Arsenal Rumours Archive May 18 2012

18 May 2012 18:12:06
Im hearing that Abidal has announced his retirement. If thats true, what a big shame. He has been an immense defender for so long, and him being out, was the reason barca struggled defensively.

^

good shout, he was a really top defender and showed amazing strength during his battles back to health

Spain Gooner

18 May 2012 18:12:08
Arsenal paid £2.75 mill plus his wages for RVP. Yes we have stood by him as a club and as fans, knowing he can be the player he has been this year, I would love him to show us how much he appreciates that! However if he decides to move on, then £27mill could be a nice handshake. Bring in Ba £7mill, Huntlaar (spelling) £16-18mill and a hard bargain, spend some money on an out and out left winger. With M'vila and Plod signing we will be in a great position.

We will need to replace Flappy also!

Mong Out!

Whats happening to Arsenal, we need to keep Van Persie, we cant keep selling players when they are hitting there peak! if we do then it seems to me were happy to play for 3rd and 4th spot! Do you think the money for him will be used to bring in someone good! NO we might spend 10 to 12 and the rest goes else where so then we go buy someone whos ok but not world class! same old rubbish.

18 May 2012 16:33:15
Arsenal to sign Christian Eriksen and Van Der Weil from Ajax this is why we walked away from Vertonghen, We are putting together a £35m bid for the 2 players combined, M'Vila is signing Monday, and Sakho will be coming from PSG for £8m, also hear that we could be challenging for Lavezzi, now RVP if this isnt your club showing ambition what is!, I am literally creaming at the thought of a mid of M'Vila Jack and Eriksen.
Come on you Gunners!!!
Cricklewood Gooner

M'vila, a fit and healthy wilshere and an established eriksen....actually this would be better than a midfield of fabregas, nasri and wilshere, in my mind.

Oh man lavezzi on the left wing + Ryo learning. sounds amazing!

With eriksson n van der weil - robins gotta stay!

MIKEE

Just interested not having a go but do you have information or is it an educated guess?

Bermy Gooner

Sadly that is never going to happen...

Even if we were to recoup 15-20mln from the sale of RVP; I highy doubt it would be reinvested into 3 players.

At best it would allow us to target 1 more attack - maybe Loic Remy

Billybob

I so want to believe this...this is perfect fr arsenal!
eriksen at 20 and van der weil 24..sound like typical arsenal targets!
and huntelaar at 28 is a perfect persie replacement! a true poacher who can shoot like a tank!

Plus we need to sell our trash...hope someone buys squilacci, park and chamakh from us. Plzz..

Lavezzi is close to signing for PSG so we won't be getting him.

So we are going to sign all 4 of them players and are also going in for Lavezzi? Wow can really see this happening considering everything thats happening at our club. OM!! Wowzers! Ssuper duper Henry Cooper!! I mean really, I'm not saying I would'nt like them signings cause I would be lieing but.... Eriksen has allready stated he is staying putt and Lavezzi is going to PSG almost certainty. AW will sign a player or 2 but all 4 of the above and go for Lavezzi, sorry not going to happen.

Gavsta

R u insane,what a hell r u talking about?! Or was this just your sense of humour,in that case i admit,u got me... perhaps mvila,certainly nobody else from this list

To good to be true:-) love to see both in our club!! Forget vertonghen bring them ini

Sounds a little too good to be true, mate

Belgian Gooner 85

I wish this would happen so bad but unfortunately it never will. :(

R.O.B

18 May 2012 12:53:58
also after 8 years of standing by our injury prone striker (RVP) we got 1 great year out of him now that is loyalty from the club to him to pay his wages and to stand by him in making his comeback. Would any other top club stand by him or even sign him if we were to ditch him when he was injured....I highly doubt it.. Yea he wants to win things but he has hardly played in the last 8 years so its not like he hasn't won anything for 8 years because he hasn't played regardless of who he was playing for.. Now all arsenal fans would love him to stay but if he does decide to leave to a english club I hope the fans let him no this FACT when he returns to the emirates..that's if he does snake the club I for 1 hope he stays tho
LONDON GOONER

Whats all this about loyalty...its a profession besides entertainment for yourself.

If you have a job and another company wants to pay you twice the money you stay for loyalty? rationality and logic seem to escape most of you.

robin is living his life. did he plan to be injured?

we want almunia and squillachi gone. what if they claimed they have been loyal and want a contract extension? we would want to cut their heads off...its a two way street.

Arsenal want to keep him pay up. its his last pay day. and he wants to win. Its his terms. they give him what he wants he stays if they dont why should he?

everyone loves to talk as if they are super loyal and all that B.S.

fact is none of you would be loyal even if you played for arsenal. unless your aim is to pick up a pay cheque and be 3rd best all the time...then well you guys embrace then new arsenal culture..3rd is best.

Im fed up of this 8 year trophy drought and the fact we wont spend over 15 mill. and then expect to win trophies...yes we spend less than sunderland and are top 3...spend a bit more and we can win...

no changes this summer i want wenger out...love the guy but i love winning more...

It's more than a job when the job is your passion. When you have fans who adore you.

The post above is possibly the most disillusioned thing I have ever read, by the sound of things you don't even enjoy football? It is simply peoples career paths that we are following? You have to be the most close minded person I have come across if you don't recognize that there is more to football than money, it is about passion and LOYALTY among all other qualities that make it so enjoyable to follow and be a part of. 'wenger out.. love the guy but i love winning more' I'm sure the citeh fans would love to take you on board if you would happily see yourself out of our club.

W12Gooner

I kinda agree with what your saying but if your gona talk about logic and rationality surely we should look at the rationality behind paying blokes to run around a little bit and kick a ball, albeit kick with talent, such high sums of money. We all would take the switch to a higher paid job as it would increase the quality of life for us and our family. This is not the case for footballers as their wages are already soo high. Also I would be careful using quotes of Nasri on here mate.
BD

What are you on about ^ - he said he would rather wenger leave us and we win trophies, than he stay and we dont. Im all for passion in football, but your comment suggests that perhaps you dont have much in your life other than football, and your making up for that by being opinionated.

This isnt the 70's. Football is absolutely about peoples careers and the money they are making. Like it or not.

Don't blame RVP, blame Wenger. His experiment has failed. But the most dissapoint news is not abaout RVP leaving it's about the overpaid dross staying. Wenger's policy rewards failures.

Here come the AW haters again. Things have been good for a while now on this board and then BAM!! season ends and its hate AW time. 1 quick question, are you Spuds in disguise?

Gavsta

Do you guys not realise how many players will want to leave if Wenger goes?

18 May 2012 11:42:27
Usmanov has bought 8 shares since May2, now has 18495, 29.727%, 171 off 30%

People (arsenal supporters) with shares NEED to sell to help the club back to some normality (i sold mine), while Kroenke is in charge he will allow Wenger to just make money and the saddest thing about all this is that Wenger is also happy not winning and to just make money or he has his own head up his arse with this desire to win with no budget..........................

18 May 2012 10:42:35
I've been informed by 'an insider' that Theo has extended his contract - now lets resolve RVP and pay him the monies that other worldclass player receive (£175+ a week) (don't be cheap Arsenal)

M

If he wants 175k a week let him go that is a stupid amount for any player to be paid and player are only asking for that much because of the likes of Man $hity
If he loves Arsenal that much then Im sure he could survive on 130k a week or what ever we are offering
Clubs can not pay players that much and hope to make profits and they can not do it it without rich owners who treat there clubs like football manager I realy hope the fair play rules are made to work no club should be able to spend beyond its means

Arsenal arent being cheap u bel! No club run properly and not by a sugar daddy can afford 175+ wages! We live in the real world with financial limitations unlike some billionaires toy like city

Unfortunately the board at arsenal is cheap. 40K payrise for the best striker in the epl, who has single handidly earned the club a 25mill windfall by keeping them in the champions league, but they will pay him peanuts and expect him to play like a 250K a week player.
Arsenal Board = no class


Lakerville

U bel! - thats not nice and shows your non comprehension with market price/cost/wages - why did we move to the emirates, why do i pay £1300 quid a year for my season ticket - not to celebrate 3rd --- we can afford it, as PV04 said if we continue along these strict wage guidelines and continue to lose our best players what is going to happen when Wilshire wants a mega pay deal?????

They have to be strict otherwise we could end up like Leeds! And they are strict but still up there with the top clubs it's just city have taken it to another level and I don't care what u say we can't compete with it! Again we are not cheap! If city are aloud to keep doin this there will be no competition left in the epl!

You pay to be entertained , your choice whether you pay 1300 for a season ticket

18 May 2012 10:16:54
I read that usmanov has a 10% stake in facebook and it has just made him 6 billion.We have got the wrong man in charge.Can you imagine what our transfer budget would be with him in charge.

Im not a fan off these 'sugar daddy' owners, but i cant see any benefit from silent Stans ownership at all.

1404

Hmmm?

His - supposed - stake of 10% would be worth that amount in the event of a successful sale at the highest price, but since the talk is of a 'pump and dump' situation this seems unlikely.

Even if this were not so, the size of his wad does not make a fig leaf large enough to cover up his dubious character (let alone the ongoing attempts to recover the wealth he ... er ... acquired by those in government and commerce who don't quite share his definitions of ownership!)

Besides, I am quite happy supporting Arsenal. If you want to support Man city go ahead, they seem to be content to let their money do the talking - although the new fair play rules might quieten them down a bit.

Do you really want a bunch of mercenaries playing for arsenal like city?

CT

He stands to pocket 1 billion from his shares not 6 billion according to a couple of articles i read.

Just a 100 million will do Mr Usmanov.... It will cover Van Persies New contract, M'Villa, Ganso and a back up striker....

Jimbo

He has a 32% stake in Digital Sky Technologies, who paid $200m for a 1.96% stake in social networking website Facebook.

I make that about a 0.6% share in Facebook?

JW

Kroenke already owns a football team and has experience of 'sports business'...money is good but not if you can't apply it in the right manner.

It seems to be the only way to progress these days, personally i've said it here b4 i'd love usmanov in with David Dein, Keep Wenger and spend money

Rob

Budget?

It wouldn't be in usmanov's dictionary mate!

Of course I exaggerate, but I'm positive if he was here, RVP would currently be on £200k a week, Nasri would still
Be here and who knows maybe we would of got hazard all those years ago when we were keen on a £20m 19 year old instead of a £200k a week £35 million 21 year old who EVERYONE is after

S

It's the re introduction of David dein that usmanov would bring. They still wouldn't pay silly money for players but it's deins persuasiveness which is what's needed.

Paul - Rochester

Kroenke may have experience, but Usmanov has someone that I think we all want back at the club, David Dein has a share in red and white holdings plc the company that Usamnov is using to try to buy Arsenal. But either way I think the club is in good hands, although Usmanov has an abundance of money, Kroenke is in no way poor.
BD

I wish the club was run like barca and madrid, for the people. where the president elected would have a duty to the people to put a team that can contend.

we have the money we just dont spend it...our 17 year olds have turned 24 and still suck or have been sold. this wont happen at those clubs, they sell the s**te players.

Im not asking wenger to buy messi or ronaldo or kaka or any player over 30 mill.

but we could have had mata, we could have had dzeko, we could have had nasri still, we can still keep persie, we can buy quality players, and attract big commercial deals.

yet we are happy being the 3rd best in the epl and 4th richest in the world...

F.U arsenal board...especially Peter hill wood.

Lakerville

He bought 5% of Facebook share for £900 million. When it floats on the Stockmarket this afternoon they will be worth just under £6 Billion if the company reaches its estimated value of £100 Billion. Usmanov was approached secretly by Zucckerberg in 2009 and the deal was set up by Goldman Sachs. Usmanov owns a substantial part of Gazprom who sponsor Shaktar (until 2014) and this is how he could flood the Arsenal with cash

18 May 2012 01:53:11
Speaking to MilanNews.it, Vertonghen said: "I like the Premier League, but if Milan call you, you cannot say no."

First wanted Arsenal, we didnt bid. Next he loved Spurs, who dont want to pay the transfer fee. Now he looks like he wants AC Milan....lol