Bolivian midfielder Samuel Galindo remains on trial with Arsenal as the Gunners are still undecided on whether to offer him a contract following allegations over irregularities with age.
Young Guns covered the story last week which was run by El Deportivo TV who published copies of both a passport and trial documentation from Samuel. The two articles were apparently signed by the midfielder who gave his year of birth as 1989, making him 20-years-old not 17 as is common knowledge. The news agency alleges that the Bolivian Football Association allowed Galindo to register as an Under 17 for the recent South American Youth Championships.
This news broke after the left-footed maestro was reported to have signed for Arsenal after a trial with Everton. This was proved to be false but Arsène Wenger did suggest they were close to bringing him in and that he would be sent out on loan. An application for a FIFA Special Talent work permit looks out of the question and as the club look into the reports, Samuel is training on his own at London Colney.
The Bolivia Under 20 captain is still on the radar of a handful of European clubs including Fiorentina who claimed to have signed him earlier in the year.
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Article By – J.Sanderson
15th of january? that was last week.
Ive been put off the idea of Galindo now. If he really is 20, and he blatently is, then surely he isnt worth the gamble unless exceptionally good considering we’ll have to wait for him to appear in an arsenal top?
I dont think it is a big deal. Wenger wouldnt make such comments on official HP:
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/-we-ve-loan-agreements-with-spanish-clubs-
Great post j, do you know if arsenal are after victor moses? Any transfer news? Cheers pal
don’t sacrifice your integrity JS. It takes years to build a good reputation and only 5minutes to ruin one.
J – is there likely to be any transfer news before the end of the month? For example Moses or Sterling? thanks and keep up the great work.
J, I’m a fan of you site but have noticed you seem to be pre-occupied at the moment. You published a report for the Southampton match that’s yet to happen and now you’ve had to correct the dates of this offer. Your standards are normally very good which highlights all the more that fact you seem not fully on the ball. I hope you re-find you groove soon, mate.
I don’t feel out of the groove mate. It was a simple mistake with the date, people seem more bothered about me getting the month slightly wrong than the fact I’ve worked hard to get them a discount on Arsenal stuff. There’s no pleasing some people.
You haven’t worked hard to get anyone a discount, the company has approached you as a form of free advertising. It’s not rocket science.
That’s not true, crafty. I’ve had to do much chasing to get this secured. Don’t get into things you don’t know about.
Great work, J.
J why bother its a thankless task. People moan when you don’t and when you do they moan about what you have done. You provide more information then anyone else could so I for one am very grateful.
J – I have been coming onto your site for a year or so now and as with some of the others it appears that people just want to get on these blogs to either slag you or off or each other. People go so far off topic, dragging racism, anti-racism, and all sorts into Football that i really do not know why you bother. Nearly every time someone posts an opinion the responses simply turn into verbal onslaughts. What is a matter with people. Football is a sport with a slant on entertainment, surely if you are no longer enjoying the sport or do not feel entertained you should consider a change rather than making verbal onslaughts. I am sure that 99% of the people making these verbal attacks, would not dare be so brave face-to-face. So with that my last response and my last read, gonna leave blogging to the kids as that is obviously what it is for. Shame even if it aint 100% accurate you do a good job as do some of the others. Even the club aren’t 100% spot on, and definitely not up front with the truth, so how can anyone expect you blog writers to be.
J ignore these people, there never happy. I think you should’nt stoop to there level and reply, just let them think whatever
Your doing a great job telling us inside information. What other site has it that Galindo is still at arsenal training on his own!
Uhm… sorry J, I just pointed something out. I love this blog and never have criticism, so sorry if I offended you.
J – dont give these lowlifes the satisfaction of a reply. You are doing some great work with this site so you should ignore the ignorant. All best for 2010. This site goes from strength to strength.
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well all you readers you must know, most of the anti commets are from townies. you cant blame them thogh, teenage mums teenag dads, teenage grannys?? how can you expect them to behave?
J dont listen to all these critics. There prob just jealous they cant get anywhere near as good info as you have. No other website could tell us that galindo is training on his own. On your website every day and really appreciate the work and effort you put in. Have a good 2010 and keep up the good work :D
give him a DNA and piss test to make sure that he is the proper age. This happens all the time.
Is “piss test” the official medical term? :p
How is he still on trial, even though Wenger said he would send him out on loan? and then this was mentioned on the Arsenal website:
http://www.arsenal.com/usa/news/features/the-week-that-was
“Of the confirmed moves, Arsenal has made two signings: former Gunner Sol Campbell officially returned to the Club last week and 17-year-old Bolivian midfielder Samuel Galindo also agreed to terms. Campbell spoke to ATVO about the deal and how it happened. And much like Carlos Vela, Wenger plans to send Galindo out abroad on loan before he makes his debut in an Arsenal shirt.”
I know you will ignore this, or delete my comment… but surely this is as official as it gets?
@Heem, when did J. delete a comment??? Don’t make a fool out of yourself, there are hundreds of people who regularly visit this blog, trust J. and that speaks volumes. If it hadn’t been for this blog, we would know nothing ’bout our younger players, not to mention the transfers off the first team, so shut up, or make a better blog.
@OdiO, he deleted my comments a lot… particularly around the Luis Gil story… when he stated Gil played a game for the Arsenal u16s (and scored a goal), even though Gil was in the USA for the US u17 team, and played that same day
I read his blog a lot, and he has a lot of good tidbits, but he has shown that he is not the most credible either… this weekend has kind of proven it with the Southampton/Arsenal game…
@OdiO, by commenting on his mistakes and hoping he improves this blog, I am infact trying to make this blog better… by putting your head in the sand and pretending he has never made an error does not help make this blog better…
J- Intresting articale and some of the guys above are right, you do an excellent job providing us with news as you get it. Some of the “know it alls” are either jealous they cant get the info you can for their blogs or else they are genuiely sad people with nothing better than to knit-pick and moan. Tut tut, sad!
who cares if he’s 20, he’s still cheap and can be worth the gamble.
Heem, come on now. We’ve been through this before. I deleted some comments before who were correcting the January thing. They were unneeded. One person can correct a mistake, so I left one up. Your constant moaning about the deleting of comments is boring now. How come it only seems to happen to you?
That link doesn’t say Galindo has signed. It says he’s agreed terms, which is true. He did agree terms on a contract but nothing has been signed. He’s still on trial and trained on his own all last week.
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so basically, YOU were wrong a week ago when u said that he had signed for arsenal?
hmm…reliability, reliability.
I don’t really understand the criticism. If you don’t trust J or don’t like the site, then don’t visit, lol. He does an honest job and it takes quite a bit of effort to keep this site going. Also, the code that worked for me was ‘YoungGuns’, no space. Keep up the good work J, thanks for all you do.
J, i think i speak on behalf of the thousands that read your blog but very rarely, if at all, leave a comment…… Thank you for bringing news that is interesting to the ‘Real’ Arsenal fans and first more often than not in breaking news at a youth level.
If he is 20, perhaps we won’t need to send him out on loan?
Maybe he’s ready for the first team now. I hope so…can’t be bothered for us to wait with every young player.
so did you or did you not delete those comments? thats something you didnt deny… You said he played and scored in a u16 match for Arsenal, when he clearly did not…
and like it was pointed earlier, you also said Galindo had signed, and are now backing out of that story… you also said, several times in the comments, that we were not going to sign Wellington Silva, we did…
with this Galindo story, have you noticed that no other site has ran with this story… no UK news section… even the most anti Arsenal ones… every single UK press item has called it a hoax, yet you are still running with it… and you also have not linked to the UK articles that are calling this fake passport story a hoax… why?
like I said, you do a great job for the most part… but you do not seem to take criticism well, and lately have seemed to be phoning it in…
edit to say, every single UK press item that has covered this story has called it a hoax and moved on
Heem I don’t know why you keep bringing this up. I delete your comments when they’re stupid or trying to cause trouble like you are now.
The Gil thing was cleared up aged ago, when you posted under a different username. I don’t think you really read stuff do you? didn’t say Galindo had signed, I said he was about to sign.
Arseblog and numerous other sites said Wellington had signed in the summer when infact he had not. But I don’t see you going and bitching to Arseblogger do you?
The English press are known to print rubbish so why would they follow this up anyway? Anyway I don’t feel like I have to justify myself to you.
I respect your comments, but in future if you wish to give feedback then e-mail me. Then you help provide a better quality service by not taking away from the article.
Song is coming home.
Cameroun is losing 3-1 to Egypt right now.Second half of Extra time just begins.
Heem,
Are you another Blogger per chance?
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I don’t come down on either side of whole blog war thing. I’m a fan of aggregation when it comes to the mass of Arsenal sites – I like to read a bit of gossip here, an interesting piece there etc.
But one thing you have to remember is that J does this stuff for free, and he’s doing it slap bang in the middle of a recession. Expecting the highest journalistic standards is unrealistic. Just like it’s naive to think that a person wouldn’t never want some kind of financial reward after ploughing away at a blog for a few years. With that in mind, and considering his age, I’d say he’s doing a great job.
The only thing that bothers me is when people use the comments section as a platform to spout their misguided armchair opinions on Arsenal players who have barely started their careers. But I think I’m not the only one to get annoyed by that.
Wtf? We should just forget this guy, just too much of a question mark on his age. We have enough young CM’s in our books anyway.
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Jamie don’t care about those guys and keep up great work you’re doing!
Btw interesting thing with this lad. If is he 20, what’s suggested, then he’s not worth time and money because we wait on the result. Hope it’ll good for everyone.
… does anyone know about new home jerseys on 2010-12? when can we expect some fotos?
Eboue and Song are both eliminated then I think. A lot of people are panicking for no real reason. This adds to our depth and quality immensely. Another thing is all these people bitching about these technicalities. Screw off and make your own blog. I was in the dark about the youth and reserves before I caught wind of this site. We, the fans are fortunate to have this site, and the work that is being done by Mr. Sanderson and his team is fantastic. Don’t even think of closing this site because of a few mindless idiots Mr. Sanderson!! :D lol. I realize it cannot go forever, but you shouldn’t give in or give up because of these people.
Milo wrote more or less what I was going to write…
So I will say DITTO to Milo.
J – Just don’t bother replying to those who criticise your blog. But keep publishing their comments all the same. It shows you have inner strength and conviction in what you write. And so you should.
That’s why all the best magazines and newspapers in the world are happy to publish critical letters. They are confident enough to demonstrate balance.
Your blog is the tops, keep up the very hard work. Thanks for all the time you spend doing this, much appreciated by most of us level headed Gooners, I’m sure.
JS Whats happening with Luke Ayling? Has he signed a pro Contract? I really like Ayling as a player i think hes better than Nordvteit and bartley.
BTW Havard Nordvteit i wonder whats going to happen with him the bundesliga will help him but i think a loan spell to the championship would really toughen him up and make him alot stronger and ready for the premiership next season
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i think those who have taken time to try to analyse or critice j and his work when he provides a fantastic service off his own back are probably from some other sad blog trying to make him look bad i see alot of those comments on here and its pretty obvious your just trying to give him bad press, there is always alot of name dropping in there too of other sites or bloggs that you consider repliable or better etc etc…frankly its boring and the fact that j replied so politley about it says alot about him i would not have been as nice after putting all the work in he has….nice one young guns keep up the good work….visitor now for over a two years….
J, I have read your sight for several months now and never commented. Thanks for all your hard work.
Hey man, bad press is better than no press ;)
nah in all seriousness, the fact that people come here to try and degrade your work proves that you are a very popular writer with a highly respected blog, with credentials. No one tries to dismantle something/someone with no importance…
So pluck away, J.
the mirror say that Arsenal had all Galindo paperwork checked out and it is real, he is 17, it was also reported that after the EDU problems Arsenal get all documents of their foreign players checked out by home office, and that was how the sylvinho problems came to light and also why no action was taken against Arsenal, as it was them who encouraged the home office to take a second look to make sure. Also on Galindo did not all players at the World U17 championships not get tested, some sort of mri scan, that proves age, it was reported this was done after FIFA found overage players in one of the african sides(13 of the squad).
Just one last thing on Galindo’s age, does any Gooner think that the english media would not be all over this story if he was an age cheat
have we signed w.da silva yet im baffled?
@Eduardo, that is all I am saying
the English press have not touched this story… Even after the reports, the club ran the story about Galindo joining on the site… And what I mentioned earlier, J has not reported the English based articles… Only the stuff from Bolivia, which is way worse than the UK press (they ran a news story claiming to have film of Air France crashing in Brazil, even though it was clips of the TV show Lost)… Why are you only covering the Bolivian media part of the story?
And no, I don’t write for any other blog… The only bias I have is for Arsenal…
I want this blog to be great, and it is for the most part but you need to realize when you have messed up, and you need to look at two sides of a story instead of running with one angle that seems to be 100% dubious at best
@Heem,
I get what you’re saying but at least pay a little respect to J. Your comments are odious and you’re acting like a bigot. Denunciating and giving advice are two very different things. I’m not trying to pangyrize J in any way (although I respect his efforts…), but you definitely need to refine your language. Just like J said, if you are discontent with J, e-mail him; don’t gripe over it on comments…
Heem, we’re drawing a line under this now. If you have any complaints in future, e-mail me.
Well if Galindo is good enough, and the club think he’s got the potential, then I hope the deal goes through. All this age nonsense at national level shouldn’t affect Arsenal.
Jay – thanks for the usual good coverage.
Heem – just go away.
smalling gone to man utd!!
WE have lost chris Smalling to Man utd. arsene lets another big center half past by.
A pleasure to come to your blog. very informative Thanks very much!
I sat near galindo at last week’s 4-2 game v Bolton and welcomed him to Arsenal. He had an interpreter with him.
He barely looks 15 never mind 20. I also read somewhere that the Bolivian TV thing may have been a spoof.
as an aside I not that Man U have sent Tosic out to cologne. Supposedly piad 16.3m for him and Lallic (i.e. more than ourtransfer record). So no wonder if they have outbid us on Smalling
and in the end will arsenal sign galindo??