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With Bentley/Quaresma & Berbatov/Benzema plus money left over could work out to be a very good piece of business for Man Utd.

Man U to buy Quaresma from ,freshly out of the Champs Lge, Porto as a replacement?

Although I agree they can and should as Eto'o is world class, I'm not sure they'd be willing to. Should be looking to get him in alongside Adebayor i reckon.

Wage limit? How much do you think they were paying Henry then? They will pay the players who are deserving enough and who have proven enough. Adebayor and Flamini hadn't. Simple as that. Probably a fair bit but not as much as Eto'o will want I would imagine. Henry was also pretty much a one-man team at Arsenal, Eto'o won't be. Eto'o for all his worth is unproven in the Premiership too.

Has he got people lined up though because if he hasn't prices are going to go up and Eto'o is miles out of Arsenals wage structure limit unless they're going to break it but then Fabregas, Toure, Gallas et al will want new contracts and it makes the Flamini situation look silly.

Arsenal's squad starting to look worryingly thin. Flamini,Hleb and Adebayor out are 3 very key first teamers.

Johan Elmander available at £5m(ish) according to SSN/Bolton evening paper as he is out of contract next season. Would be a decent alternative as the big man upfront for Viduka.

Porto are a big club in Portugal, Boavista are. See West Ham & AFC Wimbledon for reference in the English game.

Fair play to Spurs, seems a very good way of doing business, even if they do air a lot of their transfer laundry in public but I suppose at the same time all the rumours can could unsettle the players and encourage them to move more but at the same time it could also alert other clubs and start potential bidding wars. Hopefully since we seem to be copying the Spurs method of transfers we'll be doing the same shortly.

Scum board's saying it's them with Coloccini replacing Senderos. Would make sense as Senderos is gash and Arsenal badly need another centre back.

If you see him again kick him as hard as you possibly can in the knee in the hope you injure him so will no longer play again.

Hope to god we don't buy him.

is this the same player who used to play for Milan and/or Roma? or am I thinking too far back. I used to watch football italia all the time and recall this name... Marcus Assuncao weren't it? Hell of a free-kick on him i recall.

Why would we be tracking Nasri when he is 95% an Arsenal player.

That's because you're not a Spurs fan.

Police forces disagree. Aren't they having a Celtic cup or did that get scrapped n all?

Point well made Brummie, we have squad depth of a very flimsy nature. People on here won't be happy till we have Messi on the bench. When we have a couple of injuries the people who are coming to replace them (Smith, Carroll, Duff, Edgar etc.) are of a lot poorer quality and our first team isn't exactly packed full of world beaters to start off with. Bringing in some players of equal quality will give us cat least competition for places which can only be a good thing and might encourage some players to play a better. I also think Larsson (Bluenose connections aside) could do a decent job for your boys.

This. At less than £3m it'd be a much needed addition to the squad. Can play across the middle and FB is desperate.

If he is of same-par as Seitaridis (sp) he'll be a valuable asset to have.

Decided to sack it off and go out for a curry tonight instead. A completely unnecessary match is my view (why not play one of the euro2008 teams or someone exciting) & why the fuck are we playing in T&T at the weekend. Trevor Brooking fancy a jolly or something?

Henry won't overly enjoy playing upfront on his own either I would imagine whereas Anelka (with Bolton) & Benzema have both excelled playing this role.

Clichy not even making the squad as well who could be argued is just as good. EDIT: You b******. Clichy is the most complete of all three in my opinion. Domenech is nuts. Hard to say between him & Evra tbh. Evra is slightly better at defending but i'd say Clichy is better offensively. Abidal is a much defender than both but has been gash this season and offers little in the final 3rd.

Clichy not even making the squad as well who could be argued is just as good. EDIT: You bastard.

Always amazes me how J.A.B gets in these France squads. Doesn't even start regularly for Lyon does he? Says a lot about the rest of the French centre half's out there.