Edinson Cavani

I couldn't find an already existing thread (as I presume there isn't one), so I made a new one.

Most likely BS, but it's a link nonetheless. If I remember correctly, the first links to us signing Arshavin in the January transfer window back in 2009 originated from the Daily Fail. Oh well, take this with a truck of salt.

Step aside City! Wenger ready to splash £30m on Cavani as Van Persie replacement

By Bob Cass

PUBLISHED: 22:45, 10 November 2012 | UPDATED: 00:01, 11 November 2012


Arsène Wenger is ready to break the bank at last with a £30million bid for Napoli striker Edinson Cavani as the Frenchman bids to save Arsenal's season.

Wenger is ready to act after watching his side fall 11 points off the pace in the Premier League title race following a 3-3 draw at home against Fulham on Saturday.

The Arsenal manager has been under massive pressure from fans and shareholders to start splashing big money in a bid to end the club's eight-year wait for a trophy, and he has decided 25-year-old Uruguay forward Cavani is top priority after getting a glowing report on the player from chief scout Steve Rowley.

The Gunners' talent spotter travelled to Italy last Thursday for a personal check on the player and he could hardly have picked a more opportune occasion to assess his talents as the striker scored all four goals as his side came from behind to beat Ukrainian club Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 4-2 in the Europa League.

Wenger has been criticised by Arsenal fans disgruntled because he has not bought a replacement for Robin van Persie, who scored the opening goal against Arsenal to set Manchester United up for a 2-1 victory over the London club at Old Trafford last weekend.

But it will take a major offer to tempt Napoli to part with Cavani, especially as the striker has backed up his decision to sign a new five-year contract last May by insisting he wants to improve on his record of 79 goals in 108 matches.

He is chasing the legendary Diego Maradona's all-time Napoli record of 115 goals. Cavani's goals on Thursday earned him his sixth Napoli hat-trick.

He found the net against Chelsea and Manchester City in last season's Champions League.

City had been keen to land Cavani, whose four goals in midweek took him to 12 in 12 games for the season, before the striker signed his new deal.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... avani.html

He has a £45M release clause, will take something close to that to sign him.

Great player, just like Falcao.

I'd take Cavani over Falcao tbh, but we all know this is just lazy journalism.

too bad I wouldnt be alive to see it, instant heart attack if this happened.

I would take him over falcao as well, however I get the feeling he is not interested in england and wants to continue dominating that piss poor league called serie A.

He will cost about the same price as Falcao.

I think Falcao is a better goalscorer, Cavani is a more complete player.

I'd love him. Wont get him though, far too expensive for us.

Cumming in my pants would be an understatement of we pulled this off.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS A LINK TO AN ESTABLISH CF!!!

Never going to happen though. Not just the price, Wenger isn't going to bench his 12M signing just as he's hitting some semblance of form.

We can afford him. If we don't sign him its because we don't think he offers value for money or we don't want him, not because we can't afford it.

So our most expensive signing to date is about 15M, our highest salary to date is/was about 90k pw (RVP) and someone thinks we may spend 30m in Jan on a single player who will command a salary of 150K + pw

Please close this thread!

Nobody actually believes this will happen. The sooner this thread closes, the better.

He will cost about the same price as Falcao.

I think Falcao is a better goalscorer, Cavani is a more complete player.

I think Falcao is more complete with his heading ability, with the only thing he is lacking of a CF is speed, but he has adapted his game around that.

If Cavani came it would give our whole team a massive lift, but with Giroud starting to perform and the price tag it is not going to happen.

From what i have read he has recently singed a new contract and wants to break Maradonnas scoring record for Napoli.

PR Stunt from the club. Will never happen.

If our scout was indeed there, which is what it sounds like. I think what is far more likely, is that we were watching Yevhen Konoplyanka. If that is the case, I would be quite happy, a player who is comfortable playing on that left wing would be welcome.

Hmmm, I highly doubt Wenger needed his scout to tell him Cavani was talented.

0.1% chance of happening

0.000000000000001% chance of happening

fixed for you..

Ibtl

Lol.

Maybe if he loses all his talent Wenger might consider him.

So our most expensive signing to date is about 15M, our highest salary to date is/was about 90k pw (RVP) and someone thinks we may spend 30m in Jan on a single player who will command a salary of 150K + pw

Please close this thread!

Wow these are some fascinating facts,we really operate in a world of our own it seems.

And why people debating which one is a better player? Maybe we can expect a link from Sun or something that links us to both in an amazing,never before seen bold move by Wenger and the board!

It was also reported on ESPN but it might just be a follow up on the Daily Mail article.

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/st ... MP=OTC-RSS

Arsenal boss Arsène Wenger will have to pay close to €50 million to sign Napoli striker Edinson Cavani, according to ESPN sources.

Wenger is linked with a £30 million bid for one of the world's top goalscorers as Arsenal dropped 11 points off the pace in the Premier League title race following a 3-3 draw at home against Fulham on Saturday.

But such an offer would fall well short of the valuation the Italian club have put on their striker. Arsenal fans have longed for the day when the club pays big money in a bid to end the eight-year wait for a trophy, something that Wenger has been loath to do.

Cavani was watched by Arsenal scouts as he scored all four goals as Napoli came from behind to beat Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 4-2 in the Europa League on Thursday, his sixth Napoli hat-trick, but he is also coveted by several leading clubs in Europe - leading Napoli to take a tough stance.

So our most expensive signing to date is about 15M, our highest salary to date is/was about 90k pw (RVP) and someone thinks we may spend 30m in Jan on a single player who will command a salary of 150K + pw

Please close this thread!

Wow these are some fascinating facts,we really operate in a world of our own it seems.

No, we operate in a world with all the other clubs who haven't received billions in funding from outside sources.

The likelihood of Cavani wanting to come here, us being able to afford his wages, AND us beating Madrid/City/Chelsea to him has me not even considering this

Chamakh scored (twice!) for us a week ago, so anything can happen in this front too...

Will arsenal pay 30m for one player? no.

Arsène Wenger: we will not sign Cavani because it will kill Afobe Joel Campbell etc etc.

not going to happen sadly.

He wouldn't come here anyway.

He wouldn't come here anyway.

Exactly.
Any top player who can almost choose his destination is not going to b attracted to a club where all the best players have gone to more ambitious clubs in the last few seasons.

I wish Wenger and the board would just admit that they are never going to spend more around 15m on one player and stop pretending we are one of the big players in the transfer market, coming out with quotes like, "We have the money available to buy the best players," and "I am not afraid to spend big on the right player,"

That joke is wearing a little thin.

Never going to happen with Wenger and this board.

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Yeh, its kind of a pisstake, everyone knows this is a non-story.

Feels like a pr stunt planted to distract everyone from recent results.

Zaha looked like he was up our alley until the media started waxing lyrical about this boy. Even he seems out of reach now.