Arsenal have finally wrapped up the protracted signing of Brazil Under 17 international striker Wellington Silva. The prospect will complete the move from Fluminense when he turns 18, in January 2011.
The Gunners have taken advantage of a financial problem with Flu and after thrashing out a deal last month, everything has been signed and sealed. Arsenal have paid for 65% ownership of Wellington, and will pay the other 35% when he is eligible to move to England. Fluminense have been struggling to pay players and staff so an immediate payment has been made to ease their cash-flow problems.
Agent Rodrigo Pitta conducted business on behalf of the Brazilian Serie ‘A’ club, and confirmed to local newspapers yesterday that everything has gone through.
“We completed the transfers last week, he is already an Arsenal player and Fluminense has already received some money.”
The chase is finally over for one of the most exciting attackers outside of Europe. The starlet, nicknamed Ciel, impressed during a 7 day trial last Christmas – he even played 45 minutes for the Under 16’s against Norwich – and he made an emphatic impression, scoring 4 goals. In a bid to warn off potential suitors who included Chelsea, Man Utd, Real Madrid, AC Milan and Barcelona, coach Carlos Alberto Parreira promoted Wellington into his first-team squad trusted Brazil-based scout Sandro Orlandelli managed to orchestrate a deal worth £3.4 million to secure his services.
Silva can play either up front or on the wing and he posed for pictures sporting a replica shirt with his name on it for social networking site Facebook shortly after confirmation was recieved.
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Cheers JS, was waiting to see it here before I believed it. Am I right in saying that the Mirror have pictured the wrong player?
Great news js i assume this means arsenal wont be following up interest in that mexican kid Galvan?
great news,
any news on sterling??
are we in race to sign him,or these are just rumours
No idea who the Mirror have! I’ve added a picture for you to help.
Just glad to put this bed, one more Wellington question and I’ll scream!
Nothing just yet on Sterling, I’d expect some more movement on that next week.
bah, 2011.
also, how big are the chances of him getting a work permit seeing as we flopped two times with vela and wenger did not buy messi because of work permit fears?
Great news.
Have you seen him play J? Who is he similar in style to?
do you have the link of wellington with a replica arsenal jersey
The Vela thing was different because we took him out of his country at 16. Once Wellington turns 18 he will be able to move here no problem.
I’ve seen little bits of him. He’s an explosive striker who can play on the wing or as an attacking midfielder. He’s small but he’s bulky, like Arshavin kind of physique. Very agile, technically fantastic and looks to be a huge star in Brazil.
Here is the picture.
http://globoesporte.globo.com/Esportes/foto/0,,33523317-DP,00.jpg
Really good news, JS. Happy to finally have this locked up. Sounds like we did a fair bit of business to get him for 3.4m. Even if we have to wait awhile, I’m excited to see what he does in an Arsenal kit and how quickly he can get to the first team.
so what happened with zezinho, did we get him aswell.
same as when Vela posed with Arsenal shirt before moving to Celta, though the face is not showing here. Good now the official registration owned at once, like with Denilson. I do guess he will not take Van Persie’s no 11 as on that picture. This is exciting times to see an endless flow of talents, if only Vela can get a breakthrough soon like the amazing Song has
So am I correct in this. We took two Brazilians on trial, Wellington and Conte. This Conte has been signed by Inter? Is that true?
nah thats a different Conte who Inter have signed mate, he’s supposed to be the next big thing, they even paid quite a fair amount for him as well i think
http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/blogs/football-spy/Arsenal-new-boy-Wellington-da-Silva-has-already-scored-at-Old-Trafford-watch-how-he-did-it-here-video-article273025.html
J, big fan of the site mate. Jus to echo what no9 said,
what is the news on Zezinho? Are we likely to sign
both him and Sterling, or is it a case of one or the
other?
Keep up the good work.
thank ThE kingG, the problem with these Brazilians is that they all have the same names.
Luis Gustavo Conte is already an Arsenal player.We have signed him but because of his age he will stay at Mirrasol for a couple of years.Zezinho is the next one to arrive along with Raheem Sterling.
Nice one Jay, and Happy New Year to you.
This guy looks like a great prospect.
On a loosely related note – are we likely to make a bid for Eden Hazard?
GG that mirror article features the wrong Wellington though, as another forum guest earlier pointed out. The first video seems to be of the right player though
Sean… source? Cause that would be F-ing great.
Yeah J sorry to make you scream but you won’t stop getting Wellington questions. It’s just they have now changed to ‘so is he going to go on loan? and where?’ as opposed to ‘got any info on the Wellington signing?’. Happy NYE goons.
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Lansbury signs a new contract, more good news.
Any news on Wellington?
NEWS ON HENRI LANSBURY
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/lansbury-extends-watford-loan-deal
J why is Merida stalling on signing a new contract?
Yes HENRI LANSBURY HAS SIGNED A NEW CONTRACT YES!!1
Holohoax, the mirror have got that wrong. That video is of Fluminense’s other, 1st team regular Wellington Carlos da Silva. It’s confusing I know.
Great news and Lansbury is great news as well.
the conte ur talking about stone is called cotinho -stone
he is an amazing player check him out on youtube
I would suggest Sean is talking out of his ass. But what do I know.
There’s glimpses of wellington in this vid http://www.manchesterunitedpremiercup.com/video-gallery/mupc-final-2008
Here is the latest on Zezinho. Seems a group of third party investors also want to buy his rights, and we are in a two horse race…
http://www.clicrbs.com.br/pioneiro/rs/plantao/10,2761143,Negociacao-de-Zezinho-fica-para-2010.html.html
It will be sorted one way or another this window though.
great video it shows dat wellington is one of the best strikers in the world at his age
and fluminese have a really good striker dat was playin next to wellington his name is alves
Why can he come at 18? I thought he needs a work permit which means either played a high proportion of games for the national team (definitely not) or some exemption for special promise (per Denilson). The latter is not guaranteed & seems unlikely. Surely therefore he will have to go on loan to a Spanish club…
Great vid Claude
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guess what i just saw?
zezinho with arsenal shirt
http://www.clicrbs.com.br/esportes/sc/noticias/,2761143,Negociacao-de-Zezinho-fica-para-2010.html
Imagine Afobe, Sterling, and Lukaku on the field together that would be insane. Of course we have signed 1 already lets hope we sign the other 2. I wouldnt want to be Wenger in 5-10 years time can u imagine the headache he will have for pickin the team he will have so many players lol.
Good news.. I just hope Afobe stay & AW dont sign Wellington as Afobe replacement, that way we’ll have 2 (very) talented strikers in our book (I would surrender Wellington to Barca anyday, if that is the cost to see Afobe flourish through our ranks & become one of the greatest striker in England history)
He isn’t allowed to join the squad yet because he is under 18. FIFA have introduced new rules recently that mean players under 18 must stay in their home country unless their family relocates to that new country.
Just watched the clips from the MUPC and the boy looks like a very very good prospect, lets hope he can fulfil that HUGE potential under AW…………looks very tasty, well done scouts!!!
this news about wellington is also on goal.com, i’m so glad we’ve signed him :)
http://goal.com/en/news/9/england/2009/12/31/1719318/arsenal-have-signed-brazilian-youngster-wellington-silva
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There’s glimpses of wellington in this vid http://www.manchesterunitedpremiercup.com/video-gallery/mupc-final-2008
Claude said this on December 31, 2009 at 9:32 pm
He does look quite a prospect in this video especially the dribble and near finish in the final
Gud playaz turn fantastic playaz wen they arrive arsenal.im sure he wnt dissapoint arsenal fans.
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He looks fantastic, i just hope we are able to keep most of the promising players we already have in our ranks.
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This is a great blog. Thanks for the good read, will recomend to my friends.
Up the gunners!
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J. u r doing awesome work man.. silva seems amazing and aftr joining us he wil learn to play in all attacking positions making him much better….
ARSENAL is a mix between real mardid and barcelona. u guys buy every young good player you find only, madrid buy the best players they find. you guys have a good youth system just like barca the gunners lost 4-1 (6-3 aggerate) hahahahhaahhha visca el barca!!!! we are tha real possesion,atacking, force club