Arsenal 09/10

[Gingerman]

What has Theo Walcott and Mr T have in common?

They aint goin' on no plane!!!!

 

[chieftain]

What has Theo Walcott and Mr T have in common?

They aint goin' on no plane!!!!

Here Theo drink this milk. (You can dream you're Aaron Lennon!)

 

[iROBOT]

Barcelona will come back with a higher offer after the world cup, i bet.

As they fucking should, taking the piss, a player with five years left on his contract and one of the best midfielders in the country/Europe/World.

This should be 45+ million.

Cheeky fuckers.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

As they fucking should, taking the piss, a player with five years left on his contract and one of the best midfielders in the country/Europe/World.

This should be 45+ million.

Cheeky fuckers.

So much for 'respecting' arsenals position.

 

[iROBOT]

So much for 'respecting' arsenals position.

whatever... (I know!)

We all know Cesc is off, now pay us the fucking cash you cunts....

 

[Sesquipedalian]

Arsenal have rejected a formal bid from Barcelona for Cesc Fábregas and told the Catalan club that they will not enter into negotiation for the midfielder. A strongly worded statement released by the club amounted to a warning to back off. "We have no intention of selling our captain," it said. Barcelona were tonight considering their next move and a follow-up offer, despite Arsenal insisting both publicly and privately that they do not intend to sell. The Guardian understands their opening bid to have been fractionally short of €40m (£33m), rather than the €35m fee that was widely reported.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jun/02/cesc-fabregas-barcelona-arsenal

An insulting opening bid.

 

[iROBOT]

Arsenal have rejected a formal bid from Barcelona for Cesc Fábregas and told the Catalan club that they will not enter into negotiation for the midfielder. A strongly worded statement released by the club amounted to a warning to back off. "We have no intention of selling our captain," it said. Barcelona were tonight considering their next move and a follow-up offer, despite Arsenal insisting both publicly and privately that they do not intend to sell. The Guardian understands their opening bid to have been fractionally short of €40m (£33m), rather than the €35m fee that was widely reported.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jun/02/cesc-fabregas-barcelona-arsenal

An insulting opening bid.

It really is.

Cesc is under coontract for another five years, the buy-out clause must be £25 mill (or there abouts), therefore they think he's only worth 8 million.

Insulting indeed. Csec is worth 45 mill of anyones money. Plus dont they still owe us for Henry and Hleb?

 

[strung out]

if his buyout clause was £25mill, then barca have met that with their £33mill offer

 

[stupid dogbot]

Is he really worth £11m MORE than Villa?

 

[Diamond]

Is he really worth £11m MORE than Villa?

Why wouldn't he be worth 11m more than Villa?

Also, I'm pretty sure we don't do buy-out clauses in British football but even if we did they are usually set at pretty silly prices. Certainly not as low as 25m.

 

[g force]

£33m isn't insulting in any way, shape or form. As an opening bid it's more than fair.

I doubt there's any clause as in "X can trigger official talks" that seems a more European thing and TBH means very little half the time.

 

[stupid dogbot]

Why wouldn't he be worth 11m more than Villa?

I was hoping someone would give some reasons beyond "you can't have our player unless you pay a billion pounds" and a stamp of the foot, tbh...

I'm not suggesting he isn't, btw.

 

[paulhackett]

Is he really worth £11m MORE than Villa?

Or less than half Ronaldo? Or about the same as Benzema? Or a bit more than Berbatov? Or Robinho?

I would think there is a value as a player and also a value to the team (cost to replace) and a value to the club as well (marketable player, face-saving damages to an extent) and value to the club he's being sold to.. is it a rival etc.

Fabregas would be valued highly under all these factors.

Does that make him worth more than Villa? Well yes, if both clubs agree that he is, but will Valencia challenge Barcelona with or without Villa? No. Theoretically the same isn't true of Fabregas and Arsenal (yeah yeah yeah), hence the 'valuation' (by Barcelona).

 

[stupid dogbot]

He's clearly worth a lot more than Berbatov.

 

[paulhackett]

Whatever the valuation, IF he goes and Arsenal picked up replacements who could go in the team immediately then it would be good value..

So if the loose loose rumours of Joe Hart, Joe Cole, Yaya Toure, (Joe) Sneijder (my own personal rumour ), whoever the centre back is supposed to be, all arrived, I'd see it as good value

 

[stupid dogbot]

Whatever the valuation, IF he goes and Arsenal picked up replacements who could go in the team immediately then it would be good value..

See, that's kind of what I was getting at.

Hart'd be an ace buy, I reckon. Not so sure about Toure. Makoun's been "linked", too, I reckon he'd be tops, too.

 

[paulhackett]

I haven't got a clue about players to get, it's all a bit 'you say potato, i say potato' to me, but it does matter what is done with the funds.

Lower down on my wish list is

Arsenal need to sign players with a chant potential of a Vieira or Bergkamp
They need to lose the stadium announcer - staged crowd participation is very Boro
They need a strip with proper fucking white sleeves

 

[iROBOT]

I haven't got a clue about players to get, it's all a bit 'you say potato, i say potato' to me, but it does matter what is done with the funds.

Lower down on my wish list is

Arsenal need to sign players with a chant potential of a Vieira or Bergkamp
They need to lose the stadium announcer - staged crowd participation is very Boro
They need a strip with proper fucking white sleeves

Got 'em!

this is more like it.

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/arsenal-new-home-kit-exclusive-gallery

 

[Gingerman]

No-one gonna start a 2010-11 thread then?