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05-14-2012 , 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by aoFrantic
Giroud is mostly linked with Bayern currently.
Isn't he good enough to go to a team where he would be first choice?
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05-14-2012 , 03:28 PM
So over or under on £500m to be spent across England/Spain?
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05-14-2012 , 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by derwipok
Isn't he good enough to go to a team where he would be first choice?
Easily. But Montpellier isn't made of money, they were nearly relegated last year. I think most of the team will stick around due to the CL, but there are players on that team that could see offers that would triple-quadruple their salary.
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05-14-2012 , 03:46 PM
Would it be a stretch to think Yossi would want to stay at arsenal should chelsea not make CL next year?
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05-14-2012 , 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by PoseidonCubed
Lansbury back from West Ham too, right? I haven't seen nearly enough of him to form any sort of opinion, but the consensus seems to be that he'll make a decent PL player, but isn't quite up to Arsenal standards.
He can't get into the West Ham side so he would be of more use as a sub keeper than anything else at Arsenal. There is talent there but he drifts out of games far too easily and needs to decide whether he wants to make the most of his talents or thinking that playing for Arsenal's stiffs makes him ace and being the next David Bentley. He has essentially accomplished nothing this season, bar a couple of decent performances for the under 21's. He can't afford another one of treading water. I can see him ending up with us again if we lose to Blackpool.
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05-14-2012 , 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by aoFrantic
Easily. But Montpellier isn't made of money, they were nearly relegated last year. I think most of the team will stick around due to the CL, but there are players on that team that could see offers that would triple-quadruple their salary.
Yeah sure but Arsenal or Spurs could also offer him a lot more money than Montpellier with a way better chance to be a starter there (depending on RVP/Adebayor). At Bayern he would be pretty much a lock to be a backup for Gomez.
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05-14-2012 , 04:03 PM
Eden Hazard's confirmed he'll be playing in Manchester next season but hasn't said for who lol.
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05-14-2012 , 04:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Consty
Eden Hazard's confirmed he'll be playing in Manchester next season but hasn't said for who lol.
Utd one time (doubt it though).
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05-14-2012 , 04:22 PM
do not want fisheye
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05-14-2012 , 04:23 PM
I think Hazard is being extremely disrespectful to Lille, he should just STFU at this point. We haven't a hope of signing Hazard if City want him, we just can't compete at that level.
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05-14-2012 , 04:26 PM
M'Villa price drop from the £25m or so that was quoted for him last year?

If not I don't see Arsenal buying him.
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05-14-2012 , 04:31 PM
How on earth is he being disrespectful to Lille? The player and club have both known for over a year that he's leaving.
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05-14-2012 , 04:37 PM
I don't agree with him broadcasting his news over the likes of twitter/facebook. Be a professional about it, doesn't reflect well upon him IMO. Lille are still paying his wages.
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05-14-2012 , 04:38 PM
He's an attention whore that the media constantly feeds. Self-serving to both every party. He was always going to go to the highest bidder if someone didn't snatch him up early. Hard to beat City in a bidding war.

The price quotes for M'Vila has always been around £17m. Rumored we had a bid of 15 turned down last Summer, not sure how trustworthy that was.
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05-14-2012 , 04:41 PM
Kagawa confirmed that he definitely won't extend his contract, Zorc said that we are willing to take offers.
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05-14-2012 , 04:45 PM
No one else has mentioned it, but Mark Van Bommel to PSV.
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05-14-2012 , 04:45 PM
Ao, for some reason I remembered the price being upwards of £20m. Fwiw I only seen him the once or twice and he got bossed about by the Celtic mf.
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05-14-2012 , 04:47 PM
is anyone sure there was a bidding war for Hazard or rather he had to choose between whoever matched his release clause?

Hazard is a standup guy imo he could've signed wherever he wanted the last couple years, yet decided to stay in Lille till new stadium was built ,giving his club CL money in back to back years
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05-14-2012 , 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by martymc1
Ao, for some reason I remembered the price being upwards of £20m. Fwiw I only seen him the once or twice and he got bossed about by the Celtic mf.
It was quoted at around that last Summer, but he's had just an ok year at Rennes and he's not on the best of terms with the club and it's supporters (basic cliffs are he missed a sitter vs lower league team in the French cup in the semis when they were huge favorites to advance to play Lyon in the finals). I've seen nearly every game for France he's played and he's so good with them. MOTM vs Brazil and the Bosnia tie, can't remember that many other games that well right now.

Lots of games Song/Vermaelen is just a disaster waiting to happen in the middle. Both needlessly get up field and just leave so much space behind or on the counter.
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05-14-2012 , 05:04 PM
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Originally Posted by aoFrantic
No one else has mentioned it, but Mark Van Bommel to PSV.
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Originally Posted by kevin21
I'd say a few of the Montpellier players will be in demand this summer, interesting to see how that will all pan out. Their striker Oliver Giroud was speaking yesterday and said this:



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Also seems like Milan have completed the signing of Montolivo from Fiorentina on a Free when his contract expires in June.

Allegri said:



Milan have also said they will take another run at Tevez. Van Bommel leaving and heading back to PSV.
ORLY!!??
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05-14-2012 , 05:16 PM
Is there a consolidated list of who is signed on for next year and who is a free agent?

Retaining Cisse, Diakite, and Taiwo will be crucial for next year.
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05-14-2012 , 06:48 PM
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David Hoilett - 21 Years (Blackburn)
Only news I hope to hear about Hoilett is that he's decided to play for Canada. One time, please. Bring young de Guzman along as well.

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Riccardo Montolivo - 27 Years (Fiorentina) - going to Milan
Mathieu Flamini - 28 Years (Ac Milan)
Wálter Samuel - 34 Years (Inter Milan) - Goal.com source, but apparently signed for another year at Inter
Davide Astori - 25 Years (Bologna)
Cristian Chivu - 31 Years (Inter Milan)
Alessandro Nesta - 36 Years (Ac Milan) - New York in MLS
Fabrizio Miccoli - 32 Years (Palermo) - Football Italia article from Feb. says he's signed until June 2013
Clarence Seedorf - 36 Years (Ac Milan)
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05-14-2012 , 10:13 PM
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Originally Posted by MindFckr
posting in this thread with the hope that podolski wont be our last signing
Arsene will probably want to sell him for a small profit after the euro's and will get pissed when he can't.
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Originally Posted by aoFrantic
Out: Squallaci, Almunia, Djourou, Vela, Bendtner, Park, Benayoun, Arshavin, Lansbury, Chamakh, Denilson, Mannone, Fabianski, Pat Rice.

Whoa, that's a lot of bodies out. Most likely to stay are Djourou and Chamakh, everyone else just won't start the year with the first team. Mannone and Fabianski have said recently they want playing time and they're not getting it here. Benayoun will return to Chelsea and I would like to see him return but I just doubt it will happen. A permanent deal for Denilson may again be a problem this Summer, but he's not returning either. Might be somewhat tough to get rid of Bendtner, Chamakh and a few others with the the wages they're on, but it's something we have to do.

Not sure where Bartley will go so I haven't firmly put him in the leaving camp. Wellington isn't likely to ever play for us or get a visa as well.

In: Podolski, M'Vila, cheap experienced second/third string GK option, possible CAM.
There will be another player out of left field, but this entirely depends on who leaves. I don't think any of our first team MF will leave this summer, but there is a chance. We usually sign a player every year that no one saw coming and we're definitely looking for a CAM.

Promoted: Afobe, Henderson, Martinez, Bould.
Like a new signing: Wilshere, Diaby (four times next year!)

Every year we have a youngster that surprises us all in how good he is and ready at a young age. Next year I'd say the most likely one to make the jump is Eisfeld, but we'll see.

So, the biggest job of the Summer is to keep RVP. After that it's to trim a lot of deadweight of the wage bill and replace that with 1-2 really good players that can help us push City and United.
No way you clear out all of those names (and all but 1-2 would be incredible imo). It's just not easy to shift squad players on pretty big wages. It's why I've stopped thinking that Jenas/Bentley/GDS etc will actually leave before their contracts are up.

And Diaby will be like a new selling when he has a season ending injury in a pre-season friendly.
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05-14-2012 , 10:22 PM
Squillaci and Almunia are out of contract I think, Vela and Bendtner are never playing for us again, likely the same with Denilson and Arshavin as well.

Agree with AO, Djourou and Chamakh will likely still be there next year.
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05-15-2012 , 12:45 AM
Almunia and Fabianski are out of contract next year. Squallaci, Walcott, Van Persie and Botelho are out in 2 seasons.

Do we sell all those players? No. But all except one or two will not play a minute of first team football with us next season.

The likely scenario is that Almunia and Fabianski walk. We sell Vela and Arshavin on the cheap, Benayoun is out of our hands. Then we can maybe sell one more and the rest we get rid of for another season through subsidized loan deals, which is far from optimal. Bendtner, Denilson, Park and Squallaci are hard sells. No doubt about it. Make too much and aren't good enough.
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