On the radar...
I needed a Saturday to give me a break from all the fevered transfer speculation.
Yesterday it emerged from make believe land that Gervinho was in talks with Manchester City and Arsenal. Apparently City want to pay €168k a week (I hope some of that can contribute to a new hair cut) and a €17million fee for a player who to me, looks no better than average. How can you compete with that if true?
Well, that’s the point, I’m not sure if it is true. What might be true is that Arsenal are in negotiations with Lille because the BBC said so… they also gave a very strong hint they weren’t lying when they said…
Very Arsenal wouldn’t you say? If we can’t get a player for at least 60% below market rate, generally, we’ll spend our £3million on someone who is 18 years old with a 22% chance of making it.
I feel some form of entitlement to slight French/African’s, much in the same way Barcelona feel entitlement to anyone who plays for Arsenal. If we miss out on Gervinho, some serious questions need to be asked…
Maybe if our midgets played with machete’s against Stoke, we wouldn’t get bullied. Just a thought…
Anyway, at least things are busying along nicely. If we miss out on Gervinho, we have the makings of a pretty good, ‘who we missed out ‘ 2011 squad.
Brad Freidel, Phil Jones, Chris Smalling and Gervinho!
Marvelous, lets see if we can end the summer with a full squad!
All of this transfer speculation reminds me of when I was a youngster. I remember when I was about 13 years old my mum asked me to come down stairs as I was in trouble. I walked down and saw the phone bill on the table, I knew I’d been busted.
‘Pedro, we know what you’ve been up to. Phoning porn lines is disgusting, especially the amount you’ve been doing it and at times when your grand parents have been round.’
‘Mum, I haven’t been phoning porn lines.’
‘Lying about it will only make it worse, we’ll call them shall we?’
>0906 611 111< Dialed on speaker phone
Loudspeaker: ‘ Welcome to Saturday the 23rd of Junes edition of Clubcall, today Arsenal launched an official bid for Patrick Kluivert…’
I’m not sure which my mum was more disappointed in… sad fact was, in the days of internet dial up, the teletext Clubcall teasers were the only way a man could get hold of some made up transfer gossip. Now you’ve got twitter accounts dedicated to it, it’s staggering the amount of toilet that is spoken on line. We’re all like addicts though, devouring any snippet of information we can get our hands on.
Arsene Wenger has got his hand in the Barcelona sweet jar again, no, I’m not talking about the jar Pep Guardiola keeps in his Seat Leon’s glove compartment, I’m talking about the metaphorical jar called La Masia. He’s in for sweet 16′s Gerard Deulofeu & Xavier Quintilla. Now, I don’t really give two craps about either of them really, what I do care about is there seems to be far more focus on the kids than the seniors. We’re obviously paying someone in Spain to camp out in a high rise apartment block over looking the academy playground which in any other walk of life would probably result in your hard drive being seized.
Not only that, it appears our Chief Scout Steve Rowley has been checking out Oxlade-by-the-power-of-Braveskull-Chamberlain and a 17 year old Nottingham Forest defender called Jamaal Lascelles. That’s a major FFS moment for me. Can we for one second just stop buying up every kid on the planet? It’s ridiculous, if not just for the reason that come the end of the summer when our squad of missed targets is at 52, Wenger will say the players weren’t there to begin with. There isn’t enough focus on digging out players in the right age group. Steve Rowley should be hanging out in proper stadiums, not Championship reserve fields.
One kid that I’m now sold on is Jenkinson. The guy who is part Finish, like my first ever boss, spoke to Arsenal.com yesterday and done himself proud.
“My dad has been a season ticket holder for 40-odd years and has been going regularly since he was a kid.
“He brought me up as an Arsenal fan and I’ve been going since I was young. I even went to a few games last season. My whole family are all massive Arsenal fans.
“I was always a big fan of Tony Adams and I’m reading his book at the moment. He was always someone I looked at as a great leader. He is a player I can learn a lot from and I will be looking to follow in his footsteps.”
Those quotes are superb, if he can match the quality of those quotes to footballing skills, perhaps we have ourselves a bit of a player. It’s nice to finally have a youngster that’s in at the club not banging on about how amazing Arsene Wenger is. Instead, he’s telling us his old man is a season ticket holder and that he’s reading the book where Tony Adam’s messes himself on a bar stool. What a champion first interview. Hopefully he’ll have a bit of Adams about him and the first thing he’ll do is give Diaby a dry slap for his Spurs comments. Some people were saying yesterday his comments were a joke.
Worst joke ever Diaby and that’s coming from me.
I don’t believe for a second the comments were taken out of context. I truly believe he’s agitating for a move. Let him go, he’s part of the deadwood crew. The more we can chop out, the better in my book.
Finally, I’ll leave you with some poignant comments from Robin Van Persie, future captain of the club I feel.
“Every year it always goes wrong in an identical way and that is frustrating,” said Van Persie. “When you look at results in the last years, then Arsenal shouldn’t be talking about winning the league because too many times things have gone wrong.
“Sometimes you have to eat the truth and be realistic. But I do believe with the signing of a number of players, then next season we should be in there competing for prizes.”
Give him the tools Wenger and he will be king!
Right, that’s your lot!
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tumbleweed rolls down LG hallway…
get out of bed Gstar theres business at hand!
benderino to inter! cash cash cash!!
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11670_6982844,00.html
to busy reading about those muslims in sweden
we forgive ur typos lurch…
how gracious Pharo9ja that you refrained from using the irony against me
being made to watch water for elephants
haha hope your blogging in situe!
i liked constantine though
what muslims in sweden
find it v frustrating that we manage to sell players cheap and losing millions while nickel and diming on several mils bidding for players??
* we(nger) dont seem to hesitate paying for teens?
* how much would we be losing on nasri and clichy due to stupid contract managemenet??
* yet hike the ticket price to get what? a measy 3 or 4 mil?
the execs are a joke; if you want to play like a corporate (v a club) and talk sustainability, financial prudence, blah blah blah, get measured against the corporate rules… the business needs trophies and top employees (footballers) so it can get richer, idiiots
which players did we sell cheap useroz?
i thought we got good money for our recent cast off’s, hence justification to pay market or near market value for prospects.
Transfer chat coming up on talkshite, Arsenal to be talked about
Big Dave
Tom Williams on talkshite 17:45 with Ligue 1 transfer news.
http://twitter.com/#!/tomwfootball
Thats a surprise!! Arsenal to be talked about on talkshite? without us that shit radio station would have went bust year’s ago!!
Morning All.
Who have we bought?
Who is acting like a cunt?
Who is raping who?
Catch me up……
Morgan Amalfitano has signed for Marseille apparently for a free.
Don’t really care about him but killer name, eh?
Usmanov is the only person that has even offered to invest money into the club and some fans call him a rapist and a crook despite the FACT that he is neither.
Some fans are just brainless Wenger zombies that are programmed to attack any ideas that fall outside the Wenger model of how a football club should be run. Well there are lots of ways to run a football club and its clear that some are a lot more successful than the way Arsenal is run.
Personally i am fed up with Wenger’s martyr mentality, there is nothing inherently good and wholesome about the way Arsenal is run, it is not better than chelsea or man utd and it is a hell of a lot less successful, We are not victims of financial doping mainly because there is no such thing as financial doping, its just some bull shit excuse Wenger pulls out of his arse when he is asked why he doesn’t win anything.
have talk shite mentioned some rumours?
Matthew, did you read the article on Usmanov I posted earlier?
QOS
Rumours posted on a far left website that is inherently hostile to capitalism and business men, As for the soviet justice system i have even less faith in that than i do in indymedia’s commitment to impartiality.
Until he is found guilty of a crime in a country with a transparent justice system I have no reason to belive he has done anything wrong.
Really weird picture in the post today, Pedro!
Making a point about the French African midget situation were we? WTF.
LG is becoming stranger by the day.
Chozzer, he’s poking fun at all the comments made this week.
Matthew as far as Usmanov is concerned I like him, he has Arsenal at heart and he’s stuck his own money in even though the Wenger diciples won’t give him a seat on the board.
At least he earned his own money, unlike the other major shareholder who lives off the wife’s dosh or the minor one off his daddy’s legacy, and of course handouts.
You have to realise there are a number of left wing carry your banner for sister Anna’s on this blog, few far right capitalists like me, and of course Usmanov.
Isn’t Usmanov, a man Utd supporter?
Jeez Chozzer, if I’d known you were going to take offence to me posting a picture of your boyfriend up there, I’d have thought twice.
Suga- when you next online mate, Ill continue this one with you. Really bad form I know, but I had to post then go out- so apologies mate- I wasnt ignoring you.
I do understand your point, but the bit that a lot of people still miss from a financial perspective is that he was never suggesting that he’d put in £100m to let AW spend money- thats just how he dressed it up to the average punter so as to sway popular opinion. He was effectively buying £100m of shares by another method (dilution of existing capital). And, if thats all you want- you dont need Usmanov to do that- the current board could leverage the club (swap equity for debt as ManU did, and generate £100m cash for the club without impacting ownsership- valuation change aside).
The point being, of course the guy is a businessman. If I was him and I had the money to burn- Id set up a trust. Can only be used for incremental player purchases- subject to approval from the trustees. That would be completely magnanamous- AFC could only use it for spending above and beyond what they would normally do. What better way to show yourself as a true fan- especially since its buttons to him. Wouldn’t you?
As for the ‘innocent until proven guilty’, unfortunately he was proven guilty. He spent 6 years in jail for racketeering. Read Craig Murray’s blog. The day he has ownesrhip of the club is honestly the day my interest in the club will die. I know that sounds like a big statement- but he so much goes against a lot of things that make me proud about AFC. I know others dont get it- just the way I feel.
Anyways- apologies once again for disappearing. Had to go to a friends kids birthday party
QoS, Cesc is a Barcelona supporter… you deal with these things.
Moshari is the brains behind Red&White and he’s the one who speak to Gazidis. He’s supposed to be very impressive… and obviously, the wouldn’t be interested if they couldn’t make money out of us… and you only make money in soccerball if you’re successful!
I think Capitalism and Marxism are convenient labels to pin on something we don’t like having to look at.
Did you read the article directly on Craig Murrays site Matthew?
Usmanov is a Gooner, only a madman would buy all those Arsenal shares if he supported the Mancs, with his dosh he could buy ManU 10 times over, don’t believe all people read in the Star or Mirror QoS!
I think its safe to say Usmanov would take a footballing view rather than a financially obsessed one if he was incharge.
I for one would like to see him running the club ahead of Kroenke, but id rather neither were involved and the fans owned the club.
Geoff: abosulte crap mate. You dont have to be left-wing to not like Usmanov- far from it. I’ve never voted for anyone left wing in my life. There is a diiference between being right wing and an ill-informed sun reading little-englander you know. Its called ‘ethics’- it cuts across political-preference. Jes, you give the right a bad name….
Nothing concrete came out in the end about us
So it looks like we have Oxtail Soup Chambermaid tied up, and now after Delofolweloolo or whatever.
It does beg the question:
What the hell is Arsene doing?
Why are you dealing all day long with some stupid classification?
Its sad to see it.
There is one major problem with arsenal, arsene.
When you see him going to splash 12 m’£ on a 17 years old, you realize he is seeing himself staying at arsenal for long years ahead, with the same pattern of investment!
And what do you all bothered with? Bollocks about midgets, africans, french, rapists, liberals, capitalists or Marxists…
You know what? Fuck you all you arsenal fakes, not fans.
You are a fucking embarrassment to intelligence. That’s why arsene will keep peeing on you all. Cause you are so drowned up to your necks in your own shit, so you even don’t notice his pee.
Few are even more blind than arsene… Fucking shame you are
Come on Arsene, you are a great manager, but enough is enough. Please take this club back to the glory days. You know down deep inside that the team put on the pitch during the last 5 years were not good enough for glory. If you had only bought 1-2 decent players and cleared out the dead wood, we would be in a better place today. If you are showing loyalty, please remember loyalty should be given to the performers not the dead wood. Enough of Diaby, Rosicky (spent 2 years on the injury list), Denilson, Bendtner, Squillaci, Djourou, etc.
SurferX
The only way that Usmanov’s suggestion would have effected the ownership of the club was if he was the only once prepared to invest his money into the club.
The fact that the rest of the shareholders are content to get rich off the back of the club and recoil in horror at the thought of putting their hand in their pocket to help out isn’t really his fault.
Also i cannot belive either the sheer idiocy or extreme naiveity of anyone that has any faith in the Soviet justice system.
I didn’t take offence Pedro.
Just thought it was weird as fuck , that’s all.
(nice comeback, by the way)
I get that Pedro but I’m not buying the “I love Arsenal” rhetoric
I find it odd that people are attempting to portray him £100m proffering Arsenal lover, when he wasn’t and he isnt
MatthewT. I cba going over this. Its clear that you dont understand what he was offering. We made an offer knowing that the other directors couldnt afford to / didnt want put any money in. In doing so, we also said HE would underwrite the offering. This was effectively a debt for equity swap. I can;t put it any simpler than that. Why did he do it publically? And not via trust? Because there was no intent that the transaction would take place. He gave the existing shareholders a hobson’s choice. Very clever; but also very sly.
How much do you know about the Soviet Justice System MatthewT. I confess to only having a laypersons knowledge.
I imagine it somewhat corrupt. But I dont have any real evidence of that. I also imagine that there is Some justice carried out also. Again, I have no real evidence of that.
If your knowledge is greater, please share what you know.
I’d say the corruption is most likely on the way he got out- rather than the way he got in.
Wasn’t he cleared by the same Soviet justice system?
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wish Jay z would get together with Titi and buy the club.
we could come out to big pimping
This is pretty interesting actually.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/nov/19/football.russia
That would be a good blueprint incesc.
SurferX
I understand exactly what Usmanov was suggesting, He is not to blame for the fact that he was the only share holder prepared to put his own money into the club.
The other Shareholders were able to invest in the club either directly using their own cash or by having their share value diluted and having the value of the difference invested into the club by whoever bought them.
Over the years many shareholders have been prepared to get rich off the back of our club and so far Usmanov is the only one that has suggested that the shareholders might invest back into the club and for that everyone now thinks he is a cunt.
QOS
Capitalism and Marxism are not just convenient labels to pin on something we don’t like having to look at. They actually mean something if you care to read some books, I would suggest you start with the communist manifesto and anything by Hayek or Friedman.
Like i said before Indymedia is a far left website that is hostile to business, it does not supprise me that they have articles on there attacking billionaires, it would supprise me if they didn’t and to be frank some of the stuff they have on there is bat shit crazy.
That said I did read the article itself and it was just rumours and hearsay, he hasn’t been convicted of anything under any transparent justice system.
Allegedly a gangster and racketeer, he served a six-year jail sentence in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, his eventual pardon coming at the behest of Uzbek mafia chief and heroin overlord Gafur Rakhimov, described as Usmanov’s mentor,” Wise said.
QOS
If you want to know about soviet justice I also suggest you read The Gulag Archipelago.
This actually is very interesting:
“Perhaps such largesse is rooted in the insecurity that must be the lot of many Russian business leaders since Putin rounded against the oligarchy early in his presidency. Perhaps Usmanov believes that were he to take control of Arsenal, any attempt by the Kremlin to move against him would bring protests in London. Perhaps the club presents Usmanov with an opportunity to hedge his bets against any sudden decline in his fortunes in the volatile world of Russian public life.
”
Echoes what I’ve said about him being in it to gain credibility.Certainly more plausible than some on here saying that he’s only in it to get one over Roman Abramovic.
Either way, don’t want him any more than I want Kroenke either. Still think we can be successful without a sugar daddy. Next year and more so this summer will be pivotal.
Ha, ha Surfer, you just made my point, left wingers always accuse anyone with a hint of right of reading the Sun and being a little Englander.
How fucking predictable.
It’s the same sort of rubbish that is spouted by the left wingers when someone says they don’t like Song because he’s slow, very dim and talentless, those people call those people racist, because that’s the same sort of mindless reaction as the pencildickness of the statement little Englander when someone say they are right wing.
So was Thatcher, so is Cameron and so was Alexander the fucking great, and none of them would have read the Sun.
Some well known left wingers are Stalin, Mao and Mugabe, suck on that, because if Mugabe could read, the Mirror would be his paper..
Geoff
Its a well known fact that anyone that doesnt rate Alex Song MUST be racist.
FACT
Well if you’ve read it perhaps you could give me the précis?
Rohan, Stalin was responsible for 40 million Russian deaths, Lenin caused 2 famine’s to make the peasants lose their faith and 5 million starved to death and Mugabe is killing millions right now, go and google that, being an oligarch doesn’t get close.
What I mean by labels is that they are a way of closing ones mind.
If you think that something is too left wing, then it’s easy to dismiss everything it says and does. We all have the tendency to believe that something that is often wrong, is always wrong.
eh, Geoff? What did I say?
I just think he’s a bit shady and isn’t exactly the angel who we’d like to think he is.
Ha, ha Gambon, FACT! That means I’m in deep shit then, I don’t rate him, Eboue or Diaby.
And I sure as fuck don’t want the Lille winger.
A few dipsticks were on today lecturing about Drogba and how he came from Africa, he was also hated by the chavs when he first arrived.
Rohan I wasn’t having a go, I was merely pointing out the other side.
Just because what Usmanov has been accused off does not compare with the most heinous of crimes doesn’t mean we should discard it, Geoff imo.
I’d feel a whole lot better if Usmanov, and for that matter Stan as well, both came out with clear statements outlining what they’ll offer the club and what their future plans are.
Rohan
I wouldn’t expect Usmanov to come out and do that because he isn’t the majority shareholder, Kroenke on the other hand is and it is disgraceful that he is so silent on the issue.
Mark my words, we will go no where with Kroenke as owner, It will just be business as usual.
Not called Silent Stan for nothing, I guess.
Geoff mate- I dont know whether I was unclear- but Im not left wing
Thatcher was the PM that I have admired most in my lifetime, Ive a business graduate that has worked in Finance for nearly15 years- 10 of those on a freelance basis. I have a very comfortable lifestyle built on the Capitalist way of life. The worst Ive done in my political voting life is abstain (did you vote for Major the second time?).
I;ve got to say, your arguments flow like a Sun reader. The way you seemlessly move from polictics to political correctness is symptomatic of that paper. Like all left-wing people are tweed wearing yeachers, you happily jump from one cliched stereotype to another. Maybe Ive done you an injustice- maybe youve progressed to the Express rather than the Sun?
The point I was making- I despise Archer as much as I do Galloway. Hitler and Stalin were opposite sides of the same bad coin. Ethics has absolutely nothing to do with politics. Im right-wing, and I wouldnt feel comfortable with Usmanov. Mugabe isnt left or right wing by the way, he’s apolitical. He’ll do anything to hold onto power; political ideology doesnt come into it.
Geoff- I’ll happily share an overpriced-beer with you next year when Im at the Emirates. Just promise me you’ll never accuse me of being left-wing, cos Im not. I just don’t like crooks- whereas you don’t care. Seems simple enough to me?
Queen of suburbia
My mind isn’t closed, If it can be proved under a transparent justice system that Usmanov is guilty of crimes then i will happily join in and call him all the cunts under the sun.
You on the other hand are happy to assume he is guilty of terrible crimes despite the absence of a fair trial, So either you have a closed mind or you expect him to prove that he is innocent. Both of which are absurd.
Unfortunately, I also have to go again- just when it was getting interesting. Either that, or get a divorce- Im getting evils from the wife. have a good one munglers (and Geoff
)
Surfer, I didn’t go to Uni, I went straight into advertising and worked my way up, yes I have done well and despise whingers that moan about people with money.
I earned every penny I have, Usmanov must have done, why else would Tony Blair and Gordon Brown allow him to stay?
Usmanov is no different to any other Russian with money, to say he’s a crook is like saying the Royal family work hard, it’s the way it is and the way it was.
I read the Times or the Telegraph, I will happily share a beer with you, but you are so wrong about Mugabe, he is a self confessed Marxist, when he was fighting the bush war against Ian Smith his Matebele tribe were called Marxists, go check.
And yes, I did vote for Major, both times.
I know you’ve gone, I have to as well, but as a highly pricipled man I gave up my seasons as a protest, until Wenger spends or fucks off I won’t be back, they won’t get my money to pay his overblown salary.
That’s after 25 years, he’s ruined my club. I can meet for a beer nearby though.
Night all!
Geoff
Well the alternative was Neil fucking Kinnock.
the British government put Mugabe into power when they pulled the plug on Ian Smith. FACT
Rohan,
That Guardian article you posted actually served to be the best bit of positive spin on AU I’ve read in ages.
He made his money from plastic bags in Russia. Simple genius really.
Geoff I personally think song is slow and awkward in the position he’s been asked to play in and eboue,well,I think he’s regressed a lot and his attitude of late is typical of most of the players abound and not forgetting he’s an age cheat(my opinion). But I disagree with prejudice on african players mentality or that we always sign african midgets.
With all the crap pedro and his gang have been spouting on here about french/african midgets,how many of such players have we actually signed? How tall is sir Jack wilshire or theooo? I can deal with the ANC as a reason for not signing african players even though I do not agree with it.
Yeah Lurch, I quite liked that bit.
I think we’d all feel a lot better if Gervinho sorted out his hair.
On that note, I’m off.
I don’t have to prove anything Matthew, the guy was convicted.
It was suggestion the conviction was dubious.
Queen of suburbia
A conviction in the soviet union means fuck all.
Geoff,
My old man still talks about fighting those Marxist guerrillas, he served in the Rhodesian Army as a youngster, nasty little war that was – descriptions of torture that pale any in the modern era. He abhors socialism as a result, doesn’t much like Britain either for walking away from what was on the way to being the model economy in Africa – one where racial equality was being pioneered.
So, ye that is throwing around the close minded label is prepared to write off an entire legal system?
That doesn’t seem ironic at all.
Queen of suburbia
You are a typical Wenger zombie, you would rather belive that the soviet union had a fair and transparent justice system than belive that anyone who wants to run Arsenal in a way that Wenger disapproves of has anything other than nefarious reasons for doing so.
It is a well documented part of history how corrupt the soviet police, secret and regular, and justice system was. It existed to punish political dissidents and to provide slave labor. Cliaming that it bears any resemblance to what most people think is natural justice is disgraceful and an insult to the millions of innocent people that suffered and died under its influence. IMO its the equivalent of denying the holocaust.
i am sick of this usmanov hate campaign ..is this sponsored by our pauper yank??
Inter Milan are considering a move for Arsenal’s Nicklas Bendtner, skysports.com understands.
The Italian giants are aware of Bendtner’s desire to quit the North London club and they are now keeping close tabs on his situation.
The 23-year-old has come through the youth ranks at The Emirates, but he has become disillusioned at being unable to become first-choice.
Now after over 100 first-team games he is ready to leave, and a number of clubs have been linked.
Most recently Turkish outfit Besiktas were reported to be keen – but the Dane would no doubt relish the chance of a move to Serie A if Inter firm up their interest.
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Roger Johnson’s agent has confirmed his client has been told he can leave Birmingham City as the club count the cost of relegation.
The talented 28-year-old has been informed the club are ready to listen to offers for him as Alex McLeish starts to plot an immediate return to the Premier League.
Birmingham’s board accept they will have to cut the cloth accordingly now they are a Championship outfit, with a number of their top players likely to depart.
Johnson’s central defensive partner Scott Dann has been strongly linked with Liverpool, who could well fancy the pair of them having seemingly lost out to Manchester United in their pursuit of Phil Jones.
A no-nonsense centre-half who has an excellent injury record, Johnson will not be short of admirers and it is expected Arsenal and Tottenham could both enquire as to his services.
His agent, Paul Smith, is convinced it will be a case of when, not if, his player moves on from St Andrews.
“Without breaching any confidences I’ve had a call from Birmingham to declare that they would have to let him go,” he told Talk Sport.
“And at 28-years-old and having played every game in the Premier League for two seasons running he is in demand for sure. It’s just a matter of who he goes to I think.
“The player is one of those who gives his all and having met the manager it was pretty obvious that he knew the player needed to stay at that level and they need to raise funds.
“I think it is [a financial decision]. For them to declare it they are obviously weighing up who it will be better to let go and strategically how they’re going to plan to get back.
“They felt that they would have to trade him to get others in.”
WENGER SIGN ROGER JOHNSON AND SCOTT DANN
ps
ALL OUR AFRICAN PLAYERS ARE SHIT ANYWAYS WE NEED TO BUY QUALITY PLAYERS
e.g. WE SHUD TRY AND SIGN ESSIEN or LASSANA DIARRA AND ETO
Arsenal News:- I am hearing that they and Bolton have come to an agreement over Gary Cahill and may start talk on personal terms soon
2 minutes ago via web
Twitter footyfanzone
It is about time we heard from silent Stan, I mean he can’t stay silent for long ffs, he owns 64% of Arsenal, we need to know what his intention is for us
johnson to BW then…
Dann going to LPool
So BIG DAVE are we signing CAHILL and SAMBA or is just one of them.
Apparently Djourou could be leaving, along with Squillaci.
Cahill
Vermaelen
Samba
Koscienly
GOOD OPTIONS FOR DEFENCE !!!!!!
We’ve been linked to Dann but he’s a Liverpool fan, anyone watching the U21′s?
http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/media-watch/liverpool-to-finally-get-mata
Not sure G, depends on what report you read
any truth about the cahill rumour lurch,I dont need to be creaming myself unnecessarily…even though I dont think he’s the messiah he’s better than what we’ve got at the moment.
Hopefully we get both, maybe we should bid for Pepe as well to replace Song.
WHY THE HELL WOULD JUAN MATA GO TO LIVERPOOl, WENGERS BETTER GET INVOLVED with that transfer
Premier League Prediction
1. Man United
2. Man City
3. Chelsea
4. Liverpool
5. Tottenham
6. Arsenal
7. Everton
just switched it on OPG…
just following twatter Pharo9ja. ??
nice goal shaqiri, he looked ok vs the lions as well.
Haha! MatthewT that is the silliest post I’ve ever read.
Not for one second have I ever suggested the soviet system is not corrupt. But you appear to be suggesting, that it was entirely corrupt that Boone in a Russian jail had EVER committed a crime.
Which is the biggest load of left wing billshit I’ve ever heard.
We know he was convicted, we know he was pardoned by his friend. Beyond that, we don’t know much.
Queen of suburbia
Well if the system was corrupt there is no way of knowing which people were really guilty of a crime and which people were a victim of corruption which means a soviet conviction is worthless, but you are not interested in that all you are interested in is a hate campaign against Usmanov.
In Wenger zombie land anything that doesn’t fit into how Wenger thinks a football club should be run should just be shouted down and slandered.
Everyone’s strengthening…We are getting worse…
RT @_arsalan_: #transfertavern
Rumour going round that Ben Foster to Arsenal
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Rumour going round that Ben Foster to Arsenal
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Rumour going round that Ben Foster to Arsenal
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Rumour going round that Ben Foster to Arsenal
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Rumour going round that Ben Foster to Arsenal
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, dis guys crap
hate campaign?! where?
Samir, chill things will happen, it dont close until 31 aug
BEN FOSTER 2 ARSENAL, FUCK THAT
Big D, have u heard the rumour, BEN FOSTER 2 Arsenal
cahill offer accepted
personal terms to be discussed
http://twitter.com/#!/FootballFanzine
£17M
The Mirror junped the gun on Oxlade-Chamberlain when saying he will sign for Arsenal on 1st July. Liverpool are now in for him in a big way
YoungGunsBlogJamie Sanderson
Times say Arsenal are contemplating an offer for Lens’ defender Raphaël Varane. He seemed destined for Man United until recently.
YoungGunsBlogJamie Sanderson
Personally, I’m a big fan of Varane. He’s 18, 6’3, strong in the air, good passer. Gilles Grimandi has been to watch him numerous times.
Twitter alert
Bolton accept offer from Arsenal for Cahill
U gotta love twitter, almost as reliable as g star
It’s like eastenders, I dont want to watch the shit but can’t help myself
SO WE SIGNED CAHILL, hopefully we get SAMBA NEXT
Would rather sakho for that money
Saw it G, but dont believe it
PTG, i would be right, if it wasn’t for wenger backing out on deals at the last minute.
we haven’t signed Cahill G star slow down, City could offer better personal terms and he does the brides nighty.
if we signed Sakho, then it would be the end of Bartley
Although, Cahill, Sakho, Vermaelen and Koscienly would be amazing options as CB’s
hopefully its not true, BIG D
LURCH, wenger better start signing, we are fucked if he doesnt
G star I think you have linked us with every player in the world
No matter who we sign, you were technically right
not sure we can afford Sakho now they are owned by Qatari’s
They want Sakho for £20m he’s good but Cahill has PL experience, Twitter is rarely right but a few times they are lucky.
If you read Twitter we’ve signed alot of players by now.
haha on the ongoing cahill fiasco
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@FootballFanzine – Have you worked out what you’re going to say when it comes out that you’re talking absolute rubbish?
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@YoungGunsBlog As I have said to all followers, these reports are coming from my personal sources & contacts. Dont believe, Dont follow
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@FootballFanzine – Sure, but I’m just wandering if you’ll apologise or delete your account when its proven you’re wrong?
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Yup it’s silly season, the ‘ITK’s’ are fighting each other now.
I can’t believe that! Thw other day Twitter was reporting we’d signed Gervinho…Then the club came out and said we’d made no offer whatsoever!
I do wish its true though
Get Cahill in early… Would be brilliant news
fucking hell sakho or cahill would be brilliant, better get both
It weren’t just Twitter I think it was the French media, they said Gervinho was off to Newcastle at first.
Everything is done privately so everything people say is speculation and gossip until it’s announced.
https://twitter.com/suttonnick/status/79642118364209152
Ha ha
Back page of paper tomorrow. Phil jones move to Blackburn in tatters
“The Football Fanzine”
Is a new account…Only made 3 days ago…Most probably a wind up guys
The end of Bartley!!
When was the beginning ??????
nooooooooooo, it better be true
funny how there’s more twatter activity on a saturday night than any other
What is it with this blog and african players. it is getting REALLY offensive. I was recommended to this blog by a friend as an alternative to Wenger worshiping blogs out there. In general the articles and contributions are excellent but this undercurrent of racism that pervades this blog is, I find unacceptable. Must be moving on. (qos. keep up the good work)
I thought Bartley was highly rated.
6’3 / 6’4
English
Experience playing for Rangers
Hard Working, Can Pass, Good at Headers
Perfect Attitude
Arsenal Africans are truthfully shit.
Eboue
Song
Chamakh
Arsenal Frenchies are shit as well.
Diaby
Squillaci
Clichy
Nasri is a bottler
ps
SELL SCZCESNY, he is fucking overated
lamia;
It’s not racist at all…Just a little banter…In a “joke” manner!
Sunday Mirror Journalist said Phil Jones move completed, he has a release clause there’s no way around it..
Reina
Sagna T.Silva Vermaelen Coentrao
Pepe
Fabregas Schweinsteiger
Hazard RVP Bastos
Subs
Sorenson
Koscienly
Frimpong
Ramsey
Wilshere
Walcott
Lukaku
Cahill is in the last year of his contract… 17M is quite steep don’t you think!
I don’t think Wenger would give them more than 12-14M if I’m honest! That would be a fair price though, for us and Bolton.
Cech
Ivanovic Hangeland Mertesacker Abidal
Yaya
Coleman Fellaini Demba Ba
Crouch Zigic
Really hope weve signed Cahill!!!
Cahill? Hmmm not sure about him, but better than squillachi
Im guessing the team could be
Scszcesny
Sagna Samba Cahill Vermaelen
Song Wilshere
Fabregas
Walcott RVP Gervinho
Cahill is alot better than Djourou and Koss aswell Queen of suburbia!
The perfect partner for Vermy IMO!
Ins
Samba
Cahill
Willian
Maybe Gervinho
Maybe Hazard
6 Different Kids
Benzema ???
Falcao ???
WHO ELSE ARE WE APPARENTLY SIGNING
Reina
Sagna Cahill Sakho Vermaelen
De Rossi Wilshere
Fabregas
Gervinho RVP Willian
Of the CB’s we have been linked with, Cahill is my favourite
Him and Vermaelen as 1st choice would do me, and bring in Enrique or baines at LB and I am happy
Sagna, Vermaelen, Cahill, Baines
Pretty solid, especially if we get a defensive coach in
what where the scores tonight
That’s about it I think G
Wenger did say he’d look for “tall” players…Samba AND Cahill could be a possibility!
I’d be very happy with that
I hope…They are joined with;
Hazard – much needed Winger
Benzema replaces Bendy
Gervinho replaces Rosicky
Baines to replace Clichy
1 nil switz Big Dave. Shaqiri scorred.
QoS
I think hes an exellent CB, still youngish but good experience
I also think he will compliment Vermaelen very well.
cahill gives me a case of the meh’s i’m afraid.
but thats contextualized by our lack of any defensive cohesion, just don’t see how he’s suddenly going to change our set play stats radically.
until I see a combative DM its doom from me.
cheers Lurch
If he trained our defence properly, then it wouldn’t matter who ou defence actually include.
Look at Smalling, he was shit at Fulham and he has improved alot since moving to Man U.
We need some defensive coaches, like Keown, Viera, Campbell and Adams.
We need to improve our work as a team, I think, too many lazy players, like Song, Diaby, Denilson, Rosicky, Gibbs, Eboue.
Lurch
I think that with Cahill, Vermaelen & a strong DM we could be good at set pieces.
The problem is the manager & the training. Until that changes we wont be able to win anything.
Also, we need to stop playing with a highline, its suicidal.
MY TEAM WOULD BE REALISTICALLY
Sczcesny
Sagna Cahill Vermaelen Bastos / Baines
Pepe
Hazard Fabregas Wilshere
RVP
Aguero