Gallas wants to leave Arsenal
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William Gallas faces end of the road at Arsenal
William Gallas is still upset after being stripped of the Arsenal captaincy by Arsene Wenger
William Gallas wants to leave Arsenal. The France defender has become disillusioned with life at the Emirates Stadium since he was stripped of the captaincy last month for criticising his team-mates. He was dropped from the squad for the 3-0 defeat away to Manchester City on November 22 and replaced as captain by Cesc Fàbregas two days later. Although he put a brave face on the demotion, he is still angry about the way that he has been treated.
Juventus, AC Milan and Paris Saint-Germain are prepared to offer the 31-year-old defender an escape route out of London, but none of them can afford to match his Arsenal wages of £90,000 a week. Gallas believes that he was humiliated by Arsène Wenger and that the manager overreacted by stripping him of the captaincy and fining him two weeks’ wages for comments he made in an interview to publicise the publication of his autobiography in France.
Gallas has few friends in the Arsenal dressing-room and has become increasingly isolated since Thierry Henry was allowed to join Barcelona in June last year. Henry was his closest friend at the club and since the France forward moved to Spain, Gallas has fallen out with team-mates such as Fàbregas, Robin van Persie, Theo Walcott and Samir Nasri.
The distance between Gallas and the rest of the squad was highlighted during the warm-up before the 1-1 draw away to Middlesbrough on Saturday, when the defender ignored instructions from Pat Rice, the assistant manager, to join the other players in a huddle.
Gallas’s relationship with Wenger has also become strained and the manager admitted this week that taking the captaincy away from Gallas was the hardest thing he has had to do during his managerial career.
If Gallas does leave the Emirates Stadium next month he will miss out on the chance of playing with Eduardo da Silva again. The Croatia striker played for the first time in ten months on Tuesday, for the first half of the reserve-team’s 2-0 victory over the Portsmouth reserve side, and he is confident that he will be ready for first-team action in two weeks despite a slight hamstring strain. “I just want to play like I did before,” Eduardo said.
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Ac Milan
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sell gallas and get another Ex chelsea defender Alex.
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Originally posted by reyes:
sell gallas and get another Ex chelsea defender Alex.
Hey, not a bad idea... Alex seems very good and also strong in the air... I don't think he will cost more than $10m which they can get back from Gallas sale...Only thing is... Will Chelsea sell to arsenal without an Ashley Cole to trade?
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bye
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Sack Arsene Wenger and make Gallas the manager.
Cool.
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sell him to WBA.
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tc
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Sell him to S-League (Coz he say he wan to get out of London) or J-League, K-League?
And One sentence to Gallas too
" Retired the best choice" -
Ask him go milan loh, Nesta's replacement