Klaus wrote:

Song did pretty much the same thing Fabregas did. He acted like a cunt so we would sell him as soon as Barca made their interest known. Fuck him.

It's all based on rumours, but that's not what's said to have happened at all. Song and his agent were trying to maneuvre a fat new contract out of Arsenal by touting him to Barca. On top of that Song was said to be a generally negative influence in the squad and very unprofessional. Having given him a new contract not to long ago, Arsenal were in no mood and took the oppurtunity to get rid of a negative influence.

I think it was a bit like the Ade sale. Ade had gotten his new contract and wasn't maneuvering for a move when City bid. But Arsenal saw a chance to get rid of an uprofessional player and took it. Neither song or Ade expected to be sold.

That's what the rumours were at least...

Nela wrote:

Klaus wrote:

Song did pretty much the same thing Fabregas did. He acted like a cunt so we would sell him as soon as Barca made their interest known. Fuck him.

It's all based on rumours, but that's not what's said to have happened at all. Song and his agent were trying to maneuvre a fat new contract out of Arsenal by touting him to Barca. On top of that Song was said to be a generally negative influence in the squad and very unprofessional. Having given him a new contract not to long ago, Arsenal were in no mood and took the oppurtunity to get rid of a negative influence.

I think it was a bit like the Ade sale. Ade had gotten his new contract and wasn't maneuvering for a move when City bid. But Arsenal saw a chance to get rid of an uprofessional player and took it. Neither song or Ade expected to be sold.

That's what the rumours were at least...

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Nela wrote:

Klaus wrote:

Song did pretty much the same thing Fabregas did. He acted like a cunt so we would sell him as soon as Barca made their interest known. Fuck him.

It's all based on rumours, but that's not what's said to have happened at all. Song and his agent were trying to maneuvre a fat new contract out of Arsenal by touting him to Barca. On top of that Song was said to be a generally negative influence in the squad and very unprofessional. Having given him a new contract not to long ago, Arsenal were in no mood and took the oppurtunity to get rid of a negative influence.

I think it was a bit like the Ade sale. Ade had gotten his new contract and wasn't maneuvering for a move when City bid. But Arsenal saw a chance to get rid of an uprofessional player and took it. Neither song or Ade expected to be sold.

That's what the rumours were at least...

There was never a word about Song being any sort of trouble maker or negative influence until he was sold. If he was such a big problem Wenger wouldn't have given him so many chances.

Klaus wrote:

By all accounts at the time Song threatened to make himself impossible at the club if we didn't let him go. There was the training incident shortly afterwards where he and Steve Bould almost got into a fist fight because he was acting up. His behaviour made us accept a lowball bid. I don't see how it's much different from Cesc personally.

This is the first I've ever heard of that.

I think the sale of Song was just a case of Wenger receiving a good offer for a player he had no long term plans for.

qs! wrote:

Nela wrote:

It's all based on rumours, but that's not what's said to have happened at all. Song and his agent were trying to maneuvre a fat new contract out of Arsenal by touting him to Barca. On top of that Song was said to be a generally negative influence in the squad and very unprofessional. Having given him a new contract not to long ago, Arsenal were in no mood and took the oppurtunity to get rid of a negative influence.

I think it was a bit like the Ade sale. Ade had gotten his new contract and wasn't maneuvering for a move when City bid. But Arsenal saw a chance to get rid of an uprofessional player and took it. Neither song or Ade expected to be sold.

That's what the rumours were at least...

There was never a word about Song being any sort of trouble maker or negative influence until he was sold. If he was such a big problem Wenger wouldn't have given him so many chances.

There was alot of reports that Song was being a troublemaker in training. Steve Bould was very unhappy with his effort and almost got into a fight with him. He threatened to not play for us and Wenger sold him straight away.

Please provide multiple sources for these allegations since there are many "reports" and "by all accounts" it happened. First time I've heard about this Steve Bould bust up.

Higuain to barca

Is that confirmed?

qs! wrote:

There was never a word about Song being any sort of trouble maker or negative influence until he was sold. If he was such a big problem Wenger wouldn't have given him so many chances.

It seemed to be that the club made public relations leaks against Song after he was released.

All the people who'd already decided they didn't like the player absolutely lapped it up.

It always seemed unjust to me that Song got slated for following Wenger's instructions to roam forward and picking up 15+ league assists as a consequence. However, after we signed Arteta we did see the benefit of having caution at the base of our midfield.

I believe Song would still be a superb addition to our midfield if he could recover his Arsenal form. Song, Ramsey, Ozil could be a great combination.

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:

Higuain to barca

Napoli came out on twitter and rubbished that rumour straight away.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/arsenal/10902101/Arsenal-captain-Thomas-Vermaelen-agrees-deal-to-join-Manchester-United-this-summer.html

Edit: Posted somewhere else already

Sounds about right. We are still in the money-collecting phase of our summer. Thursday the squad first so you have a full understanding if what you need to do, before you go out and don't do it.

Rumours that Liverpool have bidded 27m for Alexis.

Sigh.

lol. what will be left for us by summer's end?

They won't get Sanchez. Not a hope.

Of course there is a hope if they have the dosh