Posted on Saturday, 18th August 2012 by Guest Blogger
If today’s goalless draw with Sunderland wasn’t bad enough for some for Arsenal fans, then the sale of Alex Song to Barcelona may have just tipped some of them over the edge.
The announcement was posted on the Arsenal website right after the result at The Emirates, with the club agreeing to sell the 24-year-old midfielder to the La Liga club for a reported £15 million.
The Cameroon international will travel to the Catalan club to agree personal terms and undergo a medical ahead of the proposed move. He is expected to completed his move to the Nou Camp on Monday.
Barcelona later confirmed the news, with a club statement reading:
‘Barcelona have agreed a deal with Arsenal for the transfer of Alex Song to the Nou Camp. The fee is €19m (£15m).
‘The Cameroon international midfielder will sign for the next five seasons with a release clause of €80m (£63m).
‘On Monday he’ll have a medical and then join the rest of the squad for the official team presentation at the Joan Gamper Trophy.’
So that’s Robin van Persie and Song out of the exit doors within the space of just two days! Leaving Arsene Wenger and the club now sitting on a £39 million warchest.
Hopefully the Frenchman reinvests the cash in new players and on today’s evidence, recruiting a solid midfielder is a must!
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August 18th, 2012 at 6:39 pm
It is high time we arsenal fans start protest about how dis club is going.we d arsenal fans are d 1 dat bears dis pain
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jemo Reply:
August 18th, 2012 at 7:22 pm
why protest when we can get other players? Dein would have did what he did with rvp, Clichy,nasri etc. Now mvila,capuoe, we survive. Support the players who want to stay if u are a fun. Song told Kameni he wants barca.
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August 18th, 2012 at 6:48 pm
Watching santi cazorla play today made me realise one thing, We need another cazorla type player in our team. Someone with good feet, creative flair and vision to tear defences apart. One is not enough! sorry if im being Greedy.
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August 18th, 2012 at 6:50 pm
Does this answer that question that you posted a couple of days ago: Do we still need Nuri Sahin? Hell yes!
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August 18th, 2012 at 6:51 pm
It’s quite shameful how no one Arsenal is protesting at the Emirates!! I’m embarrassed. Rooney threatened to quit United, their fans were in protest and burning effigies. But, Arsenal has lost most of its best players within the last 2/3 yrs (6/7 players or more) and NOONE does protest! FFS!!!
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ANDRE' Reply:
August 18th, 2012 at 7:16 pm
I 1000 AGREE WITHYOU…..AW AND THE BOARD DON’T CARE WINNING ALL THEY WANT THE MONEY THE PUT IN THEIR POCKETS!!
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August 18th, 2012 at 7:16 pm
this is ‘bye Darren Dein’. Now you can go wait Song’s contract to run down and find him a buyer for 80m. Wenger is clearly annoyed with him. We are still buying-he said.
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August 18th, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Wenger should jux get us another DM as quickly as he sold Song…..Lukas Biglia is keen 2 sign
..get him!
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August 18th, 2012 at 7:39 pm
Jesus, what is wrong with some of you people ?… It’s the first game of the season and some of the so called Arsenal fans have already written us off.. We drew 0-0 with a team that effectively parked their team bus in front of their goal.
Give the new guys a few games to settle in and ‘gel’ before we judge them.. There were plenty of positives from todays game, Cazorla looked like he’d been playing in the EPL for his entire career, and will be a massive player for Arsenal this season. Gervinho looked lively as did Walcott.. Giroud showed some good movement up front when he came on and was unlucky not to win the game for us.. I’ve seen RVP miss better chances than that before.. So give the lads a break for crying out loud, just be thankful you don’t support Spurs or Liverpool (or perhaps some of you do)..
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Scholar Reply:
August 18th, 2012 at 8:17 pm
walcott was piss..sell him now. he plays like he doesn’t give a shit anymore. we were much more dangerous when arshavin replaced him
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August 18th, 2012 at 7:57 pm
not a bad start and we looked organised defensively but against a team that showed no means of moving forward. Players do take time to settle and the signs are encouraging. To compete for 4th place the board need to sign a defensive player and a loanee will not cost money nor be wanting to talk to other clubs. I reckon in years to come teams will bid from a list of players for each saturday and those who pay the most win the player for the team. There is no loyalty in football follwing the bosman rule and players needs to earn as much as they can.
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paul Reply:
August 18th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
continued. within the short caraeer and the natural thing is to want to earn money. They are different from the supporters who mostly choose opne club and stick to them. Its put me off going to the games now and this combined with cost means i have decided to give up my season ticket.
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August 18th, 2012 at 7:58 pm
this team will win nothing this season. 100 percent…and anybody who thinks we will i feel sorry for. we need a top sriker someone with craft pace and power a tevez type player. we need to get wallcott out he is just awful bring in a proper winger who can see a pass, we need a right back jenkinson in not ready for first team, we also need some one who will bully the opostion in the mid field. some one like tiote,
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August 18th, 2012 at 8:01 pm
Reinvest! Don’t be silly, you act as if you don’t know what the club is about.
We will go for a loan option but that 38 million has already been invested in 3 players… We can now only buy after we sell. Thats the way it is. We can only buy players after we have sold players and what we make from selling players,is what we can spend.
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August 18th, 2012 at 8:03 pm
Super glad that’s the end of any connections with the Deins. Frankly, song isn’t fantastic, and anyone who wanna leave can jus leave. This has got nothing to do with aw or the board. If there’s anyone to blame, it’s got to be the player and his agent. (if a fellow colleague leaves his job for a better paying job, how could it be the board or the manager’s fault?)
Once a gunner, always a gunner!
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August 18th, 2012 at 8:10 pm
same old arsenal taking us fans for
Mugs who they kidding selling our two best players again.im hand my season ticket nack
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August 18th, 2012 at 8:10 pm
I think song was the mising subject today and I hear that he has been sold away to barc.wenger is the only arsenal injury and he has to leave.
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August 18th, 2012 at 8:19 pm
Wenger has balanced the books. Giroud +Cazorla +Podolski = Van Persie + Song. 40M=40M
Arsenal keeps borderline players like Arshavin,Ramsey,Djourou,Jenkinson,Diaby,etc. and the best players leave.
This is not a formula for success. Arsenal are not better and there is no way they will close a 19 point gap. At best they will have to fight for 4th place.
Arsenal need to weed out the useless and recruit at least 2 more players. A midfielder and defender.
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August 18th, 2012 at 8:28 pm
We’re a feeder club for others and song should have gone for 30 mill 3 yrs left the board need sacking were midtable team why should we care all kroenke want is profit. Lovely stadium no team to play. 40 yrs a Gooner seen someiddle of road arsenal teams but now were going so downhill how as fans can we let this happen we need change and fast
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August 18th, 2012 at 9:05 pm
i’ve been the one who had supported the club’ policy over the last years patiently waiting for the trophies. Now it’s the time to realise that the board and the fans of the arsenal club are opposite parties. We (fans) are waiting for victories and they (football buisnessmen) are driving the gravy train. I dont’t want to be fooled any more. I’m an Arsenal Football Club fan and i dont’ care about their lucre. Fuck the board, sack the board !!
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August 18th, 2012 at 11:08 pm
Arsenal fans in london are part of our problem,d av divided minds,most blindly trust wenger,evn if he leads us 2 religation,d wil stupidly talk abt his 4goten past glories of dis n dat..4gotin we live in d present..nt d past..it wuld av bin glorious if we were stil at Highbury nw bt stil wins trophys evry year,dan in emirate witot trophy in 7yrs bt fat pockets 2d board n wenger..u fans pay tickets n enrich dia pockets n gain nofin in return,bt stil beliv n support dia lies.. “late Nigerian Afrobeat musician Fela kuti calld it suffering & smiling”wen my country citizen were sufferin in da hands of military juantas..stil d smile whil dyn in hardshp… Emulate united fans in rooney case n mak our board situp,destroy if nid b..av a strong forum n protect ur interest n let ur voice b heard..dis rubbish cnt happen in my country..we lov football n mst tyms pippl die fightn against injustice of any kind against d club he fan.. Go 2 records, u wil see it.. U fans out dia ar all Barks n no Bite. Fools.
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August 19th, 2012 at 1:41 am
The Gunners will have their fabulous stadium, and fans will continue to come. It does not matter that they are headed to a mid table team.Song has a great career in fron of him and made a difference for this team last year. Who will want to come to the Emirates now?Theo is next and you who disparage him will see him flourish elsewhere as there will be no shortage of suitors. Next will be Ox, Gibbs or any of the young ones who want to get paid as they get better. Television has made the money unreal. Oops I forgot Kroenke does not watch televison, just numbers.We here in the states warned you what to expect from him. The US model of extracting money is in full flower here.
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