Arsenal Rumours Archive August 15 2013

15 Aug 2013 21:35:42
Arsenal are prepared to make a final bid for Liverpool striker Luis Suarez that is worth £49 million, according to reports from a newspaper. Any truth Ed?
Arteta is out for 4-6 weeks - need DM badly. Wenger confirmed that Arsenal will be active during these last 18 days.

May aswell make a bid for £149 million what difference? It will make no odds. Looks like to me we just throw a figure out there and hope that it doesn't get accepted.

15 Aug 2013 20:20:37
Spanish Journalist (courtesy of Cadena Ser) has tweeted (source of all BS) that we will make a bid for Michu!

15 Aug 2013 13:48:58
Wow, Wolfsburg offering Gustavo £115pw but we don't want to improve his wages?

I guess we'll see if he cares about football or money.

If he cares about football he won't come to Arsenal - 4 fit defenders for this weekend - it is an absolute disgrace and no player in his right mind would join a sinking ship - thanks to Captain Wenger we will be treading water from day 1. Get him out now for the sake of our club - PLEASE.

What would you choose? and think of it from a professional angle and we have a answer.

VIOLA

£115pw is not much better than the dole money over here - its less than £6k per year. Surely Arsenal would pay him much better than that. He'd be a fool to join Wolfsburg unless he is trying to keep under the taxation personal allowance or something?

He is an average player, a reject from another team, £115 pw for what?, Get Obi Mikel from chelsea, very experienced,

That amount is Ridiculous.
70k max I'd give him.
What can we offer? CL. And a chance. yes a "Chance" in all categories here.

Oh suprise suprise typical arsenal yet again and why are people moaning about 115k you go find us a full international holding mid that ain't going to want they sort of wages morons

Mofaya your clearly a genuis stop buyin other teams rejects then suggest signing jon obi whos probley on a lot more money master stroke

Easy, "thegoon, chill out bruv, its just Banter, nothing we say on this website makes any difference to how the club is run. I am merely pointing out that £115 for someone with no PL experience is too much in my own opinion. I don't think Mikel is worth that either.

Nobody is worth anything near what they are earning in the PL, so on that basis, how about we sign absolutely nobody and get rid of all the players we have.

Haha CECE I noticed that and thought ahh here we go!

I think if a cash rich Arsenal are not prepared to pay a Barzil starter over £100k then we may as well just give up now. The stadium move, ticket prices, sponsorship deals etc are all for nothing.

Times change, we have to offer £100k a week now to the quality players. Not only has premiership clubs have an influx of monies never seen before, but the overseas clubs with their rich owners and knock on from selling top players. However, we will buy and we will spend well over £60m this season, but perhaps not the players we all think at the moment. Soon very soon.

Daniel are you arsene in disguise? lol

15 Aug 2013 13:34:14
Gustavo's agent said a few days ago he would announce his future on Thursday (today). Hopefully us, but IF he does choose Wolfsburg over us then we are doomed. Whether it's because we aren't offering him the correct wages, won't match his transfer fee or can't guarantee him a starting place it doesn't matter. Serious questions would need to be asked.

But let's wait and see.

15 Aug 2013 12:08:25
Any truth in that Lille are offering thauvin to us for £13 million. Also what is the latest ed on the gustavo deal, I still feel he will be playing for us come next season but other reports contradict that saying he is off to Wolfsburg! What's the truth in all of this ed?

{Ed022's Note - I (hopefully) cleared this up yesterday. Thauvin was only signed by Lille in January 2013. He was loaned back to his previous club Bastia for the rest of the season. He then made 12 appearances and scored 7 goals. At the age of 20 he is showing great potential and I fully expect him to play for Lille this season. He has four years left on his current contract. Pure speculation on him coming to Arsenal. As for Gustavo, there was a rumour he'd signed for Wolfsburg but this has apparently been denied by the club itself...}

15 Aug 2013 07:27:40
every arsenal fan should be gutted by the rumours on luis gustavo moving to wolfsburg. on the other end, arsene wenger is planning to make a final bid today on luis suarez, of about £49 mil nd €22mil on bender. that's some news to cheer you up

Surely it will only cheer us up if we actually buy them. Why do Arsenal leave it to the last minute.Bring back David Dein

Ofcourse it is good news to know about two bids which are very likely to be rejected

Agree with Huddie 100%, we would never be in the situation we are now if DD was still doing the negotiations.

Im getting fed up with this penny pinching there needs to be big changes through out the club we can't continue doing buitvess this way.a predict a long season with no silverware again!

Could be a short season for Wenger because the fans will turn against him very quickly!

Why? Because a single German newspaper reported it this morning? Because NO PAPER EVER LIES. right? I won't believe this post until an Ed confirms it

All other reports from the last 24 hrs suggest it's not only still on, but increasingly likely, as BM have said they don't mind if he leaves, the player wants to leave, and would like to play for Arsenal, and in the CL. Wolfsburg didn't even make the initial qualifying rounds

{Ed022's Note - Wolfsburg have denied they are signing Gustavo so hold fire for now... Also, from what I hear, we will NOT raise our Suarez offer...}

15 Aug 2013 18:01:18
Huddie, spot on mate that's when arsenal started to fall apart when David Dein left.

The Crazy Gooner

15 Aug 2013 02:16:47
My German is rusty, but reading the Die Welt article about Gustavo it does not sound certain to me. There is a quote from the Wolfsburg president on 30 July saying they would go for Gustavo if he became availabke. Otherwise nothing is sourced and the reporter (a Wolfsburg supporter perhaps) only says the deal is "apparently" complete.
I may have mis-translated, but I feel Gustavo is still in play.

I just don't get why he would move to Wolfsburg. Bayern have asked for 20m euros which is £17.2m . They don';t want a bidding war so are accepting bids from all over the place, at which point it becomes about what the clubs can offer the player.

If Wolfsburg can't afford his fee or wages then how are they an option? Yes he'd start but no CL at all is such a step down from being integral in Bayern's CL-winning campaign.

Chelsea could double his wages and if Luiz leaves he'd probably start but he may not think so.

It's dangerous out there in cyber space but all I read yesterday was that we are asking him to take a pay cut to join us, and we aren't giving him assurances of a starting berth.

I find that unbelievably insane but totally possible. Wenger doesn't know what he's doing in the market as he has shown time and time and time again. I can understand refusing to offer Cesar a 4 year 70k deal, that's absurd. But to refuse to pay Gustavo in improvement on his 60k when he is as good as he is, as experienced as he is, and a Brazil starter who, along with Paulinho, keeps players like Fernandinho out of the side, is just insanity. That's wilful negligence, and that's all we've seen all summer.

A poll on the official site asked where fans think we'll finish. 50% said outside top 4. How's that for faith? No new signings worth talking about for saturday either. What a disgrace. So I maintain my stance that if we fail with Gustavo, it's because of one thing and that is Wenger.

We offered Podolski near £100k. How we won't compete for Gustavo is beyond me. Please Wenger, just do what it takes and prove me wrong.

15 Aug 2013 08:15:40
The reason, why Wolfsburg denied the agreement ist, that the contract hasn't yet signed.

But it's a verbal agreement . Contract until 2017

Transfer fee is 20 Mio € and AFC wasn't willing to pay this sum.