Arsenal have a rather unpleasant history of missing
out on key players and wondering what could have
been. But the latest reports carried in the press
today take the Gunners’ ‘so near yet so far’
experience to a whole another level.
Spanish newspaper Vozpopuli, widely credited as
being the first to report on Alexis Sanchez’s move
to Arsenal, has revealed that footballing royalty;
Lionel Messi may have been interested in an
Arsenal move as recent as last May. Reports claim
that Messi was unhappy with the terms of
extension he was being offered at Barcelona and
made enquiries with former Arsenal captain and
now Chelsea player Cesc Fabregas about his time
as a Gunner and even went as far as instructing
his agent to send feelers to North London.
Perturbed by such ungainly talks from their star
player, the Catalan giants moved quickly to offer
Messi a fresh deal designed to soothe troubled
egos. The Argentine ace has since pledged his
future to Camp Nou and a move to Arsenal is now
unlikely to happen, while he is still in his prime.
The news though would encourage those
supporters, who are still worried about Arsenal’s
attractiveness in the transfer market, clearly the
club still holds an aura that few can surpass.
http://www.thesportscampus.com/2014072336570/transfer-news/how-messi-almost-became-a-gunner-this-year

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Joke of the century

in your dreams

Guys no one believes Ozil will be an Arsenal Player last Transfer oooo
So shine your eye
And Cross your Fingers and wait ni oooo

I had to go back and check my calendar to see if today is April 1st

Arsenal play attractive ftball,that is why every good player want to play for us. I can see Messi coming.

M4gunners: Arsenal play attractive ftball,that is why every good player want to for us. I can see Messi coming.

Attractive play alone don't attract big players but attractive play and lots of trophies do.

If Messi should make that move then Arsenal could just be on their way to win the Champions league

But why not my Chelsea

Move this to joke section its not even funny sef

jude33084:

Attractive play alone don't attract big players but attractive play and lots of trophies do.

If Messi should make that move then Arsenal could just be on their way to win the Champions league

But why not my Chelsea

Arsenal will win CL with Messi or not.Chelsea keh?Messi will,never try,that I know.Just look at how Chelsea killed Mikel now Mou want to finish Omero too by sending hkm back to Boro.

M4gunners: Arsenal play attractive ftball,that is why every good player want to for us. I can see Messi coming.

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There is no doubt that the claims coming out of
Spain today that Lionel Messi considered moving to
Arsenal this summer have everybody scratching
their heads for a number of reasons.
While there is no doubting the Argentine’s brilliance
(I have eyes in my head), just because he thought
about moving to Arsenal doesn’t mean that it would
have happened.
In the end, none of it matters because he signed a
new deal with Barcelona, but what would have
happened if he hadn’t?
The report claims that he sounded out Cesc
Fabregas about Arsenal and was seriously
considering moving, but for a transfer to happen
you need more than just the desire of the player.
In an ideal world there would be no club on the
planet that would say ‘no ’ to Lionel Messi, but we
don’t live in an ideal world and no-one knows that
more than Arsene Wenger.
Before we would have ever seen Messi in the red
and white of Arsenal there would have had to have
been an agreement on both his fee and his wages.
Messi’s buyout clause is £200million, or, if you
want to put it in terms of something a bit more
tangible, almost six Mesut Ozil’s. Of course, should
a player want to leave, a club can be persuaded to
move on the buyout clause, but he wouldn’t have
been available for less than £75m. And that’s a
bargain basement estimate.
On top of that are his wages. He reportedly earns
£15.8m per season. That’s around £300k per
week. No player at Arsenal is on half that and
Wenger takes the wage structure at the club very
seriously.
I can hear Wenger’s breathing getting shallow just
thinking about paying someone £300k per week.
For Arsenal fans it’s a lovely story, Messi wanting
to join their club, or even just thinking about it, but it
is from the realms of fantasy – whether that of the
Spanish journalist who wrote the piece or the land
where Arsenal would pay that sort of money, even if
it was for the best player in the world.
If ever there was a manager who would say ‘no’ to
Lionel Messi, it’s Arsene Wenger. Perhaps he’s the
only manager who would say no, others preferring
to risk bankrupting their clubs just to have him in
their shirts.
As I said above, none of it matters and when it
comes to transfer window madness, this is the
most mad thing I’ve heard in years.
Still, it’s nice to dream, eh?..
Barce fans should not be dismayed ooo Messi might change his mind oo