UD Salamanca have issued a statement on their official website this afternoon, admitting they are uncertain if Arsenal’s Pedro Botelho will be spending next season with them.
The Segunda outfit posted a list of the clubs playing staff, and gave a brief explanation if they would be staying, or leaving during the summer months. Pedro was named in the list, but they confirmed they are unsure if the deal will be extended for next season, and will hold a meeting with Gunners officials shortly.
Local newspaper Tribuna de Salamanca had previously reported Pedro would be spending next season with the Union, after South American chief Richard Law flew to Spain for discussions two months ago. But since then the player himself has become frustrated at his lack of first team chances, despite being one of their better player during the campaign.
The loan contract has now been completed, but he cannot return to Arsenal in a playing format, as he does not hold a required work permit, or European visa. Should the meeting be unsuccessful the Gunners would be left with two possible choices.
1) Find Pedro a new club to be loaned to. UD Cornella have already expressed an interest, but as they play in the 6th tier of Spanish football, that option seems pointless. He could follow the route Carlos Vela took, and be loaned to Osasuna for next term, as they have already said they would be delighted to accept more prospects from Arsenal.
2) The decision could be made to bring Botelho back to London early. This option would be the toughest, as an application for a “special talent” visa would need to lodged with the home office. Alex Song and Denilson were both granted these permits, but we have previously been unsuccessful in the case of Carlos Vela for example.
Pedro has been taking regular English lessons with tutor Peter Murphy, so everything would be in place should he make an early return to Arsenal. But i would expect him to be spending next season with Salamanca, who offer the best place for his development in the immediate future.
Article By – J.Sanderson
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YAY RITE??
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Great article, any updates on the Nasri situation?
J did you find the Nasri picture in London yet ?
3) We sell him, the most possible.
Has Wenger given any indication as to what position he sees as Pedro’s in the future? Fullback or winger?
hi j is there any update on the nasri situation mate
Is it right that Salamanca have an agreement with Arsenal that we will loan them one player a season? If so would this give greater weight to the links to Diogo and Augustin Fernandez recently?
Great site btw.
Agogo – not possible, Wenger spent time and money finding and then sorting out the deal for this boy, he is super talented why would we sell him? stupid.
Yes we have an agreement to send them at least one player every year, we are yet to buy anybody for Salamanca
You said it yourself…
“Yes we have an agreement to send them at least one player every year”
Maybe we didn’t had a player last year that was ready for Salamanca, and then Wenger remembered that Pedro had an OK trial for Arsenal? 1+1=3. And I can’t really see that he is “super talented”, talked with some people who watched him trialed and they weren’t that impressed.
Agogo your rite that he’s not that super talented. straight HI 5
J, when do the club announce which Arsenal youngsters are going to be released? Is it at the beginning of July when pre-season starts or could it be sooner than that?
Go on to the Salamanca forums, they are raving about him and all want him to stay.
Your argument is based on speculation, otherwise the same could be applied to Carlos Vela. This is not Football Manager, we dont just buy players for the sake of it.
Pedro may be our future defensive mid fielder. He has the size, pace and aerial ability to perform in that area if he can acquire the needed stamina.
It would be exciting to see him at Arsenal this season. He could be a very good cover for Clichy, I think. I don´t think he would get much football though. Clichy played every game last season and he would have Rosicky and Vela in front of him at the left wing.
I want to ask you all one question. Now it´s not expected that Rosicky will play from the start of the season and I am certain that Hleb will leave. That should leave us with the wing options of Nasri, Walcott and Vela, plus Eboue and Ramsey. Who do you think will start the season? IMO it will be a hard battle between Vela and Walcott about who starts on the opposite flank of Nasri. What do you all think?
Sanderson pedro can also play as a left winger right? Perhaps he can be loaned to Osasuna to fill the void left by Vela? It would be good for Perdro to get some top flight experience before he returns to us
Thing is Wenger, our coaches and our South American scout Sandro Orlandelli are all much better judges of players than you and me much, much better. They’ve been involved in football probaly longer than we’ve been alive. At the end of the day we’re just fans.
We can’t make a judgement on him as a player because we’ve never seen him play for more than a minute on youtube and even if we did watch him for a prolonged period we don’t know how to recognise ‘super talented’ players anyway. Orlandelli, Budner and Gushiken have all probaly watched him enough to think he has something about him and therefore recommend him to Wenger, who must of been impressed to splash out a reported £1m on him.
People who saw him trialed no nothing about how to recognise talent so don’t listen to them.
Stone I think that walcott will start because he has got the pace the skill and everything else. Everyone can I ask you a question?. do you think ADEBAYOR will leave??
pumpd have u actually seeen Vela play? Vela has the exact same skills as Theo does and they are both very very quick. Vela and Walcott should provide good competition for Rosicky and Nasri.
doe u no whats happening with the nasri deal j
John I’ve seen him play and I think it will be a tough test. John do you if Adebayor has left yet?
al Nasri is signed SIGNED !! it’s great hey???!!!!!!.
it like having a Zidane
Stone: Rosicky may make the start of the season. But I’m pretty certain that from AW’s AST comments, Nasri was bought because of Rosicky’s injuries and not as a Hleb replacement, so I think Theo will be promoted. This Nasri and Theo. For Rosicky’s 4 games a season, Theo to be demoted.
Pumpd: Ade won’t leave. Just like Henry didn’t leave till he was 29. It’s just his agent wanting a bigger contract, he has no legal rights to break his contract (isn’t old enough for webster) and says he enjoys being at the club and wants to improve next season. Unless we get an offer worth more than Torres was, he is staying. Cos, let’s face it, he’s no 23 year old Henry, he can be replaced (people have been going crazy about this though as if he is irreplacable…)
The reason Theo is superior to Vela is his Premiership experience, bonds with the team, no obvious language barrier etc. Vela will take time to adapt.
Samuel I don’t think he’ll leave but if he does I hope we get eto’o or deco coming the other way, hleb + Ade out= deco + Ronnie in
If we couldn’t afford to give Flam a bumper deal, I don’t see Eto’o or Ronnie coming, sorry fella.
Plus, Deco? Nah. He’s old and inneffective. Arsene learnt his lesson with Sukur, he ain’t gonna do it again.
Ya I also thought so , theo played in many important gamez, Thats whats stopping any one to take his place plus he’s VERY VERY VERY good. If i’m alone but: I think we’ll see walcott through the centre this season. any one with me?
But go to this site for latest Arsenal News.
http://www.arsenalnews.net/
Pedro’s a good player though
Pumpd: I think Theo’s gonna see less time through the centre. Assuming RVP will be fit for the start of the season (and drift off only to be replaced with Eduardo) and Vela is seen as a striker and not a winger. And then there is no real Hleb replacement assuming Nasri fills the left wing. When Ade goes next summer for 35m, Theo will be pushed up front to be part of a 60 goal partnership with Bendtner and we buy a proper winger. :D But not this season.
“and we buy a proper winger” – excuse me. Sorry, we have many players who will be looking to make the step up to fill Theo’s wing spot (Traore on the left; Nasri on the right?).
Jay makes Pedro sound good, and as no-one else ever discusses him, i’ll have to take his word. Boy be reliable though. :D And especially with Hoyte finally off and Traore being moved further up the park, it’ll be good to see a Brazilian under-study Clichy.
Think about this scenario. RvP looks very sharp after coming back from injury and Eduardo is coming back sooner than expected. What if they form a deadly partnership like we all anticipated for when Eduardo was bought. Dudu is absolutely amazing and you could really notice his absent after post-Taylor. My point is, are we gonna leave 25 million Adebayor on the bench if this will be the results? I say that Wenger should jump on the opportunity to sell Ade if anybody offers 30 millions. With both Milan and Barca desperate for him, that kind of offer doesn´t sound off the radar. I think Ade is a really good player but not worth 30 millions and we should take advantage of a bid like that.
My dream summer would be to sell Ade and Hleb for 40 millions total (sounds reasonable compared to what the papers are saying) and use some of those money to buy a real centre-back and a world class GK to take the position away from Almunia. Of course we can´t buy Cech or Casillas but there must be some available that are better than Almunia.
The goalkeeper who plays for the under 10s at my club is better than almunia
Is anybody tired of that ESPN commentator Tommy Smith? He talks a bunch of BS and doesn´t seem to know too much about football
Arsenal will unveil a suprise signing very very soon.
Guess what, it won’t be Nasri!
Nasri will sign eventually but my advice is that all fans just calm down. Your jaws will drop, big time! I said it first. When it happens I’ll copy this post and paste it again with (i told you so!)
God! listening to some of this crap makes me realise how good Wenger is. Our gk situation is healthy Aluminia has done very well. We cry out for competition for places and positions being awarded for form and this is the perfect example. The man has done a great job, and guess what if he drops in form we have the young pole to step in.
As for Ade. He has been slagged off more than any player since… well Eboue, but he has been amazing and the fact that people want rid is a joke. We have the best Manager in the history of the club. Let him do his job.
Great site JS. I have seen quite a bit of Botelho, and he is indeed very talented.
I have a question, was just reading about the comments about Nasri by Pape Diouf, who was quoted as saying:
The enmity between Nasri and Ribery is not a secret anymore.
“Frankly, I don’t know why.”
any idea why this is? This is the first I have heard of this, but if true (no idea why Diouf would make it up)…it’s pretty amazing that two of France’s biggest players for the future do not get on…
J is it possible to change the background colour because I am getting blind reading this blog. Anyone else got this problem.
has anyone actually seen pedro play? – wot im getting at is he an exceptional talent – as an 18 year old could he feature in a bottom of la liga team on a similar basis to vela?
If he was AMAZING AND A SUPER TALENT he would be starting all matches in the 2nd division in spain .And if he was amazing he WOULD BE CAPPED BY BRAZIL AT YOUTH LEVEL.I BELIEVE NO MATTER WHAT anyone says he wont make it at either position left back clichy is 22 has a another at least 6 or 7 years in him .He aint making left back , and with vela and walcott possibly on the left and gibbs lerking behind another 7 years.THIS GUY WILL NEVER MAKE IT
Dont sell him… It’d be a regret i’d say… We could be a replacement Eboue, either in the midfield or the back
Correction: “He” not “We” haha
Wenger II you’re are not correct as we have Barazite for eboue
Isn’t Barazite going to be a striker?
I’m very OK with Eboue being Sagna’s no. 2 next season. And with fans hating him like no other player and with Vela, Rosicky, Theo, Nasri and Randall as wingers, hopefully he’ll get pushed back there. Also means we’ll finally sell Hoyte and Gilbert.
Samuel, Gilbert won’t be sold, eboue will be sold. fans hate him like you said. And arsenal are going to sign a new play maker Arshavin from Zt St Pietersburg.
Pumpd: Arshavin interest is just paper-made. It has no bearing in reality. And AW loves Eboue, he’s not going anywhere. Why won’t Gilbert be sold? He’s the most pointless member of our team. And that’s quite an achievement.
Samuel, have you actually seen gilbert play??. He could be cover for Sagna. Any way I think that Gallas will be dropped as captain and of the First XI. We’ll sign Mertesacker hopefully
J, you don’t have do defend every Arsenalyoungster. As Dom said, why isn’t he in the Brazilian national youth team? It’s many, many brazilian who has been capped for some of the national youth teams, I would guess around 40-50 different players in every level (U-21, U-19, U-17 etc.) every year.
Pumpd: Word is AW is really not signing anyone else from the Euro’s. Zapata may come but Mertsesacker won’t.
I saw Gilbert play once or twice. He’s like Hoyte. And we are selling him.
Gilbert’s set to be released while Hoyte is staying at the club.
Ogogo – Randall is not in the England youth squad, so he is rubbish?.
J//
Read again. I was talking about the BRAZILIAN youth.
Agogo. I think it´s much harder to get into the Brazilian youth squad then the English one so I think it´s a very good comparison by Jay. I think you made a pretty good point though. If Pedro is not good enough to get into the U-19 for Brazil then he probably won´t make it here. But there might be several reasons why he is not in that squad. Maybe the coach doesn´t know about him (unlikely because he played for a big club in Brazil). Maybe it´s due to him not playing any games at the first half of the season and his constant injuries in the second half. Or maybe the coach is a total cunt. I am not saying that he should be in it or that everybody who overlook Arsenal players are cunts, just that you shouldn´t make too big of consumptions because he is not CHOSEN to play for them
Stone//
“I think it´s much harder to get into the Brazilian youth squad then the English one”
I don’t really think how “easy” it is for a brazilian to get into a youth squad. In every year, every team uses at least 40 players (often many more), which is compared to England who uses maybe 25. I have seen many brazilian players coming to Europe after beeing capped at some brazilian youth squad, and they are maybe League 1 or 2-good.
I was reading some Salamaca forums on google translate ( I know it sounds quite sad), and they seem to realy like him but they don’t think his defensive abilities are good so they think he is a better winger. heres a link http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.halaunion.com/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhalaunion%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG
England use many players at youth level too, and Randall did not get in. But your ignorance to this subject is unreal.
No One said randall was rubbish but players like scott sinclair are ahead of him in the right wing position and they must not see what arsene does. if pedro was amazing they would of heard of him , especially after being snapped by arsenal ,i doubt he will make it at arsenal
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