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Salomon Kalou reveals he rejected the chance to join Arsenal in January
The former Chelsea forward Salomon Kalou has revealed that he turned down the chance to join Arsenal in the January transfer window.
Kalou, who now plays for the Ligue 1 side Lille, said he was approached about a last-minute loan deal at the end of the transfer window. However he said he rejected Arsène Wenger's approach in order to help his club qualify for Europe.
"A possible departure?" Kalou told L'Equipe. "Yes, to Arsenal. It could have been done as a last minute loan. But I want to finish third, prepare for the World Cup Stadium and go to the Stade de France to compete in the final of the Coupe de France."
The Ivory Coast striker has confirmed, however, that he will leave Lille in the summer and he has previously expressed an interest in returning to the Premier League, to add to his six seasons at Chelsea from 2006 to 2012. He has been in good form in France, scoring 24 league goals in 57 appearances for Lille.
highburyJD wrote:just skimming this standard made-up outrage thread and a few others
made me realise the pointlessness of life
(mostly the pointlessness of certain sad individuals on here's lives)
I'm checking out till the season starts,
impossible to stand cowardly online abuse from strangers
without any actual football to disprove their miseryguts nonsense
(or the opportunity to watch them get knocked out - which replicating their online 'personas' in the real world would inevitably entail)
ciao till August
+1.......especially as some of the more vocal posters seem to missing when we win and were adament Tottenham are a much better team than us, we were going to finish 7th, Redknapp is the best Manager around yada yada yada..
Till the proper footballs starts.
Hey Nik's drinking buddy.
If you're gonna go on a fecal protest, do us a favour and suffer in peace, what's the point of warning the world you shan't be effusing us with your public felatio of Wenger?
The fact you put me down as a "wenger lover" proves you take no notice, or give any credit to anyone else's posts.
As i say, this thread is a joke, your comments are a joke - funny how you went missing when we turned our season round and finished higher than anyone thought we would eh? Where did your beloved Spurs finish?
Nobody, least of all me, accepts that we cannot improve, we can, massively - but your comments over the season have made you look silly, as this thread has.......maybe time for some humilty?
Your an idiot, you can abuse with all the childish insults you want - just makes you look even more of a fool than you already have.
Good luck.
Aaaaaw thanks honey.
Know what? You're right. I went totally missing when we "turned our season round"
Throughout the titanic performances at home to Norwich, in the CL, away to QPR, the outstanding draw at Bolton...yep went missing. How was the 3rd place trophy parade at Islington town hall btw? Any interesting handbrake stories involving the victory parade bus?
Listen girl. Real fabs buy hot dogs.I ain't a real fan line u I admit it!
By the way, Arsenal's second half of the season was actually statistically worse than their first half of the season. FACT.
It'd help your case if you had a rudimentary grasp of basic maths, or understood the points scoring system in football!
So show off all you like about Arsene "turning our season round" all you like.
It just makes you look even more imbecilic than possible, owing to the fact that as usual, Arsenal won sweet FA.
Now be true to your word and carry on with you'd boycott.
It's really howwible when people criticise the bestest manager and bestest team ever eh?
