Stupid REYES begging Real to take him away from Gunners

last SG · 2006-08-11T11:40:23+00:00

Why are we being so harsh on him? Don't we realise that soccer is just like any other job? Its no different frm being an accountant, or being a sales assist...

R3SsH|n SG

the galaticos... Cool

BrUtUs SG

english? young? youth development? Cash Cole? Laughing

BillyBong SG

If Arsenal see no improvement in their valuation of Reyes, and Reyes is out to rat on them, Wenger should just do what Paul Jewell is doing to Pascal Chimbonda.

Insist on their valuation or let him rot in the reserves if he refuses to play.

He was a bad buy and has an obvious integrity problem. Either Reyes or his agent, anyway.

zocoss SG

The difference is he is going from one smaller english club to another bigger english club and not to Spain. Anyway, that may not be the only reason, probably its the way they treated him that why he wants to quit the gunners.

Boeing787 SG

IF that is true , Arsenal should not let him go but him and Ashley rot in the reserves . Two ungrateful disgrace footballers , I rather let them rot then to granting their wishes.

CKeer SG

Dats why Wigan failed to bring in young talents or potential stars.
Honestly speaking, would you join a club knowing that they would not let you go off and realise your dream after u performed well for that club?
Yes, Chimbonda might be ungrateful but definitely not disgraceful.
People talked about loyalty and repaying their clubs.
Look what happen to Juventus. Once they relegate, the whole bunch of 1st team players couldn't wait to exit Stade Del Alpi.
Would you stay with Wigan, a potential relegation battle team or venture elsewhere where European Glory awaits?

If u're the manager of Arsenal than Arsenal would be gone for good. Sorry for being blunt but your way of handling players is not going to help at all.
Take Manchester United as an example.
Look what happen to Yorke, Cole, Forlan, Djemba-Djemba and Bellion?
Fergie removed their first-team chances, forced them to trained in the reserves(Yorke with the youth team. Yes, the youth team.) and sold them off cheap.
How many players have they attracted to join United this season? One. And he cost a bomb.
How many players rejected United? Berbatov, Zakora, Obi Mikel, Ballack & many more.

Rotting players is definitey not an option.
Sometimes u just have to let go if the price is right.
I doubt that Arsenal can hold on to Cole and Reyes any longer.

Cheers.
C.K

zocoss SG

He can't really do that in the long run cos Arsenal as a club is not exactly loaded with cash... So it will be quite senseless for wenger to do such a thing as reyes came with a high transfer fee and not to mention a high per week salary too.

It seems that Real knows if reyes continue to show signs that he is not happy and wants to quit arsenal, they can get him at a steal cos in the end, there is really no point paying him tens of thousands per week if he is not keen to play, might as well take the money and pay another guy who is willing to put his heart into your team.

From how i see it, Arsenal will end up a loser either way from this deal cos of Reyes continue showing of discontent won get them a fair transfer fee.

BrUtUs SG

no diff wat... go where is still wan to leave... n he wanted to leave for $$$ even b4 gunners brought up the tapping incident so its nt the nationality tat matters, its the player itself... english players got their own problem also, look at becks, cole.... once bcum established, bcum $$$ minded n wans fame...

zocoss SG

Wigan as a team is just following what other "smaller" clubs are doing to the "Bigger" clubs that's all.

Spurs knowing that their players wanting to go to a "Bigger" club like Man U, up their price but not just for that purpose, partly also because they wanted to keep Carrick badly as he was their best player last season.

Now it seems like wigan is doing exactly the same thing to them with Chimbonda... Laughing

Its begining to look like what goes around comes around... as if you compare, Spurs is a bigger club than Wigan so Chimbonda naturally wants to join a bigger club... And to think that Wigan is asking for $5 to $6m for a coming to 28yrs old player they got almost free and not viewed as a top rated player is a bit too much still.

To say that no one wants to join Wigan is a rather exaggerating statement, thousands of youngsters across England and Europe would be more than happy to get a chance to join a premier league club.

Btw, your example of Man U is rather strange... You pick players like Yorke, Cole, Forlan, Djemba-Djemba and Bellion.

Yorke & Cole were rather old already when they were sold (Past 30)... They left cos they knew they were no longer first choice when RVN came in and they won't get to play regularly.

Dwight joint Man u in 1998 for 12.6m and was sold to Blackburn Rovers for $2m in 2003. He was given a chance to join Celtic in 2001/02 but he decline preferring to stay back at Man U.

Andy Cole joint Man U in 1995 for a fee of $7m from Newcastle United and since he was not being played as RVN was then first choice, he left at the end of 2001 at the age of 30... also for Blackburn Rovers for a transfer fee of $8m.

Forlan... well, what can you say. 27 match without a goal for a striker was too much. He just showed that he wasn't able to adapt to the English game thats all.

For Djemba-Djemba, he couldn't live up to the billing so he had to go, simple as that. And Bellion, well he was a potential... but potentials don't aways live up to expectations right.

As for your players rejecting United: Berbatov, Zakora, Obi Mikel, Ballack...
Berbatov & Zakora joint a club where their best player carrick wants and did joint United and they were guaranteed first team football at spurs where they will not get at united...

Obi Mikel... what can we say, best deal for united... $12m free money.

Ballack... you forgot to mention he turned down Real Madrid, Inter Milan & Bayern Munich as well where he was worship like a hero cos no other club could offer him the most money apart from Chelsea.

And you asked, How many players have they attracted to join United... Well, all i know is definitely more than Liverpool. If you want to say players not wanting to join a club, why don't you mention Liverpool? Mikael Silvestre, Alan Smith, Nemanja Vidic... all were Liverpool's targets, all had offers from Liverpool at that time but they rather joint Man U than Liverpool.

zocoss SG

I think there is a difference. Last year when he signed a new 4yrs contract his intentions was to stay otherwise he could have walk away for free but after he signed the contract, they, the chairman & directors treated him differently or i should say badly according to him.

That could be the reason why he still wants to leave despite an improved deal. If they had treated him better instead of blaming him for the tap-up and making used of him against Chelsea, maybe all these wouldn't have come up.

798 SG

cole still have 2 more years left n he might be free next season after bosman rule.

so if there is no agreement between chelsea or RM, i rather let cole rot in the squad. one year of no training will surely enough to make cole fat n rusty! Laughing

it wont be loss since cole used to be nobody anyway.

BrUtUs SG

he signed after the tapping cos his move was broken up as chealsea was caught... as for the post events, wenger still didnt lost faith in him at all... all cole wanted was money and more money... he signed the improved deal cos he cant leave n nt cos he reali love the club or the new deal... he clearly deserve the punishments n he still tink hes damn right... u jz cant expect ur directors to be all hapi abt the incident but they still gd enuff to give him an improve contract... its abt hw he get their trust back instead he still wans $$$ n all the arrogrance comes out....

zocoss SG

Nah... he could have very well see out his contract which was only 1 yr to run-out and walk away to Real or Chelsea and get a sign on fee from them easily around $10m instead he trusted wenger and re-signed.

Of course after he re-signed, the chairman started to treated him badly and they even insulted him as he have said.

I guess it was all a plan by the arsenal directors... Cos from cole's point of view, there was no need for him to re-sign a new contract if he really wanted to leave. An improvement of additional 20 to 30 thousand a week is nothing compare to what he could get with Real or Chelsea 80 or 90,000 per week with a sign on fee of maybe $10 - $15m all for himself.

Its not logical, what i can see is he really wanted to stay at that point when he re-signed his contract. But things happened that changed his mind.

But i guess Reyes is really the ungrateful one and not Cole.

weiqimun SG

silvestre is the only real liverpool target during houllier's reign tt expressed desire to join man u than reds. the rest are `guilty by association'. also, many players will play this card to drive a higher value for themselves.

about turn players in reds favor include riise (blackburn) and momo (everton). many won't even bat an eyelid when the reds come calling...they jumped right in.

for man u , players left under their noses are alarming, most notably ronaldinho and the nigeria yet-proven wonderkid. man u is also first in queue for ballack, but got spurned....man u's transfer dealing this season is most telling, only carrick in...and saf gotta play the card of saying he's happy with what he's got....he must be kidding.

zocoss SG

You are correct, Mikael Silvestre opt for Man u despite then Liverpool boss Houllier had been pursuing him for sometime...

The same can be said about Nemanja Vidic too. Only it is current boss Rafa Benitez that was after him. Benitez wanted him badly but when he heard Man U were in for him, he didn't considered Liverpool's interest anymore.

Of course the players you mentioned won't even bat an eyelid when the red birds come calling i have no doubts about that. But how could you even compare Liverpool to clubs like (blackburn) and (everton)?

No disrespect to them but any half decent player will know which club to choose if you give them the choice of these 3 clubs. But if you change the clubs, it may be a different story altogether...

Trading players is like a business deal, either you are willing to pay or not, simple as that. If someone else is willing to pay more for them, they get the deal... Sometimes even if you are willing to match the other club, the player may not even want to come like Silvestre's case.

What wonderkid are you talking about? I think you must be referring to the john guy right... As you have said, "yet-proven" to be frank, Apart from Chelsea, no other club in the world would be willing to pay $16m for a yet-proven nigerian not even in the national team, currently only a team player in the under-21. Man u got $12m out of it was probably the best transfer deal they have done in decades... I suspect Chelsea also paid that amount partly because they didn't want another tap-up case against them after the A cole problem as this case was being heard by Uefa and not the English FA.

There is no telling how a player will turn out also. Potential players are only that, "potential"... every few years we can see a few so called potential players disappear. Denielson i think that was his name, was said to be the next Pele when he first came out, and what happen to him after his world record transfer fee to Spain? There are just so many cases of these around.

Anyway, If you want to pay such an amount, might as well get a good establish player right? $16m for all you know, he won't even be playing much this or next year... or he could turn out to be an average player only. Even Duff, who i thought did quite well ended up on the bench for half his chelsea career. What a waste of time.

reyes SG

arsenal should just let reyes and cole left once the amount is right.
no point to keep a player whose heart is longer with the club.

zocoss SG

JOSE REYES hopes to complete his move to Real Madrid next week.

The wantaway Arsenal star is in the capital for Spains friendly against Iceland on Tuesday.

Gunners boss Arsene Wenger is resigned to losing striker Reyes, 22.

But he wants £10million cash PLUS Reals Julio Baptista.

The Brazilian, 24, was a Gunners target last summer and a player who is comfortable in midfield or up front.

BrUtUs SG

like tis both side gain.... gunners need a better central midfielder n baptista is the man to partner fabregas rather gilberto silva... real need reyes for face and as a winger even though they already got robino...

zocoss SG

Madrid set to make 'final offer' for unsettled Reyes

José Antonio Reyes yesterday said that he does not want to return to training with Arsenal. Real Madrid will now attempt to use the Spain international's unrest as leverage to complete his transfer, sending a delegation to Arsenal in the next 48 hours armed with a "final offer".

The Arsenal vice-chairman David Dein rejected Madrid's offer of £8m when their sporting director Predrag Mijatovic visited London last Wednesday. Dein then informed Reyes' agent, Jesús Rodríguez de Moya, that the player was not for sale.

"It is hard to stay calm at a time like this," said Reyes. "My intention was not to go back and get involved in training with Arsenal.

£8m only?... wat a joke! Arsenal paid a club record $17m for him 2 yrs ago only and now a slightly better player than when he first came, Real only offering peanuts...

The amount is not even enough to cover Arsenal's installment to Sevilla. Arsenal still owe Sevilla about $7m after paying $10m already. So if they are to sell at $8m, they have to pay Sevilla $7m from it and left with $1m small change after spending $17m.

Real have to get REAL. You pay peanuts wait you get monkeys

dnl_sim SG

gunners will kio-tio-gu-lan if baptista really goes to them , agreed that will make a better midfield partnership with fabrecgas rather than gilberto silva

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