by Sabre » Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:48 pm
Of course Igor.
The article says that Arsenal is ready to pay something in the region of 14M pounds for Xabi, and the article goes as far as saying that Ibañez, Alonso's agent, is already in talks with Arsenal. According to that journo, Xabi's well aware of this interest and doesn't dislike the idea.
The article explains this situation as a fall out between Xabi and Rafa that led to a point of no return. The source of all this, always according to publico, was the refusal of Alonso to go to Milan, and the article remembers a Rafa's quote the one of "we can't wait for a player".
Dunno Igor mate, Publico is a relatively new paper that I don't know well but they seem to tackle the news always with a controversial touch. No quotes there, so I wouldn't take that too seriously.
It would be interesting to know though whether Rafa would allow Alonso going to Arsenal.
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