@Ricky: to the letter apart from the asking price of 15-20m, he'll go for more than that I think. If he goes at all this summer, although it is a fair guess that he re-signed with Lille in order to make sure they get their due on him.
Summer activity prediction thread (yes it's big and it's bad fyi)
He re-signed with Lille so his agent can make some money now and some more money in June.
prediction: bw's predictions will be errily accurate come this august.
Burnwinter wrote:Strikes me that Kroenke is hardly likely to let Usmanov commandeer his 30% stake without a struggle. Seems to take a longer term view of sports club development as well, whereas Usmanov's more in the sabre-rattling to win popular acclaim mode.
Screw playing it safe with your predictions, I predict we will bring in 2 big names this summer! How's that!
Make it three Pepe.
1) Biggus will smile and be happy.
2) Biggus will get his internet connection fixed and once again be able to access OMT.
3) Biggus will stop smiling and being happy.
4) Wenger will sign a further contract extension.
5) Australian news channels will report mentally unbalanced Irish male heading off into bush alone with shotgun, George Graham's greatest defensive displays DVD and a newly developed Harry Redknapp-esque tick.
Pepe LeFrits wrote:Screw playing it safe with your predictions, I predict we will bring in 2 big names this summer! How's that!
We will only sign one big name. It will be this guy:
asajoseph wrote:Pepe LeFrits wrote:Screw playing it safe with your predictions, I predict we will bring in 2 big names this summer! How's that!
We will only sign one big name. It will be this guy:
I'd argue that that's two names!
I'd argue it's more like two big name players and a smaller named player brought in for our link-up play between the two new big names.
what's the deal with his name, anyway? did the vennegors of hesselink get fed up of being confused with the vennegors of the next town over?
Ha, had to look it up on wiki.
"Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink's name derives from the 17th century, when two farming families in the Enschede area of the Netherlands intermarried. Both the Vennegoor and Hesselink names carried equal social weight, and so — rather than choose between them — they chose to use both. "Of" in Dutch translates to "or" in English, which means a strict translation of his name would read 'Jan Vennegoor or Hesselink'.[26][27] This could be considered as having the same effect as the double-barrelling of English surnames."
Rosell
"If the coach demands Cesc we will negotiate with the Gunners, but at a correct limit and without madness and if the operation is not possible, we will wait for other opportunities.
"Our relationship with Arsenal is not good.
"The future of Cesc is in his hands and we could only negotiate with Arsenal if Guardiola insists. Only with any sale is it possible to increase the money for the negotiations."
He got that right.
Yup at the very least bid the going price
I' sooner give Cesc away for free to Real than sell him to Barcelona for any sum they'll offer.
Ideally I'd just keep him though. I don't think he's eager to leave at all.
What's changed from last summer? Arsenal wont want to sell, Cesc wont hand in a transfer request, he still has 3/4 years left on his contract, Barcelona wont offer any more money.
All parties involved might aswell just come out and nip this in the bud now.
VanNistelrooy is on a free and says that he will accept a squad role at a good team.
Keown would welcome him to London with a karate chop
About the only Manc reject we could sign that would be more degrading than having to put up with Silvestre.