Why Arsenal will not sign Sneijder even for Free!
Arsenal have been looking for a dynamic midfielder, and they have been alerted to the availability of Wesley Sneijder from Inter Milan. The 28-year old captain of Holland has fallen out with his bosses at the Serie A club, who want him to take a pay cut on his current contract which lasts until 2015. The Dutchman has refused, so has been dropped from the side, having made just three league appearances all season.
“Clearly it’s best for everyone concerned that in January I am transferred. If that doesn’t happen then I’ll stay. I have a contract until 2015.”
Reports emerged last week that Liverpool had made an offer of around £10 million for the midfielder, but Sneijder himself quickly moved to deny that there was any truth to them. Inter are so keen to get the player off the wage bill that they are considering letting him go for nothing, according to the Daily Mail. They paid Real Madrid around £24 million for him just over two years ago.
Agents of the player have been trying to find him a big club in the Premier league, and he would make a good addition to the Arsenal side, but it is not going to happen. Arsenal have a strict wage policy, and Sneijder is demanding about double the wages that the top players currently get at the Emirates. Unless the Dutch international decides to accept a lot less in order to play regularly, then he will never be a Gunner. As he has refused to do that with his current club, it is highly unlikely he will do that with another.
So what exactly was the point in this article?
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This is the authors theory, he has no clue what wenger really wants to do so this article is pointless.
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Why give us Hope when you KNOW the truth….Pointless…Arda Turan is the way forward
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I doubt anyone in the EPL want him with those wages
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There are thousands of players we won’t be signing.Are you gonna write a blog about all of them?
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Turan please
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Headless article did gervinho write it??
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Very good player! Only problem with him is his high wage demands which will be a problem for us!
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We won’t sign him. Our midfield is not necessarily the problem. We need a RW to fill Walcott’s shoes (whether he leaves, or stays and plays up front), and another forward – even if Walcott stays. We also need a versatile fullback to cover Gibbs (who will surely be injured .. again), as Santos does NOT make the grade on any level. Maybe a DM also, but I would be ok if we didn’t get one.
Also – for freaks sake, keep Gervihno & Ramsey off the pitch! When they come on, our opportunity to lose possession increases tenfold.
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Yeah we know its his wages. Wateva. On the other hand we need to sign couple players defo the squad is not good enough or doesn’t have to much quality. Make us proud wenger. COYG
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as a free transfer, 200k a week for a 3 year contract would work out as 31,200,000 million transfer fee
to me thats a good price for 1 of the best in the business
also, he may not want to lower his wages for Inter as he is unhappy with the way they have treated him, thats not to say he wouldn’t lower his demands for another club
at the age of 28, he is hitting what should be his prime so any club that can snap him up on a free transfer is getting a good deal
i dont think we will get him due to the fact he plays in a position that we dont need reinforcements in
he may be better than jack, santi and mikel but not by a lot and we already have these guys
i think man utd should get him with scholes on his way out and giggs coming to the end of his career
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What really is the point of this article?
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right now am looking for positive concrete motivating articles that can give me hope to still believe…this article does not in anyway motivate.POINTLESS!!!
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Annoyed to see that if Theo signs then we won’t be in for Zaha or any others. This is the wrong mentality, yes it would be a great plus if Theo puts pen to paper on a new deal but our squad is still lacking real depth and quality. We should be looking to strengthen not just float. Look at City, United and Chelsea, over the past year they have spent hundreds of millions adding to what were already decent squads and even in January they are still looking to bring in more quality players in order to push for titles. I’m not saying we should go mental with our transfer policy but some investment is clearly needed for top results. It would be great if we could bring in two great players early into the window, a versatile defensive-minded midfielder and a classy forward. Then look too the summer to do most of our business as January isn’t often the best time. Look to clear out all the deadwood costing us millions in wages and sign a couple more WORLD CLASS players, also would like too see Miyaichi get some first team action in the near future as well as Serge Gnabry and Thomas Eisfeld
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arda turan not leaving in january confirmed by atletico madrid. and the team is 2nd in la liga above real madrid then why will he leave.
we always buy cheap so we will go for lopez who i dont feel will make any change.
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Good news- Hannover has confirmed talks of Djourou and says the deal will be completed in next 3days.
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his wage is around 200 a week even chelski said no how can we hopefully if agrees to take a paycut it will be worrth it else it’s russia for him spuds tried to make a move but snjeider snubbed them lol
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I MISS RVP..
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I just read this….. Hannover sporting director Jorg Schmadtke has confirmed to Bild that his club are interested in signing Arsenal defender Johan Djourou: “I can confirm that name. He is on our list. There have been talks.”
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I can also write an article on why we cant sign Messi.
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actually snjeider could ask for 130a week hope he lower’s it further maybe wenger will go for him
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Pointless Article…its like Arsenal should sign any random name player….
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if usmanov was in charge he probably would have personaly paid his wages for 3 years from his own bank account
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what will now happen if Walcott does saty is that Wenger will say we need no players as we have re-signed Walcott, and then we will end up struggling for a top 4 place, I cannot wait for the reign of Guardiola
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We don’t really need sneijder we need wingers Zaha arda Turan or Lopez, unfortenutly wenger won’t sell Ramsey but he must sell gervinho this guy is not even good to be in our training ground never mind playing for us
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He is injury prone and has lost form but waawoo did you Guys see Adrian’s goal 4 Atletico madrid sturning
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Look at SHITY MAURE CHELSHIT SPUDS!
do u think we have better squad than them????????????
let b honest!
They Have many many game changer on bench n top class 1st team, thy have improved Thier squad as much as thy can!
NOW COME TO ARSENAL, not even proper DMF in SQUAD, No Quality LB, Not Proper striker even! it is situation of 1st team, n on BENCH all players that fan hates except some!
n what about manager, he is still looking for exceptional player n he didnt get 1 as he thinks his squad is full of exceptional players…. WTF
ARSENAL is no more ARSENAL!
SHITTY changed PL, as thy bring bags of Money n WIN LEAGUE!
MANURE make his strong more strong so as CHELSHIT N SPUDS….
n ARSENAL, now make me laugh!
saving MONEY
sell best players n bring other 3 players wid 1million savinh, my words
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I don’t think we are going to sign anybody!
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barcelona owes us 8m + give us that money or david villa dan they don’t have money & these days buys players on installments
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That was one of the worst performance i have ever seen from a supposed top 4 side. Eisfeld needs to get a chance why ramsey gets to appear in game outside of the capital one cup is F####CKIN ridiculous!
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Whoever Arsenal sign one thing became clear yesterday! He will need to be a left winger who can terrorize defenses down the left and get to the byline and cross the ball.
Podolski drops too deep too much, and cuts inside too much, also he does not have the pace needed to go wide.
Over on the right AOC is still a ‘young player’ and he will need to start working alot harder and really improve if he is to reach the level of quality needed to be an Arsenal player in the long term.
Gibbs is 23 now and for me he shows defensive frailties which are a concern? Sagna has always been a terrible crosser, and since he came back his defensive work has not been good enough, his left foot is awful??
Arsenal need an anchor in Center midfield who does the Alex Song and Patrick Vierra type work. Someone who leads like PV did. Arteta slows it all down too much and that is when they suffer.
Some major tests up ahead now??? The Swans, yikes!! Man City, Chelsea????
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Be careful what you wish for – Adrian Lopez is not good enough to play for us, Arda Turan is – way too slow for Premier League. There can’t be quick fixes, we’ve got to sell ALL of the deadwood and sign 3-4 TOP quality players. Or it’s going to be Europa League for us……
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Is it just me or we need a whole new team? with the exception of one or two players the entire team is shit!
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I want to take this opportunity to tell you fans that we should stop blaming any loss of points on our under firing player like Gervinho for once Gervinho yesterday didn’t look too bad since he stopped scoring,if the so called miss firing players didn’t play yesterday our next excuse is we were tired or unlucky but we all know that Arsenal cannot win a league match,a cup match and another league match back to back as seen this season so far.So since we lost some points in the league match then we are most likely to win our FA cup game
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Willian
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IN: LB – Baines, CDM (M’vila, Strootman, Lars Bender), Winger – Schurrle
OUT: Gervinho, Santos, Djourou, Denilson, Squilacci, Bendtner, Chamakh, Arshavin, Park, Fabianski, Eastmond, Watt
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@Ams RVP doesn’t miss you honey :-p
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These are the kind of players we would be signing 10-15 years ago , oh how have times changed..
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news flash, we’re also not gonna sign Falcao, Neymar, Messi, ROnaldo or Pele!
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lol at eastmond watt
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Thank you captain obvious.
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Dafuq with this article
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Contoversial as this comment might be, at his best I would rate Wesley as the 2nd best player in the world (obviously behind Messi).
Dutch players tend to adapt very quickly to the PL and he would be an addition that Arsenal should pursue 100% regardless of his wage demands within the currect structure – we all know however that Wenger will offer him some absurd salary and be screwed as per usual.
What an absolute farce, Wenger has transversed his peak and turned the club into a laughting stock.
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@Mystic
Thats not how it works. You give Wesley 200k a week and when everyone else’s contract needs renewing they will want simular wages. 5 Years down the line we will have the majority of players on 150k+ a week because we would have set the benchmark with him.
We do however need some players in january to go straight into the first team. We ideally need 3-4 players i think to cement this top 4 place.
I also think Wenger should seriously look at playing Podolski as a striker. He’s the most composed finisher in the squad and he has good tactical awareness. He can also hold the ball up well with his back to goal because he has strength and can link up play with the midfield and he has the pace to go in behind defenses.
The main problem at the moment is we lose the midfield battle all too often and can’t dominate the game like were used to seeing and we need more from the wingers as we can’t seem to get any good possession in the final third.
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I can’t see why we have pulled out of the Zaha deal when apparently he had agreed personnel terms. If Walcott stays and plays up front then we will need a RW player. If we pull out of this one we will be mad. And apparently the Spuds are favourite to sign Zaha now not good I say. Snap the young lad up he’s quality and one for the future.
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@Joe
Arsenal need to sort out their wage structure. There are players like Walcott who are nowhere near the quality of RvP on the brink of silly money.
Wesley could technically set a new benchmark, but more fool the club if it allowed sub quality players to demand any sort of parity. Clubs such as citeh splash the cash on anyone and everyone, Arsenal should be savvy enough to tell players whether they deserve obscene rewards or not.
If second rate players don’t like it they can look elsewhere, only at the poor standard that Arsenal have fallen too is there a concern that such players might be any sort of loss.
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Cool story bro…
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i think hel struggle to get 200 grand a week if someone is paying 12mill for him ? or are inter going to let him go.
he should accept 150 a week at city or psg. both would be a great move for him. but if we can sign him lets do it great player
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apparently the forehead has been spotted on the Eurostar to Paris. hope to god that he’s not joining up with the AFCON squad
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wesley is just what we need an influential leader our team needsnthe spark/rhythm he can produce this would enable santi to go left wing and alternate with podolski who would also play as cf. ramsey would finaly be loaned and we would just need a dm
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Not convinced WS is a good idea, he is 28 and wants ridiculous money. Arsenal just don’t have that kind of cash available to spend on a short term fix.
Arsenal need some leadership!! Some fighters!!!! A very interesting stat surfaced before last nights game, Arsenal have the lowest number of yellow cards of any team???? Good in one way but,how would Vierra feel about that?? He was a man who had loads of yellows, and reds too!
Why? Because that was what you needed if you are to stand up to Roy Keane and Manchester United the way Vierra did continually!!! This team has simply no clue????? They are mice compared to 97 through 2005!
In transfers, they need a defensive anchor in midfield. Someone who knows how to break up attacks and who can turn defense into attack instinctively. They are missing that quality in midfield.
Elsewhere, Arteta slows it down too much, and passes square or back too often, AOC for me is simply not good enough, until he is he is not much use! If he ever is?
They also need a left winger badly, Arshavin, Podolski, and Gervinho between them cant do that job?????
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some of these arsenal blogs are really writing a lot of crap particularly just arsenal and even arse b log who used to be great
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The current squad of talented young players is good enough for a top four finish.
That is our target 4thor if lucky 3rd. Forget about winning the PL. These days you have to buy the PL. Arsenal still have to pay for the stadium, my pension and the directors Profits. So quit wearing black scarves and having a go at our amazing talent. We will get 4th even if we have to dish out a dodgy lasagne.
Remember all we need is 4th!!!
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He’s a talented player for sure, capable of making a difference to this team. A world class game changing player.
That being said, I don’t see any team paying him 200k a week, he isn’t worth that much.
Even so, he’s still out of our price range, the article kinda states the obvious because we all knew that.
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No one in their rightful mind can gice schneider 200,000 a week. Thats not sustainable, unless he p’s goals like rain.Be realistic people
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If he was a free transfer then at 200k a week you could argue over four years that equates to around 15m transfer fee and an average of around 110/115k per week which actually isnt half bad for a player of his proven calibre. Go for it Arsene as David Villa would cost the same and Snjeider has a bit of age on his side and IMO is nearly as good if not better!
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