Alberto Gilardino

[Anonymous]

I would really like to see an Arsenal women's team filled with models train naked , anyone has any idea how this can be done?

That was oh so random

 

[Anonymous]

He single-handedly beat Roma yesterday. :x

Bastard.

 

[asajoseph]

This one slipped under the radar, BUT

http://www.tribalfootball.com/may/italnews100505.html

Tribalfootball, I know, and the source is unclear, BUT these are direct quotes. Interestingly

"If I have to leave Italy, I would prefer to play in Spain than England."

Now, he mentions England as a possible destination, despite saying he'd prefer Spain - that makes me think that an English club has shown interest, and that might well be us....

ANYWAY.... Still not a cats chance in hell - he'd rather go to Spain.

 

[patrick42uk]

This one slipped under the radar, BUT

http://www.tribalfootball.com/may/italnews100505.html

Tribalfootball, I know, and the source is unclear, BUT these are direct quotes. Interestingly

"If I have to leave Italy, I would prefer to play in Spain than England."

Now, he mentions England as a possible destination, despite saying he'd prefer Spain - that makes me think that an English club has shown interest, and that might well be us....

not necesserarily. in italy, 'abroad' is basically spain or england. when a player talks of a transfer, the question of whether he'd go abroad or not pops up. and he's just making his preference knows. cassano said a similar thing.

italians dont generally like england anyway. its probably their latin blood, the cultures are so different. coming to england holds very little advantage whatsover anyway because italy has big teams that pay big wages. the weather is **** as well in england.

 

[JazzG]

He ain't gonna come here unless we offer Parma silly money, I *think* he wants to go the club that offers Parma the most as he cares about them but obviously the wages have to be right as well. Him joining us is nothing more than a pipe dream, unless Reyes leaves to R.Madrid AND Crespo stays at Milan I'd say there is 0% chance of him coming here as then Milan/R.Madrid would probably not go for him.

Also I'm not sure if he is Arsène's type of player but his all round game is excellent from what I've seen, him and Henry upfront is a dream combo!

 

[JazzG]

http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_ ... may9h.html

They want £35mill :shock: But I thought they sold Adriano for £18mill, have asked on a parma forum to see!

 

[baccy_man]

this is the story on the bbc website and they are saying a similar figure of £34 mill

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 532943.stm

 

[gibo]

they did sell adriano for around 18million, but they only had half of the players contract whilst inter owned the other half. so 18*2=36, nearly 34 then...

 

[patrick42uk]

time to lock this thread methinks

 

[JazzG]

Will leave it open for now, so some of the loony fans can still dream about him signing for us

 

[KingReyes]

time to lock this thread methinks

Hey come on now! There's always the chance for a good old swap deal.

 

[AFCG7]

THey didnt say anything about selling him for £34 million .. they're saying their valuation of him is 54 million Euros.. whereas Adriano's valuation was 50 million Euros yet he went for much less... something like 30 million Euro.

 

[Flash Gordon]

Are you sure we really need him?
1)Henry
2)Reyes
3)RvP
4)Ali
5)Quincy
6)Lupoli

Do we really need him? :?: :?: :?:
For these money? I can find another way to spend 50 mln... That's for sure...

 

[Lord Dula]

Anyone else got their doubts about this guy?

Iti strikers never bowl me over.

 

[Canuck]

We're not getting him...and any team that's willing to pay 50 million Euros for him is daft. I don't care how consistent, or effective he is.

 

[JazzG]

THey didnt say anything about selling him for £34 million .. they're saying their valuation of him is 54 million Euros.. whereas Adriano's valuation was 50 million Euros yet he went for much less... something like 30 million Euro.

They owned 50% of Adriano and sold that for £18mill. £18mill x 2 = £36mill.

 

[gunnertilldeath]

it is just like a desperate team to slap on a rediculous price tag on a player just so they can milk him dry. the story today is that wolves have slapped on a 10 million pound price tag on lescott after interest from arsenal. they know thats terribly unrealistic. werent leeds asking for 12 million pounds for kewell? i would read absolutely nothing into it.

 

[JazzG]

True but here the clubs involved can all pay big money so Parma are trying to exploit that. I seriously doubt he will go for £35mill but do think he will net them over £20mill.

 

[AFCG7]

Point taken JazzG .. i was ignorant of that fact.
And i agree with the 20 mil amount..they wont get more than that for him.

 

[JazzG]

I forgot about the 50% thing as well, but some guy on the Parma forum reminded me.