timmyg
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Actually, it's a trial contract that he's coming over for... oops. Sorry. And there is thought to be a fee of between £200,000 and £300,000.
black187 said:Juventus main man will come tommorow to Arsenal, to talk about Vieira.
source: italian media.
I hope we will not sell him
Juventus jet in with an eye on Pires
Juve target French duo as Arsenal eye Appiah
Matt Scott
Thursday July 7, 2005
The Guardian
Representatives of Juventus were in London yesterday with sources in Italy claiming that Roberto Bettega and Luciano Moggi were meeting Arsenal with a view to signing Patrick Vieira and Robert Pires.
Arsenal, who themselves are interested in Juve's Stephen Appiah, would resist any moves for their captain, who would be extremely unlikely to return to Italy anyway - where he has suffered racial abuse when playing for Arsenal - but Pires's future needs to be resolved and the Gunners would listen to offers of around £4m for a player who has 12 months left on his contract.
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For their part Arsenal, who lost Edu to Valencia on a Bosman last month, are on the look-out for a holding midfielder to provide back-up for Gilberto Silva, and would be interested in brokering a deal for the 24-year-old Ghanaian, possibly involving Pires.
Arsenal's pursuit of the Sevilla striker Julio Baptista has struck a problem, however, and it may scupper their chances of landing the £10m-rated Brazil international.
The FA Cup winners had hoped to sign Baptista with an £8m down payment followed by £2m in conditional monies. However strong interest from Barcelona and a more tentative approach from Real Madrid have caused Sevilla to reassess the situation.
That was sparked by the revelation that Baptista expects to gain Spanish nationality in December, making him more attractive to Spanish clubs, where limits are placed on the number of non-EU nationals in teams. In England no such rules apply, however the stringent regulations on work permits - whereby players must have featured in 75% of their country's recent matches - mean Baptista would probably only qualify to play in the Premiership following a successful appeal to the Home Office.
Though the Sevilla chairman José María del Nido has a good relationship with Arsenal following Jose Antonio Reyes's transfer to Highbury last year, he has also informed the Gunners that their valuation falls a long way short of his own.
It is likely to require a bid of close to the £17.5m in cash and conditional payments that secured Reyes for Baptista to follow him to Arsenal, and that would probably be too much.
frankly, i don't really care if we sell him or not. vieira isn't what he used to be and we do just fine without him. if the money is right, let him go and then sign ballack.