Arshavin agent rubbishes jealousy rumours
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Agent claims that Arshavin is a target of jealousy at Arsenal and could be lured by Barcelona
All smiles: But Andrey Arshavin's agent says his player isn't completely happy at Arsenal.
Andrey Arshavin's agent is claiming that Barcelona and other top clubs are interested in luring him away from Arsenal, and that Gunners stars Cesc Fabregas and Robin Van Persie are jealous of the Russian striker's sudden popularity in London.
Dennis Lachter's comments ahead of Arsenal's Champion's League semi-final are likely to infuriate Arsene Wenger - but they also suggest Arshavin has been disparaging about some team mates in his private talks with his agent.
'It's not only Barcelona,' said Lachter. 'After the game at Liverpool where Andrey scored four goals several teams told me they were interested in him.
'But currently he is an Arsenal player. Taking into consideration the amount of money which was paid for him and important role he's already acquired at the club, my client is not going to leave.
Lachter's comments, the Russian midfielder's fast growing popularity in England is a target of jealousy at Arsenal.
'Though - to tell the truth - the players of Arsenal are not easy to deal with. The squad consists almost entirely of foreigners. The French diaspora rules there.
'Also there are guys - like van Persie and Fabregas - who are rather jealous about Andrey's fast growing popularity in England. 'But such situation can only add motivation for him to work harder and improve his football skills.'
Asked by a St Petersburg newspaper if Arshavin had any specific problems with his team-mates Lachter said: 'No, but he was a target of jokes.
'Not very smart jokes, I must admit. But that's a football team for you. Such jokes are the same everywhere - in Russia or England.'
The agent also made clear that while Arshavin is not quite happy with his current position on the pitch, he is prepared to play wherever Arsene Wenger wants to use him.
'To put it mildly he doesn't like playing on the left. But at the moment Wenger has a problem in that zone. So until they buy a good left-winger, Andrey is going to play there.
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haiz... all leave liao.. Wenger solo
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He's a very annoying agent.
Been cooking stories up every since Euro 08 ended.
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his agent cook up stories so tht arshavin can hav a good price...
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Yea but he's already left Zenit for Arsenal, not enough meh?
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but only his agent say mah... for me if i was him, i would join a club tht can win champions
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tink so too???
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complete bullshyt
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Hmm, title contenders?
I think Arsenal will definitely be able to mount a serious threat for the title in a few seasons, maybe even next season.
Their 2nd half of the season 08/09 league form has been pretty good, so if they can maintain it, I think they'll have a good chance.
8 - Arsenal have kept clean sheets in their last eight games at the Emirates in the Premier League since Robbie Keane netted for Liverpool in the 1-1 draw on 21 December 2008.
(Quite impressive already since they're back four has been shuffling around alot)
20 - Arsenal have remained unbeaten for 20 league games so far - won 11 and drawn nine.
edit: stats taken from espn star sports.
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he has experience. thats good for arsenal, a team with too many youngsters.
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Go die la Barcelona, still havent Give Up luring Arsenal Players, y cant u just lure the C.Ronaldo tamade
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Arshavin agent rubbishes jealousy rumours
Lachter is adamant that these quotes have been totally fabricated tough, telling sport.co.uk:
“All this stuff is made up. It’s quite strange to see that I’ve made comments like that after nine months of fighting for Andrey’s future and within three months of his success at Arsenal.
“Listen. There is no name of a newspaper from Russia, there is no name of reporter. The only thing that it says is that I’ve spoken to someone from St. Petersburg – I don’t understand what is going on, I definitely have not!
“He [Arshavin] is really happy there at Arsenal and all kind of insinuations that somebody is trying to put both before the semi-final [against Chelsea] and after his successful performance at Anfield stadium is just insulting.
“It looks like somebody - definitely not teammates of Andrey – are jealous of Arshavin, in particular, and of Arsenal as well."
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haiz yao yan man tian fei