Derp, I thought he had the words Vermaelen and wasn't the other way round.
I'd assume Rosicky, Sagna, Arshavin and maybe even Mikel Arteta. On an unrelated note, lol at Koscielny's picture on Wiki.
Well, if it didn't happen last night, was probably going to happen January because we're simply not progressing. Still a bit riled by the timing-but football is a business, and it was a last minute business deal...nothing can be done about it. Money was a tidy amount I suppose-however Moyes will only get around £3 million from yesterdays/todays transfers, but meh. But he deserves European football like I mentioned earlier-he has ambitions like any player and we can't match them. Just hoping this won't affect Fellaini contract talks though thats my main concern. Good luck to Mikel-hope he does well. Least he didn't do a Nasri and be a disrespectful little twonk.
My main bug bear though is all of a sudden I'm hearing Everton fans suddenly panning him, saying he can only pass left, right or backwards. They obviously have very short memories and forget what he has done for the club. For gods sake get over it. It's over-time to move on.
So did I at first.
And LMAO. Talking of profile pictures - check out the Lille website's player profiles...
I imagine that if talks had started two or three weeks ago, you might have got more for him with the two clubs realistically negotiating between 10 and 15m. Loved Wenger denying it in his PC the other day, though - clearly he's not happy with the way Journalists have written about us so far this season, so he's been ******* about with them recently.
On Arteta only going backwards and sideways in Denilson-like fashion:
2.7 - Only five players have created more chances per 90 mins in the Premier League since 06/07 than Mikel Arteta. Bid
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Aaand from us - Summer transfer window roundup: analysing the deadline day five | Arsenal Report
Arteta wasn’t the top assister at Everton last season, but he had the most amount of key passes per game (2) in the squad, often linking up long passes with top assister Leighton Baines. He also had the top pass completion rate, highest amount of average passes per game (50.8), and an astonishing 5 successful long passes per match.
In terms of creativity, Arteta created a total of 58 overall chances last Premier League season, almost doubling the amount of second-placed Tim Cahill’s 36 chances created in midfield. Speaking of midfield, Arteta had the highest amount of open play passes, pass completion, crosses, crossing accuracy, assists, set play chances created and minutes per chance created out of all Everton’s midfielders.
Oh and:
JamieDalton82 Jamie Dalton
If it isn't bad enough for Everton, they'll have to pay £200k-300k to Barcelona from the £10m they got from Arteta over training fees -OnaFM
That's true. Hope Mikel flops against us
i've just tempted fate haven't I
Heard about that as well, they were happy with the fee but as you said there wasn't time to replace him.Apparently we offered almost 30m for Hazard, but got rejected cos Lille didn't have replacement ready.
It'll be interesting to what extent the relationship between Lille and Arsenal has broken down over the PCY fracas. Perhaps they'll refuse to sell Hazard to Arsenal full stop.
Will be interesting to see if Spain do pick Arteta now he's signed for Arsenal.
I remember Saha only got called up to France when he signed for United.
Apparently we offered almost 30m for Hazard, but got rejected cos Lille didn't have replacement ready.
this. but im worried it might not happen, with fabregas next in line for xavi's seat for spain.
nad like i saw in the WC 2010 most players are from barca. lmao. i hope arteta's age is not a problemo. 29 yrs old and no international caps
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hmm, i see.
but joe cole arrived late to Lille. if it was done eariler then yeas we'll be having hazard by now.
I doubt they'd consider Cole to be more than rotation player. I'd expect them to start circling around players like Xherdan Shaqiri or Antoine Griezmann to replace Hazard. I think they'll keep him as long as they are in CL.
Bendtner: "I will never go back to Arsenal. If I can have it my way, I will never play for them again."
I'm guessing a jubilant 'hoorah' just got cried around the world from Arsenal fans.