Arsenal are now believed to be back in the race for Fulham defender Chris Smalling after having a bid accepted by the Cottagers.
Manchester United have been in talks with the England Under 21 international since this morning and they’ve announced on their website that they had signed the player and that all but a medical is needed for the deal to be done. However, Fulham say nothing has been signed. Smalling is due at their Carrington training complex tomorrow where he will have those tests but Arsenal have now stepped in and reportedly matched the fee of around £8 million.
Life long Gooner Smalling now looks to have the final decision on any move.
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Can’t wait to see bentdner play as a striker instead of on the wing! He needs a run of games up front! I think he can do a good job for us. Eduardo seems like he has lost something!!!!!!
Well done Wenger for your smokescreen you made United interested in Smalling and now we will get Jerome Boateng in the summer.
where does is say we have had a bid accepted
I Quote from Fulham’s website “Fulham can confirm that it has reached an agreement with Manchester United for the transfer of Central Defender Chris Smalling.
Should a successful medical be completed and final terms agreed the player will join Sir Alex Ferguson’s team at the start of the 2010/2011 season, staying at Fulham for the remainder of the current season.” and also on skysports there isn’t anyway that say’s he has signed. So fingers crossed!
hashshen
I am not sure Eduardo had that much to start with, sure he is a great finisher but he needs to add more to his game IMO.
Times just reports United paid 12M for this kid. that is probably why Wenger backed out. that is the same price we paid for Arsharvin.
We all seem to forget including myself, Eduardo broke his leg in half not to long ago. His best quality is his finishing. He has been getting some great chances to score but he looks like he lacks confidents. We know his technique hasnt gone away because of the injury because of those goals he scored last year in the cup had that quality to them. I think if he just gets his confidents back then the goals will start coming.
We all agree that we need a strong CB in the tony adams mould as we do not have a CB capable of taking care of Mr Drogba
still nothing confirmed at all!!
On Manu HP is said they have agreed a fee with Fulham no personal terms yet but for 12 mill let him go to manure!!
good point Stone,
We have the best Brazilian and oh it feels good that denilson cost 3m and Anderson cost 20m hahahaha
7M for 4 league appearances- Wenger was right not to sign him for that amount. How much was Toure bought for? How much was Clichy bought for? How much was *shudder* Adebayor bought for? This is how Arsenal operate, and yes it can get frustrating at times but that is why we aren’t in a slight *cough* financial crisis like United. And to o-dog and others who think this inexperienced player is better than Djourou- what makes you think he’s better? Did you see something in his 4 league appreances or have you never seen djourou play before? Djourou had triple the amount of league appearances this kid did by the time he was 18, and at a club like Arsenal too.
Any further updates?
I havent heard anything about this story. Could Wenger be making a last ditch attempt to persuade him?
I think the medical is this morning so we should know by this afternoon.
arsenal has some of the most stupid fans i have ever seen and it needs saying. what is with this “bashing our own” attitude that we have???
so we may lose out on smalling, so what?? we have bartley, djourou in the ranks to come.. it’s not like smalling was coming straight into the team, grow up and stop slating the old man cos if you knew better than him you won’t be sitting in your lazy boy chairs and writing all this nonsense
Gioo…To be fair to united, they arent having financial difficulties because of transfers. Their debt is because of the loans the glazers took out to buy the club. They could make big money moves before the glazers to over and were not in debt. They are in the top 3 for profit gained through marketing aspects with Barcelona and Real Madrid. Hell, it is funny how alot of Arsenals money is made by buying a cheap player and turning a profit on him but how much Man Utd make buy simply buying 1 asian player. I cant imagine how many extra South Korean fans Man Utd have simply by having Park Ji Sung.
shane, we tried that tactic with junichi inamoto.
Im actually glad we didnt sign Smalling because I believe there are to better young centerbacks available out there in Sakho of PSG and Kjaer of Palermo.
Inamoto didnt even play in a league game tho and even his short stent was hugely popular in japan.
shane, none of those are proven in the premiership. Smalling can handle the premiership.
Where do you draw the line when conducting transfer business? You want a player where fair market value is 1000k. Any club selling a player, on their own terms, are obviously wanting to maximize sale price. If they quote 3000k for said player, should your manager stump up the difference with the player being identified as someone of interest or do you draw the line at what is a realistic asking price?
I can’t criticize or fault Arsenal for the way they do their business – in an age where most clubs are drowning in debt, Arsenal are one of the most financially sound clubs in the world and they deserve credit for this.
Why do most of you blame Wenger when its probably the CEO who will go and try and get the player,s who Wenger wants and im sure it,s not up to Wenger in how much we pay. So to all the plastic,s wanting Wenger out stop been so immature cause you never know what you have until its gone so be careful what you wish for.
Smalling’s played 4 games in the Premiership. He’s not ‘proven’ at all.
As for my comments last night, yes, I believe Wenger will / should be sacked in the summer unless he wins the title this year. In fact, as soon as we’re out of the title race, he should be handed his P45 and contents of his desk. And, unless he agrees to sign Denilson for Real Madrid or whichever club is foolish enough to invite him in, we should sue him for mismanagement.
“We have the best brazilian”?
We also happen to have the best player called Denilson currently in the league, but that doesn’t change the fact that he is utter, utter shite.
And ‘Eduardo’s best quality is his finishing’???
Seriously, do you even watch football, or just believe tabloid hype? His finishing is absolutely dreadful.
Dudu – was an unbelievable finisher pre injury, now, even with a run of games, still looks like he lacks confidence.. I reckon AW will persist with him, but for his own sake (and more importantly, AFC’s) he needs to bag one or two in the next few games against tricky opposition.. Vela, a similar player IMO, also needs a goal or two to settle in..
Jimbo, ur shite, and so is face. No go assume the position ur daddy’s almnost home.
yeah jimbo sack our most succesfull manager ever – he’d waltz into any job in this world just as its easy as you supporting another team. Real ignorance
its hard to believe some AFC fans are so short sighted. I remember wenger getting cussed for not buying marcus berg (flop in germany), not buying melo (flop) in italy, Hunterlar (flop in italy), queresma (flop full stop), and now your throwing your toys out the pram for not signing a guy who has 2 prem games to his names.
I cant stand these ‘championship manager’ experts. Playing fight night on your plystation doesnt mean you will beat up tyson!
Jimbo – I would like to see you try to hand AW his P45 in front of some real fans (and not the moronic ones, but the ones with a bit of intelligence. Few around it seems.)
5 words: A. New. Arsehole. Ripped. Mate.
Wenger is saying now he isn’t going to buy a striker. typical. Its the same thing every transfer window. The guy is a genius but the mixed messages, getting our hopes up and then the eventual inevitable disappointment in every transfer window is really starting to wear thin. I’m usually very positive when it comes to Arsenal but after our falling short at the back end of the season in recent years has me feeling its only a matter of time before we fall away again. And that frustrates.
We need a quality proven goalkeeper and striker if we want to win the league or champions league and everybody knows it. We won’t do it with almunia in goal and we all know it. So its about time wenger got a reality check and dip into that fat wad of cash the board claims is available. Until then i’m not getting my hopes up
1 – Wenger was succesful in the past, but over the last 5 years his management has been exceptionally poor. Whilst he has an unsurpassed eye for talent, his ability to use the transfer market effectively is limited, and he’s the worst defensive coach in the top half of the table.
2 – Wanting Wenger fired has nothing to do with Smalling. I’ve wanted him gone, and said so, for 2.5 years.
the last five yrs – 2004/2005 won fa cup
2005/2006 – runners up champions league final
2006/2007 – nearly won the lg missed out by 4 points
2007/2008 – not a great season
2008/2009 – 2 cup semi final (FA/Champs lg)
2009/2010 – potentially in a very good position.
so his exceptionally poor management has the above record and recording a profit for the club which puts the club in a good position in the future and also a stadium that increases revenue and puts us in the man utd brcket in terms of match day earnings. I think your an exceptionally poor fan/supporter.
you wouldnt be missed as much as wenger would.
jimbo just out of curiousity who would like 2 know who u would like 2 replace wenger. i like 2 know how the mind of the deluded works. i suppose u also want fabregas 2 go and we should replace him with lucas.
5 years, no trophies, flirting with falling out of the CL spots twice due to idiotic transfer decisions. THAT’S what the records show.
Firing Wenger is the biggest and most important step Arsenal can take toward better things.
How unbelievably shit has Wenger done, considering where we were with the invincibles?
Our track record since that season is horrific, and a testimony to the idiot’s ego.
jimbo are you a secret yid?
what you are saying is utter garbage!!!
Any fan of any team in the world would welcome Wenger with open arms.!
Jimbo i can understand your frustration but i dont think we should sack him.
The time for buying potential is over. We’re on the cusp of a succesful season but he refuses to buy that proven talent, steel and experience to push is over the line. We’re too small, too weak, and minus a quality keeper and striker to compete with chelsea. And i am trying to tell myself they won’t hand our arses to us again next week but i’m struggling to believe it.
There’s no taking away from th incredible things wenger has done for us. All i’m saying his refusal to make that extra signing that might win things for us is incredibly frustrating
mate five years ago includes 2005 ( add 5 to 2005 and you get 2010) in which we won a trophy – damm you sound really bitter and looks like you didnt pay attention in school.
Keep up the great support – where would we be without the mighty Jimbo
jimbo you sp*d.
But Tony, how long can we live with Wenger doing 80% of a job? He may have a brilliant past, but if he’s going to forever leave us 20% short of where we need to be for apparently no reason other than to massage his own ego / project, why should we not sack him???
jimbo should be sacked.
jimbo is clueless. and a sp*d.
jimbo is a troll.
2009/10
2008/09
2007/08
2006/07
2005/06 – the year we almost finished behind Spurs.
Do yourself a favour – learn to count.
jimbo, your sp*d team will always give us a good laugh.
ya jimbo i know what you mean. i wanted him sacked after his shambolic team selection in cup semi-final last year and completely pathetic effort against united. That was proof we needed to toughen up and add some physicality. instead he sold probably our two most physical players. Kolo and the other bitch. That $40million should have been put back into the team last summer. And that pisses me off. we could have got david villa
The problem with sacking wenger is who is good enough to replace him? and also the fact alot of the players futures at the club seem intertwined with wengers. Wenger goes and i think we lose cesc and and at least a couple others. Especially if they deem it an unfair sacking. Perhaps they would think differently if he leaves of his own choice. And in my opinion after what he’s done for us he at least deserves that
tonyM, you’re as clueless as jimbo.
@ Jimbo said this on January 27, 2010 at 2:08 pm
“The 2005 FA Cup Final was held at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff on 21 May 2005 between Arsenal and Manchester United. In a tense but surprisingly one-sided encounter, Arsenal ran out winners after 120 goalless minutes despite being outplayed throughout the game, becoming the first club to win the cup on penalties. It was the first goalless draw in an FA Cup final since 1912.”
You really are that dumb jimbo – do yourself a favour and go to school you fool!!
What a tool! HA
Well, Tony, I think the most important thing we can do is look in a different direction altogether. Winning the title with a different manager might COST a lot more than finishing 3rd / 4th with Wenger, but for me it will be infinitely more rewarding.
After all, I’d rather have a manager who at least gives me the hope that we MIGHT eventually win something than a manager who convinces me that he cannot put together a team with enough toughness or defensive nous to ever win anything again (despite what he’s won in the past).
And football, gee, is played in seasons.
Seriously man, get a grip.
whatever typeface. another insightful comment from you. i always find people of lower intelligence with no counter or intelligent opinion resort to insults.
we’ll see where you stand when if we fall away again this season
jimbo, serisouly get a brain or a team to support, poor soul.
but the yaer of the fa cup was 2005 you dipstick – what other fa cup final was played that year u dipstick!
u show yourself as really dumb – go school an learn not to be a fool
I agree tony, jimbo is an insult.
“Go to school an (sic) learn not to be a fool”
That is prize, absolutely prize comedy right there.
We last won a trophy 6 (yes 6) seasons ago. Meaning the last 5 years / seasons of Wenger’s management have been trophyless.
pompey got a trophy and now they’re on the brink of administration. congratulation.
Is this typeface chap a bot?
jimbo would like to support a team like portsmouth.
@Jimbo said this on January 27, 2010 at 2:32 pm
“We last won a trophy 6 (yes 6) seasons ago. Meaning the last 5 years / seasons of Wenger’s management have been trophyless.
mate 5 yrs ago is 5 yrs ago which was 2005 – how hard is that to understand?
so that last statement “Meaning the last 5 years / seasons of Wenger’s management have been trophyless.” is total bulshit! can you not understand your own statement?
school education is free uknow!
Jimbo,
by your own calculations, we have have been trphyless 4 seasons. you cant count 09/10 as its not over yet.
huhuhu…i hope we sign this player..
why sign 4 man utd they have no money will end up like leeds. smalling might join arsenal wenger will make him a better player
why is everyone ganging up on? There is a lot of truth to what he is saying. Wenger did go on a personal quest to fulfill his ideological version of teambuilding. Thinking he could create a core group of players that could dominate and win together. So he sacrificed buying proven talent (we do have the money, look at the desperate signing of arshavin).
I wanted to replicate the treble winning united side, but forgot that you can’t do that with foreign plaers.
fulham have confirmed that they will sell smalling to manutd at the end of the season
okayplayer said this on January 27, 2010 at 5:01 pm.
“I wanted to replicate the treble winning united side, but forgot that you can’t do that with foreign plaers.”
very insightfull!!
you sound about 12.
ronaldo is as english as berbatov and giggs but hey i suppose anderson is from salford and van der sar is from bolton.
Makes sense!
we do not need him we have Luke Ayling and Bartley
“So he sacrificed buying proven talent (we do have the money, look at the desperate signing of arshavin).”
No, desperate would of been to be in the shoes of Totteringham, who tried to sign him THAT SUMMER of 2008 for round-about £16 mil, which was rejected. We got a cut rate deal on a 80,000k a week talent.
If Smalling could lead to a good competition between the young CBs for Carling Cup spots, then more power to him.
most on here are clowns!!!..’wenger shud get huntelaar or hes a crap manager’ ‘why dont wenger buy moses’….what is this bullshit?? wenger brought flamini when no1 heard of him aswell as anelka,vieira,vermaelen,sagna,clichy even eduardo,petit was not excactly sought after why do people have this assumption that u have to be tracked by every big club in the world to be good!! think outside the box..why buy hunterlaar whos flopped against every half decent defender he,s come across..why buy moses cos he scored a overhead kick against fucking scunthorpe and the daily mirror says barca want him!! wenger actually watches EVERYTHING about a player to make sure hes making the right descision..sometimes hes wrong..sometimes hes right..he doesnt play football manager!! LET HIM DO WHAT HE DOES or lets go back to how we used to be and get a harry redknapp to buy any player that just scores in the premier league!!!
when i meant how we used to be i meant before wenger(ie NOT VERY GOOD)lol
Arsenos– How is Smalling proven in the premiership? He has only played a couple games and considering he scored an own goal and then got burnt yesterday vs Tottenham. By the way, by your logic only English players would be playing in the premier league because every foreigner is unproven before he plays his first game in the prem.
Ok people…. I will play mediator here.. Jimbo….Sacking Wenger makes no sense what so ever. The man is litterally setting the club up to be stable for many along time even after Wenger has moved on. Team selections are hard to judge because we dont know the true fitness of every player in the squad. Honestly what Manager could we possibly get that could get that could work on his budget, play the beautiful football we play, get a stadium built, turn 3 million pound signings into 25 million pound players, Keep our club stable in a financial depression, and o ya he has won trophies and hell even had an undefeated league season 1 year.
Now even tho Jimbo is completely wrong on alot of his view….It is true that we have fallen short on the final hurtle because of some weak links or the other team had a world class player that just beat us. I like our policy of transfers and I get it, but sometimes it is taken to far. Wenger saves money by by players like Diaby for 2 million when other clubs are spending 17 million on Nani. But every top club still needs 2 things, quality depth and top top players. At a big club you can build a good squad but if you dont have a couple guys like a Fabregas or Henry to push us over the top, then you just keep coming up short. Now of course you dont have to spend 40 million but there is world class talent in the 12 to 17 million range. The other thing is we all know we dont have quality depth at cb,cdm and we dont have a quality keeper. Save the money on the squad players so we can afford a couple more world class players.
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Wenger is rebuilding Arsenal FC from ground up by investing in the academy. That’s the plan. Smalling or any other >21 signings are killing the academy and that’s not the plan.
Long Live the Plan.Long Live Wenger.
is there anymore updates on Smalling?? No news on Arsenal at all… its all about him signing for Manure.
i don’t think so, but surely now we might have lost Vermaelen then we are going to need a CB?
Wenger’s arrogance! how did he put it? ” just because United offered more, doesn’t mean the player has signed”…..What did he think would draw the player to you club? His personality maybe?
What a joker!!
How’s Varmelia or whatever you call him?
ReddDevil, do u support Manu?
Well Smalling just posed with Ferguson on the United web page so hes a United player now. But hey you cannot win them all, we got Ramsey they get Smalling thats life…
All we can do is wish the lad good luck at united.
Plus+ Ramsey is better,
Lol,
We will ave’ Bartley and Cruise and Ayling and loads in a year or so anyway.