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marv3llous

Vidal is a powerhouse. After all - Arteta, Flamini and Coquelin are all 5'10, he is 5'11 and plays even more aggressively than Coq.

Claudius

Vidal is the one munchkin I would take. He's quality. A two man midget force of him and Ramsey would make for a delicious midfield

Clrnc

Klaus wrote:
Biggus wrote:
Indeed! you can't have enough midget midfielders, they're like a full set of figurines.

Midget. 😆

I'd like to see you point out a midfielder who's more powerful than Vidal in European football.

Klaus

😆 good joke, Clrnc.

mdgoonah41

the idea of playing a midfield 3 of coq, vidal and ramsey is pretty damn great. coq to shield, ramsey and vidal to run their lungs out for 90 minutes and go box to box. ozil and alexis behind giroud, moving freely and swapping positions.

i think using a 4-3-3 (well, its really a 4-1-2-3) would better suit us, to be honest.

lorddulaarsenal

Get the Black Busquets

N'zonzi

FantasticMrFox

The Vidal rumours and how twitter can be a little bit misleading.

[size=large][font=Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif]'It's official' - National team supporter club say Arsenal transfer done, madness[/font][/size]
[font=Verdana][size=xx-small]Arsenal and Arturo Vidal is continuing to turn into transfer rumour madness. The whole thing started when an Italian website we'd never heard of before claimed the midfielder's agent Fernando Felicevich had been in talks with Arsenal over a transfer for Vidal, he also represents Alexis Sanchez. [size=xx-small]Calciomercaotweb.it[/size] said Vidal had agreed a four year contract with Arsenal on an 'outline' basis. Calciomercatoweb.it is not to be confused with the better known Calciomercato.com or Calciomercato.it. Since dropping that bombshell on May 19th, they've had no update.[/size]
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[font=Verdana][size=xx-small]The report was picked up in Chile by websites such as T13 and then Argentine journalist [size=xx-small]Hernen Feler[/size] Tweeted on Saturday night 'After the Copa America in Chile, it will be made official the arrival of Arturo Vidal Arsenal. Everything is closed. He will partner Alexis.'[/size]
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[font=Verdana][size=xx-small]His next tweet was 'Who told me about Vidal also told me #ManchesterCity must respond to an offer made by #RealMadrid for Kun Aguero of €90 million.'[/size]
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[font=Verdana][size=xx-small]He hasn't said anything on the situation since but his Tweet was picked up by websites in Chile and all over the world, including this one, and it helped catapult the story further.[/size]
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[font=Verdana][size=xx-small]Then came [size=xx-small]Pedro Hernandez[/size]. Pedro is a Chilean college lecturer. He lives in Santiago and specialises in teaching and advising on business governance. How on earth do we know of his existence? Well, last year when the Vidal rumours were Manchester United flavoured, Pedro tweeted all kinds of things. He was told off by Chilean journalists for twisting their words and making Vidal to Manchester United sound completed. He's just a college lecturer who reads the news and then tweets his version of it, and seems to like the attention it brings. Why? Because Twitter. His Tweets were even covered by major news organisations last summer, including Eurosport.[/size]
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[font=Verdana][size=xx-small]Another 'Because Twitter' addition to the Vidal to Arsenal rumours is the claim by some that one of those men was first with the Alexis Sanchez to Arsenal scoop. Nobody has come up with anything to even remotely back that up, but once someone claimed it... it become internet fact. [/size]
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[font=Verdana][size=xx-small]This feeds the British press which in turn feeds back to Chile and then back to Italy where it all started. The claims have now reached Spain as well, all from one of the above 'events'. It's created a bubble and perhaps this latest tweet is the result of that bubble getting bigger.[/size]
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[font=Verdana][size=xx-small]La Roja supporters club, claiming to be the official supporter club for fans of the Chile national team, [size=xx-small]Tweeted[/size] on Sunday evening 'It's official: Arturo Vidal is the new reinforcement of Arsenal and will join Alexis Sanchez once Copa America is completed.'[/size]
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[font=Verdana][size=xx-small]That sounds remarkably like it's a re-hashed version of Hernen Feler's Tweet but, again, make of it what you will. Many are making a lot of it, that's their will. Since then blue ticked Brazilian journalist Paulo Andrade has RT'd both Feler and La Roja's Tweets with one comment saying 'Jeez' and another saying 'Another'. He's certainly not confirming the claims, as some have claimed. [/size]
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[font=Verdana][size=xx-small]That's the mess explained, but what of Vidal? He's ending the season really well for an excellent Juventus side. The beginning of the campaign was much worse and Juventus learned they could live without the player. Vidal struggled to get back to form after a knee injury but now he's back there he's very happy indeed. However, continued reports in Italy state he could be sold for the right price and, regardless of how often Juventus fans swear at us, we think there's probably some truth in that... with the right price being less than they'd like to think. Vidal has stated he'd like to stay at Juventus for life but those comments are ten a penny and he'd likely be tempted by comparatively huge wages elsewhere.[/size]
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[font=Verdana][size=xx-small]Him leaving would take someone pleasing both Juventus on fee and the player on wages, as with any transfer, and there's no vaguely reliable sign of either happening yet. Time will yet again tell.[/size][/font]

http://sportwitness.ning.com/forum/topics/arturo-vidal-arsenal-chile-twitter-transfer-rumour-madness

goon

😆

Got to love the summer.

Ricky1985

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/444326/Arsenal-Transfer-News-Karim-Benzema

Annual Benzema rumours doing the rounds.

HomeSteak

Liverpool target Karim Benzema 😆

marv3llous

We only have a chance if Real go nuts and target Agüero and City are nuts enough to sell. Otherwise - no chance of him leaving.

lorddulaarsenal

Nice wee rumour for you guys

http://www.arsenalstation.com/2015/05/28/arsenal-eye-21m-swoop-for-bundesliga-star-report/

marv3llous

Dodgy hair.

lorddulaarsenal

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3100729/Arsenal-consider-Swansea-City-midfielder-Ki-Sung-Yeung-Arsene-Wenger-searches-midfield-reinforcements.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Good squad option

marv3llous

For Swansea, yeah.

Tidy player, but its not 2010.

Segway

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:
Nice wee rumour for you guys

http://www.arsenalstation.com/2015/05/28/arsenal-eye-21m-swoop-for-bundesliga-star-report/

Quality player.

mdgoonah41

ric rod is a great leftback. would be quite happy moving gibbs along and buying him

Anzac

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:
Nice wee rumour for you guys

http://www.arsenalstation.com/2015/05/28/arsenal-eye-21m-swoop-for-bundesliga-star-report/

Fits with recent talk of Monreal wanted back in La Liga.

Also talk of Schlupp who can play LB / LM.

Clrnc

Schlupp is awful.

Ricardo Rodriguez is a Leighton Baines. Not that speedy, but great cross in him.

USArsenal

anyone hear any rumblings of Fernando Muslera as one of our targets?

http://talksport.com/football/arsenal-report-ps15m-transfer-fee-set-goalkeeper-target-150528148585

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