Optimistic Nut Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Permission to unsticky this? Think it deserves to sink or swim on it's own merit now! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cronky Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 My hunch is that OM were waiting for when Bremen qualified for the Champions League, to see if Ben Arfa would then change his mind about not joining them and / or that Bremen would put in a bid. It looks like neither has happened, and they're resigned to losing him to us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Tbh i dont believe a single word out of dassiers mouth so dont believe this Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skirge Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 He could be using us just to hurry up the Germans.. he is a game playing fker Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Permission to unsticky this? Think it deserves to sink or swim on it's own merit now! No point until something concrete happens IMO. We've heard all sorts from this nonse. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 he is gonna come now? so will we..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnypd Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 My hunch is that OM were waiting for when Bremen qualified for the Champions League, to see if Ben Arfa would then change his mind about not joining them and / or that Bremen would put in a bid. It looks like neither has happened, and they're resigned to losing him to us. apparently we'd not agreed to buy him after 25 games previously. perhaps the villa result has reassured the board that we'll stay up and therefore would be in a position to pay at the end of the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Looks like the wage demands story was nonsense. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 My hunch is that OM were waiting for when Bremen qualified for the Champions League, to see if Ben Arfa would then change his mind about not joining them and / or that Bremen would put in a bid. It looks like neither has happened, and they're resigned to losing him to us. apparently we'd not agreed to buy him after 25 games previously. perhaps the villa result has reassured the board that we'll stay up and therefore would be in a position to pay at the end of the season. Nah, us only buying him after 25 games was always our proposal IIRC. What we didn't want to commit to was buying him if we stayed up. Dunno if this has now been agreed, which could be as you say influenced by the Villa game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 so if he gets to 24 games by April and we look like going down, do we let him rot or risk it to stay up? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottledDog Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 so if he gets to 24 games by April and we look like going down, do we let him rot or risk it to stay up? Let him rot! Clearly he's destroyed the team spirit that saw us score 6 goals 3 times ina row at the start of the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 The one thing that keeps going round in my head is that HBA has allegedly said that he only want to go to Newcastle, rejecting the Werder move over a week ago. So if that is true, and we've agreed terms, etc, surely now it's just a formality. Of course, where NUFC are concerned with transfers, this could all go to shit in the next few hours. Don't remember him rejecting the Bremen move, wasn't it Benfica or some other portuguese club he palmed off? As far as I know he wouldn't be against a move to Germany. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_R Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 does the lad have a history of injury or anything? wtf would we be pissing around with 25 games for if not? I reckon it's more in case he's found to be not good enough, doesn't fit in or has another strop. Then we can just bin him with no commitments. However if he's as good as we hope and gels with the squad, he'll be a regular and play the 25 games and we'll sign him. Seems sensible IMO. Should injury strike and he only plays 15-20 games but performs well, trains hard and gets on with the rest of the squad then we could still sign him, so it's win/win really. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Zaius Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Still think he'll end up at Werder like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Still think he'll end up at Werder like. I think it's us or them probably leaning more towards us now as Werder don't seem to be making any definite move. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Hopefully his omission from the French squad will kick his arse into gear and see this sorted for good. It's ridiculous. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Quichà Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Come on man just sign for us already, this is taking the piss. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie87 Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Surely this needs to be un-stickied now! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 He will sign for us deadline day. [/Fact] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Haven't visited the thread for while. Any updates? Last I heard French media sources were speculating he was off to Breman. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cockneymag Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 is this still dragging on?... fuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skirge Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Werder Bremen are firmly in the driving seat to sign Newcastle and Liverpool target Hatem Ben Arfa , although the transfer has been held up due to a bureaucratic glitch, according to French reports. L'Equipe said Thursday that the German club had sent a confirmation fax to Ben Arfa's club, Olympique Marseille , on Wednesday night to finalize the transfer, but it failed to arrive due to a technical error. The paper said that the transfer should go through today, but if it doesn't, the pendulum would swing back in Newcastle's favour. AND Werder Bremen have offered Marseille €7 million for the 23-year-old, while L'Equipe said that Newcastle made an offer to the French champions on Tuesday. Liverpool, who have expressed interest in Ben Arfa to his agent, are expected to lose out on the player, according to the report. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Whatever the outcome, if this was made into a movie it would be better than Godfather II, imho. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-more Mag Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Dassier seems to have verbal diarrhea. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottledDog Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Werder Bremen are firmly in the driving seat to sign Newcastle and Liverpool target Hatem Ben Arfa , although the transfer has been held up due to a bureaucratic glitch, according to French reports. L'Equipe said Thursday that the German club had sent a confirmation fax to Ben Arfa's club, Olympique Marseille , on Wednesday night to finalize the transfer, but it failed to arrive due to a technical error. The paper said that the transfer should go through today, but if it doesn't, the pendulum would swing back in Newcastle's favour. AND Werder Bremen have offered Marseille €7 million for the 23-year-old, while L'Equipe said that Newcastle made an offer to the French champions on Tuesday. Liverpool, who have expressed interest in Ben Arfa to his agent, are expected to lose out on the player, according to the report. Off to Bremen then. Lock the thread! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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