Gallas given Gunners start & more on Arshavin
Former Arsenal skipper William Gallas is likely to start for the Gunners in tomorrow’s crucial Premier League tie against Everton at Goodison Park.
The 31-year-old French centre half has been missing from the Arsenal side for several weeks due to a niggly hamstring injury.
With Johan Djourou and Kolo Toure, the latter rumoured to of fallen out with Gallas, Gunners boss Arsene Wenger seems reluctant to drop either of them. Despite that, he knows that Arsenal’s congested fixture list will force him to rotate his thin squad.
“Gallas is likely to be involved tomorrow,” said Wenger. “I have not picked the team yet but he will be with us of course.
“It will be at the expense of who it will be. That depends on the games and what kind of opposition we have.”
Gooner Talk have predicted this line-up for tomorrow evening’s match:
Almunia
Sagna – Djourou – Gallas – Clichy
Eboue – Denilson – Diaby – Nasri
Adebayor – van Persie
Of course, Gooner Talk will continue our build-up towards the game with a match preview in the afternoon. A report will be put up shortly after the game by our new report writer, Darius.
In other news, Andrei Arshavin’s frustratingly ongoing move to Arsenal has been given some positive news with the quotes of Zenit St Petersberg director Maxim Mitrofanov earlier this afternoon.
Mitrofanov had earlier claimed in a Russian radio interview that a deal had been agreed with Arsenal, but now, according to him, Arshavin has put ‘money over success’.
He said:
“We’ve reached an agreement with Arsenal’s representatives about a different sum for the transfer.
“The amount would have been increased by decreasing the player’s wages, but because the player didn’t budge, neither us nor the Londoners found it possible to sign a contract for the agreed price. This decision was mutual and not just Zenit’s.”
“I think that we are very close to a deal, we really want to sell him but I hope the player can forget about the huge sums of money he is asking for and I hope he can find a compromise,” Mitrotanov.
“We are ready but it is his decision.
“Is it his dream or is it just a question of money?”
Arshavin’s agent Dennis Lachter has rebuffed those quotes whilst speaking to Gooner Talk.
After viewing Mitrofanov’s comments, he admitted that Zenit are ‘blaming’ the slowness of the deal on the player, instead of theirselves.
As usual, we’ll try our upmost to keep you updated with all the latest transfer news et al here at Gooner Talk.
1st
not happening.
5th here we come. and then a negative money spiral.
all the fault of the idiots on the board who thought we didn’t need dein.
It’s lonely up here LOL
How have you spoken to his agent. lmao
does anyone know why gazidis is not negotiating this deal and why it has been lef tto Ke, every deal im involved with takes a yea, Friar???
screw arshavin, its a waste of time. he says he wants to leave but now wants more money! now we’ll see if it really is his dream to move or not!!!!
What we need tonight is a fat statement on arsenal.com
Dennis texted me last night saying that Zenit are bluffing to buy some time!
I told you all this last night but you werre like no the fee is agreed blah blah
great as always chris , when u need a true story u always come here
i wanted to ask u two Q , plz
do u really think that arshavin will be an arsenal player , and how ?
is it really depend on arshavin now ? to lower his demands ?
i have a great respect of your opinion 🙂 thank u
Chris can you expand on what his Agent said – I have his Mobile No but he probably has been inundated with calls although he did return a text last night which at that point seemed positive.
Did you get the impression from him that the deal would go through?
friar is a spokesman for fiszman. thats why we are screwed.
danny fiszman is laughing his ass off in switzerland. lets take the piss out of the fans.
Gazidis was hailed as some negotiating genius who brokered the whole of MLS or so it seemed and he hasnt even been involved??? strange
Arsenal1234 If Zenit are bluffing it can only mean they think that someone else will step in and pay a higher amount: if so and he goes onto become a great player it will be very sad to think he could have been ours!
arsenal1234. I called his agent and he said exactly what you are saying. That number was real so all the doubters….pah!!!
If they are bluffing for time, any inclination as to why?
why is this russian not wanted by the fans. any signing that keeps eboue of the starting line up is a good signing. we should try to get richards of city.
Can someone confirm who is negotiating on Arsenals behalf?
ok so why doesnt someone email him and post reply on here as im sure that next to none of your words are regarded as gospel…especially on a site where all you have to do to post comments under another name is enter the name you want
In previous news tell us Arsenal has agree personal term with Arshvain, then Zenit announce they have reached transfer fee with Arsenal yesterday, the guardain report 14m.
So I guess Zenit want 17m fee, but Arsenal won’t pay it, so they find other way, ask for Arshavin making a compensation payment of about £3m to Zenit to smooth his departure, total 17M. Let Arshivn in Struggle to talk with Arsenal, so Wenger tell us transfer didn’t reached today in official site.
Its a matter of time before he joins.. stop worrying folkes..
Not sure if signing him will mean we are guaranteed to finish in the top four but its a step in the right direction & we truely do need dein back to speed things up when it comes to transfers.
Ken Friar is handling negotiations and they are all being done electronically i.e. over fax which is also poor on our behalf
villa winning again…
united thrashing wba…
possibly no new signings…
good night for us…
we’ll this is why we need dein as i belive he would have been were ever arshavin is in the world finalising the deal in person.
Fucking beejayzussssss!!!
Why the fuck is that useless pile of shite Eboue doing at the club, never mind effin startin????
Anyone feel free to answer that one…Thanks.
only arsene knows. lol
Sovietsky Sport just posted a VERY long interview with Mitrofanov. According to him Arsenal are in discussions with Lachter tonight to try and negotiate Arshavin’s wages
Ken Friar hasnt got a clue and as for Fiszman and Hill-Wood short arms and deep pockets…villa just won again…away to everton tomorrow…in desperate need of a win to stay in touch with Villa…hard times aye…someone throw me a positive..
Oh yeah, David Dein, the genius who allowed Edu’s, Wiltord’s, Pires’ contratcs to all run down.
Any fool who thinks that tangoed c*nt would be able to sprinkle some magic dust and instantly sign any player we have difficulty signing must be naive beyond belief..
Yes I did, but to be fair, he could tell me anything.
He knows I run an Arsenal site, so he’s unlikely to tell me –
“Arshavin will stay at Zenit, the contract he has been offered is too low for him”
I believe we’ll sign him, it’s just a matter of patience now.
Positives?
We will beat Everton 3-1 tomorrow.
a positive… united look good winning at wba…
oh wait that’s not a positive. sorry. nope fresh out of positive.
oh we do have players coming back from injury – does that count? huh? no? no didn’t think so.
sorry.
Gallas starting is not a good decision if you ask me (ok…I know you didn’t). He will get eaten alive on set pieces by Fellaini (sp).
gooner111 can u link the article?
Villas luck must be running out soon…Its just sick.
Positives?
Ive got Friedel, Ronaldo, Vidic and Defoe in my fantasy football team.
Gary, don’t forget Cahill….nuf said!
go go gunners
True dat!!
spike, ive got davies (curtis), ronaldo, defoe and cisse who got an assist. quite happy with that.
other than that the results couldnt have been any worse for us tonight.
BIG pressure on tomorrow and im not sure our midfield can deal with that pressure.
Gooner Chris, do you think Arshavins wage demands are the real stumbling block, as his agent told me last night that the player was ‘desparate’ to play for Arsenal. Hardly a good move to demand unreasonable amounts of cash then???
– What to you is seemed the development of situation?
– This evening (on Tuesday. – Editor’s notes) “arsenal” it will attempt to regulate differences with Dennis [Lakhter]. I hope that a question will be decided positively. Transfer window in Europe is shut on February 2, but for the London club it is necessary to still obtain permission to the work in England for Andrey. But this, count, the pair of workdays. Therefore we immediately understood: all components must be discussed the later in the first half of day on Wednesday January 28 (
http://uk.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sovsport.ru%2F&lp=ru_en&.intl=uk&fr=ytff-yff3
Villa get all the decisions again, yawn..
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Funnily enough, I think we will win tomorrow. Everton are well organised and as long as we approach the game with the rightn attitude and dont act like we’re on Rohypnol, that is!
What decisions did Villa get tonight?
Apparently Latcher is not involved in negotiations.
villa didnt really get all the decisions. pompey missed out on a few, but they werent anything major.
pompey probably deserved a draw, but villa defended well so there you go.
‘Apparently Latcher is not involved in negotiations’
Who said?
just read that interview with mitrafanov… he said that we are in discussions with dennis lacther tonight and that a logical solution woul have to be came to by tomorrow (28th) in order for work permit etc to all go through before 2nd feb..Zenit basically want 2.5mil of a 5mil signing on fee given to arshavin when he signed new contract in 2006..problem is he wants us to pay that or give him higher wages to cover him paying for it…hmmm
The Brain, haven’t got a clue where you heard that from.
Ken Friar and John Smith are the representitives on Arsenal’s side.
While Zenit have Mitrantov theire director.
Arshavin has Pavel Andreev and Dennis Lachter, the latter is heavily involved in negotiations.
this payment would boost the deal to 17-18mil
Why cant Zenit just wipe the 2.5m they are bloody loaded!!!
We need to focus on someone else and we need to di it quick!!!!!!!
I have been reading this site the last couple of days and its all shit!! no one knows anything and people saying they are talking to ashavins agent are full of their own importance!! Like hes ever gonna tell the truth to some random bloke!get a fucking life!
Lachter was directly involved with negotiations between the two clubs at first but now he is only representing arshavins ‘interests’ and negotiating the terms of his contract with us as we anted to deal directly with zenit
why not just get out.. wenger always smiles and has never said his name when asked about the deal.. i don’t see how much he can bring us in the long term.. he is clear that we arent his dream club and he is motivated by money.. miguel veloso would add sooo much more to our team, plus hes young, plays in a position we need to strengthen, is left footed (emmanuel petit) tall strong and gets forward!!! Plus hes available for 12 million by the looks of things!! Would be perfect
Goonerchris , when did he tell u and did he exactly say that he’ll stay at zenit ! there is no hope ?
right on afc
Paul why would they? they feel they are owed it…and all of this is a good tool for them to either get 2.5mil more from us or tarnish arshavin by saying it is all for the money…whether that is the case or not im not sure…i hope not and i hope football preveils and he signs regardless of the money…trouble is agents often come in the way of that regardless of player preference
Different day, different deadline…How can you say we want it done on a certain day, or else, only to change the deadline…yet again?
Pathetic overly protracted, in the full dazzling glare of the sensationalist braindead media…effin transfer!
Thing is, if the club think this signing ALONE, will a) placate the frustrations of alot of fans pr b) overly affect our chances of winning anything, then i think they’ll be unploeasantly surprised.
I really thought there would be at least another signing, but there’s no reason for the club to wait for this one to be concluded before they get another (defensive) player, is there?
I would say, I’m one of the more positive Gooners out there, not too quickm to slate players (Eboue apart!) or the manager, going to away games for me, makes me wanna support the team even more, BUT even Im getting quite fucked off now!!!
fuck Zenit
fuck zenit and fuck the deal!!!!!!!!!! fuck it!!!!
vanHorn;
Veloso is exactly the kinda player Im talkin about fella!
Ps if arsenal sign him its going to be a real anticlimax now!!!
This website is so shit and not realiable at all .. how can you say last week ashavin would sign in 48hrs and you got your information through email from zenit ..you are not realible and your sources if any are stupid children with zero brain .. this reminds me of the summer when you comfirmed inler has signed which wasnt true .. plz stop jumping the gun till deals are made.
We just need a positive solution to this…We all know that Arshavin isnt the answer to all our problems as most of our problems lie the CDM and CB area.
But the need for some sort of boost and positive upbeat uplifting news from the club is needed to give us the lift we need to ensure top 4 status..
I think we all just need to wait and see, he’ll sign i’m sure.
no one can deny he’d be a great signing
shut up josh, you bloody know it all.
i mean, i hope so josh, i hope you are right.
sorry the hysteria is getting to me.
Although a lot of the info on here is sometimes a bit premature i do enjoy the nightly debates and speculation…at least that is until it gets abusive and claims of brothers friends uncles picking him up from the airport and having spoken to lachter start up…they are quite tedious
This website dosen’t make sense
stupid website!!!!!
if arshavin is stalling over money on the eve of joining the best club in the world well then fuck him, let him rot with robinho at man city
it now seems every day is arshavin to sign day..i seriously think this is gonna keep on going till the deadline day..we shud just forget it and get veloso for the same amount of money if not cheaper…thats the main source of our problems
manuel the hysteria is getting to me too. i think we’ve just got to step back and wait. arsenal would have pulled out by now if it wasn’t happening, their not stupid. we’ll get our man.
for now though i do enjoy the speculation 🙂
All parties knew about this clause before negotiations started.
I hope?
The fans knew 3 weeks ago (well I did)
Off to bed to dream of Russian brides instead of Arshavins..
I wish!!
fingers crossed for tomorrow lunchtime
Veloso isn’t the same player he was 2 years back, I’ve watched him a few times this season, Dissapointing if you ask me.
Jeez it’s gone past boring now.
We might regret this all episode but let’s hope it will be the opposite and arshenal will deliver us to…er fourth place!
Chongster…bored of looking on your site allready…toooo long like our transfer policies…so where is Gazidis as couldnt find anything on there
arggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh
please sign arshavin, please sign.
the hysteria is taking control of me. i must know more about arshavin this instance.
goooooner chris pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee. you must know more than you are letting on.
the walls are closing in, getting claustrophobic now.
arshavin please sign now before i cry.
im seriously worried about the 4th CL place now..villa just keep on going with relentless luck it seems…its not looking good, who is most to blame if we do not qualify for the CL??
Paul and GoonerChris just got in contact again with Dennis as i text him asking for an update
“Very busy right now, news will come soon!”
Paul explain your conversation with Dennis and also can someone send me the link that says that LAchter is involved tonight
hah. nothing will happen tomorrow so just go to bed for 48 hours and then we’ll have signed him
How is anyone worried about Villa, They still have to play the other top 3, we’ve taken 5 points already from them, anyone worried about villa is well, just stupid 🙂
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Do we not think wenger would have denied totally that we wanted arshavin if we werent close to getting him. Zenit and his agent are sprouting shit but to be fair to zenit he did sign a five year contrace(thereabouts) and paid him a huge sign on fee so if he leaves that early then maybe he should pay some back!!!
arsenal1234, Lachter just said that it was Zenit putting up obstacles for this deal and not AA. He wouldn’t say a great deal, why would he, he doesn’t know me. All he kept saying was that Zenit are ‘bullshitting and Andrei want Arsenal’
go to translated version of russian paper…sovsport.ru there you will find an in depth interview with mitrofanov about the state of the deal…Lachter is tonight negotiating the terms of Arshavins supposed contract..according to mitrafanov anyway
i dont see why not qualifying for the CL would be a problem, we dont spend that money any way lol and if we do finish 5th there is no 1 else to blame but the club, had a whole month to bring in some experiance.
*runs away from the computer in the fear that arshavin might not sign and save arsenal*
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh im frightened and so cold now.
We’ll win the league 🙂
Villa have to go to man united and liverpool away!! they played crap tonight and still got a win!! thats fighting talk
hahahahaaha gaz you joker.
best joke ive heard so far this year.
thats cheered me up so much. hilarious.
arsenal, eboue and all, win the league. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Ive stopped giving a fuck about the Russian.
Like Merse says its the same as what we already have. Arsene Wenger is buzzing out of his fucking mind on snail flavoured crack if he thinks we dont NEED A DEFENSIVE MIDFIELDER. De Jong?? Available? Well whilst we’re fucking about for a month with this twat we could have bought him for the same money.
Arsene Knows Best???
Arsene Kant Buy more like…
Ahh great Paul he called the “DIRTY LIERS!” to me haha after i said i hated Zenit hes a good fella that Dennis….
Glad i gave you his number lol?
samir…not really we..we still have to go to old trafford and anfield plus entertain chelski, plus we have to go to shite hart lane and goodison tomorrow which i cant see us winning..specially if eboue plays
AFC..so have we got to go to united and Liverpool away..and whos to say that we are currently any better equipped to get something from there than Villa are…although i think we are lol..but they should relly be taken seriously espeically with a hard game like Everton away tomorrow
I didn’t say which league!
fair play one is our best chance
Gazidis is also not in Portugal so forget Veloso as well.
Investigate harder.
I’ll give you some options and you can either investigate or guess:
1) Spain
2) Belgium
3) Italy
4) Turkey
5) Germany
6) Greece
7) Togo
8) Vietnam
9) Serbia
10) Switzerland
ooh the suspense!
PS: when you figure it out, it isn’t a “googlethewebtalk” exclusive. LOL
hahaha, no doubt eboue will get sent off for diving on the last day of the season. wait scrap that, last minute of the last game of the season in a game were either winning or losing comfortably and we will lose out on a uefa cup place because of that.
and spurs, who eventually finished in the top half, snatched that uefa cup place away by winning the fair play league instead of us.
arsenal1234 at least someone on here believes me ha ha. He seemed a decent bloke, but hey he could be full of shit, most agents are!
Is he negotiating the terms of a possible broker deal with a new feeder club? i heard some whisperings about that
But the 2.5 million pounds – is still more than 2.2 million euros, which he earns in «Zenite»!
I can only say that in December at the request of Arshavina «Zenit» granted him authorization to negotiate a private contract on the transfer.
Combining the leading clubs in Europe, in order to protect themselves from such cases, agreed not to invite the players who left the previous place of work on this item
Formally, the agreement has not laid down, but it exists.
if someone can tell me how i can upload a picture on here i can show you all my texts from last night but news from today is after i called him so
arsenal1234 what did he say tonight?
Basically the same as last night except from he was very busy and he will text me any updates after tonight!
Dennis: “Zenit are bullshitting my friend! They are trying to blame Andrei!
I have to go sorry I am very busy tonight”
Me: “Text me updates”
Dennis: “Of course my friend!”
Hope he is busy sorting AA’s deal out to AFC!!!
WHERE HAS EVERYONE GONE?????????
still here.. not much else can really say about arshavin until we get confirmation that he is or isnt joining arsenal!
Dont worry Paul & Arsenal1234 I believe that you have spoken with Dennis.
I texted him last night and he replied in a s slightly quirky way (as he did to a mate of mine as well) which ties up with his response to you re Zenit being liars!
His mobile and contact details are on FIFA website along with all association accredited agents for all those non believers out there.
any news on velsoco…..going to bolton or man city……hope he comes to arsenal
Orpington Gooner
hes actually quite the joker he thought my idea of getting Usmanov to pay was top notch and that i should be helping him lol
Russian sports paper LIFE.RU ran with the headline ‘Usmanov buys Arshavin for Arsenal’ ha ha as if!!!
I texted Veloso and N’Zogbia’s agents tonight asking about any interest from Arsenal both replied…
Barbosa (Veloso): “Only Aston Villa, Bolton and Man City”
Peslerbe (N’Zogbia): “Lyon and Aston Villa, no Arsenal”
Tell that mofo lachter to sort this deal out man!
this is beyond a joke!!!
sign that mutha fucking russian!!
Afro man give him a call yourself!
i think we should sign velsoco….he is available for 15 million…..would be a great deal…….
an inside source of mine just confirmed that all of your inside sources and talkings with lachter and anyone else involved are bullshit.
can ou not grow up a bit and just say I DONT KNOW EXACTLY WHATS HAPPENING rather than having this pseudo insight. it’s just childish and wasting everyone’s time.
um ryan if youd like i can give your these peoples contact information
want it?
Wasting time. Just like you are now ryan now off to bed young man, school in the morning!!!
Paul i rung the lachter up, and he told me he aint having no afro man on the phone to him!
the cheeky mutha fucker!
hate to say it lads but ive been doing quite a lot to gain information yet im only 15! haha
Someone call him now. Say you are from Arsenal magazine.
think u need a country area code thing i rang it last nyt never got threw
how much more luck are villa gonna get,they were shit tonight and have been scraping wins.
how come everyone else gets more players and we dont with such a small squad and gonna los out on champs league footie next season.
Steve the +972 is the country code but you must have the “+” sign when you try to text or call him, although it must now be late in Tel aviv (if he is still there and not on route to London!)
Steve, if you call his mobile you just put 00 in front of the number or a + if your using a mobile.
steve…
just make sure you put that + before the number
SOMEONE CALL RIGHT NOW
steve or orpington or paul
reckon we will sign the russki fuck~?
and the plus sign on the phone is where?
call Dennis and find out for us
hold down 0
or just dial 00 steve
the number u have dialed has not been reconised beep
WTF
I dialled that mofo number and ended up calling the russian chicken hut!!
this is a wind up !!
I contacted him asking where we were with agreeing a fee and personal terms and his response was ‘lets see tomorrow’.. Judgin by his previous responses to this sort of question i would say that this could mean some positive news tomorrow…
yea
Try again
wrang again was put on hold lol
how about u call it cheapo
yes and it was the number posted on fifa’s official site so cant be wrong…sounds positive
goonerdan did you speak to him?
His previous responses to the other guys on previous nites seem to suggest they were struggling to agree something but from what he said to me i suggest we will get a definitive answer by tomorrow..
I just text him wishing him luck to get the deal done and asked him to pass onto Andrei that us Arsenal supporters are really looking forward to Andrei being signed.
He replied “I will! Thank you for your support!”
It doesnt mean that the deal is done but he is obviously still positive but as he has said to Paul there should be news tomorrow.
I believe that we have quality. yes, we are still in the race. we hve players coming back that will be like new signings for us.
It is my dream to get the f**k out of zenit!
lachter: “it is my dream to make money from sale of arahavin and also to deny everything and make up stories about greatness of arahavin”
Serious?
I text him as couldnt get through to the number direct…was in use
Did he txt you back right away?
And didn’t he wonder who the fuck you were??? lol
i just text him again asking whether we are looking at a definitive answer either way tomorrow and he replied..’cross fingers’ a bit non comittal but a clear indication that negotations are progressing
i reckon he has answerd to no1 and has txt no cunt! if i was the agent u would all get told to fuck off this is harresment lol
wenger says nothing will happen till after the everton game and check this
As ever, the official announcement of any signing will be made via Arsenal.com.
when does arsenal.com ever say that? check for urself in the not agreed afee for arshavin
lol i put myself forward as cheif news reporter for an unofficial arsenal website lol
He was quite swift with his responses aswell..hopefully all will be cleared up by tomorrow
the interesting thing will be if/when we sign arshavin, wenger says it is our final signing or otherwise. There is no chance in hell we will sign veloso as well (only possible if we don’t get arshavin) cos we won’t sign2 £13 million+ players in one window. I can see a cheap DM (5-10 million) coming in but it all is on the edge. Funny how Gazidis has been strangley quiet through all of this…surely/hopefully/maybe he’s tying up a deal somewhere else.
Arshavin: It is my dream to play for arsenal.
(translation:) It is my dream to play not for zenit.
Lachter: Zenit are barbaric
(translation:) The sooner arahavin moves the sooner I get sweet money!
Wenger: Whether we sign him or not we have quality to challenge for the title.
(translation:) We need him or we’re f*cked.
I just text Lachter and asked him does AA want to come to Arsenal and do you think he will?
He replied, ‘i am sure he will be arsenal in the next days!
Someone actually call him
all sounds quite promising then so we will just have to wait and see…Strange that it is so easy to contact an agent like that but i suppose they want to be available at all times
HOOOOOYAAA
i just called lachter and he answers me , he was like whos this ?
i told him this is mike iam an owner of arsenal blog can i ask u 1 Q’s ?
he said sure
i asked him , have we agreed personal terms with arshavin ?
he said , we are still negotiating
then i asked him another one , i asked him is there is a good chance that arshavin will be an arsenal player by tomorrow
he said ” time will show ”
then i was like a final Q’s , are you optimistic that he’ll be an arsenal player
he said ” im sooo f***ing optimistic 😀
then he told next time u call , check the time u calling its 3 am here !
i was like im sorry we all arsenal fans are waiting for arshavin to become an arsenal player , thank u very much for ur time
he said thank u 🙂 bye
im serious that exactly what happend i swear
Why call him? he is responding readily to messages but phone is usually engaged…if he is in london it is late and if he is in israel then it is later
I’m sure people on here are thinking we are full of shit, but Lachters number is easily obtained on FIFA.COM. It’s probably costing us about 1.50 every time we text him!!!!!
that wasn’t the 1st time i call him , i know his voice ! i called him 3 times before in the morning ,
if someone wants to call him now for an update then be my guest!!!
Orpington Gooner, do you know Jason Bye?
Thats what i was htinking proably costing loads…unless hes in London lads 😛 someone should ask if he is in london
ur all fucking nuts!!!
If any of you actually believe these idiots are talking to his agent, ur off ur heads!!
No one really knows whats going on but thank fuck this all ends one way or another next Monday!!!
I literally just emailed him instead and got an email back and i said lets hope hes in the red and white soon and he messaged back saying im sure he will be red very soon
i think hes in Tel Aviv still as his email said it was sent at 02.12am
Ha ha all you non believers can go fuck as i just got the exact same email!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ahh i see…hopefully his confidence is not a front and he is being genuine…
what exactly did you say and he say?
I asked what chance Arshavin to Arsenal?
Flag this messageRe: Dennis Lachter / Andrei ArshavinWednesday, 28 January, 2009 12:14 AM
From: This sender is DomainKeys verified “Dennis Lachter” Add sender to Contacts To: paulwright1969@yahoo.co.uk
Hi Paul,I’m sure you’ll see him Red soon.
BR,
Dennis.
guys can you forward me on the email please as i cant send emails out currently i can only receive them…danc53@hotmail.com
Dan, its sent to you
yeah paul could u send it to me and also send his email address izzycarter13@gmail.com
this has to be a joke!!
we cant be txting this guy surely!!
he wouldnt tell us nuttin anyways!!
thanks
he said wt i wrote literally ! he said literally im sooo f***ing optimistic and said check the time u call its almost 3:00 am in the morning !! that the same time in russia !
and what the hell he supposed to do in tal avviv ? he supposed to be in russia according to maxim that we were in negotiating tonight , that what came from maxim interview tuesday night
How do you see the development of this story?
This evening Arsenal are trying to iron out the difficulties with Dennis Lachter. I hope that everything will ebd positively. The transfer window closes on 02 February but Arsenal still have to get a work permit for Arshavin and that can take a couple of days. We understand that all the details must be finalised by Wednesday morning at the latest.
http://www.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/319233
Believe it Afro Man the number came direct from Fifa Federation
Afroman, i emailed him and he replied, check it out above. He aint exactly giving much away!
agent number 007 yea lol
How about someone email/text Wenger and say 1) Eboue sucks 2) If you play Song again you are nuts 3) Sort out the dressing room, and 4) Never give Almunia the armband again.
so lachter is saying something gonna happen tomorrow?
WTF this is mad!! txting a football agent gettin info! lol
I will sit infront of the mutha fucking tv with party poppers waitin for the breaking news we have arshavin!!!!
+44 203 286 50 90 is that number fake cause i called it and some one with an accent said he believes arshavin wiil become an arsenal player tmr and i could tell he was on the computer because i heard the noise windows makes
That isnt the number they have for him on fifa
Although i would love to believe that u guys have been contacting lachter im finding it hard to believe that a) it is infact him, b) he has enough time and can be bothered to respond to a load of anonymous arsenal fans and c) he would be so willing to give u inside information about the transfer. anyway, well done guys, very exciting if it is legitimate. he would be an awesome signing
Not sure about 2mo but he seems confident in his txts etc that it will happen soon. Although it could be wishful thinking on his part as well because he wants a nice fat pay cheque as well!!!! Josh, i know it seems hard to believe but its 100% true.
yeah i kniw thats a uk number so i think its fake
agent no 007 LMAO
this is too good to be true
Oh yeah ha ha ha ha didn’t notice that!!
hahaah paul i just realized it is fake cause he does not live in london
paul send me a link to dat information
so you are a hundred percent sure you’ve been contacting lachter? stupid question u couldn’t be sure, but why would he be telling u (a random arsenal fan) info about the deal?
who said he lived in London???
Dennis Lachter to me
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He will be Red soon!
2009/1/28 louis onwugbenu
please sir could u tell me the current status of anderi arshavin and if you beleive he will become an arsenal player
no joke this is off his email address on the fifa website
paul i beleive u that number came up when he repplied my email wow he is really people friendly
The thing is he might just be telling us what we want to hear. Only time will tell. Josh i told him i worked for an unofficial Arsenal magazine and i gues he believed me!
yeah man!!
arshavin is coming!
im gonna get arshavin on my shirt tomorrow. sweeeeet!
Afro man, if he don’t come i will call his agent and give him a right fucking earful!!!!!!!
too right paul.
that mutha fucker needs a good kicking if this deal dies.
!!!!!
For the people who think i’m bluffing did you see the link above to the fifa website???
ok, who gives a crap, i might aswell get all excited like you guys! it feels way better than assuming we wont sign anyone lol! woo arshavin!
WTF
no posts in here for half an hour!!
shit im going insane without any news!!
Dennis Lachter, who is furious with Zenit over their conduct but believes the transfer will go through.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/jan/28/arshavin-arsenal-transfer-window
guardian said the same thing 🙂
ill sit here all dang night if i have to !!!!!
im still here !!!!!!!!
lol just so that u can get some sleep yh im here i got exams for college tomoz so im revisin all night lool dis is what happens when u dont revise peace
It’s 10:00pm here in the Cayman Islands so I am basically one of the only people awake? Lol.
# louis onwugbenu Says:
January 28th, 2009 at 12:41 am
+44 203 286 50 90 is that number fake cause i called it and some one with an accent said he believes arshavin wiil become an arsenal player tmr and i could tell he was on the computer because i heard the noise windows makes
It may not be him, noone can be 100% sure but according to Paul’s post containing all of the numbers, thats his UK cell number, so who knows, he may be in the UK to try to sort things?
158 am in pittsburgh someone tell me its noon in england and the russian horn dog is in the bag…
Paul
I left the forum about 12.30am but see you still had a hard job trying to convince people re the fact that we have been in contact with Dennis Lachter.
Any chance you could forward his email message he sent to me as well ?
k.ward@kwprojects.co.uk
Thanks
what time is it in london?
id appreciate that as well…
acv9@pitt.edu
arsena4uuuuusa
To answer your question its now 8.50am in London as I write this.
I already spoke to Dennis about 5 times on the phone. Yesterday afternoon when I probed:
“Is the protracted Arshavin-to-Arsenal deal any closer to being concluded?” he duly replied:
“No. There are problems with the contract.”
I have his UK contact number, I don’t know why you’re all trying the one off the FIFA website cause that’s to Israel and will cost you a fortune!
somebody call that bastard now and see whats going on !!
give him a ring
Hey Paul. I live in Canada. What’s his number again and what would I have to enter before I enter the number?
paul i already called him and he said arshavin will play for the red soon and i asked if he tell me wat the hold is all about he said he can not explain further
louis
u call him 2day ?
Maybe let agent focus on negotiate is more better guys..
seriously we can’t do nothing by phone call…..
According to tadays press and to Zenits official website Arshavin is now asking for silly wages when i thought he said last week he would take a pay cut to seal his ‘dream’ move???
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fc-zenit.ru%2Finfo%2Fmain.phtml&sl=ru&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
i called him , he said sorry im soo busy i have no time to talk , thank u
who do we believe??????
http://www.sport.co.uk/news/Football/13378/Arshavins_agent_accuses_Zenit_over_deal.aspx
http://www.sport.co.uk/news/Football/13378/Arshavins_agent_accuses_Zenit_over_deal.aspx
Lachter talk same thing with Arsene, it’s look like all Zenit official site rubbish..
Idiots… “There is no agreement between the two clubs, absolutely not,” said Lachter. “Money is talking and now bull is walking.
“There has been a lot of this kind of talk coming from Zenit for the past two months and I just have no idea what they’re talking about.
“Are the rumours of Andrei’s personal demands being too high true? Well, there haven’t been any negotiations (about personal terms) at all.
“I am still in Tel Aviv and Andrei is with Zenit in Dubai. That is the situation.”
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That’s what I meant Latcher has not been in negotiations yet so he hasn’t a clue really. If Arshavin hasn’t been told a thing from his representative what does this tell u about Latcher’s involvment? Nothing as of yet as this is not his matter until a fee is agreed as this is the role of the agent.
i do not think latcher is that much involved in the deal cause the zenith director said its paul anrdev that knows wat is going on
kololej, where is that from?
sport.co.uk
Louis onwugbenu:
There was also a statement from a Zenit Director yesterday that said Wenger was to have direct contact with Lachter over the personal terms.
So there are lots of contradictory statements flying around.
But if Lachter is in Tel Aviv and Arshavin is still in Dubai, it doesnt look like the transfer will happen due to the time it takes to do the medical/agree personal terms and for the Russians to produce the paperwork even if the transfer deal is agreed in the next day or so.
Then Wenger will say “we tried our hardest but we use our internal solutions” which wont wash well if we dont get 4th spot at the end of the Season.
His UK mobile number is:
02032 865090
I dont understand why we didn’t send representatives to Zenit to negotiate in personn? you think we were ever even that serious about the deal from the get go? i beg to differ…
guys we wont be getting him now anyways…if arshavin is still in dubai and lachter in israel then there is simply not enough time to complete the deal..specially as it will take a while for work permit to go through and he has to get a medical….wenger will just say EXACTLY what Orpington Gooner’s just posted…
Wenger said the earliset will be Thursday if anything. I think he will come but just forget about it and think about the present team.
Never deal with Russians again!!!!!!!!!
All this hype about 1 player joining us.. how sad.. just goes to show how poor we are in the transfer market usually..
Lets just hope he’s not another reyes.
The difference between him and Reyes is that we actually signed Reyes!!!
I just don’t see this one happening now to be honest.
The Brain:
I am surprised if Wenger said Thursday.
Arshavin apparently needs to first fly to St Petersburgh to get a Visa, fly to London to do the medical and hope that the Russian administrators do their paperwork quickly, which the Zenit Director implied that the authorities wont do over the weekend and the deadline is 5pm on Monday!
And in between time he has to agree personal terms – it might I guess be feasible but very unlikely now, as would be fraught with potential hiccups meaning the deadline is missed.
Sad but I dont think its going to happen.
Thats right paul mate..
I do think we’ll sign him but am afraid he wont live up to all this hype surrounding he’s transfer.. its as if were just about to sign messi,kaka & rio ferdinand.
How stupid to put all our efforts in one player. Wenger actually met Arshavin in December and showed him around the training ground. Surely the salary issue would have come up long before now!
Thats right & if a players sooo pasionate about joining arsenal then they should know that there not going to be earning silly money before talks take place.
wenger has said he wont break wage structure for any 1, so really cant see this happening, going from 90k to less when your 27.
Although on Arsenal.com Wenger says that he hasn’t even discussed salary with the player!
http://en.rian.ru/sports/20090128/119846989.html
Seems like Arshavin still want the move though…
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://www.life.ru/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dlife.ru%26hl%3Den
Full transcript of Zenit CEO interview over at gunnerblog…
http://gunnerblog.com/?p=1401
Paul
Wenger can hardly state piously that Players should not be tapped up when a fee has not been agreed and then go and speak to Arshavin about his salary at least not Publicly.
Apparantly Zenit gave Arsene permission to show him round as we they had agreed to sell him to us, but just hadn’t agreed on a fee.
ive just seen the full interview that zenits director (or whoever he is) had with sovsport. he basically said that if we had any chance of this then the details would need to be more or less done by midday today…which has come and gone with no news. there was also a bit i read saying wenger said on Canal french tv that the deal is now ‘unlikely’..i bet we get noone now..great
No news doesn’t mean nothing. Remember how long we waited for Nasri and then bang he was on Arsenal.com wearing the shirt. We will only hear news if there is anything to hear. Who knows whats going on behind the scenes!
I hope Wenger’s lying.
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://www.life.ru/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dlife.ru%26hl%3Den
Interesting folks!!!!
Breaking news: Skysports sources. Zenit confirm they have aceepted 15million for arshavin. PPL tune into skysports now
john are you actually serious because i thought this was already known..i cba with people lying anymore..
hes not lying people..but this needs to be done NOW!! get at it ken and co!!
Just looked at Skysports news it says Zenit “will” accept a £15M bid and not “have accepted” on the breaking news strapline.
It could be that this is a ploy to try to lure others out to bid for him.
so where dfoes that leave us??? have we agreed a 15mil fee or are they releasing that statement to try and get someone else to offer 15 mil…if we lose out now i will be livid
GET THIS MESS SORTED OUT!!
they are obviously holding on right upuntil monday to see if another club bids for him, they now all know the price zenit want, cant see him coming to us now. we will sign no 1, wenger will say players coming back from injury will be like new signings, even tho none of them are centre mids or a cb,
That statement makes no sense that Zenit are putting out. It doesn’t say they would accept a 15m bid from Arsenal, just that they would accept!!
Match preview coming later today.
I just got another reply from Mr Lachter via email, that should be avaliable to see maybe tomorrow afternoon.
Chris can you forward the email to me, i won’t put it on here.
chris come on you cant do that….is it a positive or negative email??? where are we because this news looks like zenit are trying to encourage other clubs to make an offer as they want the fee of 15m in one lump sum which we are unlikely to do….come on please we need to know where we are with this fucking thing….
paul wat yor email address
theres not a hope in fucking hells chance that we would ever offer 15 million pounds in one lump sum for a player…we have no chance of concluding this transfer…we wont get arshavin or anyone else for that matter and i for one am not fucking happy about it…aahhahhahahha…
That thing about Arshavin having to fly to St Petersburg in order to get a Visa is a load of bollocks, he wouldn’t have to be there in person at all, trust me I’ve dealt with getting visas through Russian officialdom before, no way he’d have to get the work visa in russia rather than travel to London from Dubai.
Plus the fact that Lachter is in Tel Aviv and Arshavin is in Dubai does not in any way preclude a deal being done. Why would it!?!
I think he’ll come to Arsenal and it’ll all be sorted, but maybe not until 16.59 on Monday!
Actually, it’s so short, there’s no point of me dedicating an article it.
He said “I’m sure Andrei will be in Red very soon”
i had a dream that he signed at 3.46 pm
but i cant remember what day…
Red??? Lets hope he aint signing for Liverpool then!!!!!!!!!!!
Lol chris your site is quite popular now 😀 and tbh you deserve it – good article
Zenit are a bunch of fucking C***S they are not only holding us to ransom they are trying to drag arshavins name through the mud aswell.. I actually hate them so much…all their demands of we wantr this much and we want it in thsi way and we want it now…fuc k you zenit you russian c***S
i dont think we will get him now…we wont bid 15million in one go
Any other players than arshavin. Surely we gotta buy a midfielder central
They just said a bid of 15m. We might not have to pay in one go, we could pay in 2 instalments, most transfers work like that unless your Man city.
Breaking news: Zenit will agree £15Million for Anderi Arshavin, No add-ons though.
their selling pogregnyak to blackburn aswell now, they said it shud go through and there was only contact last night…if they wanted to this deal could have been so much simpler, those russians are just pissing us around now
if we do buy any other player (as well as arshavin) it will not be a £10-12 million player – so any one dreaming of veloso can give up hope. We may get a young player with ‘potential’ or someone relatively cheap (e.g. battaglia from boca)
Samir, how do you know theres no add ons?
battaglia would be a quality signing
Just said on SSN,That zenit will accept £15Million straight up.
They won’t accept add-ons.
josh
Yeah battaglia seems like a good battling midfielder from what i’ve seen of him. Might not be a long term signing but would be a good addition for the rest of the season.
btw does anyone know where gazidis is in all the negotiations?
I know ken friar is handling the arsh transfer but where’s gazidis?
straight up doesnt mean all in once payment though, it will probably be payments over 2 years or something, no one has 15 million cash except for man city
dont worry i will be a red before monday
http://en.rian.ru/sports/20090128/119846989.html
I just watched SSN and they said that Zenit want 15 million in one lump sum and they are only dealing with us.
I hope we can pull this off. Our creative players are all out til april and we only have Nasri and RVP and god forbid they got injured!!!
Also why are Zenit saying they will accepy 15m, when 2 days ago they said that they had already agreed a price with us???
I hope Lachter weren’t refering to Arshavin a Russia strip
I think what they are looking for is not 15 million in one go but 15 million rather than the 12 + 3 we are offering currently… so possibly pay the 15mil over 2 years….lets just get the deal done…so much expectancy of a new signing now…it was 0onlby last season fiszman said we have 30 mil to spend on 1 player if we want so what has happened…money doesnt just dissappear and we fill the stadium every week and still receive the same tv rights so where is the fucking money now fisxman!!!
I was wondering lachter keeps on saying he will be a red soon how do we know he doesnt mean another team with a red shirt who knows another club may be involved. Just a thought
zenit have said they are ONLY talking to arsenal ..
This should be done dusted and put to bed. Come on Arsene/Ken lets do it. Even oif they want 15m in one go then pay it, we must have funds we hardly bloody buy anyone!!!
ssn news today
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=0-0rfFdR6P0
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12874_4864850,00.html
cant believe wenger thinks this team is good enough..it clearly isnt and i think this will be proven at full time tonight
Yeah chris i dont want arsenal to lose but they should to show wenger that the squad needs some fresh blood
our strongest lineup is capable of beating ANY other team in the world, the problem is that when cesc, rosicky and eduardo are out we have players like eboue and song replacing them..diaby and denilson are good back-ups for sure but they are still too inconsistent
I think that Gooner Chris is lying about the e-mails. It’s just my opinion so don’t get mad at me. It’s either that or someone is impersonating him.
yh exactly why doesnt wenger see this though
does anyone know how long roughly a work permit takes to get??……. i know we will get one for him because hes played 75% of russias games over last 2 years
If craig bellamy was worth 14 then 15 is cheap for a player like arshavin.
what i’m frustrated is the arsenal board have done all the ground work for 3 or 4 weeks, and now their acting as if they aren’t bothered whether we sign him or not!
hopefully some good news will come from tomorrow as the game with with everton will be out of the way
yeah 15 mill is a good price for arshavin but bellamy is not worth 14 mill
dang i feel asleep and missed all this news!!
was up all last night watching this site waiting for updates !!
they want 15 mill? give zenit the money you mofos!
about the work permit
its shouldn’t be a problem , its easy we can apply for it on friday and get it on monday
the most important thing to do now , is our board should act fast and end this suffer !!
god!!! we offered 12 +3 and they want it straight away ! just pay the damn money
4 god sake spuds bought defoe 4 15 !!
15 million for arshavin is an unbelievable price ! he’s one of the best players in the world ! if we can’t pay 15 million ! then who can ! aren’t we a big team and one of the richest teams in de world ! we are in the top 5 and can’t just pay 15 million !!!!
u know i think we can get top 4 all we need is vila to slip up and we have win on the day
if this transfer is to happen i would think there would definately need to be some serious break through tomorrow in terms of the fee and personal terms, then apply for a work permit and have a medical on friday
this arshavin transfer saga is so frustrating one minute where going to sign him the next where not, just give the 15 mill zenit want the sooner this is over the better
I personally think somthing will happen soon, I still remember Wenger saying any signings we make will be after tonights game. I think we will sign Arshavin before the deadline it wont take long for a work permit to be given and the 80k a week contract that is supposably going to be offered will be accepted well lets hope it does anyway
Arshavin on his personal website
“The chances of me moving away from Zenit in this window, is like me winning the lottery, very very slim chance”
thats old one ! before maxim’s statement today
wenger reckon were in a good position in the league..what??…5th and struggling to qualify for the CL, yet 4 years ago we went a whole year unbeaten..how has it come to this that our only hope for the season is to finish 4th…
http://www.arsenal-world.co.uk/news/loadnews.asp?cid=TMNW&id=429476 starting line up
thank god no eboue in the starting line up
Splash the cash Wenger that was fucking dire!!!!!!
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/26612/wenger-reaction
On Andrei Ashavin…
“There is nothing new, because today I have been focused on the game, and I
did not pick up any phone calls so nothing has happened. It was 90 per cent
that I will be able to give you more in the next two days. Remember in this
job the other 10 per cent can be more important than the other 90 because
people can change their mind quickly.”