i stayed up all night to see this develop!! and as every 20 mins it seemed on off on off...finally andrei arshavin is an arsenal player and will wear the number 23!! hopefully it will be a lucky number!!


and now i can finally say it...i think andrei looks like bryce gibbs from carlton..anyone else agree??

welcome andrei and may you have a glittering career at arsenal!!

i heard that as well, but nothing has been confirmed on Arsenal.com, ive seen wayy to many conflicting things in this saga, ill only 100% believe it when its on Arsenal.com

yeah sorry guys..after i wrote this there wasnt much totally confirmed..so i to will wait for conformation from arsenal.com


heres the link anyway!!

http://www.goal.com/en/news/8/main/2009 ... -confirmed

well this just seems to be getting weirder ...i hope posting as soon as i read some conformation on the signing didnt jinx anything!!

http://www.goal.com/en/news/1712/arsena ... emier-leag

Just waiting for confirmation from the Premire League now but the deal is done Jake and thats what i heard also he'll where 13

BBC,Sky,Fox sports,Setanta etc are all saying the deal is done 4yr deal at 70k per week they are saying he had already done his medical... apparently it has been announced on Russian radio not sure.... We have a contact at Arsenal who writes the stories for the official website he will email us as soon as he knows and is called in to write the announcment.... fingers croosed its true....

How good would a debut winner against the y**s at shite hart lane be

He better be worth all the fecking around we've had to put up with.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story ... rs&cc=3436


thats the best i got...so it seems as we just need to confirm it 2moro...!!

Its fallen through.....

Terms have been agreed just the fa have to approve it as it fell after the deadline from what i read. Will know a definate by tomorrow

andrewr wrote:Its fallen through.....

Looks like your right. I can find nothing I'd believe that the deal is done.

It was earlier reported that the deal had fallen through, after Zenit stated that Arshavin was on his way back. However, Arshavin's agent stated that the deal was completed and just needed clearance.

Here are a few links:

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 43674.html

http://arsenal-mania.com/articles/31063 ... senal.html

it will all be confirmed tomorrow, if we hear nothin tomorrow morning then we know for sure nothin has happened n we can look forward to seeing more of denilson diaby n song in CM

Richard wrote:It was earlier reported that the deal had fallen through, after Zenit stated that Arshavin was on his way back. However, Arshavin's agent stated that the deal was completed and just needed clearance.

Here are a few links:

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 43674.html

http://arsenal-mania.com/articles/31063 ... senal.html

Newspapers often get these things wrong. I remember a few stories last season that ended up being untrue. There are no quotes from anyone involved with the club. Until it's on Arsenal.com it's just journalists and people on the interweb jumping the gun so they can say I was first with the story I'm the one who knows what's going on at Arsenal.

However, Arshavin's agent stated that the deal was completed and just needed clearance.

Even if this is true if it needs clearance clearance may not be given, the deal may not go through.

It looks like it is back on...Guardian has changed its mind!
Will wait til arsenal.com announces though..

Arshavin will wear number 23:

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate ... n%26sa%3DG

http://www.thesportreview.com/tsr/2009/ ... or-arsena/

guys remember its still very early in the morning over there..by lunch time in england we will know better!!

At this rate, it could be this evening UK time before it's official.

I must admit i'll be happy when i see his mug on Arsenal.com

OK the working day has started. Even allowing for snow if we haven't heard in 4 hours I doubt we will.
Gut feeling? I honestly don't know how to call this. If this is down to a backlog at the FA due to workers not being at work because of the snow, why are there no stories of other clubs waiting?

give it time ...its 8pm where u are right?..id say by midnight your time we will have all the news we need!!

i think its all done and if it weren't we would be hearing something..arsenal.com will be the only 100% conformation so we should just wait to hear from there!

goonerphill wrote:He better be worth all the fecking around we've had to put up with.

farkin oath, if this guy is another Modric, Suker or Shevchenko I'm buying a ticket to London, getting Graham to get me a ticket to a game and stomp his F***** head.

I'm not sold on this at all, I don't like the fact that he's never played outside of Russia and only had 1 good tournament and in reality will take 6 months to get used to our style.

70 000 pounds a week aint that bad though. everyone wanted a big signing and this is it, lets see if it works or not.

goonerphill wrote:

Richard wrote:It was earlier reported that the deal had fallen through, after Zenit stated that Arshavin was on his way back. However, Arshavin's agent stated that the deal was completed and just needed clearance.

Here are a few links:

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 43674.html

http://arsenal-mania.com/articles/31063 ... senal.html

Newspapers often get these things wrong. I remember a few stories last season that ended up being untrue. There are no quotes from anyone involved with the club. Until it's on Arsenal.com it's just journalists and people on the interweb jumping the gun so they can say I was first with the story I'm the one who knows what's going on at Arsenal.

However, Arshavin's agent stated that the deal was completed and just needed clearance.

Even if this is true if it needs clearance clearance may not be given, the deal may not go through.

this makes me think (on a tangent)

has the internet killed journalistic integrity (though fox did pretty well already) because people don't care about being right, its about being first on a subject and if your wrong it doesn't matter, but if your right you attract the majority of web traffic and make the most money.

We'll if that is the case I'll fix it boys and girls don't you worry, now enough procrastination, time to make the Arsenal Australia newsletter

Arshavin will wear 23

hey come on now guys...give him a chance...its not his fault this dragged on so much...and the fact that Russians are stubborn & stingy Pr**k

and he's had 2 good tournaments ...haha he was good in the uefa cup last yr for zenit also...go and watch a youtube video on him...then u can judge him...

and also at least we are proving that we are willing to sign to keep in the cl hunt...and a natural replacement for rosicky/hleb as rossy is never playing...all in all i think he will be good...and he has proven that on europe's biggest stage he can be good..so why not in the epl?? or even cl?

Gooner Dundee wrote:

goonerphill wrote:

Richard wrote:It was earlier reported that the deal had fallen through, after Zenit stated that Arshavin was on his way back. However, Arshavin's agent stated that the deal was completed and just needed clearance.

Here are a few links:

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 43674.html

http://arsenal-mania.com/articles/31063 ... senal.html

Newspapers often get these things wrong. I remember a few stories last season that ended up being untrue. There are no quotes from anyone involved with the club. Until it's on Arsenal.com it's just journalists and people on the interweb jumping the gun so they can say I was first with the story I'm the one who knows what's going on at Arsenal.

However, Arshavin's agent stated that the deal was completed and just needed clearance.

Even if this is true if it needs clearance clearance may not be given, the deal may not go through.

this makes me think (on a tangent)

has the internet killed journalistic integrity (though fox did pretty well already) because people don't care about being right, its about being first on a subject and if your wrong it doesn't matter, but if your right you attract the majority of web traffic and make the most money.

We'll if that is the case I'll fix it boys and girls don't you worry, now enough procrastination, time to make the Arsenal Australia newsletter

The internet has changed journalism. Everyone can write whatever they want. It's both good and bad. There's a lot of crap out there, but there's also a lot of stuff that is important and wouldn't have got into the media without the net.

Zenit have confirmed the transfer went through:

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 92,00.html

Here's an article stating that we paid 16.5m, but they've got the shirt number wrong so it's no guarantee that we've paid that much:

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/footb ... 4937395.jp

Jake wrote:hey come on now guys...give him a chance...its not his fault this dragged on so much...and the fact that Russians are stubborn & stingy Pr**k

and he's had 2 good tournaments ...haha he was good in the uefa cup last yr for zenit also...go and watch a youtube video on him...then u can judge him...

and also at least we are proving that we are willing to sign to keep in the cl hunt...and a natural replacement for rosicky/hleb as rossy is never playing...all in all i think he will be good...and he has proven that on europe's biggest stage he can be good..so why not in the epl?? or even cl?

Uefa cup is not a leading tournament = me not convinced

European Championship = Guus Hiddink organised the team extremely well, they were very lucky and thus it made him and the rest of them look better than they really are

that said Arsene doesn't buy on reputation and I trust his judgement, he's not always right but lately I can't think of a bad signing in the last 5 years.

Its nice though that he is committed. Apparently he hired a private plane to be there when the final paperwork needed to be sorted out

Then I guess he has some $$$$$$$$ to spend, 70k a week aint bad!

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