of us would go and have a right party if we signed Messi!
A;
The fact that Barca swept up last season means Real have to try and steal the limelight and appear to get one over their rivals… hence this sad show and thefact that in return, barca are having to try and appease their fans by saying they are signing Villa, Arshavin and Cesc, of course…
Baxter, we’d be there to see the player do what he is paid for, i.e. win games, not ponce around like the bearded lady!
I dont want a circus or anything like that. But just some photos on arse.com is a bt of a let down imo.
Somewhat like buying a new car but not letting anyone see it, just shwing then a photo.
Jeez… give the guy a break… he just spunked £80million on a player… I’d want to put on a show as well!
I’d have him do more than just walk round… I’d have him doing hand stands a break dancing…
Fuck Messi, I want Coco and the Bearded lady…
But, will there be ice cream there when we sign Sponge Bob Square pants?
If all you care about is the games, why blog then Zorro? ISn’t being a fan about the whole enchilada? The rumours, the signings, the fallouts? Shall we sit in silence till the new season starts?
Well, if you like naff, over the top shallow meaningless glitzy bollocks…
Then, fair enough, I think its all kinda gay…
Exactly Pedro! You in for the Messi Party?
It’s the principle Baxter – people should be trying to win things, and subsequently celebrating upon achieving success.
Not trying to sign players just to make the headlines, and celebrating signing said players before he’s even kicked a ball.
I’d like Ronaldo to do some break dancing, how about the electric boogaloo, preferably attached to a high voltage pylon!
Fucking love it Mangoonian. Especially if it meant we’d got some top players in red and white.
Baxter, don’t worry about MG and A… they are kill joys.
Watching 80,000 people enjoy the spectacle of a new signing that much is fantastic.
Our fans wouldn’t get that excited if Barcelona were coming to town!
I think it’s great that people are passionate enough ahout their club to turn up in their droves to watch a player unveiling.
What??? No jugglers??
Poor fucking show, where’s the magic tricks?
Pedro; That old twat aint spunked a bean, he’s been bank rolled by the Spanish banks…
Well maybe its the not winning anything that makes me want to see the player at the stadium being unveiled.
If we had something else to parade then i would be fine without te “circus”.
I’m glad they ain’t at our party then!
Baxter count me in… Mang and A will be sitting on the radiators round the side while we party.
I’ll celebrate every goal a player scores, every game a team wins, and go to any testimonial of a player who’s served the club for a long time.
I won’t celebrate a player before he’s kicked a ball for the club, just because he’s a big name – in my eyes that’s ridiculous, and pathetic, and I’m VERY glad our club doesn’t do it!
This has NOTHING to do with football, it’s part of the celebrity culture that’s taken over so many people in the western world, and unfortunately infiltrating football more and more
Baxter, at the end of the day, it is about the clock moving from 3 to 4:45.
What RM are having Ronaldo do is embarrasing and no one looks it more than him!
Pedro;
But you like reading Hello magazine and watching Big brother… You old tart!
At least their old twats go get some money! We’ve got two freaking billionaires on our board and we don’t ever get a reason to break out the party poppers!
He’s gearing up for a break away… just like the rest of the oligarchs…
Then when it happens… cheer leaders and fireworks every week.
Brilliant news!
If shallow empty gestures are your thing, then go ape shit crazy… Bit like how the spuds do, every close season… Or the geordie sheep…
Besides its good business. Some of you must work in business don’t you ever launch new products, create a bit of a buzz?
Mang, I’m watching two wales have sex on tele right now.
I’m learning…
Wales can have old boys as large as 3metres…. and testicles that weigh a tonne…
However, if I am seeing someone, and they have a magazine… I will look through it critiquing every page as I go…
Standard man practice.
FFS! I dont even wanna imagine pedro and Baxter partying…. Couple of oldqueens, flouncin about, getting down to take That….
If we had a trophy ir 3 to celebrate then all would be well but we have had nothing to celebrate for 4 years now. Its depressing never being that happy. Winning games , progressing in cups etc is one thing but nothing compares to celebrating winning some silverware.
A, don’t blame celebrity culture… people have been using it to flog products since the twenties.
They’ve just got mediums to do it with now…