Determined to keep Hleb. But why?

The Offside found this 5/9/2008 on arsenal.theoffside.com [flag]

Well to nobody’s surprise, Flamini is gone. The rumors were all true. Sad, but I’ve pretty much said all I want to on the subject. Visit this post at gunnerblog for an excellent number of reasons as to why he left. To sum it up, Milan is a bigger club than Arsenal, and they are paying him far more. Easy to understand, yet hard all the same. With that in the past, time to focus ... [link]

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Daily Dose.: 5.8.08
Published 5/9/2008 by chris at The Offside
... ] Determined to keep Hleb. But why? rick : adebayor for eto'o. a 24 year old striker coming off a 30 goal season for an established striker wi ... [ ...

Do you remember when transfers had rules?
Published 5/9/2008 by Rob at Champions League
... Through the Invincibles, and now a team who won nothing, but looked exciting for part of a season. In an enviroment where fans demand results yesterday, and managers face the axe unless they win or have won the Champions League, this kind of unsettling of players is bound to be prevelant. And its worse because of those circumstances for Arsenal, who have just had one season that defied expectations, and now all of Europe is thinking of getting themselves a piece of it. Arsenal fans have also noted , that some of the prospects might not be as attractive as they seem. After ...

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Wenger to sue Hleb?

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Arsenal set to lose Hleb to Inter Milan

Posted 5/9/2008 on The Soccer Blog

ARSENE WENGER was staring into an Arsenal abyss last night after Alex Hleb revealed he is the latest star to quit the club. Hleb, 27, will buy out the final two years of his contract for £3million and join Inter Milan in the summer. He follows Mathieu Flamini who snubbed a new Gunners deal to sign for [...]

What’s this? A player wanting to stay with Arsenal!

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It’s hard not to feel sorry for Arsene Wenger at the moment. The Frenchman is arguably the best manager in the world, given what he has achieved for Arsenal, yet it appears that several of his key players are unlikely to be at the Emirates Stadium next season. Mathieu Flamini has buggered off to Milan without so much as a whimper, Alexander Hleb has done a great impersonation of a snake ...

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Posted 5/9/2008 on CaughtOffside.com

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EPL Gossip for Friday May 9th

Posted 5/9/2008 on There Is Only One Sinnacle

Alexander Hleb’s agent Nikolai Shpilevski says the player is to leave the club. He said: “He is leaving Arsenal even though they want to offer him a new long-term contract and better conditions.” (Belarusian newspaper Pressball, 0720 BST) Football agents are just about the lowest life form there is. Guess Hleb wasn’t going out for “Ice Cream” in Milan. ...

Arsenal manager: ‘We can still be winners without Flamini’

Posted 5/8/2008 on CaughtOffside.com

The Press Association reveal Arsene Wenger’s disappointment with Mathieu Flamini’s sheepish decision to sign Milan, thus turning his back on the club that helped him develop as a player and emerge into a top-class talent. Unfortunately, when the cash starts getting waved in front of certain players noses, the vision created by the Arsenal manager starts to become a little blurred ...

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AC Milan claim ‘it wasn’t difficult’ to sign Arsenal midfielder

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In the end, it appears to have been a no-brainer for Mathieu Flamini when it came to choosing between staying at Arsenal and moving to Milan. Sky Sports report that loyalty went out of the window when the Italians came calling for the French midfielder, despite Arsene Wenger’s best efforts to keep hold of the 24-year-old. Is the Arsenal manager a victim of his own success? He has an ...

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