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Cucking funts.. Its spain winning the worldcup - I cannot believe they brought barca FC shirt and catalonia agenda into it. I wonder what the rest of the spain thinks about it.

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.. one for Sergei Biscuits too. Dont want anyone to get injured though. Capdevilla/Puyol vs Robben should be also interesting. I hope Robben gets one of them a red card. I am expecting a bunch of small cynical tackles from dutch midfielders followed by Spanish playacting/complaining... and a controversial referee decision to decide the winners.

It will be interesting to see how City manages there squad to comply with the new home grown rule. With the signing of silva, i think one of SWP/bellamy/Ireland will be going out.

What makes me happy? He is six feet or more, a defensive signing with a 10m price tag. He is 24yrs and can possibly grow a beard. What was the last time we made such a signing? :) Agree that there is a risk. Its not very often that Arsene risks 10m+ on a player. When he does, i expect the signings to do well and they generally do. Considering that we may lose 4 defenders in the summer, and top 4 premier league defenders costs ridiculousmoney its a risk well worth taking.

Arsenal completes second signing. A factfile about his career is given here From the link: He was playing in france second division football one year back. Transferred to lorient for 1.8m or so. After one season Lorient gets around 10m!..Our initial bid was reported to be around 4.5m Euros. I hope he is worth paying 10m. Anyway i am happy to see wenger finally willing to pay for the players he like.

To be fair to him, were very good players too.The problem was that Once they both settled and started to come good, one went to injury room and other went to barca. Infact these two guys really unsettled our midfield for a couple of seasons.

What the F***! If Barca fans takes pride in their football its OK. Thats what football fans are. But for a nuetral - rational football lover, outside the pitch, and occasionally on the pitch, barca are as bad as any. Whether it is on transfers, fans behaviour, and financial management.

Surely its a fake???

Got the looks of a Wenger signing, - free - attacking midfielder - versatile - light weight, injury prone - Not the signing fans are crying for - afro - french - under 17 .. thats 5 out of 7. So I am hopefull.

:) I meant 'the owen coyle's way of football' which is way more 'passing' play than typical boltonish play.

100K per week for shaun wright phillips?!! unbelievable! we know its man city but how dare is he to ask for.. ..... Petrov is a quality player. Experienced,hardworking and technically sound. Will be perfect for bolton if coyle wants them to play passing football. Coming season,they may finish in the top ten comfortably. Offtopic, Bolton plays fifteen games in their preseason. thats one hell of a preparation!!

Dani Sturridge may disagree... :) In other news, Coyle makes a very good signing for bolton.

My bad. He started playing top level football with us though.

There are two players in the English NT, who had footballing education at arsenal. If you consider academies instead of currently played teams, you may get some wonderfull stats. Regarding the 'footballing style' point, How about getting rid of coaches who preaches 'kick'em and get in there faces' strategies when playing against techique/passing based teams? I am not arguing against physical play here. More Fullhams or Evertons and less Stoke and Blackburn will definitely help the National Team in the long run.

France players may boycott match against South Africa!!!! :unsure:

1. Sanchez - looks a lot similiar to carloz tevez - hard-working, fast,skillfull, strong with improved finishing he could be one hell of a player. 2. Mark pastom,the kiwi goal keeper- looked excellent against Italy, great reflex saves. ramirez, gokhan inler, bougherra,ozil -Looked good so far.

Toure?..No.. From a monetary point of view that seem like a good deal, but selling our best player/captain for money and a barca reject will be doing some damage to the club that 40m cannot fix( in the hands of wenger anyway.) @ Ruh Buh Juh : yes, ramsey could be a future solution,but I have no idea what will happen to ramsey post-injury, really afraid that it may go the Eduardo way.

Fabregas can be replaced. The danger is wenger will not go outside and buy enough reinforcement, instead he may look for ramsey/nasri to fill the void which is a big ask.

As i said the fabregas to arsenal was legal mutual agreement , was it unfair on barca? may be but isnt it because of the footballing laws on spain? were you shedding any tears for Lille when kakuta transfer happend? And I dont think its 'immoral' to hold fabregas for one or two years against his wishes (arguably, because the player has stated a number of times that he respect arsenal and the contract he have with the club) considering the devolopement he had with us. Infact i think it would be a bit unfair from cesc if he put on a transfer request now.

The statement from arsenal.com reads "...To be clear, we will not make any kind of counterproposal or enter into any discussion. Barcelona have publicly stated that they will respect our position and we expect that they will keep their word." Dont you think those words are a bit strong for brinkmanship game? or is it just me?

'The way' we signed him???!!!!.Arsenal used a loop hole in the transfer policy in Spain to sign a 16 year old fabregas. I dont see any thing wrong or illegal with that since his family and he himself took the decision to join us - and to this day they are thankful to arsenal for that. Barca were furious, that i can understand but Its not a child trafficking case as you ( or Platini) would suggest. Btw, henry's last season, whenever he was on the pitch he was our best player and we got a decent return if you consider goal/game ratio. He had an off season, not because of the lack of commitment. I wouldnt expect cesc to be an adebayour, he is 22 and has time to achieve a lot. IMO, staying at arsenal for a couple of years wouldnt do anything bad to his career.

Here is arsenals polite reply to Barca C***ts I hope we will be able to keep him for a couple of years.

:lol: congrats guys. Well deserved.

Very very cowardly act from ade, in my opinion. He is one of the top footballers from his country and is supposed to be a benchmark for all the young players. 'Taking a break' from international football we can understand, but this is a bit rediculous.