Arsenal Rumours Archive July 17 2013

17 Jul 2013 12:25:29
With Napoli now in the picture for Higuain. and Real looking at Suarez. COuld it end up being a situation where we miss out on both of them.

In other news it seems Mata is no longer needed at the lane. Why not bid for him. He is probably that one player in recent years I think we missed the trick on.

". Mata is no longer needed at the lane"?

Which is interesting as Mata plays at the Bridge.

Boy, that would have been a really complicated transfer.

We will end up buying no-one because we are too slow and too stingy - yet we are asking £11M for Gervinho - double standards.

I'm sure you ment bridge and think your right we did miss a trick with him can't see how the special c££t don't won't him though

My bad. ofcourse the bridge. but with news coming out that they offered him as a part of a deal for rooney and united having rejected it. why not make a move and get him. any chanced ed that we could atleast put in a bid for him?

Lets clear a few things up here.

Chelsea offered more money in both transfer fee and wages in order to get Mata.

He has not been offered in a part ex deal for Rooney. Neither has Luiz. It was a cash only offer, which Chelsea say they won't be raising.

Mata will not be sold as Mourinho sees him as an important player. We missed the boat two years ago.

We won't be signing Rooney either.

I doubt they would had offered arguably their best player last season for Rooney, and if they did you would think united would bite their hand off considering they need that sought of player atm.

Arsene fiddles whilst Rome burns, do our transfer dealings have that all to familiar feeling of deja vu?

Jakey

Who ever said Mata is not needed. I bet you he goes nowhere. Bid was straight cash words from Mourinho himself.

Mata plays at the bridge mate. Spurs play at the lane

Do arSenal think fans are stupid? PR in overdrive making us look like intereted in all massive names when all clubs confirming no bids made for any accept suarez who they know will choose madrid. wenger in vietnam so no bids will be made till back. why can we not tie up deals like liverpool and city do where done and dusted without rumour before pre season starts? Kb

Arsenal will end up with Benteke, not Suarez not Higuain and not Rooney.

I think u mean no longer needed at the bridge.

Have faith, still. Madrid don't want to spend a lot on Suarez. I think there are some twists yet. Madrid certainly aren't behaving outwardly as though they want Suarez, but we certainly are, and according to cross, via Wenger, we're making another bid for him. Simply showing we're that keen will mean a lot to any player, he might decide to pick us over Madrid, who seem incapable of acting with any sense of decency.

How long has Mata been playing at the Lane?!

By the way, I don't think Chelsea did offer Mata more than we did - his first contract was £60'000pw. He bumped up to what Podolski is on after 6 months or something, but we could easily have afforded his wages back then. I think it had to do with the fee more than anything. Same with Cahill. It's not that we couldn't compete on wages - Santos was put on more at Arsenal than Cahill was when he joined Chelsea. But it's the fee, when Chelsea come in, we just can't compete on the fees. So unless the player chooses us, we wouldn't win a bidding war.

No, its Townsend that plays at the lane, but I can see how you got confused ;-)

17 Jul 2013 11:02:30
Eds.

What is the current status of the Higuain deal, is he coming to arsenal? staying at madrid? Why is the deal stalling? Whose end is it at still? RM or Arsenal? Has a fee been agreed? Has personal terms been agreed?

Also are Arsenal looking at any other top Forwards?

Thanks {Ed029's Note - Sorry mate, I can't help.}

From what I understand a deal had been agreed in principle until Madrid moved the goal posts hence our bid for Saurez but the Rooney saga will now start a merry-go-round of Striker moves.
Rooney - Chelsea
Torres - Napoli
Saurez - Madrid
Higuain - Arsenal
All the above have been pretty much linked with each other to force ones hand to get the ball rolling but Rooney is the key to this. Once the dust settles I expect this to be the outcome. Gooner11

Napoli are in for him, as confirmed by their president.

Arsenal bidding for the sake of it and not buying anyone. It is all done to look like we are trying to buy quality players when we actually won't!

Suarez is a min of 40m why waste time with a bid of 30-35m?!

Higuain is easily worth 25m+, why are we not stumping up the money?!

Cesar has gone to Napoli (almost)

Grenier signed contract extension at Lyon

Fellani rumoured all summer but nothing happend.

Bender - German international who will fetch more than 20m when sold but Arsenal bid 19.7m

Arsenal fans need to wake up! Wenger will always be offered a contract because he doesn't spend money and keeps on boosting cash reserves - what owners are not going to be happy with that!

Rant over

Napoli are now interested, Wenger screwing us over, again.

He bid less either to
A. Force madrids hand so we can get higuain or
B. In case we could get him on the cheap and what they said was to deter interest

16 Jul 2013 23:55:25
Eds?

Marca reporting that Athletico have agreed personal terms with Cazorla 'and now just need to agree the deal with ARsenal' what the hell?

Please someone put me out of my misery! {Ed001's Note - not heard anything about that at all. Not like my parents, who live out there, to not mention something like this either, as they normally keep an eye out for reports involving English clubs. Mind Marca might just not be a paper they read, as they are not in an area that is friendly to the government at all. In fact it is so anti-government, they don't even have police there, because they are seen as the bullying arm of the fascist government! I will see if I can find out anything about this, though it does seem highly unlikely.}

I think its made up. unless cesc to arsenal is on. then it would cover the bases. but i'm going for made up

I think this has to do with with the higuain-Suarez game that seems to be going on with Arsenal and Real Madrid.

This is a load of b*******. You must have the permission of the selling club to have personal talks, not other way around. no chance AW selling santi.

How would this have to do with higuain-suarez deal?^^

Goonersaurus rex

No Cazorla is our best playmaker and we are not desperate for Gabregas nor are we selling our stars this year as this has been confirmed by Gazidis and Wenger

I can assure Arsenal fans 1bn % certain Cazorla is going no where

Think is nonsense.

Firstly, as far as we know cazorla is happy at arsenal. Secondly, we don't exactly need to sell.

So unless its for footballing reasons and wenger has something up his sleeve, this is highly unlikely.

Ed001,

Just out of curiosity, in which region of Spain do your parents live? Not related to Arsenal obviously, but I can't stand the police and a region in Spain without any sounds too good to be true. (I feel the need to point out that I live in the US, and the Police are pretty much horrible without exception here).

-Montana Matt {Ed001's Note - they live in Andalusia, it is just the village they live in which doesn't have police as their mayor doesn't allow them. Apparently they will do a drive through once a week or so, but just to glare at people as they have no power while inside the village. So they just drive through extremely slowly giving local kids hard stares etc. The thing is that there is little crime in the village at all, it just doesn't really happen. When my parents first moved there, my dad was walking home alone from the pub one night, ahead of him were a large group of lads, teens etc, all stood in a group smoking and drinking. Coming from the UK, he was bricking himself walking towards them, especially as he had no way of avoiding them, being as they were gathered right outside his front door. When he got close they walked towards him and he really thought he was about to be mugged. But all they did was to ask if they were ok standing there and not making too much noise and disturbing him!}

Madrid paper playing games. Its obvious arsenal only bid for suarez to push madrid into buying quickly hense sell us higuin. As a return shot madrid paper stirring things buy saying cazorla leaving. All fun and games with paper talk. don't see anyone in at arsenal till lastfew weeks of window.

Arsene Wenger absolutely loves Cazorla and would never sell him after the impact he had on us. He was our best play maker and the second best play maker in the country last season.

Fabregas won't come though he will stay at Barca anyway.

Yeah, I read this too. They are flying out to London to complete the deal. even though most of the staff are in Vietnam.

There is absolutely no way Arsenal would sell Santi.

This is just lazy journalism AGAIN and the best thing we could all do is draw a line under it and move on.

If reports from Spain are true, then it sounds as if Cazorla is unsettled in England and wants to move to Spain

Reports also from spain said we was going to sign higuain about ten times over and arsenal have denied it