Adebayor 'to ask for Arsenal move'
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Emmanuel Adebayor 'to ask for Arsenal move'
Arsenal face a battle to hang on to Emmanuel Adebayor as speculation increases that he has instructed his agent to facilitate a move to AC Milan. The Togo international has already begun talks with the Premier League club about a new contract that would improve the terms of his existing £2 million-a-year deal, which runs until 2012.
Further discussions are planned in the next few weeks but reports in Italy suggest that Adebayor will use the next meeting to tell the club, via his French agent Stephane Courbis, that he would like to move to the San Siro.
The Italian giants have been very public in their pursuit of the striker, with club sources suggesting that they are willing to pay £32 million for a player who scored 30 goals last season. "We wrote to Arsenal to ask about the availability of Emmanuel Adebayor, but we didn't get a reply," admitted Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani, who has Adebayor top of his shopping list along with Chelsea's Didier Drogba and Barcelona's Samuel Eto'o.
While Adebayor has given mixed messages about his future, Arsene Wenger is adamant that the striker will not be sold. "They just have to call me and they will get the answer they deserve," the Arsenal manager said.
Meanwhile, Arsenal's search for a chief executive has taken a twist with their demand for a skilled networker who can help kill off Fifa's controversial 'six-plus-five' principle.
The club view the proposal of Fifa president Sepp Blatter, which would limit the number of foreign players in a team to five, as a potential "disaster", given the continental composition of Wenger's squad.
Although the European Commission say Blatter's vision is discriminatory and illegal, it appeared to move a step closer following the overwhelming backing of football's world governing body in Sydney a fortnight ago.
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go la go la , dun come real madrid can liao.
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£32 million seh ... Wenger should just sell him and get someone more "productive"
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£32 million sell him.
spent the money on david villa and podolski better!!!
i watch frings in action for germany. though already 31, i think wenger should get him to arsenal to replace helb!!
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i'd even flog him for 2 million, much less 32 millin..
i really think Villa would be good.. -
he worth so much meh? i don't think his worth anymore then 15mil.
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Originally posted by stellazio:
he worth so much meh? i don't think his worth anymore then 15mil.
I think worth is a very subjective thing... If someone wants to buy and the other want to sell, then it won't be so high... But if someone wants to buy and the other party not so keen to sell, then the price will surely go up... lolJust like United wanted to get rid of Rvn, his price won't be so high and AC Milan not so keen to sell Shevchenko, his price ended up 3x to vn... lol
So its all very subjective... Like now United not so keen to sell Ronny, suddenly his price goes up to the $70m mark... otherwise he will only cost between $20 to $35m in a normal case like Beck...
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but even if arsenal has no interest in selling him, i think they will be very happy with a 15mil price on him already.
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arsene will sell.. if the price tag is really 32 million quid..