Our rivals have all done extensive strengthening so far this window, with the likes of Ilkay Gundogan, Nolito, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, N'Golo Kante and Vincent Jansson having
joined rival clubs, while Granit Xhaka is our only signing thus far.
Alex knew what the club's position was from the onset, and it is that he would not be allowed to
join a rival club, which has been achieved.
He would be the last to leave Arsenal and
join a rival club..
yet arsene goes with what he knows, even if one day joel cambell
joins a rival club, scores against us and does an adebayor, i wouldn't feel angry.
He should just quit football just because us fans doesn't want him to
join a rival club?
I'm not totally sure how I would have felt about allowing the 23 year - old
join a rival club, as his place in our side is limited, and I'm not sure if he will ever earn a first - team role.
Not exact matches
Working with Rogers could also be the least antagonistic way of Videotron
joining the wireless
club — while its Ontario - based
rival may begrudgingly give up some of its market, there is the old saying about keeping your enemies closer.
The
club may have agreed to sell us Petr Cech, but there is no way they would allow the French defender to
join a
rival.
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I will not blame Bellerin or any other Arsenal player if they leave and
join any other
club including our
rivals and will not call them traitor as they also have ambition to win trophies.
That's like saying players who
join a derby
rival should never coach boys or manage
clubs for similar reasons, if you have something to give I'm pretty sure something is better than nothing.
Arsenal would hate to see a key player strengthen a
rival without even receiving a transfer fee, and it seems that possibility has now increased as another Premier League
club reportedly
join the running.
The subject of whether Arsenal should have tried to use the first refusal option to buy back the former
club captain Cesc Fabregas was always going to come up after the Spanish midfielder
joined our Premier League
rivals Chelsea.
Despite largely being first choice for Arsenal last season, Ospina's fine form for
club and country doesn't look to have been enough for him to keep his place in the starting lineup, with Cech sure to become the new number one for the Gunners after
joining from
rivals Chelsea.
David Ospina has been a worthy back - up since
joining the
club from Nice three years ago, and was somewhat unlucky to lose his place to Cech on his arrival from our London
rivals, after six months of superb performances when displacing Wojciech Szczesny as number one.
Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos is claimed to be keen to put the German off
joining their league
rivals, with his former team - mate claimed to have called the Arsenal star in order to reveal his disdain due to his ties to former
club Real.
This summer our
club only brought in two players to our first - team squad, a return far lower than any of our
rivals, but it was us who needed the most improvements after finishing outside the top - four for the first time since Arsene Wenger
joined in 1996.
It remains to be seen how such a decision would be received by his former
club Barcelona, as having just sold him this past summer, they won't be impressed seeing him
join their bitter
rivals.
This is according tot the Daily Mail, who are reporting that Luiz, who
joined the
club for # 34M from PSG in 2016 as per BBC, is to be out injured for the next fours weeks, meaning that he's set to sit out the matches against the Blaugrana and their London
rivals.
But that is also why it seems a bit strange to hear about Mourinho telling his 32 - year old stopper that the identity of his next
club would not be an issue and that Chelsea would not stand in his way of
joining a Premier League
rival as long as the transfer fee, thought to be around # 10 million, was met.
That is just my opinion though, and the fact is that the FA does have the power to punish any people or
clubs that it feels has broken it's code of conduct and according to a Sky Sports report, the Arsenal boss could soon be
joining his
rival Jose Mourinho at the wrong end of one of their ticking offs.
An absolute bargain at # 10m, Petr Cech
joins rivals Arsenal from Chelsea and is expected to become the new number one for the Gunners, solving what has long been a problem position for the
club.
The problem for Arsenal is that we are not the only big Premier League
club being linked with the 26 - year old, as apparently he could have the option of
joining the exciting German coach Jurgen Klopp at Anfield with Liverpool and our north london
rivals Tottenham are keen and they can also offer UCL football and the bright lights of London.
As reported by the Daily Mail there are nine
clubs in this group of high earners, with the Spanish La Liga
rivals Barcelona and Real Madrid as well as the German Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich and the French champions PSG
joining five
clubs from the Premier League.
The recently turned 17 year - old has admitted he made the decision to
join us this month, but Arsene Wenger has been trying to play hard - ball in the market previously, but with the emergence of Hamburg as
rivals, we now appear to be taking the Polish
club seriously.
Downing has since transferred to Villa and Johnson has
joined Premier League
rivals Manchester City, a
club where he has blossomed.
So while some Arsenal fans have complained about the big centre forward not being good enough ever since he
joined us from the French
club Montpellier some years ago, a lot of us and most
rival fans think he is pretty good and Giroud feels pretty happy about the credit and respect he gets at
club level.
After initially
joining the
club on loan in 2007, Hummels was snapped up by Dortmund as Mislintat identified that he was having his troubles of getting opportunities at
rivals Bayern Munich.
Turan has impressed in La Liga since
joining Atletico from Galatasaray back in 2011, and helped guide the
club to a La Liga title win in the 2013/14 season, as well as on a run to the Champions League final, where Diego Simeone's side were eventually beaten by city
rivals Real Madrid in Lisbon.
If our
club really has aspirations to win the PL in the coming years, than allowing such a top player in Sanchez
join a
rival would be suicide.
Remy
joined the
club from west London
rivals QPR in 2014, but has found his first team appearances limited during his time at the
club, having only made 32 league appearances since he signed from the Hoops three years ago.
Still, Cech would be a major upgrade, and according to the Daily Star, it is now tipped that he will make the surprise move to the Emirates Stadium,
joining the Blues»
rivals after a long association with the
club.
The Argentine has chose the option to reunite with Diego Simeone after playing under him at Racing
Club in their home country and
joins from La Liga
rivals Villarreal for a fee in the region of $ 20million according to Sport.
We need to make sure we sell to a
club abroad before we end up paying the price with him
joining a
rival Premier League
club on a free transfer in 12 months time.
After what Sanches said about «he wants champions league footbal next season» that's defenaitly saying he wants to leave and just put the price up of every player we are after and worst deferred from
joining us, he should of kept his mouth shut until we finished our deal, so let's do what
clubs like Man - U do with players, don't sell him to
rivals teams let them train with youth team, players are becoming bigger then
clubs they need reminding who pays their wages, if you want to leave do it like a gentelman and not some ungrateful shi7 no one is against you if you go to Bayern who have more chance of wining the CL then City any day of the week
The
club are short of options in the attacking department following the sale of record signing Roberto Soldado to Liga BBVA outfit Villarreal [via Independent Sport], while Emmanuel Adebayor could
join London
rivals West Ham in the coming days and that has resulted in Berahino emerging as manager Mauricio Pochettino's first choice target.
The 34 year - old
joined our
club from
rivals Chelsea in the summer of 2015 and has been a huge upgrade on a number of our previous number ones.
Having previously been linked with a number of big
clubs before
joining Spurs, Paulinho has also been targeted by London
rivals Chelsea this summer, whilst Real Madrid have also supposedly shown some interest in snapping him up.
I am not sure that most
clubs, big ones, buy palyers they want, as much as they buy players to block them to
join rivals.
So it was a huge blow to read in the Daily Star today that Hummels has declared that he would only
join a
club in another country if it was our Premier League
rivals Manchester United.What a kick in the teeth!
They also have odds for the prolific front man to
join clubs like Atletico Madrid, Valencia, Milan and even our local
rivals Tottenham, but they have the Gunners as clear favourites.
However, in recent years, Thomas Tuchel's side have been known to allow some of their biggest stars to leave the
club, with the likes of Mario Gotze and Robert Lewandowski
joining rivals Bayern Munich.
The Red Devils have been strongly linked with a move for the Arsenal star, but Ozil will be allowed to talk to
clubs from outside of England from January about a prospective free transfer at the end of the campaign, and hopefully he won't
join one of our league
rivals.
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Kevin Campbell has now stated that our
club simply can not be taken seriously if we fail to stop our key player from ditching us for free in order to
join our league
rivals.
Alexis Sanchez could be spending his last season at the Emirates Stadium as reports claimed Arsenal will rather push him abroad than to allow him
join any Premier League
rivals if he refuses to stay at the
club.
The Polish international has stated his desire to
join Dortmund's arch
rivals but the
club will not let him leave this summer so Lewandowski will have to wait until next season when he can
join the European Champions on a free transfer.
All are welcome to
join us on match days, though we ask that anyone bringing a guest openly supporting a
rival club be respectful and cognizant of the fact that it will always be a majority Arsenal crowd.
Plenty took that to mean that he was hitting out at the
club for allowing a player to
join a Premier League
rival, but it has emerged that that was Oxlade - Chamberlain's tongue - in - cheek nickname at the
club.
He also revealed that
club legend Frank Lampard was his favourite player at Chelsea before leaving the
club to
join rivals Manchester City.