Santa Cruz is a good player, a player who is good in the air and poaches around the penalty box. Adebayor was the one player who brought pace to our attacks, he was the one player who ran into channels and pulled defenders away from areas that allowed Cesc to run into
Now come on Arsenal, show your motivation and pay him more than Thierry Henry got because he deserves it, he has scored 30 goals a season for the last 5 seasons straight... oh
Certain people who have been organising petitions to get David Villa to Arsenal will be in for a shock today as the player has declared his desire to stay at Valencia
The fear is any good performances from the likes of Cesc, Van Persie, Walcott, Vela etc will attract the same ol same ol to come sniffing around next summer offering the world
My guess would be that Adebayor is very happy at Arsenal and wants to stay but his agent is helping him try and get the best deal possible which is obviously fair enough and it is what you do when it comes to negotiations.
Overmars, Petit, Vieira, Bergkamp and Henry have all departed and we wondered how they would be replaced but that is the thing, you do not replace an individual you restructure the team to make a competitive team capable to challenging for the top prizes
Cesc on the other hand showed what being a winner is all about, he never shirked any responsibility he came on and got himself on the ball as quickly as possible
I rate Peter Crouch as a footballer, and the preverbal good feet for a big man springs to mind but in my eyes he is not an Arsenal player and I do not imagine Arsene wanting a player who cannot get in behind a back four and run the channels as Adebayor does.
According to various tabloid we are after the diamond Guiza (sorry, that was poor) from Real Mallorca to replace Emmanuel Adebayor. No quotes or anything substantial
Arseblog are claiming that the deal is not sorted because Marseille want to wait for some reason until they are ready to announce it. Arsenal insider are claiming that Arsenal have to announce it first due to the stock market