Summer Transfer Window 2013/2014 aka Arsenal , we can afford folks and the mancs really want Fellani
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Good for Villa. Shambles he gets left on the bench to the likes of Sanchez.
Any source for that??...not that i dont believe it because for the past week or so ive been saying to my Arsenal supporting mates that i have a feeling Higuain will be staying at Real
Just saw it on goal.com just now:
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2892...dont-want-arsenal-target-higuain?ICID=HP_BN_2
Indeed, i honestly couldnt see Villa coming to Spurs...no CL football, rubbish weather compared to Spain
.Shame he never really got a look in after his injury at Barca, hopefully he will score plenty of goals for Atletico next season. Wouldnt have minded him at Arsenal as we were linked with him back in Jan but hes getting on a bit.
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Meh, would have loved for Villa to come to the Lane likewise I'm sure Arsenal would have been delighted to see him at the Emirates.
At least this now shows we won't be signing him and can look to who else we may or may not make an approach for. I still think Remy or Benteke could be a good shout for us.
At least this now shows we won't be signing him and can look to who else we may or may not make an approach for. I still think Remy or Benteke could be a good shout for us.
Meh, would I have liked him at spurs, hell yes, is he the player he once was? No. Has not been great the last 2 seasons, but like VDV would have liked him!
Just means we will probably go for Benteke all guns.
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"We don’t want Higuain to leave and nobody from Arsenal has come here to make an offer of €27m or any amount", Perez told Univision.
http://www.insidefutbol.com/2013/07...r-florentino-perez/91511/#5rkQMqaP0B4hLWz3.99
According to the Sevilla chairman we haven't even bid for Negredo so I am not sure whats happening with that deal. Perhaps its dead.
With Gomez going to Fiorentina I wonder if a deal for Jovetic could be done, he would be a bit of a better fit I think. As he isn't just an out and out goal scorer and by all accounts we have a good relationship with them from the Nastasic deal and they also apparently want Pantilimon so he could be used in exchange as well.
"We don’t want Higuain to leave and nobody from Arsenal has come here to make an offer of €27m or any amount", Perez told Univision.
http://www.insidefutbol.com/2013/07...r-florentino-perez/91511/#5rkQMqaP0B4hLWz3.99
According to the Sevilla chairman we haven't even bid for Negredo so I am not sure whats happening with that deal. Perhaps its dead.
With Gomez going to Fiorentina I wonder if a deal for Jovetic could be done, he would be a bit of a better fit I think. As he isn't just an out and out goal scorer and by all accounts we have a good relationship with them from the Nastasic deal and they also apparently want Pantilimon so he could be used in exchange as well.
Isnt Remy in the poo for rape? No one will touch that with a 10 foot pole.
Higuain related quotes on AS: http://as.com/diarioas/2013/07/08/english/1373291170_744423.html
Higuaín: “We don’t want him to leave. And besides, nobody from Arsenal has come here to present an offer for him. Not 27 million – nothing. We have not received an offer”.
Higuaín: “We don’t want him to leave. And besides, nobody from Arsenal has come here to present an offer for him. Not 27 million – nothing. We have not received an offer”.
Yeh pretty much the same sort of thing goal.com are saying as well. Ill just wait to see how this pans out, could be saying it because they want more money for him or it could be that Ancelotti has plans for him in the end ie staying with Real and perhaps making him a starter rather than a bench warmer or sub.
If its true that Arsenal havent made an offer for him then wow just wow at the papers/rags saying for the past few weeks that we have made an offer for him and talks are at an advanced stage etc etc. Plus his father has said that he hopes to see him play in the EPL next season along with his brother.
Something really messed up there imho, surprisingly SSN havent even mentioned Arsenal or Higuain in the past few weeks which i found a tad strange as they usually like to start the rumour press
.Arsenal fans i think have been well and truly trolled hard by the papers
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Dont think he has been charged or anything unlike Nile Ranger who has been charged with rape now :/
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Not really, I like Villa a lot and while he's played wide left for club and country and he can be perfectly fine there, ultimately he's a centre forward and he's playing second fiddle to Messi. Sanchez primarily plays on the right when he starts and the wide left position tends to be filled by Iniesta more often than not. So ultimately Villa is mostly competing with Iniesta and Messi for starts.. at Villa's age its not like he can hope to get more starts as time goes on. Wasn't too sure why he ever went there, Eto'o, Ibra, there was never room for a top class striker, though he got to win a couple league titles and the champs league, something that wouldn't have happened (most likely) had he stayed at Valencia. He's won everything significant now so can go look for first team football again. Better to have been a bit part player and won those titles than to never win them at all.
I can see why atletico got him and I hope he can play well there but that team has been crazy defensively focused in the past couple years and they would often use Falcao as a battering ram, I'd prefer to have seen him at Spurs, he'd get loads of the ball, loads of chances and be great to see in the league.
Ridiculously low transfer fee... I imagine it has a lot to do with Villa's preference, if it was just down to the transfer fee Spurs should have doubled the fee and paid it in one lump. 5mil and spreading it over 3 years.... lol, what a state most of the Spanish league is in. Shows in my mind exactly how profitable the Falcao sale was for Atletico... they probably ended up with almost nothing while his investors get almost all the profit. I also have no problem with that, Atletico couldn't afford him without the investors funding the deal in the first place, nor could they afford the wages he was being paid. Just a shame for Spanish footie, the top two take all the tv money and the rest have become pray for investment groups to pump up player values and take all the rewards.
On Higuain, I think across Europe he's very much under rated(though Real fans love him) and I would have liked to have him. But I've said before that getting him isn't going to turn Wenger into a winner or fix the fundamental problems. We've had truly world class squads and strikers before and failed to win things for many years, we've had massively stronger squads than this one + Higuain while not winning and while a truly world class striker is important it was far from the most crucial or biggest improvement the team can make. Of course Higuains dad has been all over the press saying he's likely leaving, fact is he was relatively second string in the last couple seasons and as a player looking for a move is sensible, if Ancelloti has come in and said " you're my starter" why anyone would think he'd leave is a mystery. Ancelloti may have come in, decided to get 25mil for him so he can buy Cavani or something, or he might sell Benzema to fund a huge move, who knows.
Official offers don't mean much of anything, same way clubs can negotiate with players either with or without permission. You offer when you know they'll accept(most often) negotiating unofficially till you come up with numbers and make an official offer.
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He got 19 in 34.
He's played one season at a decent level.
£20m+ (£25m mentioned on BBC Sport).
Does not compute.
Most of the prices for players doesn't compute. For a first season in a top league that 19 goals isn't so bad really.
I wouldn't say half the players being bought are worth 20+ mil.
I think we can both agree really that most transfer fees are silly.
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I don't understand the cause for concern, I've only read a handful of quotes that are direct from the Higuain camp, everything else I've read has been speculation, guesswork and plain misinformation. The very fact that The Mail (I think it was) couldn't even tell the difference between £25,000,000 and €25,000,000 says it all really. I'm not worried and neither should other Arsenal fans be.
Stop reading so much into every little thing and stop stressing, we've been told year after year that we have money to spend if we need to, wether we are to believe that or not is up to the individual but there's no point whatsoever stressing about it.
Stop reading so much into every little thing and stop stressing, we've been told year after year that we have money to spend if we need to, wether we are to believe that or not is up to the individual but there's no point whatsoever stressing about it.
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