Bid rejected for Arse Shaving

nig1903 · Post by **nig1903** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:41 pm

Arsenal have had a Â£10m bid for Zenit St Petersburg playmaker Andrei Arshavin rejected by the Russian club.

Zenit spokesman Alexei Petrov said: "I can confirm that Zenit did get an official offer from Arsenal about Andrei Arshavin. It was rejected as insufficient. They offered about Â£10 million.

"No new offers have arrived from them since. At the moment, Arsenal are the only club to have approached us about the player."

(Sun website, 1520 GMT)

olgitgooner · Post by **olgitgooner** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:49 pm

At least we've made a bid.

It's something.

Guess we'll go to about Â£12m.

Just hope Man City don't start showing an interest. They'd pay double.

Post by **QuartzGooner** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:02 pm

Nasri saga all over again

MM99 · Post by **MM99** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:04 pm

apparently city have put in a bid for 18m

demzy · Post by **demzy** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:05 pm

olgitgooner wrote:Just hope Man City don't start showing an interest. They'd pay double.

Too late mate, if the sunday mirror is to be believed.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ ... -21032771/

Manchester City are closing in on Andrei Arshavin after agreeing an Â£18million deal with Zenit St Petersburg.

SteveO 35 · Post by **SteveO 35** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:24 pm

Let them hijack all they like

18m for another attacking player, who until the past 2 years had done fuck all. And Russians do so well in the PL too don't they ?

olgitgooner · Post by **olgitgooner** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:25 pm

demzy wrote:
olgitgooner wrote:Just hope Man City don't start showing an interest. They'd pay double.
Too late mate, if the sunday mirror is to be believed.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ ... -21032771/

Manchester City are closing in on Andrei Arshavin after agreeing an Â£18million deal with Zenit St Petersburg.

The Zenit spokesman said that no other clubs had made offers. It would be in their best interests to say they had other offers. Start a bidding war.

So I reckon I'll believe the Zenit guy. Not a tabloid sports journo.

Bergkamp-Genius · Post by **Bergkamp-Genius** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:07 pm

olgitgooner wrote:
demzy wrote:
olgitgooner wrote:Just hope Man City don't start showing an interest. They'd pay double.
Too late mate, if the sunday mirror is to be believed.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ ... -21032771/

Manchester City are closing in on Andrei Arshavin after agreeing an Â£18million deal with Zenit St Petersburg.
The Zenit spokesman said that no other clubs had made offers. It would be in their best interests to say they had other offers. Start a bidding war.

So I reckon I'll believe the Zenit guy. Not a tabloid sports journo.

Yea i wouldn't take much notice of anything i read at the moment, most of it's just lazy journalism, making shit up that sounds like it could be true to fill space.
I don't want to sound paranoid or negative but i am beginning to think that all this Arshavin talk is just a ruse from the club to kid us on that they are attempting to buy quality players, no doubt we shall keep on offering way below the asking price and then either someone will put in a real bid to gazump us or Zenit won't accept the derisory offer we are making, either way AW can claim he made an effort to buy quality and it wasn't his fault it didn't come off but in reality we are probably making little serious effort to sign Arshavin, unless Zenit are stupid enough to let him go for peanuts which is unlikely, i'm all for bartering to keep the price down but offering half the asking price for me is not a serious effort to sign someone, your just encouraging others to offer more because you are making him look like a bargain. Don't be surprised if come the end of the month after all the supposed effort we have put in to signing real quality it will turn out a repeat of the summer and we'll end up with a last minute Sylvestre type signing.

digger · Post by **digger** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:09 pm

Â£10m is about as high as I'd rate Arshavin. I'd rather we spent the money a bit wiser on areas of the team where we really had gaps. It may seem like we need Arshavin, but only until Fabregas returns.

nuttygoonerpaul · Post by **nuttygoonerpaul** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:09 pm

oh well there goes that signing ... but dit we really think we would sign him , we will sign no one ..

wave of mutilation · Post by **wave of mutilation** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:10 pm

Â£12m still seems reasonable..

nuttygoonerpaul · Post by **nuttygoonerpaul** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:18 pm

we will saying at the end of jan , why did we not sign this and that player .. cos no one will becoming to our club ..

Charlie! Charlie! · Post by **Charlie! Charlie!** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:20 pm

nuttygoonerpaul wrote: we will saying at the end of jan , why did we not sign this and that player .. cos no one will becoming to our club ..

..and AW will say that he could have brought him to the club but chose not to in 4 months.

mcdowell42 · Post by **mcdowell42** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:23 pm

report in sunday mirror linking us with bullard and jack collision.bullard shrewd short term solution.

SteveO 35 · Post by **SteveO 35** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:23 pm

Charlie! Charlie! wrote:
nuttygoonerpaul wrote: we will saying at the end of jan , why did we not sign this and that player .. cos no one will becoming to our club ..
..and AW will say that he could have brought him to the club but chose not to in 4 months.

Yes, he will be in Wenger's "we came so close" group along with Cristiano Ronaldo. By the way, didn't AW also turn Palacios away. I thought he was fantastic for Wigan today and every time I've seen him this year - still obviously not as good as Denilson, Eboue and co.