Gonzalo Higuaín (47 apps, 8 goals in CL and 43% chance conversion rate) (28 Viewers)

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Antex

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Jun 25, 2013
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Higuain too expensive for Juventus
By Football Italia staff

Real Madrid’s Gonzalo Higuain is on his way to Arsenal after he proved to be too costly for Juventus.

The Old Lady were in negotiations for the Argentine international who has made it clear he wants to leave Madrid this summer.

Juve officials have flown out for talks with the player and his club over the last six weeks, but the Turin giants have now wrapped up a €12m deal for Manchester City’s Carlos Tevez.

“I think that Higuain is now closer to Arsenal,” Nicolas Higuain, the forward’s agent-brother, told TMW on Wednesday.

“Juventus are a great club, but Gonzalo is too expensive for them.”


Serie A rivals Napoli have also been associated with the South American as a possible replacement for Edinson Cavani.

“Napoli are a strong side and that place represents a lot for Argentines,” Nicolas added. “Saying that, I can’t deny that Gonzalo is now close to Arsenal.”

Juventus are understood to have offered €22m to Real for the player who the Madrid outfit value at closer to €30m.
Coming from his brother/agent. So Juventus offered £18.6m, eh? The reports of Madrid accepting our bid of £22m sound true then. Still a bargain for a player of his quality in todays market IMO but can't stop the feeling that City will hijack this any minute now....I was hoping it'd be done today.
 

j0ker

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Jan 5, 2006
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I still hate the fact that we lost him to Arsenal but if we get Tevez then I don't really care.

And getting Jojo too means 1-1 with Arsenal when it comes to getting our targets.
 

Maddy

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Jul 10, 2009
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interesting that no other club than arsenal are ready to pay madrid's asking price or close to it. despite it being low compared to what world class forwards are sold for in this oil market.

maybe this world class finisher (tihi) isnt as good as so many in here thinks.

miss chokes on dicks. peace out!
 

swag

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Arsenal should be awash in cash for all their want-away players, so they can afford to splash and be a little stupid with their money.
 

MikeM

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Sep 21, 2008
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He is a rich man's Pazzini IMO.

If the team is functioning and giving him chance after chance, he'll bang in goals but he won't lift the team out of a rough stretch by himself. He's not that type of player IMO.

And then throw on top of it a poor CL resume. I can't say that I'm disappointed we lost out on him for 30M.
 

Antex

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Arsenal should be awash in cash for all their want-away players, so they can afford to splash and be a little stupid with their money.
Due to our "socialist" wage structure, there's not much of a gap between our bench warmers and best players in how much they earn. Unfortunately that means we overpay way too much for dead wood so taking them off our wage bill was a priority this summer considering we couldn't get rid of them for years now. After getting rid of Squillaci, Denilson & Arshavin in the beginning of this month we freed up £10 million in wages per year alone. Bendtner & Djourou are very close to moves away to Germany so that should earn us a bit of money in transfer fees + off our wages. Gervinho is getting offers from France that we're praying he takes and Chamakh/Santos/Park are all actively looking a way out of Arsenal. Diaby is a crock so I don't see anyone else taking him but if we get all the other ones mentioned out of the club, we'll be freeing up so many millions in wages alone that can go a long way in securing our transfer targets this summer....and that's even before we touch the so called "war chest". We're finally getting clearing the dead wood after trying for so many transfer windows which is one of the reasons why Arsenal fans are more optimistic this summer.
 
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