This Vermaelen swap deal. Is the idea to get rid of a defender who's lost his way and replace him

[Mo Britain less Europe]

with the new Silvestre, presumably valued at around £10 million this time?

[Monty91]

but Vermaelen is agitating for a move (understandably).

[Berni]

Did Gallas? Or was he just a disaster for all the other reasons?

[Ears are alight]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Monty91]

[Jake]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Monty91]

[slow&low]

[Monty91]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

done anything, it's just a story in the paper at the minute. Vieira's agents met with Madrid the summer before the one he left.

[Berni]

because of the preponderance of 'Vieira to Man U/Real/Juventus' stories that appeared as soon as the clocks went forward.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Monty91]

and what may be on the table.

The widely accepted fact is we sold Paddy against his will.

[Ears are alight]

Berni was asking.

[Ears are alight]

[Monty91]

when we were being offered £50 million for him just when our financial constraints of the new stadium were starting to take hold?

[Monty91]

The big question is whether we should have cashed in a year earlier when Barca and Real were both said to be offering £50m.

[Ears are alight]

UK. I'm surprised you don't know this if you're writing a book about it all.

Or are we writing the book for you right here?

[Jake]

Duh!

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Ears are alight]

domestic crisis in a gentlemanly way. Not exactly mutual, just dignified.

[slow&low]

I thought the then Arsenal manager (Graham? Rioch?)convinced Tony to stay at Arsenal.

[Monty91]

all of the stories at the time were about him signing a new contract after the CL final partly because he didn't want to uproot his family.

[Ears are alight]

[Dorset Gooner]

I'd cheer you up :-)

[Ears are alight]

[Ears are alight]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

was probably going to stay. Then i'm sure i remember reading that David Dein being sacked and Wenger only having 1 year left on his contract made Henry have a rethink and he asked to leave. Also seem to remember him splitting with his wife around that time.

[Luis Anaconda]

What with refs tending to blow when the keeper kicks the ball (this might not happen as much anymore I must admit)

[Ears are alight]

[Monty91]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Ears are alight]

http://www.awimb.com/fudforum/index.php?t=tree&goto=3897 776&rid=112&S=8deba233b77c958f5df0be61f8ad4143 (http://www.awimb.com/fudforum/index.php?t=tree&goto=3897776&rid=112&S=8deba233b77c958f5df0be61f8ad4143)

So not much of the family motivation for being here, rather the opposite.

[Ears are alight]

Good judgement there imo.

[Monty91]

there is no mention at all of him being compelled to leave the UK, only that he may have signed the new contract aftert the CL final because he didn't want to leave his kid.

[Monty91]

[Ears are alight]

any original work, didn't you? :hehe:

[Luis Anaconda]

"Lots of things have changed recently and I had to get away from everything English, including my wife unfortunately," Thierry Henry after his move from Arsenal to Barcelona

[Ears are alight]

[Monty91]

[Jake]

[Monty91]

to leave the UK :shrug:

[Snin]

[Mc Gooner]