Alright Gooners, congrats on the win tonight. Bit of a tedious game when all said and done but I'm glad you won it and sent out a message against negative football (Marseille were shocking in the 2nd half). AAAAAANYWAY... Was idly wasting my time looking for pictures of Cabaye's missus (we've got a little WAG thread over on our board) and came across this article from back in 2009: http://www.goal.com/en/news/1722/fre...ked-by-arsenal What interested me was the comments section of the article: One fan says So Cabaye too expensive for Arsenal and others deserve a chance? I think few can argue he was an absolute steal at 4.5m, so what is it that put Arsene off do you think? Its not like you didn't want midfielders since then and he is still relatively young (25 in comparison to say Arteta, 29 and Benayoun, 31) and proving to be effective at this level and in this league... Not gloating in a 'haha we got him' way as the Gervinho saga shows your club has far more pulling power than we do, but obviously somewhere along the line, Wenger must've given up but I can't for the life of me work out why...Any ideas from you lot?
1) Broken link 2) To be honest, we don't really need him. Benayoun and Arteta have been pretty good for us this season. And also, 2 years is a long time in football. A few weeks isn't. If at the end of the season he turns out to be a god for newcastle, we can sign him anyway
Fair enough, although regarding the highlighted section - in those 2 years he has gone onto represent the full National team and win the French League and Cup double... As for buying him, get your chequebook out, he's going to cost you a fair few Million more than we paid for him (we only got him at the price that we did due to a release clause in his contract - I hope to every imaginable God that Newcastle haven't been stupid enough to allow him one in his current contract!)
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Her name is Fiona Cabaye... And if we're talking about players we COULD'VE signed I think we could trump you, if rumours are to be believed Newcastle's men in the know turned down a little known French midfielder, namely one Zinedine Zidane! (also, we had the option of signing one of two Portugese starlets, Hugo Viana or Christiano Ronaldo...needless to say we went for the wrong option!)
I googled her name..... please log in to view this image Not sure what you Geordie boys are into, but down south we like our girls with a bit less hair
The player we missed out on and we will really regret was Mata. We had a 17 Mill fee agreed, Wenger stalled they upped the price to 23 Wenger wouldn't pay it but Chelski would. He is awesome and just what we needed, Damn it!!!
I didn't know this, £6m is hardly pocket change, but he is so dangerous it was surely worth it? Far too early to write off your season and anything can happen in football, but with Citeh, Chelski and Manure seemingly strong enough to 'guarantee' themselves a top 4 spot. The shootout between yourselves, Liverpool and Spurs will hinge on players of his quality (or lack thereof). While I'm here...What do you guys think of Gervinho, obviously we were after him as well and for the £13m? (or so I read) we were willing to pay for him, is he worth it? He has obvious pace but is it being used effectively and how is his end product so far?
He can beat people with a lot of ease but more often then not does not find his man with the final ball. This is his first season in England so he will given time but he really does need to improve with his final pass.
Yeah, from an outsider looking in, I'd pretty much agree with all of that. If I'm honest, with the small squad that we have, we don't have the luxury of time and so I'm quite glad we missed out on him in the end. Obertan is a poor mans version of him, but at only £2/3m he is far less of a risk!
