i dont know why flamini and hleb would leave arsenal. i cant see that happening.

personally i can see a big striker coming to man united.

huntelaar seems to be one of the favourites, even though i personally i might like to see another striker.

but it will be interesting seeing where mourinho goes and what happens with chelsea and barcelona.

personally i want to see Danny Haynes from ipswich coming to a premiership team.

LUHG

you arent 'smart' if ur a disloyal bastard and go to some other club just for money.

and i dont believe players are in other countries and visiting other clubs while in the middle of the season.

but seriously would u as a manager let flamini and hleb leave so easily?

of course after a shite finish to arsenal's season flamini might consider another option because he wants to win more etc.

but i dont think hleb will leave, certainly not so easily.

wenger has put so much effort in making hleb the player he is. and then let him off when he has just reached his peak?

and flamini time and again has shown he can be important to arsenal, dont you thin the manager knows that?

LUHG

i know what you mean, but look at wes brown, he finally signed his contract.

LUHG

ive been reading that hleb only has 2 years left on his current contract, and can buy out the remainder under the webster clause or something. if thats true then there is not much wenger can do. i would be very pissed off if i was wenger and hleb did buy himself out and leave at the same time flamini leaves. he would definitely have to bring in more than 2 quality players (as he has been saying) if this happens.
Just a quick q, does this webster clause thing exist on football manager?

i do think he has heart for arsenal and he's often said that he's good friends with many team mates like cesc and rosicky, but he may want to go to somewhere like italy because hes fed up of being hacked or of the physicality of the premiership. im an arsenal fan and i would hate him if he did leave using the webster clause, he would completely sell arsenal and arsene out.

I have also read that what wenger has been offering Flamini is much lower than what Juventus are planning to offer. Which is incredible really If you have the money that arsenal do you would think they would treat their players better and show them how much they mean to them (I don't remember the exact numbers but I think juve are planning to offer close to 40K/week more than arsenal...and that is a joke)
I would love to see Ronaldinho at man utd(Fergie had rated him, and he admited before that one of his greatest regrets was not signing him when he was still at PSG)
As much as foreign players are loyal, they are loyal to themselves first(what I mean is they put themselves first)...
ie. henry left arsenal b/c of the seperation with his then partner....now rumours say he wants to be back in England b/c he misses his daughter
2. Samuel Eto threatens that if barca don't win anything by next year he will leave
and i reckon that the big players like hleb or flamini are after there own...although they would leave with a heavy heart...they will leave to follow their ambition

I feel for you mate somewhat that is ( I don't like arsenal, and definitely don't like wenger) but I don't all this talk about within the budget because I'm sure they have a much bigger budget and ability to pay their big players that kind of money. You see it with man utd we show that we appreciate the player and we give him what he deserves.
I think arsenal team had potential but I think Wenger really messed up this time, I think he is afraid to dig into his deep transfer kitty so then he wouldn't be resoinsible if the player doesn't succeed and so he could always have an execuse of "it's a young team" and "we're learning" I also thiink that he is afraid of having a bigger budget because again with bigger budgets there always bigger expectations.
I think Arsene needs to change things drastically this summer

Wenger's very smart with money as he does have a degree in Economy. He said it himself, if he was to buy a player for 30mill he'd expect them to score from the kickoff every game, I think he's one of the only managers out there who knows how much something is really worth.
(He also helped design the Emirates)

On the topic of Flamini, he has a Law Degree on top of being a brilliant footballer. He used a loophole to be transferred from Marseille to Arsenal a few years back. I have a feeling he's gonna do the same sort of thing and leave on a free to get a shitload of money.

i think city will get jo but hes not going cheap 20 mil apparently!

nah we need a striker, someone to replace saha but doesnt get injured.

LUHG