Joel Campbell

[cuban]

Without wishing to sound like an idiot, "Joel Campbell" sounds about as latin American as fish and chips. What's the story?

He Is of Caribbean descent I'm guessing, Limon has a strong community of people who can their roots back to that part of the world.

No surprises that other clubs are interested, having missed out on a couple of players already this summer let's hope we wrap this up.

what couple of players are you talking about? we lost Alvarez to Inter...but thats it right? Downing doesn't count

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.nacion.com/2011-07-16/Deportes/UltimaHora/UH0716-CAMPBELL.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.nacion.com/2011-07-16/Deport ... PBELL.aspx</a>

i know its in spanish but what i understand its says

the joel father he will talk today with arsenal and the player main club Saprissa

and what i understand also he say there are offers from Dynamo de Kiev, Sevilla, and from other english clubs

and also i understand his father say maybe the deal will be complete in the next week if both clubs agrees with everything

 

[GDeep™]

Without wishing to sound like an idiot, "Joel Campbell" sounds about as latin American as fish and chips. What's the story?

He Is of Caribbean descent I'm guessing, Limon has a strong community of people who can their roots back to that part of the world.

No surprises that other clubs are interested, having missed out on a couple of players already this summer let's hope we wrap this up.

what couple of players are you talking about? we lost Alvarez to Inter...but thats it right? Downing doesn't count

Phil Jones? We apparently made a bid for Christian Zapata too.

 

[Le Titi]

http://gunnerblog.com/?p=2890

Sounds promising.

 

[Floating]

:bounce

That was fast. Less than £1m could be the steal of the decade. Such a high ceiling, let's just hope he gets his work permit so he can join up with the squad.

 

[kalleTheMan]

Very interesting prospect, really hope we can get boh him and Ryo special talent visas for next season.

 

[celestis]

The work permit should't be a problem when he is representing the senior national team , Denilson got a permit playing U-19's.

 

[Floating]

This guy has a video of an entire match featuring Joel Campbell, here's 10 minutes featuring an excellent brace:

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/BURBILA#p/u/12/TV865esEArI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/user/BURBILA#p/u/12/TV865esEArI</a>

 

[P_Gunner]

Good news! Finally a transfer that seems to be wrapped up quickly!!

 

[ebouenolike]

I'm bloody chuffed by this, he seems like the kind of player we might miss and end up scoring against us regularly.

He looks class, very glad we seem to have wrapped this up.

 

[MDGoonah41]

He seems to really enjoy taking a shot on goal.

Arsène will beat that out of him in short order.

 

[patrick42uk]

Not really sure what to make of this. Seems to have a good left foot but not reall sre on his general play yet.

At the very least we can celebrate the fact it seems we wrapped up a deal very quickly.

 

[Clrnc]

Very glad we got this guy. Huge talent

 

[There is light]

WE'VE WRAPPED THIS UP ALREADY ? WOW, that's ****ing brilliant if true!

 

[patrick42uk]

Wonder if this would mean we end our interest in Oxlade-Chamberlaine

 

[Raider]

Never heard of him.

 

[jay-d]

Not holding my breath, would like it to be true but wasn't alveres confirmed at one stage also.

 

[truth_hurts]

Wonder if this would mean we end our interest in Oxlade-Chamberlaine

You would have to think so, at least for now.

 

[fabo]

Don't know who he is, but seems a fairly low-risk signing if those prices are to be believed.

We could do with some young attacking options coming through.

 

[Armor for Sleep]

Those that have seen him...what kind of squad role do you think he would have this season?