Arsenal Rumours Archive August 15 2012

15 Aug 2012 20:41:26
Just seen van persie has singed for utd also arsenal lining up a move for llorente


Ross

Singed eh? What song did he singed

Llorente flies in to heathrow Thursday morning to sign for Arsenal. Club record deal of 25 million. Trust Arsene.

So, the plot thickens... what to do with the man u. millions now mr. wenger ?? you are an intelligent man, so i hope u will ease our pain. rvp was a class act but all good things end eventually ! like the song says "dont stop believin"

Llorente has signed for Juventus.

Wenger will not get or even go for llorente. giroud and pods were rvp's replacements all along.

I hope so i have the feeling a marque striker is in the line up

R.v.p cant believe you sold us out for man united

What did he sing, "Money, Money, Money".

Stezza.

What about Bentdner ?

Personally i think if we sig another player it will be at the expense of Song to Barcelona. IMHO i see the club, Wenger and the board trying to "Balance the Books" as they always do in which case is a kick in the teeth to us fans as we want them to show intent which means bringing and adding not replacing the starting lineup (deadwood yes offload).

Typical pulling of the wool over our eyes again as it looks like they have finally done somthing right only to do many things wrong to recoup money and thus proving nothing to us or the rest of the Prem towards our ambition which i now see won't ever change.

Juventus are in for him so wenger needs to act quick

Llorente is away to juve so that wont happen

RVP sings?

rubbish, just like your rumour.

Llorente is overrated, I dont think arsene actually wants him..

15 Aug 2012 19:24:35
"Arsenal Football Club can confirm that terms have been agreed for the transfer of Robin van Persie to Manchester United.

Van Persie will travel to Manchester on Thursday in order to agree personal terms and complete a medical ahead of the proposed move.

Further updates will feature on Arsenal.com in due course."

RVP finally off to ManU
i am disgusted by that, we should have refused to sold in the first place, i hope we're getting above £20m

PdotY - very annoyed gooner

Could have been worse could have gone to city

BBC have the fee on their website - £24m

We are getting 24

24m pounds apparently mate. good figure, but doesnt make it hurt less...

Winston

24 million pounds. 37.6 million American.

We're getting 24 m. If Carroll is worth 35 RVP is worth 50 million

How dare they, this is embarrasing, selling our best player to Utd of all teams.

Sell out!

Ash

TRUE!! bye bye Van hope ur injured majority of the season

I agree its totally disgraceful that once again we sell our talent to a direct competitor what message does this send to all our rivals ... that arsenal the supermarket is open for businesss

Money is the devil, haven't won a title in 7 years maybe if he stayed fit we would of the greedy snake.

DD

We're getting 24 mill

BBC say we get 24 mil for him which is very good for a player with a bad history record & probably just 4 more years at his peak. What now i wonder? Llorente? We pulled out of Mirallas so thinking we go for a more established proven striker now. Any ideas anyone? At least we know where we stand now! Must admit he has let us down, can't believe he's gone to Utd. Sickening.

Nunowoolmez

Who clicked unbelievable..... It's on arsenals website

Essexgooner

Maybe afc need to change the board and manager we have sold more or less the whole team song is next..

What an absolute joke.

Sell to anyone outside of the league.. what the F*** are the club playing at.

WG

£24M according to BBC website - not bad business for a player who will spend so much time in the treatment room :-)

The nerve of RVP...he knew saturday he was 99.9% off to the and sunday rolled on as a sub and took the captains armband. No Class....go f**k yourselve. We Gooners will always be there for Arsenal FC for the highs and lows. Lets hope the highs come soon so Loyal players like TV, Kos and Szsney can reep the joy of what its like to win for a class team, my team, The Arsenal. devongooner

Inevitable, Arsenal Footballer Sales Ltd smell money opportunities better the real banks

I heard it was for 24 million.

Kerry gooner

Can now anyone refuse to say we are not the selling club. Yes, we are a selling club. We are always naive that our players will be loyal and we let them to one year left on a contract. But they aren't. Another year without a trophy, thats for sure.

Funny how we make silk purses out of sow's ears - and the mercenaries leave for Manchester.
They should remember where they learned to play properly
Too Rich, too bigoted, too up their own you know what! Could learn a great deal from the Olympians

Den - a disappointed Gooner.

It is now about what winger does with the 24 million- he has to invest that if not more in at least one world class centre forward.
who should we sign?

Ambition! What did the mancs win last season? We went further in the cl. They are gonna win f--k all next seasons. Rvp will be crocked by November and wishing he was to of the pl with us gooners.
Poor show Arsene.

Good riddance!

Any one know if there will be a replacement or were pod and Giroud bought knowin rvp would betray our loyalty

Get over it. Your only a feeder club for the big teams now. Welcome to Manchester Robin.

Redchad

All true gooners to make sure we let RVP what we think of him and his club has no ambition comments. Another greedy
"[i] love this club" badge kisser departs. Let's see whether we replace him or whether the money from the sale falls down that black hole in the board room.

I'm a tranmere fan love watching arsenal by far the best 'footballing team' in prem. RVP goin for extra cash that's it wouldn't worry too much he's 29 an without been nasty has been injury free for couple of years must be due a knock! Greed once again wins over love for club!!

Dont be disgusted or surprised. Footballers rarely have any loyality to their clubs - only the we the fans do which ever club you support. Its a job nothing more. His dad will be upset! as he said his son would never play for another premiership side - especially those situated in the North West - as did his wife!. I am not sure Man UTD needed him to be honest. Their priority was in midfield. Arsenal will do better than last year. Will that be enough? Lets see. Dont be surprised if we dont bring in another striker though. Up the Gunners keep the faith. Remember its only us that are loyal.. Buxtongooner.. see you all on Saturday!

BBC reckon 24 million

At Least with Podolski and Giroud, we have two international strikers in thier prime and not replaced RVP with youngsters, a bit different from when Nasri and Fab were sold last year. Like for like has been replaced, so it would seem on paper, and to get £24m for a striker in his last year of his contract is good.

However, the money must be used on the team.
I do feel that this is a make or break season for Arsenal and we will be viewed as closer to United and City and be regarded as 1 of the so called big 3/4, or we will be left behind and move closer to Tottenham/Liverpool / Newcastle, which will affect how Arsenal can do bsuiness in the future and the type of player they can attract and more importantly retain.
If we cannot produce the goods then players will start to see us as a stepping stone and not a team where they can win trophy's and see thier career out.

Overall,The signing's and business looks good so far tho!

Traitor!
Chess

Very annoyed? Thats it?

F#ck you all, you've all f#ckin lost it, when the f#ck are you gonna wake the f#ck up, all you f#cking cheap fans can't you f#cking see do you think its for the f#cking money your f#ckin club have no morals that's what they are no f#cking dignity did you see Rooney left UTD when city wanted him did you see what did, that shows they care for the dignity of their f#ckin fans. you know what chuck off!

I want to Wish him good luck! He was good for us last season! Guess he wants to be trying for titles again

One word describes Arsenal in this transfer - pathetic

selling the captain to man utd.. really?

So we have won nothing for years- and everyone and his son, keep on reminding us - after the Invincible's we tried to rebuild a team and lets be honest that team has won NOTHING, we have sold/released the entire team, so I say, GET LOST to the lot of them, we are the Arsenal and we will prevail

Alumiuna

Flamini
Toure
Gallas
Cliche/Cole

Fabergas
Nasir
Helb
Song

Adebayor
Van Persie

Sammy Nelson - the greatest left back

Arsene wenger owes a reporter an ice cream

Yes it stinks that we've sold him to the plastic manc scum, but I assume the club's view was: "the player clearly isn't going to sign a new contract, so let's get as much dosh as we can for the arrogant little weasel and flog him to the highest bidder." And tbh, £24 million for a 29 year old with an injury record like his might not be the worst bit of business we've ever done. He's still a greedy little turncoat with no respect for the club that made him and stuck by him throughout all his time out with injury after injury, so here's hoping he gets crocked the first time he turns out for the plastics. Hope he enjoys life in a rain-sodden bomb site as much as he did in London too.

If Wenger has not agreed a replacement for RVJ before the move to MFC in Debt Ltd, then he is culpable of crassness or in misrepresentation vis a vis the sighning of Giroud remember ( not a replacement for RVJ but an addition)

Totally agree with Redchad, Ecstatic

Redchad - if you knew anything about football you'd know you have an enormous hole in your midfield = ours has wishere, cazorla, song, ramsay, diaby, ox, arteta in it. Your team is not going to win jack

He will never play as good a season as 11/12 and didn't want to be here so £24 million is very good riddance in my opinion.

All, it really doesnt matter how much the fee was. i think we all know we'll be lucky to see a fraction of it re-invested. pretty sure wenger has already commented that replacements have already been brought. this board bends over once again to a rival what a f##kin joke they are the fans deserve much better

Absolutely gutted. It baffles me that on a consistent basis there is a lack of loyalty to the club that has nurtured them from obscurity to world class stars. It is getting to the stage that I honestly will be shocked if an AFC player rejects an offer from a barca or city and stays with the club. Song, prove me wrong please.

Jaiza1888

15 Aug 2012 18:30:17
Rvp to have medical in manchester within 48hrs. 22m deal sorted on tues evening.

Arsenal have announced terms have been agreed on their website.

24m deal, not 22

Judas!

It is on ManU website agreed a fee for 20m not 22m.

Just a quick question really,,, if RVP fails medical, will he then come back to Arsenal and sit in the reserves for 12months?

15 Aug 2012 17:57:36
Not big news but just saw gavin hoyte arriving in gatwick from a flight from France ?

You didn't see Chamakh catch the return flight did you?

And.......

Hes left already to D&R

Honestly dont bother next time mate

Then I realized, it wasn't Gavin Hoyte, but an 8 story tall crustacean from the paleolithic area...

15 Aug 2012 16:29:36
Arsenal want Jelavic from Everton. With Mirillas going to Goodison, they'll get him for 15mil. According to an agent I know in Scotland. Would be a fantastic deal, he's world class.

Very good finisher but be very supprised if everton will sell there new prize asset

I agree but i think llorente would be a better choice

Jelavic is not world class. Hes a good player for everton, hes a class finisher but his build up play lacks, and with the system we play and i dont think he could play the middle on his own.

World class really ?

Now Jelavic I can get very excited about. What a 6 mos he had for Everton last year!

US Gooner

He does know where the back of the net is. cant see them selling him though as they have just had a cash injection from the rodwell deal.

I agree I thought last season he was fantastic for Everton. Would take him to arsenal in a flash. Hope u right.
AndyLat

Everton supporter here, we will not sell jelavic under any circumstances as Mirallas is coming in to be a winger or play off jelavic. Get a life and realise your a club going backwards you only have van persie and he wants to life

Your looking for joke of the day mate

? world class? he played in my country for years! I mean the Austrian Bundesliga. There is not even a fix CL-Spot for this leaugue. and he never was top scorer...-.-' calling him top class is like saying chmakh is better than messi and ronaldo combined!!

Not a chance of getting jelavic for 15m after the season he had, try nearer 25m. everton will squeeze every last penny out of the transfer. not that everton would sell him at the oment anyway, maybe nxt season he will move on if he has another good yr.

Jelavic not quite good enough for Arsenal. Don't see him as any better than Bendtner really - work ethic would be an improvement admittedly but beyond that no.

Stewart

Be another signing of intent cannot see it happening .

Make sense since they robbed us of mirralas. Also jelavic is a animal.

Rodwell's cash less £5m for Mirallas is enough to keep Everton's debts in check for another season. Why sell Jelavic and make your own fans angry. As we will do when RVP goes to MU

Behave, jelavic will not join arsenal

Jelavic really is not world class. He's a decent finisher but lacks any kind of pace, he'd never be a first pick at Arsenal

Everton will never let Jelavic go

FIFA rule, no player can transfer to 3 different clubs in a calendar year so you are talkin trash mate

Yes jelavic may not be world class, but his finishing is second to none and he does not rely on pace as an asset towards his game, his link up play is excellent and his movement is even better (hense why he scored so easily in the 2nd half of the season).

The poster who says he would not be first pick at arsenal are kidding themselves. Players as they get older tend to lose their pace and if that is their main asset their pretty much f*cked, but jelavic will always remain a top quality striker until retirement as his finishing, technical ability and the ability to read a game very well will never be lost.

People have their own opinions I understand but take it from me, as an everton fan who watches Jelavic week in week out.. I have a pretty damn accurate opinion of him, therefore know that I am right.

15 Aug 2012 12:15:19
Ed002 if rvp goes will we sign a replacement? And could it be llorente? {Ed002's Note - It could be.}

Dream on...bet Wenger doesn't replace him

Llorente will not join Arsenal, Arsenal will not pay the amount that bilbao want for him and also there are other clubs that would blow us out the water if he came avilable
dan {Ed027's Note - no one will pay the amount they want, just like no one will pay the amount we want for RVP, the ammount will be negotiated like with RVP,

Cant see wenger paying £28 million for anyone, llorente would be a fantastic addition however ?

And how do we intend to play llorente, podolski and girouid??

No thanks. If RVP goes, I am happy for a young exciting prospect to come in as cover...

Ayew
Sangogo
Luuk de Jong
Mbaye Niang
Julian Draxler

Billybob

Giroud was bought in because we knew rvp wudnt sign a new contract...... der will be nowun else!

We wont be paying 28 mil we will be paying 6mil with the sale of RVP..

15 Aug 2012 08:07:30
Forgot to add that the Kevin Mirallas deal to Everton is great news for The Arsenal, he's awful!!

You heard it here first

COYG

He is not awful. Certainly not Arsenal material but hate this mentality some of the fans of big clubs have that if a player is not an absolute world beater he is automatically s**t or awful. Mirallas is a good player who could make a difference in the EPL but he could just as well fail if things don't go his way. We'll see I suppose

I have heard that he is abrilliant player and his true price should be nearer 20 million.This is arsenal being too slow as usual.

A bit harsh. doesnt sound like he is up to our standard but he has barely done much wrong for Olympiakos or Belguim.

100% agree with the guy above hes not awful, actually a good player just probably not good enough to have a major impact at the arsenal

Hes better than chamakh

JW.19

I agree. The fact that he is going to Everton tells you everything.

I can guarantee the above posters have never seen him play more than 3 times!! I live in Greece most of the year and he's an average player in a extremely weak league. 20 million!! i hope you're talking Greek drachma!!!!

^^^^^ fantastic comments!! This site needs more people like you that talk actual sense. Would love to hear your opinion on the RVP saga?

Just down below you wrote:

"kevin mirallas to sign for 7 million plus squillaci.You heard it here first"

You're rubbish mate!

Awful Mirallas scores against Arsenal. EPL talking about how overrated Hazard will be and what a deal for Mirallas. Heard it here first.

Wasn't me you person!!

No, here's what will happen. Mirallas will play like rubbishe and get two goals over the course of the season. Against Arsenal he'll fluke a goal, and the commentators will be talking about how we SHOULD HAVE SIGNED HIM LOOK HOW STUPID ARSENE IS because that's what they always do. One commentator was even claiming we should have held on to Silvestre for god's sake, they say absolute b*******

15 Aug 2012 02:03:44
Numerous reports now saying Kevin mirallas is about to complete a transfer to Everton and his medical is Thursday

Tbh who cares? not a signing that exactly excities me.

Someone has changed his wikipeadia to current club Everton.. Getting a bit ahead of themselves abd they havr his as the number 10

I'm not bothered if we miss out on Mirallas. Despite his impressive couple of seasons at Olympiacos I don't feel that's enough to prove his worth for the prem or Arsenal.

I think we would be much better putting his cost and the wages of Bendtner and co. towards better investments. That way we could actually increase RVPs wages significantly whilst signing a CD, LB and/or CDM, AND still be within the profit from the sales of Cesc and Nasri.

The idea of giving them the Squid is appealing though..

Excellent news, we will lose out on another player because we dawdled!

Doubt it he's having a medical on Thursday with Everton

Mirallas looks like a quality player and available on the cheap if he dose well at everton all you guys are gonna say y didnt we sign him