As we have previously revealed, Arsenal have been hot on the trail of Ricky Alvarez, a talented Argentinian midfielder. It has been known for some time that Ricky will sign for either Inter Milan or Arsenal, but Ricky’s Tweet regarding his wishes to come to the Emirates made it quite clear which way the transfer will swing.
However, Palermo were also interested in signing the youngster, but the club was a far less attractive option than either Inter or Arsenal. Palermo’s President, Maurizio Zamparini has indicated that Alvarez may make the move to Milan:
“We were close to signing Alvarez for half the price they will now pay for him but my colleagues took it easy and no agreement was reached.
“Where he will go? He was going to sign for Arsenal but Inter Milan
made a move and that is where I believe he will go.”
This is perhaps just another example of Wenger acting too slowly in the transfer market. The rumours regarding Alvarez have been circulating for weeks, whereas the Clichy to City transfer seemed to go through quite quickly. Granted, Arsene wants to get good value for money, but sometimes that has led to Arsenal missing out on players, such as Mark Schwarzer.
Then again, we at Straight Talking Gooners still believe that Ricky will be a Gooner next season. We have good reason to believe that the Arsenal deal is already close to completion.
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Arsenal should act as quickly as possible when it comes to signing valuable players.
We want good and very reliable players who can deliver the goods and get us trophies even if they are expensive. We will get nowhere if we are looking for cheap players. Please splash the cash before we even lose our own players. Avoid mass exodus of players from the Emirates
This proves, Arsenal is not active in the market.
Arsenal is not looking for quality addition.
All the words from Arsenal maagement is just cheating their stupid fans.
Still these stupid fans trust AW……..
Fuck offfffffffff
Wenger is a mad man with his self concern am not arsenal fan any more…..stupid manager and his useless board member.
Players coming in obviously depend on who goes out, and seeing as none of the midfield players have left at this point it is evident to anyone with half a brain that is the reason the Alvarez transfer has not yet happened. If and when Fabregas and/or Nasri goes you will then see some arrivals. I would have thought this was pretty basic common sense, something in very short supply with a lot of the Arsenal supporters, nothing to do with dawdling by Wenger.
Who comes in does not depend on who goes out at all. How many players have gone out of man u? And how often have we seen players get out of Arsenal with out replacent?
Thanks, you prove my point by quoting Man U. Scholes has retired and needs to be replaced, hence the reason for the interest in Nasri or Modrich. With the 25 man squad rules teams cannot go buying players willy nilly, it has to be planned, There are only therefore a certain number of places available for each position of the team. If the midfield is overloaded it leaves other postitions potentially weak. Wenger is trying to hang on to Fabregas and Nasri and if he does a player like Alvarez would be a wasted purchase using money better spent elsewhere, eg on a centre back. Far better to wait and see.
AW, you should follow Clichy out the door. If you can’t do the job, let other manager do it.
mr slacker…oh i mean, mr wenger…pls do something.u r beginng 2 piss of gunner fans in nigeria & all over d world…..why r so stuborn 2 do d right things.
Good!
Leave Mr Wenger alone if u are so blind to see his worth and hardwork for d club. In God we trust 4 Arsene to do it this season
Am crying now, i don’t no wat wenger want to do, pls for all my gunners fans pls pry for wenger cos is a big fool.
Helo mr stupid arsene no planning wenger a manager dat can’t speak wen his collegues wu r achievin r speaking.r u n’t ashame of ur self.u turned arsenal 2 a super market team were even lower teams can buy players 2 develop deir teams while u & ur so cal board members r fullin ur fans just b’cos of ur selfish interest.if u r n’t capable of controln d team its beter u resign rader dan tanishn ur image just b’cos of money.
Pls AW 4 get about buying,pls buy simple.
if the reason wenger wont buy a replacement untill fab or nasri leaves…then that means that we will be left with the same crap central defenders untill one or two leave.Surely the situation is bad enough to get quality players in right away?……the cahill and samba situation is a disgrace!!!..wenger should have signed one or both already. He is a nut-job!..his thinking is not logical.
it not wenger thats dragging his heels to sign the players but the boardroom it them who do the bidding and negoitate not wenger ,wenger like all managers hands in his list off players he wants and it down too the director to get him , do you lot remenber david dein?
Aw,pls if fab&nasri are checkin out 4rm emirate just try 2 get some quality players dt can deliver nd gv us trophy,act fast b4 is late
wenger is a stupid and selfish man he should be made the arsenal chief scout not a manager there are managers like luiz van gaal,frank rhikard out there i am sick and tired of all this.
if wenger refuse to act quickly what are the rest doing .is it only wenger dat control arsenal?