Barcelona are expecting to soon confirm the signing of Arsenal midfielder Alex Song after the Catalan club agreed a five year deal with the Cameroon international, reportedly worth a whopping £75,000 a week.
The National reports on the deal and say the ball is now in Arsenal’s court over the transfer and whether they actually do want to allow their star defensive midfielder to leave the Emirates. They claim that the transfer situation is much like it was last season when Barca agreed terms with Cesc Fabregas before Arsenal finally agreed to sell him on.
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger must now decide whether it is worth keeping hold of a player who has announced his intentions to leave the club or let him go to recoup funds to purchase a replacement.
24-year-old Song became Barcelona’s number one midfield target when they failed to lure Athletic Bilbao’s Javi Martinez to the Nou Camp this summer. The loss of Song would be a major blow for Arsenal and would put the pressure on the likes of youngster Emmanuel Frimpong to step it up with the season now just 7 days away from kicking off. Wenger had hoped he would be able to bring in French international midfielder Yann M’Vila to the Emirates but he was unable to sign the player this summer.
Since his move from Bastia in 2006 (which came after a successful loan spell), Song has made over 200 appearances for Arsenal and his tough-tackling nature has matured the African into being one of the Premier League’s most feared enforcers and one of Arsenal’s most consistent performers. Lately he has also shown his willingness to get forward, producing 14 assists last term, more than any other Arsenal player last season in all competitions.
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If Barcelona buy song and neymar they will be the next champion… I will like barca to buy those guys
How can you guarantee that. Neymar and Song are not better that Messi and Iniesta/Xavi and Barca still lost champions last year. Look who won, a team that had Torres and Ramirez!
Arsenal players are the most dishonest players in the world. Go, we shall never miss u.Arsenal shall sing another new song.
Westing of time, why wll arsenal even listing to barca offers, song stil has three years to run his contract. Inpossible!!!
For Barcelona to have agreed terms with Song they must have had permission to talk to him by Arsenal. If they haven’t isn’t this in breach of the rules about approaching players from other clubs? As I see it there are three options – 1. Arsenal have a master plan which renders one of the most influential players in their team redundant; 2. Arsenal are prepared to sell one of their most influential players who has three years to run on his contract a week before the start of the season with no obvious replacement in place; 3. This story is rubbish. Which one do you believe?
Dont post stories like this unless you are confident in the validity
Who says we aren’t confident in the validity?
It’s not our story Matthew, it’s reported in The National.
If it is true i tink our nest terget is neymer.
when a spanish club are involved in a transfer the press over there come out with a load of rubbish. sometimes it may end up true but most of the time it is amade up and is making a mountain out of a molehill. im sure they are interested in song but to say it will be completed soon is most probably far, far from the truth. song would be stupid to leave, arsenal would be stupid to sell unless they get 22 mill+ for him. the last alex to leave arsenal for barca will tell you dont go unless you are going to be part of the first 11 on a regular basis. alex helb. arsenal first team to birmingham squad player in the space of 3 years. and where is he now?
where do you get all the anti Arsenal Bollocks from? nonsense pure … pack it in with your loud stories.. Stop the nonsense now..
Lazy journalism at it’s worse. You’ve re-jigged an article from a dodgy UAE website without any attempt to verify it. Why on earth would you think Alex Song, who has 3 years to run on his contract, could have ‘agreed terms’ with Barca without Wenger being aware and in agreement with the situation? If you can’t properly research and publish something original leave it….typical Internet rubbish.
Hey go and bitch to The National, not us. We are just reporting the news.
tbh he is a great player. but i reckon frimpong could step up and catch up to his standard. at the beginning of last season i thought he was a stand out player when arsnal were playing poorly. and his stature is enough in its self to intimidate a team. he’ll never be xabi alonso but he would work well in the middle of the park where arsenal need some steel. hopefully he can recover from that injury
How do you these bitching people feel now it has happened?
Song to Barca! Wake up! It’s not a dream, it’s reality suckers!