Håvard Nordtveit was so determined to end his nightmare loan spell with UD Salamanca, that the Norwegian signed the release forms in the early hours of Wednesday morning, before immediately beginning his journey back to London.
Nordtveit drove to The Union’s Helmántico stadium at around 1am on Wednesday after hearing Arsenal had recalled the prospect, but instead of waiting until the morning to pack his stuff and say goodbyes, he jumped out of bed, into his car, and signed the relevant papers before booking return flights to Colney.
The former second-string skipper cleaned out his locker after penning the release agreement, and with just a handful of items, both he and his girlfriend took a coach to Madrid Airport. Håvard touched down yesterday morning yet his car and the rest of his possessions remain in Salamanca, with the media snapping the above picture of Nordtveit’s Ford Focus which still remains outside the ground.
Arsenal’s Reserves travel to Fulham on Monday evening with defensive problems undoing a lot of the good work this season, the 18-year-old is expected to play some part, that’s if somebody can give him a lift to the ground!.
Article By – J.Sanderson
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This is great news i hope now he can get stronger and maybe play some first team games we need height and hes a tall CB
Unless he bulks up he will never make it here at Arsenal IMO
How about throwing him in with a Champioship team? That would probably work.
I don´t think it was a nightmare. Everybody in the locker room appreciated him. He was just not playing.
Before leaving he spoke to all his mates in the locker room to thank for the way he had be treated and to say good bye.
Good luck for him.
does anyone know about this kid alberto monagrado or something and arsenal tried to buy franco di santo but he rejected us and went to chelsea probably coz of money
No but I do know about punctuation.
funny that. you should have a comma after ‘no’. lol
haha!
Who cares i am not writing an essay for an english exam for god sakes , this is a blog
It says on arsenal.com we are at home to fulgan on monday not away
JS do u remeber matias zanka jorgensen he plays for fc copenhagen he turned down arsenal hes big central CB
HOPEFULLY WE CAN LOAN HIM TO A CHAMPIONSHIP SIDE
No more loan. We need him in the Carling Cup. We should won this cup.
I think you mean Alberto Morgado.
What kind of wage would the young pro’s be on?
Nordtveit left in the early hours of the morning, several Salamanca sources claim this, and that he did NOT see his team mates after.
john – No I don’t.
Alberto Morgado played for Real Sociedad last season alongside Fran Merida.
J.S. I don´t know what your sources are, and not really a big issue, but Nordveit saw his team mates aferwards, and with the help of Iturriaga and Sito Castro (the only 2 other players who can speak english) gave thanks to everybody for the treatment he received during these months.
jonty – at Arsenal, a lot. Havard is on £10,000 a week I think. Not quite at the levels of Traore (£15,000) but all the prospects who come in from abroad are on enormous wages from the beginning.
what i’m worried about is the car. :)
we pay out some shocking wages for some of our young no hope of ever playing for the first players like Rui Fonte.He was on at least £5,000 a week when he first joined us,maybe even £10,000,can’t remeber for sure but his agent said it at the time he joined us.
kent paul IMO
Fuk the reserves play him against stoke! At least he will get his head to those Delap throw ins!!!!!
wow that much for a reserve player…
off topic but anyway, i read that the arsenal players had a dressing room bust up after the spurs game. and it came from a arsenal sorce…
j, do you know if there is any truth in that??
i would be quite happy if that happend to be honest
wow thats true loyalty
all u being saying about the boys wages is bull shit… how can u know how much they get??? did they tel u??? so just let them play… and stop talking about how much they get
Haha, Nordtveit doesn’t make 10,000 quid a week. No way his demands were that high when he joined us as a 16 year old. AFAIK he hasn’t signed any new contract since then.
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Players don’t make ‘demands’, Wenger has a wage structure that pays youngsters high and first-teamers low relative to other Premier League clubs of our calibre.
Still no official news at arsenal.com
Arsenal are actually playing Fulham at home tonight