ARSENAL REJECT BARCA BID FOR HENRY!!!

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Barcelona had a £16 million offer for Arsenal striker Thierry Henry rejected this week.

AS says Barca president Joan Laporta is unlikely to end his interest there and will return with an improved bid.

Laporta and Henry have a good relationship thanks to their days together with Nike and the French striker is still to hold serious talks with the Gunners about a new contract extension.

Henry's current deal expires in 2007 and Gunners boss Arsene Wenger has intimated he'd like to see the striker secured to a new two-year contract extension.

Laporta is expected to up his bid, but the size of the offer - and its ultimate success - may depend on Barca's negotiations over a new shirt sponsorship agreement with Chinese interests.



that shirt sponsorship would be worth £15m a year - get a £15m lump sum - will arsenal turn down £30m - who knows

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£16m is very cheeky IMO - but they should raise it significantly

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or hang on - how about instead of henry - try getting

liam miller
david bellion
kleberson


how much would u say??

[w4s1m786]

Do you always talk to yourself

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LOL - took u all of 20mins to come up with that! - well done. The other comments were just afterthoughts

[Amjid Javed]

£16 milll?

lol... what a lame offer...

go buy emile heskey

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i know - £16m is taking the mick - probably have to double it

[Amjid Javed]

i know - £16m is taking the mick - probably have to double it

i hope wenger told laporta to shove that bid where the sun dont shine...

barca shud sign bellion the new henry! :P

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LOL
but it will be interesting when barca get the cash for their shisrt sponsorship so they could offer about £35m

[HAFRIDI]

LOL at 16 mil, barca the tramps

[ImranR]

hahahahaah £16M.This is even worse then the £15M bid by arsenal for Kaka

[nufc]

Chelsea bid £50m for him last season and it got rejected..

[HAFRIDI]

lol yeh and barca expect 16 mil will seal him lmaoooooooooo

:))) :))) :))) :))) :))) :))) :))) :))) :))) :))) :))) :))) :))) :))) :)))

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hafridi - u have to start at something - that is available amount of cash till shirt monry come is - which then means they can bid £35m for henry

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i say they should bid about 25 mil

[Geordie Ahmed]

£16 million is a joke offer BUT Laporta isnt no mug.

I think he is trying to unsettle Henry here - why shud Barca bid £30mil if Henry wants to leave???

16m bob is taking the mickey. He's worth well over 35m!

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GA - has hit nail on the head - plus they have links from nike and are quite friendly - henry's contract expires in 2007 - will he resign? or will they cash him in? who knows - but a £35m bid would be very very interesting.


I know someone said they rejected £50m from chelsea - i am sure arsenal would prefer to see henry go abroad if he did leave

[Amjid Javed]

£16 million is a joke offer BUT Laporta isnt no mug.

I think he is trying to unsettle Henry here - why shud Barca bid £30mil if Henry wants to leave???

henry doesnt want to leave!

barca can folk out 100 mill and wenger will slap it back in barca`s face

[Amjid Javed]

GA - has hit nail on the head - plus they have links from nike and are quite friendly - henry's contract expires in 2007 - will he resign? or will they cash him in? who knows - but a £35m bid would be very very interesting.


I know someone said they rejected £50m from chelsea - i am sure arsenal would prefer to see henry go abroad if he did leave

funny that has henry said hes unhappy @ arsenal? NO

have arsenal said they wana sell him? NO

laporta is trying to make a joke bid now as henry is negotiating a contract extension....!

arsenal dont need 2 cash in on henry....!

lol keep dream WIY....

eto and heskey is best ul get next year. :))) :)))

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hmm - actually we play lone striker with giuly just off him.

AND U KEEP saying wenger will slap it back in laporta's face - how will he do that when peter hill wood has final say - wenger didnt want to accept viera bid last year but hill wood did as was cae with manu petit in past

[HAFRIDI]

wat bid? viera?

[nufc]

last year bro

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£20m from real!!!! that is all they offered and hill wood accepted despite wenger wanting him to stay

[Amjid Javed]

if arsenal reject 50 mil for chelsea... when they gona accept any less from barca?

[umerz]

16 million .........was that a joke......are u sure they offered for henry ....16 million for VAn persie isnt bad.........50 million by real and Chelski were rejected two years ago

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umerz - football market is in recession big time - no way could real offer £50m now - only side that could do that is chelsea. AJ what i am saying is

would hill wood rather sell henry to chelsea for £50m

or to barca for £35m

i would think he would go for barca option - wont have henry to face that often

[Amjid Javed]

umerz - football market is in recession big time - no way could real offer £50m now - only side that could do that is chelsea. AJ what i am saying is

would hill wood rather sell henry to chelsea for £50m

or to barca for £35m

i would think he would go for barca option - wont have henry to face that often

why wud arsenal want 2 sell there best player?

USE some common sense plz...!

ur making out as thou arsenal have no choice but 2 sell!

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that isnt the case - anelka was a fine player.

I could well see a possible swpa where etoo might be offered to arsenal as a last resort

[Amjid Javed]

that isnt the case - anelka was a fine player.

I could well see a possible swpa where etoo might be offered to arsenal as a last resort

anelka didnt want 2 stay... a big difference....! :L? :L?

wiy bhai, plz dont get confused...!

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i am not - all i am saying is that laporta said he will break bank for henry - the only player he would do that for - so who knows - but if it doesnt happen this season it wont happen.

To tell u truth i myself didnt believe we could get him but one of my housemates who is a huge arsenal fan kept saying he thought henry had, had enough - who knows

[ImranR]

WIY would you stop dreaming.Henry is going nowhere.

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he is a luxury - the dream was van bommel and he is in

[ImranR]

he is a luxury - the dream was van bommel and he is in

The dream was Van Bommel the same player Tottenham wanted to sign :))) :))) :)))

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LOL - umer there arent that many players spurs havent wanted to sign!

van bommel is in peak of his career and he was on a bosman, he is an EU player so that is perfect for barca - just what they were looking at.

Ac milan also wanted van bommel as did a certain manchester club

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PSV Eindhoven have confirmed Mark van Bommel will leave the club but are uncertain if the midfielder has agreed to join Barcelona.
Van Bommel's contract at Philips Stadion expires in the summer and he has long been expected to leave the Dutch champions on a free transfer.
Barcelona have been perennial favourites to sign the 28-year-old, despite interest from the likes of Milan, Real Madrid and Tottenham Hotspur.
The Catalan outfit's president Joan Laporta claimed over the weekend that van Bommel has agreed, in principle, to move to Camp Nou next season.
But while PSV have now acknowledged van Bommel is quitting Eindhoven, they are unsure who the talismanic midfielder will join.
"He hasn't confirmed anything himself yet," PSV president Rob Westerhof told Sky Sports News.
"I suppose that he will be going either to Barcelona or one of the other big European teams that have been mentioned.
"It's a pity but I can understand him. He is 28 and he will make a lot of money but we hope that he will come back three or four years later to PSV.
"He's definitely leaving, that's what he has told us. It's not a matter that he wanted to leave but, from his perspective, he can play for one of the great European teams.
"We will know in a few weeks whether the Barcelona story is true or not."
Westerhof also confirmed that Manchester United have been watching van Bommel and outlined the qualities the Holland international will bring to his new club.
He added: "I saw Alex Ferguson watching him and several other clubs.
"You never know how far that has gone as his manager has been very quiet all the time about which way it's going.
"Van Bommel is a player who would be of interest to any top club. He makes goals, controls the midfield, is dangerous and is a little bit of a nasty player in a positive way, like Roy Keane."


a strory before van bommel signed

[Jameel]

Henry wont leave. I hope he does, but he probably wont. He seems happy where he is with so many of his fellow countrymen.

[Amjid Javed]

jameel, henry is just a smoke screen. expect barca to sign heskey!

:))2

[Geordie Ahmed]

jameel, henry is just a smoke screen. expect barca to sign heskey!

If he scores goals like he did against Arsenal then he will be good

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HESKEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY - the brute - am sure even heskey could look world class playing alongside ronnyd