Arsenal Rumours Archive June 05 2013

05 Jun 2013 20:37:41
little bit of info has come my way to do with boardroom.

a former major shareholder could be on his way back

malaga gooner

I believe you Malaga and I bloody well hope so!

Long live DD!

Bring back Cesc and throw in Rooney please.

Herbert Chapman never held that many shares.

I thought Double D's interview on sky was interesting yesterday, when asked about a return the he struggled to hide the smirk and the smile. I expect Dein and a certain Russian to be steering our ship come July / August

1404

Hope its not DD his son wreaked havoc at Arsenal by constantly trying to move on our players.
glad we are well rid of that family.
DD did not want to build a stadium but rent wembly we would now be a club without a home if he had his way.

Malaga I think you've actually got this one right, a few months back I was in a restaurant when Wenger AND Dein were having a meal, as a life long arsenal fan it's natural to go over, whilst there I congratulated AW on what a fantastic job he's done and asked what was going on in the club and DD stepped in and said "massive things are going to happen in the summer, things you could never imagine" so hopefully it's gospel and it happens!

This is hardly to "have come your way". This rumour has been flying around for months.

Please don't try and claim you've broken an exclusive here Malaga.

06 Jun 2013 11:01:09
I hope this is right cz DD had a good working relationship with the players and Wenger and always seemed to be able to get players in and make them stay and want to play for out great club x let's get the greatness back gooner for life
CAERPHILLY GOONER

LOL - Dien is not coming back. I met his son at a investor-event once; poker game. (not the so-called agent) some time ago (believe if you want).

They still have a huge passion for the club, but I didn't get any indication that he was planning to bid for shares (not that he would tell me that, as it would be a massive leak of high confidential information).

But given the share price now and the premium they would have to pay, there is no way Dien family comes back as share-holders.

That said, Dien has been the most vocal I have seen him in years. I think this is mainly to support his long friend/colleague Arsene Wenger.

I don't think the board want to shell out the money necessary for David Dien to come back in a Director level role.

Billybob

Who says he'd come back as a shareholder? He technically is anyway if we want to get into technicalities since he owns a portion of Red&White holdings which is Usmanov's Arsenal shares company.

If he comes back it'll be as chairman or CEO when Usmanov takes over.

Oh dear. Malaga has now moved on to guessing non-player transfer related issues.

Ed02 said ages ago there were changes, it's been reiterated by several trusted posters, you saw the interview with David Dein and put 2+2 together.

Personally I'd love him to come back, but I continue in my campaign to get you to stop getting peoples hopes up

"I was in a restaurant when Wenger AND Dein were having a meal, as a life long arsenal fan it's natural to go over". Why is it only natural for a stranger to go over and interrupt someone's meal? What a load of old sh!t.

Listen to Ed on this one guys, as for the dinner story if it happens maybe the guy is right if it doesn't so what a takeover will happen at Arsenal even if its next summer.

05 Jun 2013 18:28:40
£70 million to spend. I think Arsene will spend like £38million of it on duds. He has great judgement on young players but they take 3-4 years to kick in. try buying players that at their peak and will play and win cups.

He is looking at Wanyama. THAT'S A NO GO! he plays one good game then 7 bad games. be waste of £10m if you ask me. Pogba well better and he has talent in his locker. Manchester United are kicking themselfs for letting him go.

Yeah what do I know my team in the scottish D2 we have no money or europe to look forward too for the next 2 years. But with a club like Rangers we focus on wining cups not bringing players up to sell on or hand them off to a rival team like UTD. In fareness Arsene ( great manager no if's or but's about that ) just needs a push to buy older players or even a push out the door for a new manager to take over and revamp the team.

Comments on what you you all think?

I think you are spot on mate.

Well said, Wenger is running this club like a banker.

05 Jun 2013 19:55:35
What do you know? Not much if your judgement on United "kicking themselves for letting Pogba go" is anything to go by. United offered him a new contract and wanted him to stay, but because of a lack of game time he decided to join Juventus, leading Fergie to say that Pogba had "disrespected" United in the way he left.
And I may be doing you a disservice here, but can you really be objective about any Celtic player? Wanyama s***? Yeah. bet he would'nt get in the Rangers side eh. ?

Great, you won cups in a 2 horse race, now you are winning cups in a 1 horse race. bravo!
Oh, and you don't sell on players because they are poor & no one wants them. Remember that great player Barry Ferguson. enough said!

No you are wrong and you'll see there's is due to be 2 big signings and a third player from the Premier league. In addition to that a DM could also happen.

Your judgment on Wanyama is coloured by the team that he plays for.
If Wenger leaves or is pushed, the one guarantee is his replacement won't be Fat Sally.

So you don't rate Wanyama? - nuff said.

Hibs and Arsenal fan here and I honestly don't rate Wanyama. I've watched him quite a few times over the past season where he has been average at best. Also I was at Easter Road for Hibs vs Celtic and he had an absolute shocker for a player of his apparent standards. SPL quality at the moment, perhaps with the ability to rise to a bottom half EPL player. Would be a massive mistake wasting 10 Million + on Victor Wanyama.

As a United fan I can confirm we very much wanted Pogba to stay and we certainly didn't 'let him go'. More down to his greedy agent if you ask me, who will no doubt find many reasons for his client to move clubs regularly throughout his career. We offered him a top wage for a youngster yet he chose to leave.

Also, Waynama is a very good young talent IMO.

HB

06 Jun 2013 01:41:23
Just to clear up the Pogba situation.

It was the year scholes retired and instead of giving him playing time fergie used everyone else under the sun to play in the cm spot and then when they were injured, scholes came back from retirement. that's what he left. It wasn't just "there wasn't enough playing time" Fergie purposely didn't give him the time either because he thought pogba wasn't ready, or some other objective thinking pogba was bluffing about leaving

A typical rangers fan, wanyama has never had back to back poor games as a Celtic player. He would tear you apart if your in the SPL. He's a hell of a player, he's 21 and he's hungry for success. He's a very mature player, and does a lot in the community.

06 Jun 2013 07:34:18
No I don't rate him. It has nothing to do with the fact he plays for Celtic. I'm not a bogot Celtic are a great team. Far as for the one horse race. we will be back in our top flight.

Funny this. Arsenal Rumours. People don't like it when a scot tells the truth about a team he loves also. So for anyone out there that thinks that taking a pop of me and my team so be it. But you have to remember no matter what. We are the only team in the world to hold so many cups FACT!

There maybe 2-3 big signings but that's no enough to win cups. look at this for team players.

Chelsea. Mata, Hazard, Oscar, Lampard, Luis.

Man City. Silva, Nasri, Aguero, Dzecko, Tevez, Yaya

Man Utd. Giggs ( old so ) RVP, Hernandez, Carrick,
Kagawa ( or what have you ) All big key players.

Yes we have good players too but there is no fire in them. either they start the fire or be fired.

If only Wenger had bought players at their peak recently like Podolski and Cazorla. I would be more than happy with another couple of signings of that calibre this summer.

So do you want Arsenal to be run in the same way Ranger's were, look at them now. extinct! Wenger has been doing a magnificent job over the last 10 years to keep us in such a health financial state after building a stadium costing multi millions! Also I can't agree with you on the Wanyama, he has proven in the Champions League he can match up toe to toe with the big boys in Europe (Barca, Juve, Benfica etc) so I think he would be a good addition especially for around 10 million he'd provide a bit of much needed steel. But I do agree we need to take to take a punt on a few more older players like we did with Santi, he turned out to be vital for us last season! If we could bring in a few more Cazorla's we wouldn't be too far away from seeing silverware!

Wanyama wasn't even chosen for the Scottish PFA award and lost the Scottish young PFA award to a player who is under contract for a League 1 team (Wolves)! How can he be Arsenal quality?! Definitely a no go from my point of view.

I am a Celtic season book holder and a huge Arsenal supporter. If Wanyama leaves (which I hope he doesn't) the only team I want to see him at is Arsenal. Exactly what the squad needs to shore up that nervy midfield when arsenal find themselves 1 up and nerves set in on so many occasions. I honestly wouldn't say he was good enough if I didn't think so as I have a huge interest in Arsenal as well. Also to the last poster. you are an person cause he won that award!

Jaiza1888

Actually a player from Hibernian (my team) won the Scottish Young PFA Award, Leigh Griffiths. Once again, victor Wanyama isn't good enough.

To rangers fan, you were liquidated and are no more the newest team in Scotland a tribute team, you are not recognised by uefa because you're on a provisional license and also - " victor wanyama has the potential to go on to become one of the best midfielders in Europe" - Andrea pirlo. When a wizard like him says that you need know clarification. You probably hate wanyama because he bullied your old team when they were in spl.

05 Jun 2013 15:55:11
Rumours picking up about Arsenal signing Victor Wanyama for a fee of around 10 million pounds. I'd personally love this signing if it goes through as he would add significant steel to the midfield. Any truth in this eds? Cheers!

-Birmingham Gooner

05 Jun 2013 14:55:28
aleksander mitrovic to sign for Arsenal later this week, in a £2 million pound deal.

it's been broken on twitter by giancardo di marzio. also then provided by tancredi palmeri who is usually spot on with such things.

can the eds back me up on this?

05 Jun 2013 13:52:47
Gonzalo Higuain: "I have offers many outside Spain, but I decided to accept the offer of Arsenal, but that does not mean that I have finished all the procedures move to Arsenal, but there are still negotiations between me and them"

"I decided to go there because I'm still young and I see that the way the team played for me too and you'll get used to there quickly"

Taken from failbook "Premier League News" group. Google search found this to only be on there. Any truth in this or failbook trolling?

If this is true then it shows a great sign of intent and another 3/4 players (Cesar, CB, DM) we could challenge for the title.

I call bullish!t!

A spanish sport website has backed this up but till a formal notice is announced i'll take it with a pinch of salt. good news if it is true though.

Not entirely sure if this is a game by Higuain and his agent to get the move he wants, which is Juventus.

I have heard nothing but read alot. if this was true I would expect some agents to try and leak this deal so as to broker it.

Though further searching shows it as an old story from around may 13th! so who knows.

Don't think so as juve are meeting real madrid for talks on sunday.

Failbook is a site that report sarcastic remarks and rumours it's extremely unreliable. Having said that I personally believe Arsenal will sign Higuain or at least a marquee forward signing like him.

Josh09

There is news coming out of italy tonight that tevez is moving to juve. they already have, anelka, vicinic, matri and llorente on the way. surely they will give up on higuain if tevez sorts a move there?

That strike force between them struggled to score a mere 30 goals.

05 Jun 2013 07:42:23
Recently Arsenal have signed 2 academy players called Dan Crowley and Aleksandar Mitrovic. 1 main player Yaya Sanogo has joined. The latest rumours are.

Keeper = Julio Cesar
Defender = Ashley Williams
Midfielder = Clement Grenier
Striker = Wayne Rooney

Your list looked ok until I got to the last one. Be real, is Wenger going to pay rooney 250K a week?

Seems ok but please do forget about wayne rooney people. it is a typical rumor. wenger never directly said he's interested and rooney never directly said he would even consider arsenal?
on what ground other that paper BS do people base their assumption we are interested in him? One word guys: WAGES! get real please

Seriously not Wayne Rooney. If Rooney leaves Man U his best days are behind him no matter what club he goes to.

Higuian is the target not rooney

Gianluca Di Marzio, journalist and commentator for tv, an expert in the transfer market, said: "One of the best young players in Europe. He is called Aleksandar Mitrovic, he scored 15 goals this season. Class '94, plays in Partizan Belgrade along with Lazar Markovic. Arsenal put him in the viewfinder, the job could be done in the next week. "

He is talented, something like Sanogo. Still, he is not a world class striker we all hope for.

Gonzalo Higuain: "I have offers many outside Spain, but I decided to accept the offer of Arsenal, but that does not mean that I have finished all the procedures move to Arsenal, but there are still negotiations between me and them"

"I decided to go there because I'm still young and I see that the way the team played for me too and you'll get used to there quickly"

Shankara

Would be a title contending squad if you switched Grenier with Fabregas.
And as for striker, that's a toss up. Wayne Rooney would be cool, but virtually 0% chance.

05 Jun 2013 15:37:34
Look at this boy Crowley on you tube. what a prospect km

Why do you gunners fans get excited about prospects you will mature them make them world class and then off they will go to a world class team