If reports are true, it’s very silly if you ask me, why not just spend the same amount on one player who’s ready to get the shirt on and help make a difference to our current set up.
The two players we have supposedly made an offer for are Sime Vrsaljko and Mateo Kovacic, both of Dinamo Zagreb. The source of this rumour has come from Zagreb themselves. They say Arsenal sent a delegate to Croatia earlier this month in attempt to secure a deal for both players but vice chairman for the club; Zdvravko Mamic has turned down the bid.
Full-back Vrsaljko, 18, is considered one of the best defensive prospects in European football and has most of the Premier League and Europe’s elite chasing him.
16-year-old Kovacic is a highly-rated midfielder, and Dinamo have revealed that Arsenal sent a delegation to Croatia to try and do a deal for the pair earlier this month.
Vice Chairman Mamic said
Here were people from Arsenal and they were ready to pay 20 million Euros for Vrsaljko and Kovacic.
But they are to stay in Dinamo, Arsenal just wanted to buy them for the future. But my answer was sharp, I said ‘no’ in one second.
Mamic admits he is gambling on the pair becoming even more valuable in the future.
While I have space and no problems at our bank account I can take a risk, yes, I know I’m playing with luck but so far I am winning. I believe it will be the same in the future.
So even the players own club admit it’s a bit of a risk keeping them, why would we offer such a vast amount of money for ‘a risk’. We need now, not 6/7 years time. Added to that, if those two players turned out to be great players and we had been successful in our offer, Arsene Wenger won’t be the manager of our club by the time they get to play. Why he thinks so far ahead when we have so many problems right now is beyond me!
Another transfer rumour…
Just when you think our club needs a big strong 6’5” striker up front, you know the one, legs made of steel, head made of cast iron and holds no fear for any defender, the gossip about a new striker being scouted by the club comes about.
He’s Kévin Gameiro, born in May 1987 in Senlis. He currently plays for French club FC Lorient in Ligue 1. He can play as striker but can also be utilized on the wings and in the hole. Gameiro has played for his country at all respective age levels and this year had his first call up for the big boys..
Just what we want…? No, he stands just under 5’ 8” !!!
Earlier this week we saw Henri Lansbury leave on a month’s loan to Norwich City, well yesterday Aaron Ramsey followed in his footsteps and went out on loan. Ramsey has gone to Championship side Nottingham Forest until January. Another player currently on loan is Vito Mannone. He’s at Hull City until January but says he’s enjoying life by the seaside and would consider staying until the summer. He’s played the last two games for Hull, keeping clean sheets in both..
Finally – Other news around is that no-one really seems to know what’s up with Cesc Fabregas and why he keeps suffering injury. Whatever it is, it seems to be worrying the club and no doubt all fans!
That’s it for today….
Morning typical Aw project
Didn’t Ronaldo cost about that for Man U and he was only ONE player! That wasn’t very silly was it?
Morning all….
Howdy Erick, strange if true isn’t it..
Hi Theo, yes he did but, wouldn’t you rather we bought players to sort out whats going on now?
Well, let’s keep those two names in mind and see what becomes of them. We’ve missed some huge talents before when we would have scoffed at their signings at a young age. C.Ronaldo being one, Di Maria another.
Vrsaljko and Kovacic. Memorised.
Rico strange but they must be special if we are to pay that kind of money but as you said we need to be thinking short term our season is falling apart
Erick, i’d much rather we be spending on now, like you say, our season looks all ends up at the moment and i’m dreading our match tomorrow…
Morning House mates!
Morning Rico, Erick,
I think the “leak” of Arsenal’s interest in these two kids is the usual rubbish, normally spawned by agents, to get their latest so called “whizz kids” known.
I do not believe a word of it.
For Theo to sarcastically compare this sort of story with the purchase of Ronaldo is rubbish too.
Ronaldo was well known in footballing circles and playing for the first team at the time of his transfer.
Arsenal had made a bid for him and he was on the verge of signing for us when old Red Nose popped up and outbid us. He was bought for about £11m. So obviously he was hardly an unknown 16 year old!
Morning Rennie, slow day today 🙁
Here we go again…..
so, come January, are there any players on the horizon likely to join our club?
Good morning all, very nice, crispy and cold today…
seriously we’ve got more kids than a creche ffs!what we need is a gk,a big,kick the shit out of you,no nonsense c/half,& a take no prisoners defensive mid fielder!what the footballing world has been saying for two seasons now.it’s like groundhog day!!
Adebayer was sold for £25mill,to fund our last flutter who would you say is worth that money, in the team now. i suggest Eboue, sell a player to buy a player,please sell Eboue, we may not get somebody that goes down as easy as him but we will just have to suffer.
Morning T-buzz, KG
There better be T-buzz…
Spot on KG, enough of the kids for a season or two, lets get some big boys in the door….
The engine doesn’t kickstart until Sat noon time Rico..
I’d suggest we take these transfer rumors as just what they are – someone else pissin’ in the wind to get some free publicity! Even if we did make an approach, he’s clearly lying about the figure there.. We know better, Wenger’s neva gonna spend that much on kids who he thinks aren’t ready 4 the 1st team yet
We bought Chamakh for about £11mill sold Adebayer fo£25 mill, must be the way to go, easy this football aint it
Steve,
I don’t know about selling Eboue to raise funds to buy another player, it’s more likely we would have to pay for some club to take Eboue. 🙂
Oi Rico,
No greeting for me then? 🙂
if any of the current targets are true it is an absurd situation. none of them are what this team needs NOW
Just read this splendid piece on ACLF:
http://aculturedleftfoot.wordpress.com/2010/11/26/stone-cold-friday-the-good-the-bad-the-downright-ugly/
Sorta rang a bell.. if those inbreds @ Anfield can keep their faith regardless of whatever is happening to/at their club (even while watching a painfully numb team on the pitch) & still contribute so much to keeping Anfield a fortress…. our home fans have to drop their heads in shame for not even trying to back their team vociferously & cheer them up when they most need it!… I mean it most certainly was a library last weekend, especially when u contrast the 2nd half with the 1st
Come to think of it, the home fans contributed to that cascading-sinking effect that the team was clearly feeling after the Scum’s 2nd goal.. Fans got shit-scared that we’d lose after that & this pervaded to the team, when a massive roar would’ve sent the Scum hiding behind a charged up Red&White attack!
I know it’s getting real tough to back this team with the way they’ve been playing (we certainly have our blogosphere to moan about it), but the home fans’ fair-weather friendship mentality certainly don’t help at all
Not confident before tomorrows visit to Villa Rennie…
Steve, i take it thats tongue in cheek 😉 we got Chamakh for free….
Sorry RA, didn’t see you sneak in, Morning to you …
morning rico
morning kelsey…
Rennie, thing is at Anfield, new manager, now new owners – wait and see what happens with them in Jan, i suspect Hodgson will have money to spend and he’ll get rid of a few too, make the squad his own rather that rafa’s ….
Could this allegation of an affair be affecting Wenger’s concentration, I wonder…
Steve, why on earth would you want to Sell the “Pass Master” that is Eboue…? Dont you know he’s better than Kaka? 😆
T-buzz, that’s a good question and doesn’t he seem so agitated these days….
i’m off for a bit guys….
I am sure it does effect his concentration,yet the various reports in the tabloids,disappeared as quickly as they came.
I still think his job has become an obsession, and with literally a free hand to be involved in everything(which is quite unique today)he may actually be missing the very thing that the whole world clearly knows is missing from making us a real force to be reckoned with.
On the other hand he has vanity mixed in with his obsession and “is blind”to the obvious.
A few weeks ago he came out publically and told the media that he lies to protect the players.Now, all managers do that, but would he have ever said that a few seasons back, I doubt it.All his latest comments about bad tackling etc. seem to be coming back to bite him in the arsenal.
All this tells me is that the pressure is getting to him, not from the BoD but from the man himself.
Sorry lads, i didn’t realise he was loved as much, must keep my mouth shut
Well said Kelsey, and yeah rico, he does seem agitated
In answer to Chamakh my memory is going must be my age, pitty i couldn’t forget the last few games.
Chamakh quite a bargain then, we can afford to give Eboue and Bentner away then, HAPPY DAYS.
Don’t forget the lasses Steve 😉
Spot on kelsey…
def got to go now, new tyres needed, not on my waist either before any rude comments 😉 😉
Steve, sell Nikki yes but Eboue is needed as cover for Sagna..
I wrote this earlier but it didn’t get on for some reason.
After a humiliating rather than disastrous week,we now read that Fabregas’s hamstring problems are unexplainable,except that he has played so much football, yet the fact that it is being compared to Michael Owen’s, even though he is more of a sprinter is a concern.
( I quote) Arsenal will now seek the best possible medical advice to find an explanation. We have analysed his body and it is not fatigued, said Wenger. We will consult every specialist we can” Sounds rather familiar to me.Rosicky saw umpteenth specialists in London and in the Czech Republic and missed two seasons,Walcott had an hereditary problem in his shoulders which wasn’t diagnosed until he had been at the club a number of years, and of course we have RVP and Diaby who though talented are forever injured.Add that to the loss of Vermaelen,most probably for the best part of this season, and this so called stronger squad in depth,now looks a bit frail.Wilshere will have to play more, for a young man in his first full season in the PL,is a big ask,and now with today being the last day for loans to be finalised,there is talk of JET going out on loan,Lansbury has already gone,though Ramsey’s short term loan makes sense.What about Carlos Vela, the forgotten man who is being brushed aside by Wenger,and the big talking but atrocious Bendntner,who possibly had his worst game in an Arsenal shirt at Braga. You can’t blame Wenger for everything but the medical team really should be made accountable.This has been going on far too long.
Hi, Wenger just doesn’t get it does he? How on earth does he decide to go for 2 18 year-old again for nearly 20 million, when we have such a mediocre squad. But i forgot that this is the best squad we ever have really mr Wenger? Players who play due tyo AW’s favourness : Clichy, Denilson, Song, Diaby not to mention our keepers. Yes all of them are good players but : Clichy is a bad defender who cannot cross.. Why should we keep him? Song is a good midfielder but i want him focused on the defensive half and not the offensive one. We have plenty of stars for this. He said earlier this season that he wanted to score more goals. NO this is wrong. We want u to stop our opponents because u can do it. And no silly fouls please around our area.. What about Diaby. He is an excellent dribbler with really high level of technique for his size, but he is highly incosistent and injury prone. But i haveto admit that he alongside TV are the 2 players we most miss the past weeks.And then Denilson. Overall an average player with a powerful strike. But this player could never haave done it at Utd or Chelski. Vela will be a goner soon too. Nikki needs to shut it up and Kozzer with Squil need to regain our acceptance again.. My line-up of who deserves to play at the moment at Villa park :
Fabianski
Sagna Djourou Koscielny Gibbs
Nasri Song ? (we badly miss Diaby right now)
Nikki (yes no Theo) Chamakh Arshavin
Not much happening today then.
I wouldn’t read too much meaning to the transfer rumours.
Well i guess nothing is happening then , oh except Wenger’s girlfriend might be expecting a baby.
Wenger is a bad boy. 🙂
Rico, dont worry son we’ll grab a big guy out the crowd
SD-L, I heard about that earlier today too that she might be expecting but I havent seen any stories to back that up!
Maybe Wenger might do with a break like Terry, Rooney etc did when they were caught cheating?
Just a thought…. 😉
Steve,
Rico dropped a large hint earlier, She is not anyone’s son! 🙂
Kelsey, you have probably gone by now, but I share your disquiet on all fronts.
Gunnernet, you make valid points, but your prediction on the team for Villa, I can never see Bendy and Chamakh playing together.
Boo, anyone around…
Is that true about Wenger mistress….
Wao!!! Somebody at last. Hi T-buzz, well she released a video.
I think Wenger has gone too low this time.
And she is claiming she is being stalked by a red head woman and being threatened with dead threats.
Now what was Wenger doing with that kind of woman.
Hi SD, had a bit of a day 🙁
I din’t think there was much truth in the wenger mistress story at first but it seems it could be true then, little hussy…
Wow, thats serious SD!!
riCo, as they say, no smoke without fire and since he wants to deal with the matter ‘privately’, the media and everyone else woulg gladly report whatever they think
Well there goes our pimping Braga beating Wenger. 🙂
T-buzz, is Wenger still married? If not, i don’t get what is bothering him…
Agbonlahor or how ever you spell his name is a doubt for Villa tomorrow…
Steady on guys, a little proof would not be a bad thing before we all jump to conclusions! 🙂
She has allegedly had close friendships with a series of footballing boy friends, like Paddy V, etc.
She might also be a screwball looking for a payoff. She also might not be. Who knows?
Rico, penny just dropped forgive me for missing the hint didnt realise you was one from the other side should have noticed the intelegent and knowlege threw me
Rico,
Le Prof is married to a very lovely lady, Annie, and has a 13 year old daughter.
I imagine relations might be a bit strained around now.
Rico apologies penny has just dropped,i didnt realise you was one from the other side, too much intelegence and knowlege threw me.
of course she is a screwball.
Bye guys, Villa will prk the midfield tomorrow.their coach is smart remember ?
Steve, that’s no problem 😉
Hi RA, you keep popping in just after i F5 and i miss your comment…
Nikki B, i hope he doesn’t start tomorrow, thats for sure…
see you SD, i think you are right, she’s after money and shes getting it by selling her story, just hope wenger sues if he’s innocent…
Maybe he could buy a few players with his winnings 🙂
Guess who our best player against the villains for the past couple of seasons is…vassiriki abou diaby.
Rico,
I can’t believe my screen. Did you say “I effin missed your comment? 🙂
Hi KT, i find that hard to believe 😉
RA, I did, five times 😉
Probably better buying nappies, i know he likes young talent but starting his own team, takes the biscuit,allways ready to be a donner, i could be like a Pat Rice, just help out when he’s not there.
KT,
Do we need to interrogate you, toe nails pulled etc to learn where you formed that opinion? 🙂
Anyone feeling confident ahead of the game?
I’m off home.
Have a great weekend all, hopefully it doesnt end in further depression!
Adios and God bless!
You too T-buzz, safe journey….
Check through the archives and you’ll see that am right.and we’ll win tomorrow and go top.
KT, have you seen the i/v with wenger today?? any injury news??
You seem confident about tomorrow? is that because we are away?
Rico its not that.i just have this bullish belief.albrighton is out for villa.he tortured evra and clichy would’ve been in for a difficult game.Tv’s return is still not certain,Clichy is a doubt but in expected to make the cut and both AA and rvp10 will play.Almunia has fully recovered.
So is Abby possibly out KT, i hope Gibbs plays in place of Clichy and if he’s a doubt wenger shouldn’t take a chance, thats why we get injuries..
Almunia, well i can’t see him coming straight back in and hope he doesn’t either..
Where has your belief come from, i thought it had gone…
chavs and mancs have tricky matches too, hope carroll knocks a few in for newcastle and fat sam gets stuck in against the mancs…
Rico,
I believe like KT that we will win, or at least draw.
But I always feel that way and then …….. 🙂
RA, did you cancel your afc online ok? mines all done and dusted 😆
I used to think we would always win, but the last few games have knocked that belief from me sadly….
Rico aren’t you the same fans telling me to have hope?…even gomes thinks tiny totts can win the CL.
Hope, I have great hope KT, but belief, maybe tomorrow will be the first step on a long road to get that back…
Rvp10 will play for a prolonged period without injury.
Rico,
I waited two weeks and when I did not hear anything, I stamped my foot and they cancelled PDQ. 🙂
KT, i hope he does, we miss him, he gives us something so different…
RA, good news… wonder how many others have cancelled…
I bet it’s a lot Rico, thanks to good old penny pincher Silent Stan.
Anyway, it’s Friday and I’m off for a nice Chinese. (I might have a bite to eat as well! I wish!!) 🙂
🙂 enjoy RA…
Rico if he steps up we can even give fab4 a full month’s rest.
I have a few matches starting tomorrow, so I will pop in when I can.
Strictly Come Arsene 😉
Fab needs that rest regardless KT otherwise he will come back and get crocked again and we don’t want that, we want him back to his best and showing us fans he wants to be with us…
good luck for the matches kelsey, i’m sure you’ll do well…
Ah, another Strictly fan, follwed closely by the X factor… perfect saturday for me 🙂
Who do you want to play cesc’s role rico?
Nasri KT, if not him, then Rosicky….
KT, I have to go for the day, catch up with you tommorrow – you enjoy the rest of your day…
Be good all… and stay safe..
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