Au revoir Gunners, Bonjour Barca!

Bonjour Barca! Thierry Henry has admitted his love for Barcelona and a switch to Camp Nou are imminent now. Barcelona has reportedly agreed to pay Gunners £16million for Henry and only medical examination yet to be done before the Catalan club parade him later today in a press conference. Barcelona is building a new galacticos at Camp Nou with a strike force of Eto'o, Ronaldinho, Henry and Messi. Frank Rijkaard summer spending doesn't end here, there are more players to be sign. But where is our signing?

Henry, Arsenal's all-time record goalscorer with 226 goals from 364 appearances was signed by Arsene Wenger in 1999 from Juventus will be deeply miss by Gunners fans. He's truly a gentleman and a professional footballer on and off the pitch. All I can say about Henry is, he's a true servant and loyal to Arsenal through thicks and thins but now it's time for him to move on as his age is catching up. He'll be 30 year old in two months time.

Chill out Gunners, at least you'll see new players coming in or may I say former player in the likes of Nicolas Anelka cos we still left clueless by the owners on who's going to join us.


YNWA,
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Poll closed

Due to overwhelming votes for Thierry Henry 35/59 (59%), I've decided to close this poll as news on Henry moving to Spanish giant Barcelona has been confirmed by the player himself. A new poll will be setup shortly here. Stay tune for more updates!

YNWA,
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Bellamy for Italian job?

Craig Bellamy has been offered an unexpected chance to play in Italy after Juventus and Roma entered the market for the controversial Liverpool forward.

The Wales captain is expected to leave Anfield this summer, having struggled to adapt to Rafael Benitez's rotation policy during his debut season at the club. He represents a profitable asset for a Liverpool manager seeking to maximise his transfer budget.


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Tora! Tora! Torres!

Fernando Torres, 23 year old Spanish striker and Atletico Madrid's captain was in the center of the media attention this week. Just weeks ago, we've been linked with Henry, Villa, Eto'o and Bent which hasn't produced any positive signs for them. Now the press are widely speculating about Torres buy-out-clause worth £27million and revived the 3 major talking points on why he should be donning the red shirt? But Liverpool is not the only team that chasing for his signature, Chelsea and Manchester United are monitoring the situation very closely too. News from Atletico said 'Torres is not for sale'! Looks like Atletico Madrid ready to cash-in on him as his contract expires in 2009 and force us to trigger Torres's clause. Since they're playing hardball over the transfer fee, Rafa need an alternative persuasion. Report from Echo saying that Luis Garcia will be use as a bargaining chip.

If Fernando is worth £27million, then Rafa have to dig-deep into the pockets of the new owners for this. But the question is can Fernando Torres 'survive' in the English Premier League? Is he another 'Fernando' Morientes, who failed to live up to our expectation but banging in goals week in, week out once he left us for Valencia? Why don't we compete for Darren Bent instead of going after Torres? Bent is cheaper, almost half the asking price to Torres's and now we are set to lose him to Spurs.

The amount of money spent on an untried player will put Rafa in tremendous pressure to land the league title. If Torres perform then it's ok but what if he just an 'average joe'? A very good example, just look at Chelsea's megabuck superstar Andriy Shevchenko, a high profile striker in Europe but a flop in EPL. Henry cost lesser and Owen's clause is cheaper, both proven premiership goalscorers but Owen recent recovery from injury has caused Rafa to reconsider his availability. Henry rated £20million by Barcelona is far much complete player than Torres and I think Rafa would love to have him onboard if he can put his ego aside.

I know Rafa always play his cards close to his chest, but how many cards does Rafa possesses are remain to be seen? Selling players hasn't been successful so far. That's means George and Tom have to use their own pocket money to finance the purchase first, if not we'll not going to see any new player coming in at all. If we want to win the league title then we need to gamble and I mean big gamble. If Cisse was our biggest signing with £14million and wasn't able to perform, he was not signed by Rafa. Now we need Rafa to make his biggest signing in his reign and then we can judge whether he is making the right decisions or not?

Stay tune for more transfer news!


YNWA,
Red's Fury™

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Real campeones, spending spree begins!

Last Sunday, Real Madrid crowned champions of La Liga for the 30th time after four seasons in the wild. They had to comeback from a goal down to beat Mallorca 3-1 while Barcelona efforts went down the drain with 5-1 win over Gimnàstic. While Sevilla was beaten by Villarreal 0-1 at home. The three horses race to the Spanish La Liga title has come to an end now, the summer shopping spree is about to begins but there is one more game left in Spain. The Copa del Rey final between Getafe and Sevilla on 23rd June and then the transfer market is open to all clubs in the European continents on 1st July 2007.

Pressures are mounting on the two new owners of Liverpool over summer signings for the past few weeks as fans have grown anxious to see who will be coming to Anfield. Liverpool's co-owner, George Gillett has spoken to liverpoolfc.tv recently and once again assuring all of us that Liverpool Football Club are entering the second phase after securing extended deals to our current stars like Stevie G (MBE), Jamie Carragher, Jose Reina and Xabi Alonso. What does he means by 'second phase'? - bringing players in. Now we will give them the time to initiate their course before we lay down the judgement.

"We're not going to do something just to try to prove something. I can assure you that we are working on different things.

"The first part was identifying a number of our existing star players whom Rafa wanted to sign on long-term contracts.

"That was the first step and it has been done. Now we're moving on to phase two, which is bringing players in.

"For Tom and me, this really is about trying to win championships, and that takes commitment, no matter what sport.

I has read an interesting blog from kopblog.com on 'Time for Reds fans to Kop on' which the author has rally all the Reds fans to be patience and have faith in the new owners. I think he's right for the time being. We need to calm down a bit and let them do their jobs. The prospect of the takeover by George Gillett and Tom Hicks has had all of us begging for a better instalment to challenge Manchester United and Chelsea megabucks. So, I don't see why not some of us are getting impatient over some media hypes. Although, we can not totally believe what the media has been cooked up but this is really what give us the excitement over the summer holidays!

Lets discuss who do you think Rafa should sign to fill the No.9 shirt? Barcelona offered Gunners £20million for Henry and Arsene Wenger wants Eto'o as part of the deal. What happen if Barcelona refuse to include Eto'o? Should Rafa hijack it? I know Henry won't play for another premier league team but rumour from Spain saying Frank Rijkaard is stepping down as the Catalan club manager and Wenger was the replacement. If Wenger go and manage Barcelona, he won't buy player who is almost 30 year old for an over-priced £20million, he's specialize in cashing in on them not purchasing. Does the meeting between Wenger and Barcelona's club director in Paris was to discuss his position as the club's manager rather than Henry's availability? The press could again cooked up a half-baked story on this but who knows, Thierry Henry a household name in the premiership could be on his way to Anfield.

We'll have to wait and see. Just keep the faith!


YNWA,
Red's Fury™

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