As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
1989 wrote:Bid of £41.8m for Suarez going in today.
Club determined to get him.
@GeoffArsenal spot on again
Mate even ignoring the fact that us upping our bid to £40m was widely reported last week and given the lack of activity was always going to be reported again this week, this is exactly how these bullshit rumours start.
ITKs on Twatter post a rumour, if it gets enough retweets and gossip on there it gets picked up on by the football rumour websites like goal.com or caughtoffside and then eventually the rags run the story and BBC or Sky are forced to report on it because so many people are searching about it.
I have to question - who in Arsenal's inner circle would be leaking transfer activity to this Geoff bloke and why?
@GeoffArsenal has got a track record though. He's not some teenage idiot taking the piss, he's from what I've read a middle aged family man.
I don't know why anyone would say things on Twitter only to gain followers? Really? Why would you go through all that abuse and mockery just so you can up your follower tally? And anyway he's got plenty of followers.
I think he's got links at the club, or maybe he even works for the club but doesn't want to reveal it. I don't know, but he seems very much in the know to me, based on all the "exclusives" that he's got right.
Match day squads for example, gets them right 100% of the time.
As I said before, he's hardly been spot on with our transfers this summer though. Part of the Higuain nearly done deal/medical bandwagon, claimed that he was told after wrapping that up Arsenal would pursue Rooney and that Arsenal were in advanced negotiations for Jovetic. All bollocks it seems. He's also removed tweets in the past over Rooney and Fellaini - and I bet you'll find similar claims about progress on deals for Fellaini and Cesar when they were trending topics.
This summer he's jumped on the bandwagon about every player we've been linked with being close to signing - just like every other ITK mug on Twatter.
Whilst I am not sad to see Gerv go I do feel like we get short changed in our transfer dealings. Its like clubs know to low ball us. 25m for the best midfielder in the prem, Fabregas. 22m for RVP when Suarez goes for 40m. a pathetic 16m for Henry. It's a shambles.
spendsum4uckingmoney wrote:Whilst I am not sad to see Gerv go I do feel like we get short changed in our transfer dealings. Its like clubs know to low ball us. 25m for the best midfielder in the prem, Fabregas. 22m for RVP when Suarez goes for 40m. a pathetic 16m for Henry. It's a shambles.
I think Gervinho will do well in Italy. A lot less pace in the league will suit his - 1 dimensional - game. Good luck.
As for £7 million, not sure we could have got any more for him based on his last 12 months. Think we have got a good price and shifted a decent amount of wages off the bottom line (preferably to pay for more people).
As a final thing, and I appreciate I might get shot down but with Cavani being the main man at PSG now, would anyone sign Ibrahimovic given the option??? (My thought is he's probably a bit too old for a big money move if he is still in contract)
Higuain and Napoli have reached an agreement also on the image rights, which were the only issue so far. Really only few details missing
That Tancredi Palmeri bloke is another massive bullshitter - according to him we lodged a 30 million euro offer for Jovetic and also had a £2m offer for Cesar accepted and had agreed terms. Not just one-off tweets either - he was making all sorts of detailed comments (similar to 'image rights' agreement above) about the finer points of those deals which have obviously been proven to be complete bollocks.
Don't doubt that Napoli to Higuain is a real possibility though. That Cavani money is burning a hole in their pocket and they'd rather pay a few million more than they'd like to replace him with Higuain than find a cheaper but substantially less able striker.
Wenger will soon sap that out of the poor guy.
