• afc4life

  Clichy out for £7m is a good deal for Man City and for Arsenal. He’s run into a dip of form for us and can’t seem to get out of it – also, we recoup some money for him. For Man City, he is better than what they’ve got.

  Nasri to Man U or Man City is a completely different story – I would definitely hate that to happen. In fact, Nasri to top English team would probably see a massive fan backlash.

• devday

  If Nasri leaves, he will have to go abroad – but are any teams abroad even interested? I heard Milan may be – surely Real Madrid are!

• madin

  if Nasri joined a rival team, i’d gladly see him get ripped into for doing EXACTLY what he slagged off Gallas for.

• Berth

  Arsenal is getting poorer daily in our own eyes. I wander how a king will allow his empire crumble when something could have been done. We still have the chance to better our position before it rottens to beyond fixing

• agentsmurf

  Lies, Broken promises. There are so many words that sum up this club right now. I dont think i have ever felt so DOWN about things as now. This club has taken the fans support, trust and loyalty and smashing it to pieces!! Thats fine. They can do that. Just realise Arsenal FC and Mr Wenger, come December when Arsenal are 8th or 9th, out of the Champions League, dont you DARE DARE moan when the stadium is half full. You have had plenty of opportunities to sort out this mess and have dodged it to make money for yourselves. Arsene Wenger is on 6 million a YEAR!!! and he doesnt even have the ability to construct an able defence and make key signings in the areas available, let alone even hold onto his OWN PLAYERS!! O dear o dear.

• agentsmurf

  I am delighted that the players are jumping ship only to show this old deluded out of touch of manager in his fucking fanatsy youth project – even the players have ha enough you loser – so now get the fuck out.

• kronke

  @agenstsmurf – Just wondering: if Wenger has no transfer kitty then that means his replacement will have no transfer kitty. Is there anyone in the world who you trust more to run a club with no transfer money?

• agentsmurf

  do you know what folks,and this isn’t an immediate reaction because i said what i’m going to say a few years.the biggest problem we have at arsenal is an out of date board who are so far back in their views that they HAVE FAILED TO MOVE WITH THE TIMES.let’s take our chairman peter hill-wood,a man who hates to pay the going rate for a player but when it comes to arsenal selling a player he demands the top dollar.he has questioned players wages on many occasions,the gallas saga springs to mind.for me he is way too much old school in his views.wasn’t it lady bracewell smith who said recently that we need a new vibrant board who can take the club forward.dein was labelled a trouble maker,why.was it because he could see what was going on down the line(manc,chelski &manu)buying all the best players and the facts speak for themselves.the biggest spending clubs win the prem lge titles,is this what dein envisaged and DID NOT WANT ARSENAL TO BE LEFT BEHIND.let’s be honest,does it matter who is the manager when you analise the club as a whole.in the 30s we were the bank of england club,but since i’ve been a fan(1977)when have we spent big,when have we broken the british transfer record,when have we competed for players that the likes of the other top clubs have.when have we made a statement of intent,well,never. yes we do things differently but at what price???it’s no wonder we have a majority owner of the club who is known as “silent stan”,sums it all up don’t it.

• kronke

  @dev – Kevin Doyle plays up front on his own for Wolves, and with the terrible service he gets from his midfield (mainly defence actually!), he works absolute wonders. HIs head’s in the right place,he would walk over hot coals for his team, and he’s a very decent footballer. That said, we play possibly the polar opposite style of football to Wolves, and I’ve no idea if he’s capable of the necessary change up. I cringe seeing a Blackburn fan telling us that Doyle would be a good signing and getting 19 thumbs down, as to me it smacks of uniformed decision making. Are we in the market for the Benzemas/Agueros of this world? If we were then we’d have bought one by now. If not, then we go for Adebayors/Nasris who see Wenger as a turd polisher before they movve onto ‘bigger and better things’, or do we go for a hard worker like Doyle who may not have the skills of a Nasri but 4x the work ethic. I’m not sure what the answer is, but I do know that in a very successfull team you’ll have both sorts of players, and so I for one would be happy getting Doyle onboard (without being ecstatic) for that bit of British Isles grit as long as we also looked on the otherside of the spectrum as well for a Nasri/Cesc replacement. Hope that makes sense

• agentsmurf

  Let’s just wait for the numpty sheep to pipe up now with their predictable, boring insults. Yawn. Wenger is the Cancer, aided and abetted by Kroenke and Gazidis and the disguting liar on the board who have let the club slide thus. Every year Arsene Wenger is manager is a write-off until 2014. Your club has won nothing in six years and you think GERVINHO, some piece of trash French African with less international pedigree than EBOUE, is going to make a blind bit of difference??! It’s a joke. No wonder our policy is such a joke: Cesc and Nasri want out. Denilson and Bendtner spoke a big game about leaving but NO ONE has made any offers for them as they refuse to match their stupid salaries….so they will remain at Arsenal, content to pick up their wages for nothing. It’s a joke, and I’ll have no interest in this club until Wenger goes away

• Bonathan

  I’m afraid we could well be headed up sh1t creek, and unfortunately, we may have lost our paddle.

  are we really thinking of signing the likes of doyle, o shea, downing, samba??? If so then we could well get dragged into a relegation scrap in a couple of years time.

  I’m afraid, if we lose fabregas and nasri now, we are gonna find it extremely difficult to finish 4th (which would definitely be the best we could hope for without them). We finish outside the top 4 and you can say goodbye to RVP, sagna and arsharvin straight away. Of course, others would follow if we never turned it around. We could be looking at a 5 year stint without champions league football at least. it happens. quite easily.

  thing is, the snowball may have already gathered too much momentum to stop already. I guess we’ll find out over the next few weeks.

  so much for running things as a business! we’re getting less for our players than they are worth and are going to end up paying similar amounts to get inferior replacements. What’s more, we could miss out on an hefty sum of money if we do slide out of the big time.

  has the damage already been done? just how much has that loss in the final against birmingham cost us? how much money did we really save by not getting schwarter and a better defender last summer? At the moment, it’s looking like it’s gonna cost us a fortune. things could have been oh so different.

• devday

  @ madin:
  It’s amazing to see how players say one thing and then do another… Where is the loyalty in the game?

• devday

  @ Berth:
  Someone once said to me that Clichy was the best left back in the Premiership, that same someone said to me today that “good riddance”…

  No matter the mistakes he made, Clichy was Arsenal through and through and the most experienced player of our group. Big loss.

• devday

  @ kronke:
  You know I actually think he’s a very decent player – Doyle – but for £12m? I’m not quite sure… But one thing Doyle does have is the right attitude and work rate which would go down a treat!

• arseneknows

  @ devday:
  Sorry fella, I don’t agree with you.

  Clichy was an experienced player making too many mistakes…

  For me, this is a very positive move by Arsenal (as long as the replacement is better!!??).

  We need to improve defensively, obviously, and Clichy just didn’t grow and develop into the sort of rock we could rely on.

  There is loads and loads and loads of crap written every day about Arsenal – So far I am very happy with their dealings – keep going Arsenal! – now show us who you are going to bring in – loose a few more weak links and we’ll be ready to roll!!!

  Peace

• arseneknows

  @ Bonathan:

  your words;
  “are we really thinking of signing the likes of doyle, o shea, downing, samba?”

  No mate – you’re just rising to the hype – chill out until the truth outs!

  So far so good as far as I can see……

• devday

  @ arseneknows:
  We will only tell if we do sign a new player – but at the moment, I’m not sure if we will…!

• Derek

  we need to calm down a bit
  first of all, I check the rumours every day, and there is nothing about anyone but Cesc, Clichy and Nasri. Clichy is gone, and that is not a bad thing, he has been playing badly. I do no expect Wenger to buy a new LB, he may sign two new CBs (and switch Vermaelen to LB)- Samba and Cahill, and whilst we may differ on opinion, I would love to see them at the club. Our defence becomes taller and tougher. Secondly, we cannot assume that Nasri and Cesc will leave. the comments both make sugest something natural for sportsmen, a desire to win, and both seem to think they can do this at Arsenal, but want reassurance. Nasri wants the boss to sign some good players, and Cesc seems more content to wait and see. Nasri’s first preference seems to be us, at least according to his agent, and if I’m honest I don’t think he would be allowed to leave to Manchester for less tha 35 mill. And if he did, what say use the money to sign Eden Hazard?
  Cesc will leave if Arsenal and Barca can agree a deal. I will miss him loads of he goes, but he is not irreplaceable. watch him against Barca and in other games, he was terrible, Alvarez or others can replace him. However, firstly he seems in no rush to leave, and the good thing is we may get a good deal out of it. Wenger will not budge for less than 45 mill and that will probably include a swap deal, I read reports we get a choice of two players (iniesta and Xavi?) obvs that would not happen, but we could get Thiago Alacantara, who looks amazing, maybe Mascherano, who knows (i don’t want Bojan).
  So There is still a compelling argument that Nasri and Cesc will stay, and that we will sign many decent players. Gervinho and Cahill seem iminent, Mata, Alvarez, Samba et al seem likely to arrive as well. our team could well be
  szcezeny – Vermaelen, Samba, Cahill, Sagna – Song, Wilshere, Fabregas – Nasri, RVP, Walcott
  Subs: Mata, Gervinho, Alvarez, Koscielny, Arshavin, Fabianski, Ramsey
  sounds good to me
  All hope is not lost. Nasri and Cesc are not irreplaceable, and the team still ahs many a bright spark. keep the faith

• Goner Get Ya

  Good luck to Clichy, shame he couldn’t go abroad but hey it’s 7m in the kitty (that’s how the board will see it). What makes me laugh is that when Nasri and Cesc get sold everyone thinks the board will reinvest, their track record suggests otherwise.

• Bonathan

  i must admit, i’d be highly surprised if we are interested in those players, sorry if i’m scare mongering a bit.

  That said, this is a worrying time.

  As for clichy, well, he ain’t the best LB in the world, he has made mistakes, and it isn’t a huge loss. There’s no doubt he was arsenal through and through though, and he was one of our most experienced players. A player that will probably come into his prime in the next few seasons, and may well become one of the best LB’s around.

  I guess the question is now though is who will replace him? How big of a loss clichy is will be determined by how well he is replaced. Will wenger actually even sign anybody?? My personal opinion is that we’d be taking one hell of a punt hoping that gibbs is up to the task. He still has plenty of question marks over his defensive ability and also over his injuries.

  There ain’t that many great LBs about at the moment. The names mentioned have been baines (too expensive) and enrique. Certainly enrique is likely to move club this summer, so you’d think that could be easily achievable if we wanted him. We’d be likely to get in a bidding war with liverpool if that were the case though. I think he’d rather come to us, but could we match the liverpool bid. We could, but would we?

  The other option is vermaelen, but that would likely mean signing a further CB.

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