Pedro Botelho was presented to the Spanish media and then Celta Vigo fans on Saturday afternoon after completing the formalities of his season-long-loan move. After facing a barrage of questions, Botelho indicated his desire to return to Arsenal next summer but only after helping his new side to promotion to La Liga.
Pedro, who made 27 appearances for UD Salamanca last season, met with Arsene Wenger earlier this month to discuss the future after leaving The Union a month early following a spat with manager David Armaral. It was decided that the 19-year-old would head for pastures new for a third and final loan spell. Celta Vigo struck a deal and he completed the second part of a medial on Friday morning.
Despite a niggling thigh injury, he came through with flying colours and immediately lauded his new employers, before confirming his plans to begin his career with Arsenal ahead of the 2010-2011 campaign.
“First things first – Celta is a great team. This year they have signed very good players and I think we will be up there. The goal is to get promotion.”
“My personal goal is to have a fantastic year and for this to be my last year on loan. I have a huge desire to return to England and stay at Arsenal.”
Celta Vigo have raided Arsenal’s link club Salamanca for players Vasco Fernandes, David Català and Cristian Bustos along with Sporting Director Miguel Torrecilla. Torrecilla struck up a good relationship with Wenger and his hope is that the Gunners would ditch Salamanca and link up with Celta in the coming seasons.
Former Arsenal defender Sylvinho had a brief spell with Celta Vigo before moving to FC Barcelona, and naturally comparisons have been made between the two full backs. However, Pedro brushed aside these suggestions.
“Sylvinho is and was a great player who has won everything and I have a lot to do to become a player like him.”
Botelho has already flown out to be with his new team-mates as their begin their pre-season training.
Article By – J.Sanderson
what’s wenger going to do with all of these classy young left flank players?
clichy and nasri are amazing and there’s still a lot more to come from them, but wenger still has to find playing time for the returning rosicky, for vela, for traore, for gibbs…
i think wenger has got a glut of good young players on that left flank and it’s not fair to them to keep them all there. he should move players like gibbs and botelho on so they have a chance of actually playing somewhere.
maybe he should ‘park’ these guys somewhere or sell them with a buyback clause.
what realistic chance does he have in making it at arsenal?
Any better than Gibbs?
ive watched him before once tho when i saw him he looked like a robben type player cant get past pple quite easily but he is a victim defenders try to hack him down after a while.
sorry can get past pple quite easily
He’s a decent and very talented full-back but he had a bad attitude when he was at Salamanca. I expect when he returns to us we will see a tight battle between him and Gibbs as Clichy’s back-up. Not forget to mention Traore,, but I think he’ll play as a left midfielder for the upcoming seasons.
oh yh sanderson i heard that the wellington u said we r gettin is incorrrect the one wew r gettin was at brazilu17 according to reports in brazil
So whos going to Salamanca this season?
good Arsenal Nokia
reports on traore claim he’s not really the shit that people think he is. Gibbs is ahead of him as a player.
pompey fans were claiming Traore (as endeared to us as he may be for taking a knuckle duster to shite hart lane) is lazy and too direct – in that he hasn’t got the skills to take it around players, or that eye for a pass and didnt track back to help out his LB
Our best left wing backs (in order):
Clichy
Gibbs
Troare
Botehlo
In 7 years:
Gibbs
Clichy
Botelho
Troare
How about making a few bobs when we sell some of them who not what we want? ASnother source of revenue, mate. You will see that in the future Arsenal will make more money from sales of players than TV commercial. I am starting to believe that we have to sell a player £15m-£25m every season to balance the books- especially paying interest,
Henri lansbury just scored. Looks like hes playin central midfield. Rhys murphy starts as well up front with welbeck.
Anyone got any links for the game
Any stream?
http://www.hostream.net/menu.html
stream here of the arsenal game
team…. mannone, eboue, toure, djorou, song, wilshere, ramsey, denilson, eduardo, bendtner
team for the arse game…. mannone, traore, djorou, toure, eboue, wilshere, ramsey, denilson, song, bendtner, eduardo
i lof arsenal, willshere the best young, smart play!