Arsenal Rumours Archive June 05 2012

05 Jun 2012 20:45:21
kolo toure back to Arsenal @ 31 years old?

I would love it but can't see it

I would take him. Lots of pace a proven even at his age!

This is lies toure still has a 2 year deal at man city not heared anything about this stop talking crap

I'd take him back in a heartbeat same as Flamini, but I'm not sure how many other fans would.

Ben X.

I wouldn't. He went for the money, so screw him.

Charlie

But as a 4th choice centre back? Hell yeah!!

This isn't likely though, is it?

If I remember right Kolo got Malaria now that doesn't go away & you will always get bouts of it so for me he is not fit enough. Plus he decided [as much as I liked him] that Man C was better than us.
Sagalout

Why not always done his best for Arsenal.rarther have him the djourou.

He's been a bit shaky for a long time and he's not getting any younger or cheaper. If we're gonna spend any money on CBs this summer I would hope it would be for someone younger and hungrier. I don't think Wenger will spend enough to bag Mbiwa from a side that is about to cash in on the CL but there's a 19 year old, Okore I think, at Nordsjaelland that sounds like a treat, and I hope someone at Arsenal had an eye on that league last season.

05 Jun 2012 19:07:25
arsenal are in talks with ibrahim uzulmez

He's 38! Enough said!

Not only is he 38, he retired in July 2011!

Whilst on the subject of Besiktas left backs, though, I'm wondering if we have any interest in Ismail Koybasi. He's 22, very energetic, good on the ball and starting to establish himself in the Turkish national side. Would be good competition for Gibbs (Santos is more of an attacking winger in my book).

Seeing as we may be selling them a very talented youngster, Ozyakup, maybe we could snap up a player who would give us much needed cover in the left full-back position.

Stezza.

Lol.. malaga gooner? {Ed027's Note - most likely

Ihear we are after keyser soze hungarian hard man midfeilder.not sure who he plays for.....

05 Jun 2012 16:26:20
Arsenal are in Negotiation with Real Madrid about Nuri Sahin.
Arsenal are close to finalize deals with Oliver Giroud and Yann mvila.
Official offer has been sent to Toulouse about Aymen Abdennour.

I work as a programmer at the Emirates so i can get around a little of the transfer dealings. What confuses me is that both Yann Mvila and Sahin are coming in and talks about contracts extension with Alex song has began must mean rosiscky or diaby is leaving :(
What other possible way is there ?

I wouldn't be entirely surprised if Song were to leave, especially as there was rumoured interest from Real Madrid.

Maybe Sahin to Arsenal and Song to Madrid?

Abdennour is class by the way, would be an excellent signing.

Stezza.

I Believe/Hope Song Is Sold.

I would like to believe you, I really do as that would be a brilliant summer. But I doubt it..

Diaby should be leaving. He can take up space in some other medical room for a change.
Ypsigooner

Considering we have to keep a minimum amount of home grown players in the squad I couldn't see both Diaby and Song leaving, but out of the two I think it'd have to be Diaby to go considering how injury prone he is and seeing as Rosicky just signed a new contract recently.

Could just be a way of pressuring Song into signing a new contract?

Song should not be sold.

Gilo

If song was to leave, you guys will see how integral to the team's success...where do you think some of the goals originated from...tut tut people

Its post like this that make me laugh. you people hoping Song leaves obviously havnt seen him play. il give you 2 examples of why he has to stay. rvp goal against Everton. rvp goal against Liverpool. amongst other things his consistency and versatility is of high class. he is 1 player in the squad who plays for the shirt.

paul - rochester

If We Had A Real Cam We Wouldn't Have Been In That Situation All I Want Is A Dm Who Wants To Defend.

Can sahin play attacking mid?
Ibster

Has it occurred to some that when he has been called to play a solely defensive he has done well...and that he has instructions to play further forward...arsenal fans we can really be ungrateful and greedy...no wonder we are seen as one of the most infantile supporters

I don't necessarily WANT Song to to go (I think a lot of the criticism he gets is unwarranted) but he apparently has quite high wage demands and if we do sign a DM, whether it's M'Vila or someone else, I can see us cashing in.

Stezza.

Your post is poorly thought out, stezza. Of course Song has high wage demands;

A: All footballers in the premier league have high demands, its rediculous, but its reality.
B: If we want Arsenal to challenge for titles, then paying big wages to top performers is unfortunately essential for success.
C: Arsenal play at the top of the game, in the champions league every year. Why would we not pay top wages to Alex song?
D: To replace Alex song with someone of equal or greater talent, would require the same or higher wages on them instead.

Sahin would be a bit of a dream buy, but doesn't really solve any of our problems and would have to replace someone. Diaby would be an ideal sell-off, but who would ever buy him? Sahin also won't leave without some guarantee of being a first teamer after his fallow season in madrid, and his departure almost guarantees that RM hijack our deal for M'vila or takes Song from us instead.

Honestly, I really have no idea why they would want Song, who doesn't fit in the slot next to Xabi at all and wouldn't get time in front of Khedira. Maybe they're just rotating out backups this season? Lassana Diarra looks like he might be leaving too.

Were do u get this from

05 Jun 2012 15:02:22
Has there been anymore rumours on a possable move for Josip Iličić?

Scottish gunner

Who is that? I am from Croatia and i never heard for that player or is it coach? :)

He plays at Palermo in Italy tremendous

skills!

Ilicic is Slovenian not Croatian. 6'3", skillful, strikes the ball beautifully but doesn't score enough goals. Not sure he's good enough to make an impact for us.

Stezza.

05 Jun 2012 14:22:51
Arsenal looking to bid for Marco Fabian after he impressed in Toulon for Mexico. Will be funded by the sale of fellow Mexican Carlos Vela. Arsenal reported to have been watching Alan Pulido and Erick Torres at the Toulon Football Festival.

Erick Torres is class. FACT.

I don't think Erick Torres was in the squad for the tournament but is likely to feature at the Olympics where Mexico face South Korea, Gabon and Switzerland. Torres and Pulido both looked pretty good at last years u20 World Cup.

Hector Herrera is another excellent prospect in the current crop of exciting Mexican youngsters, player of the tournament in Toulon. I know that Gilles Grimandi has definitely attended Toulon in previous years so if he was there this year I would imagine some of these players may well have caught his eye as Mexico won the tournament.

All of these young Mexicans are interesting players for the future, they're well worth watching closely at London 2012.

Stezza.

There's quite a lot of footage of the tournament on youtube. Just search for 'mexico toulon'.

Stezza.

I remember Marco Fabian was stunning vs Barcelona in pre season..

Eric Torres also looks like he could be a class act as he progresses.

Gilo

I think Vela and Gio Dos Santos' travails in England might burn us pretty bad in going after really young Mexican talent. Their success in the national team really makes the London clubs look stupid for not giving them more of a run in the side, and any one of those kids would want more of a chance to make an impression in europe than a run in the carling cup. If we're going to make an offer we'll need to give them serious tlc a la chicharito.

05 Jun 2012 13:36:32
Biglia has revelaed Arsenal have held talks with him but so have real madrid. this is great news as this guy is a beast. Also Koscielny want m'vila to move to Arsenal and will try and persuade him. I reckon RVP will stay, we will get m'vila and possibly biglia and a usual unknown signing from Wenger.
Arsenal till i die

I seriously doubt we would sign 2 dm's, considering we also have frimpong and coquelin. it will be mvila OR biglia (if either), unless we sell song.

Oleg Maputo

No, he isn't, in our national newspapers and on our national sportprogrammes, people can't believe there's interest for him, he slows the game down and it is considered to be a great deal for Anderlecht if they'll be able to get more than 3 mil for him.

I personally don't rate him either and I've watched matches of the jupiler pro league. I have to admit however he and Anderlecht had some great games in the europa league.

If you don't believe me watch some full Pro league games of Anderlecht. Youtube is A BAD WAY to rate a player.

Belgian Gooner 85

Both mvila and biglia are def mid. what will we do with them both?

05 Jun 2012 13:00:24
Can anyone confirm of us renewing interest from earlier in the season for Armenian playmaker Henrikh Mkhitaryan? Looks easily adaptable to the PL, impressed in the Armenia friendly with Canada recently also. Would be available relatively cheap i believe and looks to be a future star....

By any chance are you Henrikh Mkhitaryan and you are promoting yourself?

Rob

Dang, caught in the act....

No, but in all seriousness. Really like the look of the guy. Know Steve Rowley was scouting him and put words forward to Wenger before the Jan transfer window but obviously a move failed to materialize, wanted to know if the club are still pursuing him.

05 Jun 2012 12:52:02
Arsenal lose out on kagawa and vertonghen but may still sign m'vila, giroud, Powell and hoilett.

Source-internet

Hoilett is going to Borussia Monchengladbach so you can rule that out

We were never in for Vertonghen, and Kagawa always was going to united.

CT

05 Jun 2012 12:04:13
Arsenal will meet with Mikel Arteta's representatives to discuss an improved contract as he took a pay cut to join the club in 2011.
JC

Deserves definitely a lot more than his current £60,000 week, considering Arshavin is getting £90,000, he should get in my opinion possibly a bit more, but all depends on Gazidis and his so called "budget". He showed some character to take a cut to play for us, the board need to pay up

Why the f*** should we give him a raise? its pointless. We should give song,koschielny,walcott,v.persie a raise first as their contracts are running out. What a clown management, they have no clue how to spend the money

They (Board) finaly opened their eyes.Cos they were blind for a few years...

What a clown post. Go suck a lemon you donkey

05 Jun 2012 11:40:24
my sources tell me that affellay, m villa and giroud will be our only signings as well as podolski which is already done and rvp will stay and sign a knew contract

What are you sources, I want to believe you

Hopefully, happy with that.

My ketchup bottle also told me that we will sign Higuain and his son for an undisclosed fee

If that happens,I'll be a happy man,but you did forget to name Messi as well.Dream on.
Braintreegooner

Giroud out of the lot is highly unlikely, chels might be interested

All of the announcements will be made after euros when the transfer window opens

If this happens we win the all cups !

I hope you are right, then hopefully with no injuries we have a very good chance of winning some silverware against any team, in any competition we participate.

05 Jun 2012 03:37:29
Ibrahim Affelay's name is being mentioned more and more with a move away from the nou camp and to the emirates, but with a new manager coming in to barca who knows he could be apart of his plans or on his way out

for a price of £5m its definitely in wengers price range and could gaurentee rvp resigning

always have been a fan of the lad and has been showing his worth in netherlands friendlies - personally i see him shining at the euros and wenger being priced out

but who knows fingers crossed gooners he would be a great singing

Would love to see Affelay at Arsenal, looks to play great with RVP

Barca already have their new manager, and he's been part of the setup for a while

I agree completely with the fact that he's going to shine at the Euro's and end up being priced out of our range. Such a shame, we should have shown interest before the Euro's started and tried to get him interested. Might have given us an edge on RVP too. Really not over confident he'll stay anymore.

-Catscangrowbeardsallover

04 Jun 2012 23:28:29
this page would be boring without me! just got some info guys that Ryo Miyaichi is close to agreeing to join Southampton on loan for next season grate move, i like bolton but would be better for the lad to play in the premier league.


aaronk9

This was posted about 4 hours ago on caught offside, do you really think we dont check that site? get off your horse.

First of all why would this be a great move??
Secondly you reciting what you've seen on caughtoffside is not even slightly exciting or even interesting mate...

James

False .

How grate a move would be be? as good as a cheese grater?

Scooby dooby K

Even better if he played for Arsenal...

Realistically he's not going to get a decent run with our current team next season, unless we offload a couple of wingers.. which to be honest I don't see happening, apart from Arshavin. So loaning him out to a team like Southampton will be great. You saw this season just how fearless the recently promoted teams have become. In my opinion it's a better idea than loaning him out to Bolton again, or even an already settled Premiership team. It will also help to give him fight rather than complacency.

- Catscangrowbeardsallover