Abraham – "Sad news set to hit Arsenal fans in the summer"
Avid Arsenal fan and professional singer Andy Abrahams has revealed on UK commercial radio station talkSPORT this morning that he heard the ‘sad news’ of a player set to leave the club in the summer whilst performing at Theo Walcott’s 21st birthday party last week.
Abraham was quizzed on whether he picked up any gossip at Walcott’s lavish bash, and the passionate fan confirmed he had some bad vibes from his meeting with the players. He described the news as ‘very sad for the summer’ while also admitting it wasn’t 100% but very probable that it will be announced come the end of the campaign.
Presenter Mark Saggers tried to quiz Abraham further, but he refused to give out anymore details of what he had picked up, but completed the interview all but confirming it was a player leaving that would be the ‘sad news’.
Captain Cesc Fabregas and former skipper William Gallas have been constantly linked with moves away this term.
Im Guessing Eduardo?
I heard it is Arshavin, apparently his wife hasn’t settled in the country and Arsenal have agreed to sell him in the summer
i believe fabregas will be leaving this summer, its bound to happen this year or next, its got to be that , i cant think of anyone else ?
Gallas……………
Wenger not renewing is contract would be the worst
what? we have more important things to think about:D! lets win again
It is probably Gallas, Gallas wants 3 years contract plus staying at current wage of 80000 grand but we are only offerring 2 years with option for one roll-on contract at reduced wages. I hope Roma finish 3rd so that it puts him off going there.
Sylvestre….
only gossip as always!!!
He calls himself an arsenal fan yet is willing to cause a media frenzy by talking about crap that doesn’t matter right now! I dought for one second that at a 21st birthday bash the players would be talking about one of their team mates leaving, so so sad! Shut ya mouth abe, the focus is on winning the double!
SILVESTRE? (fingers crossed)
It’s Silvestre… he won’t be signing a new contract 🙁
Nothing ever surprises me with AFC….throughout our history (and I have lived 68 years of it) we have developed nearly great teams and great teams….normally the nearly great are ruined by us selling a couple of stars and /or us not buying the 1/2 players we need to win everything (as is the case now). I expect Arshavin to go because he and his missus have not settled plus they overrate their importance . I would love to see Arsene shake us all and go out and buy the best young talent around in the UK….we know he wont but its my real wish he would change his attitude. We have already lost out on Smalling, Johnson, Stirling and many others. But I have studied the lower leagues recently and so many players out there are as good if not even better than we have now : ie; Dorrans West Brom, Myanard & Durken Bristol City, Lewis Peterborough, Mathews Cardiff, Robson Middlesborough, and the new Blackburn Centre Back..name gone?
Arsene will probably raise another £20 mill this summer and spend about the same…so instead of dominating the league for years to come we will be fighting for 4th.
denilson i think
or maybe fabianski…now that would be really sad
Haha Big Russ!
(please be traore…please be traore…please be traore…)
im sorry but if gallas left i wudnt rle b sad. is he gettin ne younger? no
is he good? yes
is he replaceable? yes.
who can replace gallas? gary cahill. couple months back i wuda said shawcross aswell lol
It’s Silvestre.
Not sure how we will deal with it to be honest.
send him to italy hell hve a career for suttin like 5-6 more years look at favalli 38 yr old for milan…didnt maldini retire at 41 looool
Of course there will be a player or two leaving arsenal this summer! players leave the club every year. bloody mystic Meg could have told you that, you maudlin pansies! who it is? just wait and see! right, i’m off to get my lottery ticket bse like my tea bag broke in my my morning cuppa and the leaves like formed this incredible shape and someone might hit the jackpot tonight, it could be … i wont be drawn on the matter but all i will say is it is some one from the UK. grow up pple
most unusual for someone to make some tosh about someone leaving arsenal….im both shocked and appauled!!!!! (ehem)
sendros
Its Silvestre. I’m not sure the club will ever recover from this. Sad news indeed.
I think it is common knowledge that it is Sylvestre -seemingly he is not gettig enough first team outings. Not very intelligent is our Andy Abrahams…talkShite radio must love him..
I’m sure half of the population have no clue who this numpty is, so the only way he can get interviews is to make up shite. If he were an Arsenal fan he wouldn’t be talking about players leaving at such a vital point in the season. I’m sure all the players tell random morons what’s happening at the club. Get back under your rock Abrahams.
Someone will obviously leave (as happens everywhere, every season) and I suspect it will be Gallas. Still, Djourou should be back and I foresee great things in the Djourou/Verminator partnership for years to come.
Oh sh*t, I’ve fed into the bull – if only slightly!! Best ignore it and concentrate on the road we’re on.
COYG
what about fabregas’s Contract? That never seems to be the subject. can anyone update me me on that one please
I feel its gonna be arshavin, his body language during games shows it, unless thats actually what he normally does during games.
arshavin could be a possibility….. one of the little ‘uns has to leave as we have too many. but ideally not the russian genius!
y cant arshavins wife just get some friends here???? he has to move because of HER???? —> i know he wont leave – he figure something out with his wife
Hopefully it’s arshavin he’s not intrested anymore he’s always mouthing off in the press and isn’t good for team morale.
ZZZZZZZZZZ
We have to put up with newspapers spreading rumours about this player or that player leaving and now this!
Boring!
So basically the story is “X Factor reject says a player may or may not leave at the end of the season” Wow! Hold the back page for that exclusive
this goes 2 ways:
Arshavin Stays:
http://blog.emiratesstadium.info/2010/03/arshavin-hoax-sinks-whole-of-fleet-street-and-beyond/
Arshavin leaves:
http://www.goal.com/en/news/1712/arsenal/2009/02/02/1089662/andrei-arshavin-leaving-london-as-arsenal-talks-break-down-repor
this is the andreiarshavinfan.com interview
Arshavin wants Zenit return
Andrey Arshavin, a man whose impact at Arsenal in the second half of last season marked him out as one of the transfer coups of the campaign, has stated that he’d like to return to Russia and end his career with Zenit St Petersburg, the club he left to join the Gunners in January,
“I played for Zenit for a long time and now I want to play abroad and then return to St Petersburg to finish my career here,” Arshavin told Radio Zenit.
The Russian international, who can occupy a variety of playmaking roles, either through the middle or on the flanks, spent nine years at Zenit between 2000 and 2009, winning a host of trophies, including the Russian Premier League, the Russian Cup and the UEFA Cup.
Arshavin reportedly has no plans to leave Arsenal just yet and hopes to add to his impressive personal tally of winners’ medals by helping to bring some much needed silverware to the Emirates Stadium.
Lads, Mikael Silvestre was always gonna leave some day. Don’t cry, just remember the good times.
Guillem balague was on an espn football focus show here in asia and he is adamant that fabregas will leave this summer whether we win anything or not. Apparently he got reliable info from his catalan connections. He predicted that arsenal will win the league and fabregas wants to leave arsenal on a high and re-assured himself that he has given his all to arsenal this season to win a silverware knowing this will be his last year. That was why fabregas really wanted played in the fa cup against stoke because he wants to win at least one silverware before he goes.
I really hope this guillem balague fella is talking shite or just trying to sound controversial by stirring up something unnecessary!
I think Gallas will go as he will want to play in another country before he retires. There is no way Febregas will sign for Inter – they are not a big enough club. He will undoubtedly sign for Barce one day but maybe not for another 4 or 5 years. He’s stil only 22!
I have a nagging feeling Arshavin might go. He cuts quite a lonely figure sometimes and when he scores he doesnt seem to get mobbed by the rest of the team? It’s well documented he has the hump about the 50% tax too and maybe its true his wife cant settle here.
Yeah lets hope Silvestre goes and we sign a quality centre back.
Well this ruined my day. If a player is leaving at least they kept a lid on it. Why come out and say something like that Abe?
I’m not sure putting up this post was such a great idea. But I’m not the editor. Imagine the **rubbish** that came up a few days ago about Arshavin which was apparently stirred up from years ago. I have lived in this country long enough to know all the underhand tactics to derail any team that a gathering momentum. The media is being used to throw a spanner in the works and I just don’t think it is worth our time. As a fan, I would not even be guessing who it is that’s leaving. I don’t care! All I care about now is the next game this afternoon.
Goonertalk should be condemning these sort of information not publicising it more. I’m sorry GChris I’m not telling you what to do, I just feel right now we need more than at anytime, positive energy, drive and focus in the Premier League. I’m not so concerned by the Champs League against Barcelona either. Why?
We have rested players in the FA Cup just for the position we are in right now in the title race, Yes we lost badly to ManUtd and Chelsea after that but the truth is that this title race has taken a lot of work from this team that it would be downright stupid to look beyond Birmingham. If there was a big time banana skin, this is it. ManUtd and Chelsea play next weekend at noon. We cannot afford to let up on both of them. Infact, winning today will give us the reward of all the work we’ve been doing since we were written off the second time. Win today and win at home next week against Wolves then we will be at least in 2nd place for the last 5 games, since one of Chelsea and ManU, or both will drop points after playing each other.
Birmingham is a bigger game than we all think. All focus should be on Birmingham more than any eventuality that may come to be in the summer. A player might leave, who knows but the question will be: “What did Arsenal win”?
To think about it, ITS PROBABLY FAKE.
THIS GUY HIMSELF LOOKS LIKE A FAKE RIPOFF OF VIEIRA
well it seems we care more about players leaving,when we are to play fews hours from now, anybody can leave as long as it not arsene, arsenal is not a one man team…,
It’s either Gallas or Arshavin, although if it’s the Russian he might be convinced to stay if Wenger bought another striker such as Chamakh or Rémy. The Russian doesn’t seem to be satisfied with his role in the team and maybe a twinstriker system with two of van Persie, Bendtner and Chamakh with Arshavin with a more free role would be good enough? I.e. starting from the left but having more freedom to drift where he wants to influence the game. The loss of Arshavin would be very bad for the team and I feel Wenger must do a lot to try to make him stay.
Gallas is smart and knows he will decline somewhat due to his age and at Arsenal’s level that means fewer games. We will buy another centre half in the summer, perhaps Matthew Upson? And then we will have plenty of able defenders even without Gallas.
i dn think cesc is much big player to arsenal , let them go go, we had good player who left arsenal,viera but nt any other,the famous t henry who left arsenal , the situation was nt bad, who is cesc ?he can leave the team and we can play soccer, to gallas is more old to still need him,let him find more money but play football. we have samir nasri who is capable than cesc .
This can only be categorized as speculation. Even if he overheard what did he actually hear, how did he interpret and come to the conclusion and from who in what setting. And his story is contradicting itself. He goes on a radio to seek publicity yet he says he does not want to say. What is his real intention?
If it is Fabregas then it is a big lie cos he is not leaving but if it is Gallas then he has a very good point as there is a chance that he will leave.
how about buying georgio chiellini?
OMG pay Denilson and Silvestre to get out of the club and that would be like a new signing
fabregas is not sad news, that will be wreck the fucking place and slap thelitle badge kisser news, i reckon its willy gallas which im not so sad about seen as his body collapses every season during the home run
or maybeits theo,afterall who else would they discuss at the wing wizards party?
Guillem balague always talking shit about Fabregas leaving. I think he has an conection to barca like sport newspaper. Cesc always said he is happy here so did Arshavin.
This game has a greater significance than Hull or Stoke away. Everyone knows our next PL game is at home to Wolves and we will be expected to win that one. Winning the next 2 games will see us in 2nd place, no doubt about that. Without looking too far ahead, my intention is to emphasize how crucial this Birmingham game is to us. Our rivals are secretly praying and hoping we draw or lose today. The danger here is that this Birmingham game will determine our mental state prior to facing Barcelona. If we win today, we will be in very confident mood going into the CL game at the Emirates; not only that, we would also have forced a pressure situation at the top of the league where next weekend ManUtd and Chelsea play each other and points will get dropped. You will agree with me that Birmingham away is more difficult a task compared to Wolves at home.
This fixture gives me the jitters honestly. I’m very nervous and I can imagine a lot of fans are too. Lets just hope we can go up there and score the important goals in the first half. This is not a game to miss chances. If we miss them like we did at Burnley, then we will pay for it this time.
I’d prefer Song to play central defence with Campbell. Play Silvestre and this game will become even more difficult. My fear is only magnified because we, as Arsenal make things more difficult than they ought to be. Put away the chances. It is difficult to face another situation like the goal in injury time at Hull 2 weeks ago. Birmingham don’t score many goals but they prevent opposition teams from scoring goals. We need to start well and get a goal in in the first 20mins. That will ease the nerves and get us playing in our rhythm. This is such an important game. ALL OUR RIVALS are waiting on this one. Win this one and the tone will change. Arsenal will then be joint favourites to win the league by next weekend.
Please guys, Arshavin, Cesc, Bendtner, Clichy, et al. Make it happen. We need these 3 pts more than any other. I’ll run with a 0-1 to Arsenal. I’ll run with any win right now. This is not time to let up on Chelsea and ManUtd who play each other nxt weekend. Let’s force them to murder each other. We have a say on that fixture, particularly if we win this one against Brum. I’m feeling the jitters, I really am.
Oh God please win this game for the Gunners (Amen)
Considering that in the same interview he mentioned us losing to Birmingham last year (it was 2 years ago and we didn’t lose), I wouldn’t put too much stock in anything this guy has to say about the Arsenal.
The guy just wants attention for his tanking career.
HOPEFULLY IT’S ALMUNIA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The sad news is that Almunia will be with us in the remaining games.
i have a feeling it will be asharvin
Its Eduardo.
Has to be Gallas
I reckon he has known since he lost the captancy that he will get on and play, without saying a word. Then he will leave quitley on a free transfer at the end of his contract.
There will be a number of players leaving this summer as many have contracts which are due to expire including Gallas, Eboue and Silvestre, however it wouldn’t be the end of the world if we are going to sell Arshavin and Eduardo as neither player has show the true potential they have, and it seems both players wifes are unhappy. We need to freshen up the squad so to lose all of the above and bring in some fresh faces may do the team good.
Alas Eduardo is not the player he was, and Arshavin hasn’t exactly been setting the game alight, he seems to be lazy and yesterday’s shooting was poor, if you can’t give 100% then we don’t want you or anyone else who isn’t 100% for Arsenal.
I know it says player! but.. could it be wenger?? if so id replace with hiddink..
if gallas id replace wit chielleni or subotic.
If fabby, replace with iniesta or summit, ask for swap plus 10+ for him XD
If eduardo.. leave it.. i wanna see vela come through the ranks.. i feel for him man, he quality and not getting many games, i know he is just 19, but he WANTS to play.. its not like he gettting played in reserves either 🙁 I hope he doesnt leave!!!
“Sad news” could equally apply to Silvestre, Gallas, Eboue, or Eduardo.
Silvestre and Eboue … because they’re both very popular at Arsenal.
Gallas … simply because of his historical importance.
Eduardo … for everything that’s happened.
Cesc? Cesc leaving wouldn’t be sad. It would be seismic.
Wenger? … likewise.
AA23? … Sad? Not really. Damn! Sod! Spit! … more like.
Pat Rice? … always a possibility. Old. Grandchildren. The garden.
The probability is Gallas … then Eduardo … then Pat Rice.
When I first read this I thought it was a crock of crap, but it seems its true.
Back in April Andy Abrahams was at Theo’s birthday party and he said that a first team player would be leaving in the summer and it was really sad. (he wouldn’t say who). I thought he was referring to Cesc but in hindsight it Eduardo.
Incidentally, he also said that Cesc was really unhappy with Wenger in January for not signing ‘quality’ players in the window to strengthen the team.