Biglia to Arsenal was prank by agent!
Rogue Agent involved in a fake Arsenal bid for Biglia by AM
It has been revealed by Belgium newspaper La Derniere Heure that Anderlecht received a fake bid for Lucas Biglia in the summer.
The Argentine midfielder made himself available in the summer transfer market after publicly expressing his desire to leave Anderlecht. He was once quoted saying –
‘I can leave for €8million (£6.3million) in the current market. I agreed to this transfer fee myself,’ he said back then.
‘There are clubs ready to pay that amount but they are not better than Anderlecht so for now I focus on this club. I want to at least be playing in Europe.’
As soon as Alex Song left Arsenal, the Gunners were linked with a host of defensive midfielders across Europe. There was interest from Arsenal but they didn’t make any official approach. But there were reports that Biglia’s agent did offer his client to the London club in order to secure a deal (which never materialized).
The story took a dramatic turn when the Belgium club received a bid of £6.7million from an intermediator. This caused lots of panic among the Anderlecht officials. Although Anderlecht were not informed about which club was interested, it was rumored to be either Arsenal or Real Madrid.
Later on, it was revealed the intermediator was a rogue agent who wanted to unsettle Biglia and force other clubs to make a bid from where he intended to earn some commission.
The Argentine defender was subject of another prank on the transfer deadline day, as a fake twitter account (named SkySports) declared that Biglia is about to sign for Norwich. It was rubbished later on by both the clubs.
SkySports’ website had an article about him coming to Arsenal, which was used for a post on this very site. When queried as to the validity of the rumour, we went back to Sky, only to find it had been removed. Boy, did we get fooled! We also got slated by loads of readers! Whoops.
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good!
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NO!!!! what the hell i say no.. doesnt bother he come or not
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Whilst justarsenal aren’t entirely without blame here the true fault is that of Sky who failed to confirm sources and just reported on a randon tweet…otherwise known as Lazy Journalism or LJing as i have taken to call it. Although obviously the agent is the devil in the story the fact it received press coverage and talking about it still is the fault of sky. We live and learn and i forgive you
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Dont believe it untill you see it on arsenal.com !
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Good. Don’t know how many times one has to say that this man is average and not near Arsenal standard. Which all the idiots who were screaming for him to be brought saying that it’s good he’s not coming in and whatnot.
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anyone hear about sterling walcott swap deal thats something i would take very good for both clubs but better for arsenal, and huntelaar will go cheap in january or is a free agent next summer heard bids of 6 million pound thrown around
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always believe the transfer news only when it’s appear at Arsenal.com
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I jus cant believe we didn’t sign a DM. Should have signed M’Villa or even tiote from Newcastle (sorry about the spelling).
We should of signed: Mathieu Debuchy who was 6 million which would cover sagna and is much better than jenks…
:M’ Villa who is known for being a DM, rather than Diaby and Arteta who are mainly CMs, strictly speaking the’re not really CDMs.
And maybe a better cover for Grioud, or even another CB although I understand that since we didn’t sell squallici or djourou.
He basically should have signed a right back and a DM. Bit of a let down. We would have certainly got in the top four for sure and maybe even win a trophy like the F.A or carling cup just as a starting point.
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AW should have signed a RB, i liked the way debuchy plays, definetly would have been a good signing for us. we don’t really need a defensive midfielder as i think we have too many CM. frimpong would do well for us. if things are not working out then we should sign Tiote or Mvilla in january
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Arsene should’ve signed a defender.. No wait, he did – Steve Bould who is so good that he doesn’t even have to play! He can delegate his superior defending to other players!
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Agents like this are parasites that cling to young talent and bleed money from clubs and the world of football in general. If it were up to me, I’d do something about these scum even before I’d enact Financial Fair Play.
I guess the question is what should be done? Firing squad anyone?
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just shows don’t believe every thing you hear or read
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This shows how much teams follow what Arsenal’s scout’s do judging by the fact that the agent went to these lengths to throw Arsenal’s name out there & Rennes President who also came out & said Arsenal where still interested in M Vila (when Wenger didn’t make any other bid after Euro 2012)just to drive up the price for him. Also because Norwich & a few other teams made bids for him after.
This is also why agents are horrible for football(especially you Darren Dein)
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We don’t need him, our midfield is strong enough,btw if we buy him, we will ruin coquelin’s career
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@arsenal19
Don’t listen to caught offside they come up with all sorts of stories
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