Loopy Gunners Can Get Lost!

15 mill is a nice looking price!! But then if Randy is as well off as it is thought then its nothing! So lets spend 20 mill on Van Persie!!!! :D

Throw in Fabregas and Gallas, and then we may start talking!

wenger 15 million?? get over yourselves he is not that good...tyical overated english player maybe 2 mill or 3

Cannot wait for the African Nations cup when Arsenal and Portsmouth lose half the squad LOL

you don't want him, we don't want to sell him. more paper bull*****. go back to your own site and contribute on that one.

Would any gooner have posted on this site if such a pathetic headline hadn't come up all over the arsenal newsnow site!! Try sticking with subjects you know about, such as relegation battles!!

Glad to hear Arsenal fans don't want Gabby, cos we don't want to sell him either. The rumours that Wenger way be interested in him and that Chelsea may be interested in Barry are a compliment to the progress MON is making at Villa Park. Spurs are supposedly interested in Carson to replace Robinson, but I believe a deal has already/virtually been done with Liverpool. Carson has always said he wants to join Villa. Again, very positive news. As we all know, January will be vital in Villa's attempt to secure a UEFA cup place and we need to bring in a couple of quality players not sell them! The financial side is not an issue with Randy at the helm!

johnnyuk, i don't think it is high and mighty bull to be honest. We have good forwards and your club wouldn't want to sell. The redtops obviously got bored with talking about England being s*** and Maclaren getting the sack so they invented this story.

Cant see it happening,and cant see Arsenal bidding for him.I cant wait until Delfonso kicks on to play with him.

No thanks lads, keep the fella, he'll be good for you boys. We have enough in the way of forwards, and plenty coming through the academy. Besides, there is no way on earth Wenger would pay that much for a player of Agbonlahors ability. Yes he is talented, but he only paid £11 mill for Henry for christs sake. The price being bandied around is because of his nationality. Bloody ridiculous.

Ashburton Gooner; typical ***** gooner.

Gordonsleft boot. http://www.arsenal.com/squad.asp?thisNav=Reserves+and+Youth&lid=Reserves+Coaching+Staff&clid=4436 Now tell me the future of Arsenal isn't full of English players. At least do some research before posting comments like that, you're only gonna end up looking like a total fool. Cheers.

I didn't realise that Arsenal fans were as arrogant as their North London counterparts. Now I know better. I really hope Arsenal do start bringing through some young English talent, it would be good for the game in this country. I believe that every team should have a minimum of 6 players in their matchday squad of 16 who are available to represent the country of the national league they play in. Managers it would affect short term,and politicians, will hide behind the Treaty of Rome, but it would definitely benefit the national team long term, and give our club teams a much better identity. Perhaps Television money should be distributed differently. The more English players in your starting XI the greater bonuses you get.

Or the title within the last couple of decades??????

kefeskivilla, not arrogance, just a passion to explain to those who blame Arsenal for being the root of the national teams problems that we do have a very strong academy full of young English lads. And if you actually looked at the link you wouldn't just hope, you would know that it is only a matter of time. The quota system would not improve anything, it is up to the FA to sort out the crippling infrastructure at grass roots levels. Yes we have a lovely national stadium, but at the expense of a under-funded and neglected national academy. Please read the following article: http://www.goal.com/en-us/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=480870 and also http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_article_id=493474&in_page_id=1951&in_author_id=342 to back up my arguments. If you can prove to me a quota system will improve the quality of our youngsters simply by them playing each other every week I'll be happy to concur with your point, but from my point of view, it is just blindly following the tabloid idea of a "quick fix" which will not address the problem. In fact, our youngsters will merely stagnate in a pool of mediocrity. I hope you can see that I am not being arrogant, I am making a valid argument regarding the future good of the national game, and how Arsenal are playing a part in that.

And passionately representing my time is not egotistical, otherwise you could be accused of the same.

Gunnerman. a well constructed reply, unlike earlier comments. You make a lot of valid points, and of course there is no easy answer to the game's problems. We all have different ideas of what the problems are, and how to correct them. Although we haven't won a trophy for a while it does not make us any less passionate and I get immense pleasure out of seeing local talent coming through the youth system and flourishing in the 1st XI (especially when they score the winner against the Blues!). IMO, the Champions League has destroyed a lot of what I loved about English football. It's NOT for Champions for a start, and it is ALL about making money and creating a larger gap between those in the competetion and those not. It therefore reduces the enjoyment of the national league because it limits the number of clubs who have any chance of winning the title. Yes, it might make the Premiership a higher standard, but it is nowhere as entertaining as when 'everyone had a chance'. Without a Chelski owner to buy your way into this 'created elite' it is vital to bring your own young talent on board, and there is no greater enjoyment than seeing LOCAL youngsters do well. Agbonlahor is an immense talent, and a Villa fan ( along with Knight, Moore, Osbourne and Gardner), which IS important to me, as is having 3 players in the ENGLAND u21 squad and 3 in the full squad. If your kids are as good as there write up, hopefully there will be some Arsenal players in the England squad soon as they are, at heart, a traditional English club.

The Foreign Quota system will be back in by the football year of 2009/10 as of when Arsene will retire.

Ksarge, any proof on that claim would be appreciated. Cheers.

Too ridiculous for words. Gabby is stll learning his trade, is far from the finished article, and is a Villa boy. If we want to challenge at the top then we have to keep our better talents. Gone are the days when we had a chairman who would sanction a sale merely to balance the books. Go sniff elsewhere Wenger.

Goofle your talking rubbish, if you wanna go and slag players go and do it on the spurs website. Who cares what you think of gabby, we love him.

I read somewhere that the Arsenal Academy had was ranked 4th in the number of players they had provided to the Premiership (WHam, Middlesb and us 1,2 and3). Many of these are English, just not at Arsenal!! The moral is don't get caught in the hype!!!

See Gabby got injured today playing for the under 21's at Milton Keynes. We have to hope its none too serious, after all its Arsenal up soon, and we want to see him and Ash run Wengers lot ragged.

£15mill for a sprinter...??OUCH.........!!

We never sell any good players unless we have to. English players have a rotten attitude and most think it is their right to be in the first team and not wait their chance. No one walks into Arsene's teams but people like Pennant and Bentley were impatient. Arsene doesn't pay overinflated price for anyone. English or not. It is his way and I believe that's the right way to do things.

Football should be about celebrating talent the right way and for every over-priced English player, there is a cheaper alternative elsewhere. As a manager you can only do what's best for your club. Our academy is full of English players, whether or not they break into our 1st team is irrelevant, what is, is that we are doing our bit for the English national team by nurturing the young talent, what they decide to due impatience or crappy attitude is up to them.

Have to agree with both posts Keplaz - Theo is looking the part at the moment. Englands future is bright!?

Strange how a Spurs fan can come on here and say how over inflated the prices of our playes are!! Bent £16.5m, Rebrov £11m, Zakora £8.2m, Kaboul £8.2m, Richards £8.1m, Defoe £7m, Jenas £7m, Ferdinand £7m, Postiga £6.25m, Thatcher £5m, Armstrong £4.5m……. The list is endless of how spurs have paid over the odds for players. Luckily though it’s bought you all that success!!

I do agree with the sentiment though Hoss. Worth pointing out that Chalky's comments are also more than a tad misleading I think....Bent has scored 4 goals this season against the mighty mighty Derby, Anorthosis Famagusta (?) and Wigan in games that can only be described as walkovers. Oh, and he notched to scrape a draw against the imperious Middlesborough. Compare that to Gabby (2 years younger) scoring against such minnows as Chelsea, Everton, Tottenham (ahem), Man Utd, and the winner in our local derby against the Bluenoses. He's banging them in for the U21's also. Big goals, pace to burn, and he's still improving. I'd rather Gabby than Bent any day of the week. Would you consider swapping him for Harewood though (go on....pulleeeease)?

Top_Six_Villa: Didn't read the articles or the facts then? Oh well, your blind ignorance in the face of decent and reasoned debate only serves to make you look as foolish as the other mugs who hold the same view. And the reason English players are so expensive is because there are so few good ones, which, as stated above, leads to bidding wars for the few decent players around.

Also the point made earlier by krfeskivilla. 'I believe that every team should have a minimum of 6 players in their matchday squad of 16 who are available to represent the country of the national league they play in.' This clearly would not work. What about injuries? Suspensions? Not every player can go a whole season without an injury or a suspension and given with the extent of injuries teams like Newcastle have had over the past few years, I cant see this as a viable option. As has been said before, it's at grass routes level that the FA has to spend the money on, not football Stadia.