Arsenal Rumours Archive January 23 2013

23 Jan 2013 22:38:33
Diame not starting tonight. that's got to be done deal! Now lets have two more. Villa and Wanyama please.

Maldon Gooner

Wrong yet again he did start, please stop posting as you have never gotten anything right {Ed001's Note - didn't he come on as a second half sub?}

Lol mate, he came on as a sub in the second half. weren't you watching?

He did come on quite late in second half, to a good reception from the arsenal fans from where I was sitting anyway.would be a good squad player, but I would say there are better options for a DM, bargain if we do get him for 3.5 though!

Oxford gooner

Calm down mate..... It's Maldon Gooner and not Malaga, which I think you were implying. Besides, he's right. Diame didn't start, he was sub. So, pipe down pup!

Essex Gooner

Diame and Wanayma would be amazing, invincibles had steel and a lot fo strength, what this current squad lacks greatly

23 Jan 2013 20:44:07
Rumours today are that arsenal have rekindled their interest in David Villa. Wenger was talking about players being cheaper in the last few days of the market, arsenal will start off with a bid of 10 million, also other rumours are arsenal will bid 10 million for Wanyama, manchester united are also interested in him, is this true Ed?

Ads 995 {Ed001's Note - that would be rejected anyway, Celtic won't sell for 10m with the Champs League coming up. They don't need the money.}

What if he hands in a transfer request? {Ed001's Note - why would he? If he did they would sell though.}

If the player wants the tranfer the move is 75% done and if a good price is bid it might make it happen instead of Celtic keeping a player whose mood dips and loses form.No disrespect to Celtic but Wanyama should jump at the chance of a top EPL club now because your luck can change quickly and the big clubs don't wait about.

No way Wanyama will leave Celtic in this window, if he goes to Arsenal or utd he won't play champions league and playing Juventus at Celtic Park would be a dream for him so maybe a summer move for him would be the way to

The Dude

23 Jan 2013 17:47:35
Jovetic likely to move this January as he fears Fiorentina are likely to miss out on champions league again and Juventus are no longer interested as they have set their sights on Lisandro Lopez and Arsenal is likely to be a suitable option since he wants to play in the premier league according to a source close to his agent

Thought you said he wanted champions league

So he won't be coming to arsenal then because we look the same

And Arsenal to miss out on UCL place too....so stop dreaming pal!

Not sure how good jovetic is although he is young with potential arsenal should also consider wanyama he shows a lot of maturity and authority on the pitch even against barca only 21 yrs old and he is a beast

I wonder why we didn't go for lisandro lopez much better goalscorer than his namesake adrian

23 Jan 2013 17:06:52
Spanish football site Fichajes has it that negotiations are already underway between Borussia Dortmund and Arsenal, and the Gunners want to sign Mats Hummels up as soon as possible.They also note that the asking price is likely to be £17.6m...unlikely but never impossible (fingers and toes crossed)

Can't see any mention of that on the wesite you mention

If we get three key signings in the area's needed we would be a very good team.

Got my nuts crossed for this one, but can't see us parting with such amounts. Plus he'd be 20+
Butty

Sorry dude got it off the express website..just see n' p jobbie, don't shoot the messenger ha

Add another £10 milliom to Hummels price and we might get him.

Over £17m for a defender is actually a massive transfer fee. What is the highest paid in the PL? Does anyone know?

Hackney Gooner

Hummels would defo be icing on the cake..id crosd my nuts too, if I had any!

That would be Rio to man united for 29 million pounds so still a long way from 17 to that

Man you paid 29 mil for Rio Ferdinand. Although that's obviously not the norm.

Ypsigooner

23 Jan 2013 16:49:54
Yoann Gourcuff may come, and Villa and Lopez remain on the list of players Wenger hopes to get, Gourcuff would be great, and is talented too, anyway, looking at the stats of current players, Arshavin still has pretty good ones, I reckon that rather than booing when he plays, it would be better to cheer him, look at Rosicky becoming Mozart again, what do you lot think of giving Thomas Eisfeld a few games?

Totally agree about Arshavin and Eisfeld....

Kal

Eisfeld should be given a chance. However we must buy now, not in the last 48 hrs. AW thinks the longer he leaves it he can get the price down. Come on! In the last 48 clubs know we're desperate and the price gets inflated. Arteta, for instance he's good but 10 million don't think so. 6 months prior I recon we could have got him for 5 maybe 6 mil.

Yes definately, I've been to see eisfeld a couple times for the under 21s and he looks a real quality player, he has it all in the final 3rd, I think a few games to up his level and pace of play. Also, Arshavin doesn't deserve boos, he deserves cheers, as soon as he buried that winner against barca and boy did he bury it, he became a legend in my book.

23 Jan 2013 16:40:59
Hi I am completely new to your forum however once read I find I am completely unable to stop looking hourly .

I have heard Mario Goetze was asked about by Arsenal football club this week but MGoetze seemed uneasy to leave Dortmund this month due to the club's ambitions In the Champions League . I guess being cup tied . Is this a sign of things to come where players are no longer Interested In signing for Arsenal ? Of MG's calibre .

I have also heard that with Theo Walcott's contract signed there may not be anything else this January ; It does seem that Theo signing has taped over ( briefly ) the cracks . He Is a good player when consistent but 100 thousand a week ? I'm not so sure . I bet that selling RVP had pressure on AW to make sure he signed and thus, made him the highest paid player ...

I truly believe that significant changes will happen not this month but In July / August .

I do think that If AW doesn't sign an enforcer In midfield we will continue to struggle . M'bwia - I hadn't a clue how good he Is although has taken Koscielny's place recently ... I go back to watching the interview when Vermaelan had left an event ( I cannot remember ) and had just been told about RVP beings sold to Manchester United ... He looked absolutely gutted - Is his heart where It was last season ?

Good on you AW .

23 Jan 2013 15:45:39
'Lyon expect Yoann Gourcuff to see out the winter transfer window with them, despite reports linking him with a move to the Premier League.

Arsenal, who are understood to be long-time admirers of the France international, are once again being credited with holding an interest.

Lyon have admitted that they are open to offers for their most saleable assets, with their recruitment plans dependent on moving players on.'

Another so-called target off the list

Great! count ourselves lucky. too much injury-prone players in the squad already

Good, he's rubbish

23 Jan 2013 14:39:07
Adrian Lopez says he doesn't take the stories about a move to Arsenal seriously. Says he's "happy and wants to continue in Madrid"

Lol and lopez was meant to be our best chance of a signing.

Sounds more like to me he is hedging all his bets. No player is going to jeopardise contract negotiations or a possible move away by declaring their intentions publicly. Best example is the Theo Walcott saga who knew what was happening with that until he signed.

23 Jan 2013 13:53:08
belhanda set to join inter milan for 12 mil another target gone what the heck are you doing wenger. you scout so many players yet you do nothing

Very dissappointing...

That said, palyers post ACN are usually best left on the bench...

It's really poor, are we going to sign any player or not ?

Thats because he's leaving for PSG in the summer, he doesn't care anymore. lets look at the facts here, no trophies in 8 seasons now, the last trophy won was with the last of George Grahams back four, after henry, viera and more importantly Dein left, the club could no longer attract the big names, we are no longer a top four club, get used to more bad times ahead.

Once again, who is claiming he was/is a target? You need to stop reading the cheap newspapers mate.

Clubs have scouted thousands of players. does that mean you have to buy all of them? also, I don't think he's good enough. certainly not what we need now

Not the sort of player we need

When will people realise just because we are linked with players in the media dose not mean we are in for them or missing out when they move to other clubs very few people know who we are in for or not fed up with everyone moaning we are missing out on players when there is no proof we wanted them in the first place other than paper talk and if you go by that we miss out on every player who ever moves club just chill out people

23 Jan 2013 15:40:21
Maybe this is another way of earning extra cash for the club, we send our scouts out to find the best players and then we tell all the other clubs about these great players then charge them a finders fee! Clever stuff mr wenger!

Until I hear AW saying he wants to buy someone I don't consider us as wanting them, just take it as rumours.

Totally agree with an earlier post - if he was really bothered about us finishing in the top four and possibly winning the FA Cup he would surely have bought some players by now instead of penny pinching. He knows that his time is up and if there are any players he is interested in, he will buy them for his new club not ours. On the positive note, there will be plenty of spare seats next season - all I need is a mortgage to buy a ticket. We are being taken for mugs!

He is never been a target, and he is not exceptional, some arsenal fan start doing my headin some of us want to see any player coming in for the sake of it. We don't want players the like of Newcastle and QPR are after, just freaking wait people.

Graham's defence? Sol Campbell toure cold and Lauren.... Okay mate and Lehman in goal get your facts straight

Well done! The only good defence Arsene put together!

Sol was on the bench Senderos started.

Maybe so but it was still his defence.....

23 Jan 2013 11:27:31
Arsene has launched a very very late bid for M'Vila which is about €6M as he wants to strike a bargain yet again

Was thinking the same after hearing a new english team have bid on him plus diaby injured again

Rubbish. Where did you get that from?

As much as that, very unlike Wenger... A my missus always says, Wenger only offers £3, so no wonder we can't sign anyone decent.

It's QPR, he'll end up there till the summer then move to the Spuds.

Its reported on tv news, weinerschnitz..... get with the programme

I don't understand people really wanting m'vila when his performance this season has been appalling. We have signed arguably 2 of the top performers in ligue 1 for the past 2 seasons. And now we are signing the worst performer this season.. {Ed002's Note - M'Vila is not going to be moving to Arsenal.}

Signed for Rubin Kazan

23 Jan 2013 10:03:24
David villa and diame are the two signing wenger was talking about.

What he says and what he means are two differnt things...wont be surprised if its two 16 year olds with potential...and then he says we look to the future...

#deadmanwalking

Why Villa ? better players are out there..........

........like?

Anyone who hasn't broken their leg

Villa is still quality

3 years ago David Villa would have been an excellent signing but really don't see him as an Arsene signing given his age/wages/valuation?

A broken leg doesn't ruin your career automatically you know, plenty of players have come back, his wasn't a particularly traumatic break or even too hard to rehabilitate.

I would still take Villa in a second! Guaranteed goals.

Henrick Larsson broke his leg and didn't do to badly after. villa is still a top quality finisher and would score a lot of goals with the creativity of cazorla and wishere.

Any given day of the week, Villa has presence on the pitch and can score whereas our current lineup leaves a lot to be desired in every department. He wants to leave..we need someone like him...we can afford even their best valuation/ wages etc. It's a no-brainer

23 Jan 2013 08:38:52
Wenger stated that France is no longer producing the quality of players it did previously & that Germany & Spain have the quality players. hence he has signed Arteta, Cazorla, Mertesacker & Podolski. In order to comply with the homegrown quota he has signed Gibbs, Walcott, Ramsey, Wilshere & Oxlade on long term deals. So don't expect any French signings, reports are a German & a Spanish player have been targeted. I have a feeling that either Diame or Wanyama will arrive. I would like both!

Spanish and german targets then you name two players that are neither your a genius you eh haha

I was discussing Wenger's comments & why we shouldn't be surprised that he hasn't gone in for French players such as M'Biwa, M'Vila, etc. The two I mention are currently being touted in the press & it doesn't take a genius such as yourself to work out that they are not Spanish or German! If Wenger goes for Spanish & German players, it appears we may be after David Villa, Mats Hummels Or Mario Gotze, all of whom I would extremely surprised to see join us in this window.

I think his ideal signigns would have been Lars Bender
David Villa