This is really encouraging

OM WOULD LET CANA LEAVE

Marseille will not stand in the way of captain Lorik Cana if the midfielder decides to leave the Stade Velodrome.

Cana has been an ever-present for OM since joining from Paris St Germain in 2005 and has played over 100 league games for the Ligue 1 giants.

Reports suggest the Albania international is keen to move on, with Tottenham, Liverpool, Everton and Bundesliga sides Hamburg and Wolfsburg said to be interested.

OM sporting director Jose Anigo claims they would not force the 25-year-old to see out the remaining three years of his contract.

“It’s not that he’s shown his desire to leave,” Anigo told L’Equipe.

“It’s simply that at a given moment it’s been four years that Lorik is here and he has the right to want to experience other things.

“Today we’re open to his transfer, if something happens we’ll listen.”

One other thing from the article which is really important I think, should of said this before, “Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis says the club is “open minded” and the proposal is due to be examined in greater detail at a board meeting this week. A key issue for directors would be whether a rights issue would fit with the club’s long-term model of self-sustainability.”

A update, took this from the daily telegraph, “Arsenal are seeking advice from their bank about the viability of a rights issue among shareholders that could allow the club to wipe out a significant chunk of their £318 million debt.”

Basicly it would allow shareholders (basicly Usmanov) to give the club alot of money to wipe out a fair amount of the debt and allow Wenger more money to spend on transfers if he wished.

Great comeback by Brazil! but man did the usa push them all the way!

to be honest, if benzema doesnt want to go to man utd, why would he want to come to arsenal? its not like back in the day when we had henry, wiltord, pires and the rest of our french contingent

zohaib, Dzeko to Milan is looking unlikely, from the reports Milan have stated that they have talked with Wolfsburg and Wolfsburg has rebuffed them each time and said he isn’t for sale, so thats encouraging for those that want Ade to go and with the money we would get for him, I could see us realisticly bidding for Benzema, but would he want to join us?

And now Barcelona have revealed that ManCity’s made a ‘stratospheric offer’ for Eto. And Barca say if they sell him, they’ll be looking for reinforcements. That could be a good or bad thing.

On one side we might have another club interested in Ade, if Milan get Dzeko, and if Barca don’t get Benzema, Villa, Aguerro, Ibrahimovic or somebody else.

But on the other side all of those players will know that there’d be a spot on Barca’s list for a striker and it goes without saying that they’d all want to be a part of that club. They’d only want Ade if they can’t get any of the better players.

Interesting stuff. I’ve been following all the transfer gossip on the other Arsenal forums. Some very interesting points being talked about. One is, Wenger’s recently said he’d like to conclude all the transfer business quickly so that he can have a proper pre-season with the whole squad to get the best possible start to the new season. This means that he’s looking to complete his transfer dealings by the start of pre-season which is July 6th if I remember correctly. Which means we might be seeing some transfer activity in this next week. Which has me excited once again, after a boring break from football for about a month …

So to sum up the players we’ve been linked with in the past week or so:

Felipe Melo – 21 million pounds
Karim Benzema – 30 million pounds
Frank Ribery – 40 million pounds.

Adebayor – possibly leaving
Eboue – possibly leaving
Sylvestre – hopefully being sold or as Trump would put it – FIRED
Senderos – possibly leaving or part of a player + cash exchange
Bendtner – might be part of a player + cash exchange (unlikely in my opinion)

According to SkySports’ ‘Paper Talk’ page, various papers are reporting that we’re interested in Benzema !

I’m pleasantly surprised.

Never thought we’d actually be getting a top-quality player, the way things were going these past 4 years. With the exception of Arshavin of course. Seems 2009 is the start of better times for us. Hopefully anyway.

SkySports also says AC Milan have confirmed their interest in Adebayor. But he’s second choice to Edin Dzeko. Oh well, at least it’s a step in the right direction. We’re that little bit closer to getting rid of Ade. And that’s good. Now we just need to hope AC Milan don’t get Dzeko.

I wonder if we’ll actually sign Benzema if we sold Ade. For the moment I’m going to say that after selling Ade, we’ll probably make a signing for the holding midfielder role, and probably not sign a replacement for Ade this summer, unless there’s a take-over of the club itself.

But I’ll be ecstatic if somehow we manage to sign a striker as well as a holding midfielder this summer, which would show that we finally have the money and the brains to spend on the right kind of transfers.

Yeah I doubt it too Vazy, but who knows and Pete I just read that, would be amazing if we signed him and it would be a big two fingers up at Man U, Real and Barca if we got him, but again highly unlikely I think.

According to the News of the Wrold Arsenal are bidding for Karim Benzima, if they manage to sell Adebayor to AC Milan. Hope it works out