http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footb...am-transfers-christian-benteke-aston-1882158? Benteke anyone? I was not overly impressed with him at the start, but he has improved and to score the amount of goals he has for a side as poor as that Villa team is some feat. Not sure our interest in him is serious, but I can see someone like Spurs going after him.
Rooney rumors still doing the rounds. I know the odds are miniscule, but it would be so bizarre if it really happened.
I think it would be a great signing. Being the main man again might rekindle his best form and we would have a bit more fight on the pitch as well. Also, we would finally have a player who can take a bloody free kick!
Rooney is World Class. He should be played down the middle as a CF. He's not a midlfielder and he's not a wing-forward. It bugs me that whenever we get linked to a top class player there's always a bunch of critics that shout over-rated. (or if they are no longer under 25 they are 'past it'.) Rooney has been making an impact and winning trophies at the highest level since he was a teenager. The same cant be said for a good 50% of our squad.
It really is silly season. We have this piece of journalistic refuse that seems to have appeared in the Independent. http://football-talk.co.uk/78570/guardiola-determined-to-sign-arsenals-jack-wilshere/? Jack Wilshere is to become Pep Guardiola's brain trust at Bayern. I just can't say how unbelievably stupid this is, in so many different ways, and it really puts into context the reports of all the players we are about to sign. Somebody on a blog somewhere wades through the statistics sites for likely candidates for a team. This time it probably started in Germany. Next, a mainstream website or some rag newspaper picks up on it and publishes it as a "Source", saying that the transfer might happen. If it is a slow newsday, it gets picked up by the bigger newpapers, desperate to sell papers, because they are all going out of business. Next thing you know, they are reporting it on the BBC and Sky. We need to all step back and realize we are going to have to wait to find out who is leaving and who is staying in the summer. There really is no good news out there on this. You can do a better job working out Wenger's transfers on your own, much better than some spotty kid in Germany or Spain, who hasn't a clue about English football and just wants a few hits on his blog.
They're sourcing the Metro. Did the metro source the independent then? That story about Fabregas to United is in the Independent too. Could be an Arsenal-hating Spurs or Manure fan working at that rag.
Yep, the silly season is about to start. Expect twitter to go into overdrive and the ITK's to come crawling out from the woodwork. My 'insider' tip is that Pele will come out of retirement and Thierry Henry will undergo a regenerative youthful treatment in some kind of fandangled oxygen chamber, both will sign for Arsenal in a £300m deal and go on to form the deadliest strike force ever . . . . .you heard it here first
The standard have picked up the Fabregas to United story http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...former-arsenal-man-cesc-fabregas-8613874.html These so-called journalists need to do a bit of checking before they write ****. There must be a few (even Manchester United fans) that would appreciate a decent piece of writing saying that United are not going to sign Fabregas because he would cost them 70 million pounds and Arsenal would cop 35 million of that. Moyes just isn't that stupid! Even if Fabregas wanted to go there, which is debateable. United fans are in for a real shock. Moyes is not going to have the drawing power Fergie had. They need players badly. They are not going to have Giggs and Scholes filling in any more. Ferdinand looks finished, Vidic hasn't looked the same since he came back. Evra is looking tired (or has lost a yard or two in pace), Rooney wants out; Valencia and Nani are running on empty. They need players all the way through the team and (as we have found) top talent doesn't come cheap. United have debts up to their eyeballs, and now they have lost their inspirational Manager. All the clubs know that United need players and they are going to zing the price up. Moyes isn't getting a well-oiled machine, he is getting a banged up old race-car. He gets 10/10 just if he stops them falling off the cliff!
Gonzalo Higuain has agreed to join Arsenal on a five-year contract after the Gunners struck a €22m (£18.5m) deal with Real Madrid for the Argentinean hitman, according to Spanish outlet Sport.es. The report claims north London rivals Arsenal and Tottenham have been showing an interest in the 25-year-old, while Higuain’s agent has also held talks with Italian champions Juventus over a potential move to Serie A. However, the striker is believed to have opted for a move to the Premier League and Sport.es claim he has reached an agreement with Arsenal that will see him move to the Emirates on a five-year deal after a €22m (£18.5m) fee was agreed between the two clubs – but the transfer is dependent on Arsenal qualifying for the Champions League next season. Would be nice if true.
how fabregas will be costing 70m again? why not 100m or better 200m !! the guy was struggling to impose himself in Barca he will cost 30m-35m at best .. and if deal is gone through, we will cares less if you get 15m out of it .. you are not really our rivals and is not like you will be investing it back in the team anyway I like the term of old car !!! evra, rio, Giggs, vidic, carrick are only 5 needing replacement may be in 2-3 years time (aside from giggs and Rio), actually the rest are young or just in their peak and UTD debt is not a big issue, why dramatizing it ? .. is just 45m a year .. don't you read the news? we just announced new record with 30% more money generated, and in past seasons, UTD had 90-110m pretax profits .. add 30% more and take out 45m .. we will be having 100m to spend if Moyes wanted to spend
Higuain would flop for us. Giroud is a poacher and he's struggled, Higuian may be worse, because at least Giroud is big, so offers another type of threat.
Not saying he is worth that, but that is what you are going to have to pay for Barcelona to pocket the same amount of money as they will get if Arsenal buy him. As for the debt, the magical accounting using the Biond issue doesn't make it go away, I am afraid. It is still there lurking in your nightmares.
Im not sure Arsenal will see it like that, i suspect if the board did decide to bid for him they'd only offer half what he's worth
