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Arteta Agrees New Five Year Deal !!!

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Norn Iron Toffee said:
Were the RS not recently sniffing around Defour? I agree that Donovan doesnt fill the hole Arteta would leave behind, but surely attacking creativity is more important than looking for a deep lying playmaker seeing as free spaces at the back of a midfield 5 are already at a premium? As long as any move is made soon and we have time to look for someone else, i'd totally back Mikel if he wanted to give Barca a few years. Prob his best chance at getting long overdue Spain caps too..
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No, if you can't control possession and during last 2 seasons we saw he we do it (or more - not do it) when we are playing without top deep playmaker like Arteta.
RS and MU were sniffing around Defour in the past, now it's Sevilla which interested in him, hopefully their interest will end, after they loaned Cigarini from Napoli.

chicoazul said:
If he did go, I'd go all out for Banega. He is the only mentioned on here who could replicate his role.

I'd rather Arteta like.
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I would prefer Defour, he would adjust quicker, and as good as Banega is, I have my doubts about his defensive game - don't know if it's good enough to allow him playing so deep in Premier League. Also, Defour will have a Fellaini as his teammate, I would guess it would allow him to settle much, much quicker. And there's many stories about Argies not being the happiest people playing in England.

And Banega is just not for sale...
 
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I hope if he does go it's just after the first home game of the season, you know, so we can give him a good send off. I think a collective spunk blast would do the trick nicely. Shotgun getting a ticket near the tunnel, so he'd hear me crying and screaming 'I love you' as I jizz myself into oblivion.
 

There's one good thing about this whole "Arteta to Barca" situation - it will be solved quickly, Guardiola definitely won't be willing to wait until last days of transfer window. One way or another, it will be done soon.
 
Though it would be very cool just to see Artet in a Barca jersey and playing in Camp Nou, that move would be devastating for Everton. It's been proven that he is irreplaceable. With him, Everton is a top 5 team. Without, and the Toffees drop 4 or 5 spots. If he does get sold, that money BETTER go into buying someone who can sniff what Arteta has done and can do for this team. I'm not even sure Benaga can do that.
 
Banega is a fantastic all round player.... We couldn't afford him now though. Even if we did sell Arteta, Barcelona are unlikely to pay more than 15m for him. I think valencia would be asking around the 20m mark.
 
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Valencia won't be asking for anything, there's a reason why Barcelona isn't interested in Banega, because they know he's not for sale. Valencia will compete in Champions League and Banega is the most important player in their current re-building mode

If Arteta transfer would happen, Barcelona IMHO would pay us for him around 20 milion euros, so we should have some money available after acquiring Mikel's replacement.
 

stinger said:
Valencia won't be asking for anything, there's a reason why Barcelona isn't interested in Banega, because they know he's not for sale. Valencia will compete in Champions League and Banega is the most important player in their current re-building mode

If Arteta transfer would happen, Barcelona IMHO would pay us for him around 20 milion euros, so we should have some money available after acquiring Mikel's replacement.
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To be honest if Barcelona were interested in Banega it wouldn't matter if he wasn't for sale or not. Just as in the case of Fabregas. If a club wants a player they will make enquiries and push it as far as they can, regardless of whether the players club want to sell or not.
 
Cash said:
To be honest if Barcelona were interested in Banega it wouldn't matter if he wasn't for sale or not. Just as in the case of Fabregas. If a club wants a player they will make enquiries and push it as far as they can, regardless of whether the players club want to sell or not.
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Okay, so Barcelona isn't interested in Banega, because he is not for sale and players seem to be relatively happy being there, with a Champions League competition ahead of him, as well as having team build around himself.
 
ToxtethBlue said:
That's true, Arteta's is a much more disciplined playmaker, Fabregas is more of a drifter, he likes to play further forward. For a playmaker, Arteta's defensive game is very capable, and in Spain the role is more about positioning and distribution, certainly in Barca's case, who always dominate possession.

I doubt this is true though.
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Yeah, actually, I think you're right there. Though tell Arteta that Barca want to play him as a down and dirty, play-breaker that's prepared to put his head between foot and ball and he'll leave the field looking like Terry Butcher's double every game. That should do it!!
 

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