The San Siro hero hopes to put his injury troubles behind him and re-start his White Hart Lane career.

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David Beckham is one for springing surprises on people. His 1997/98 opener lob from the halfway line. His garish sarong. His infamous 1998 World Cup exit. His move to LA Galaxy.

He surprised many by maintaining his ambition to play for England by maneuvering a Loan deal to Milan. He also sprang a further surprise by playing considerably well for the Rossoneri.

Now the cherry on the cake has well and truly arrived. [Read the rest of this entry »]

Reports are emerging that Portsmouth are in talks with Jose Mourinho’s Inter Milan over the sale of one of Pompey’s best performers of the 2007/2008 season. [Read the rest of this entry »]

The Guardian were one of he first to break the news that Chelsea have been getting very serious with AC Milan over buying Brazilian megastar Kaka. [Read the rest of this entry »]

Ac Milan have finally admitted that they have no chance of signing the Arsenal striker identified as their only summer transfer target, after being priced out of the market.

The Rossoneri had said that they wanted to bring Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor to the San Siro, but faced competition from Spanish giants Barcelona. However, apart from agent claims that a deal was “80% done”, nothing has gone Milan’s way. As vice president Adriano Galliani states, Milan have seemingly been priced out of the chase:

Adebayor is overridden by continuous requests for €45million. These figures are impossible for clubs in Italy.

Galliani went on to complain that Milan cannot compete with the apparent endless wealth of some of Europe’s biggest players, with transfer targets heading for the bigger stage of England or Spain:

The top footballers in the world do not come here [to Serie A] any more.

When big clubs like Barcelona and Chelsea arrive it is impossible to compete because they have a much more advantageous fiscal situation.

The news will in no way change the stance of Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, who has always maintained that he was not fazed by the speculation and that Adebayor was going nowhere:

He’s under contract and that’s quite simple. I can tell you as manager of Arsenal I’m not worried.

Of course I expect him to be at Arsenal next season – he’s under contract.

But with Adebayor publicly flip-flopping over a move away from the Emirates Stadium and Camp Nou’s busy summer not yet over, is the saga put to bed by the claims from Milan or has it just made it a one-horse race?

After weeks of the two clubs releasing statements saying how close they were to signing the player, Barca and Milan look like they will miss out on Arsenal’s 30-goal hero after he declared he wanted to stay at the Emirates Stadium.

Emmanuel Adebayor was expected to leave Arsenal in a £25million deal for either the San Siro or Camp Nou, with even his agent, Vincenzo Morabito, yesterday claiming a deal with Milan was “80% certain”. However, today the Togolese striker looks to have scuppered any chance of signing him:

I’ve three more years with Arsenal, I have a good contract, we have a good team there and I’m playing for one of the biggest teams in the world.

The most important thing for me is to keep on enjoying my football. I’m staying at Arsenal.

He went on to explain that his decision was not motivated by the £120,000 a week he was supposedly demanding and that he was happy in the Premiership:

I was born in Togo so I never cared about playing for money, my happiness was to play to enjoy myself. That’s what I’ve been doing until now.

You can see people changing clubs because of money, because they want a change of atmosphere or to get their names in the big leagues. I just play football to enjoy myself. I play because I love it.

He also insisted he wanted to stay in London and concentrate on building on last seasons title challenge:

We all have the same ideas and we all want to achieve something. We have a good boss which is Arsene Wenger, he tries to bring this atmosphere to the dressing room where we feel like brothers and like family.

Those are the reasons that give us a chance to play the football we play. We play good football, now we look forward to winning trophies.

This statement may come as a relief to Arsenal fans, who would undoubtedly find it hard to replace their 30-goal hero. However, with his agent saying a deal was 80% done, do agents play too big a role in drumming up stories about star’s moves, simply to earn some money?

AC Milan are in pole position to beat Chelsea and Manchester City in the race to sign a world-beating Brazillian star. [Read the rest of this entry »]

In the race to sign Arsenal’s Togolese striker Emmanuel Adebayor, AC Milan look to have admitted defeat, just a few days after AC Milan vice president Adriano Galliani proclaimed that he was to be their only transfer target this summer: [Read the rest of this entry »]

The Telegraph reports that Arsenal’s Togo international is set to politely ask the Arsenal suits if they would mind awfully if he left and went to Ac Milan

. “Further discussions are planned in the next few weeks but reports in Italy suggest that Adebayor will use the next meeting to tell the club, via his French agent Stephane Courbis, that he would like to move to the San Siro. (Telegraph)“

With the player looking like he’d fancy swapping the Emirates for the San Siro, and with the Rossoneri apparently ready to offer £32 million for his services should Arsene just cash in and go hunting for a replacement (who he’ll no doubt unearth for 50 pence)?

Arsenal’s Togolese striker Emmanuel Adebayor has agreed a deal with Ac Milan, according to reports in Italy.

La Gazzetta Dello Sport revealed that the striker met with representatives of the Rossoneri and agreed a deal. However, the terms of the transfer have not yet been agreed, with Milan president Silvio Berlusconi yet to positively respond to Arsenal’s supposed €40million (£31.7million) asking price.

As Gazetta writer Andrea Schianchi explains:

Everything possible has already been done: the agreement with the player (and what a player!) is in place, which is already a major step. Now it comes down to Berlusconi’s decision and then negotiations with the Arsenal management.

However, this scenario has occured at Milan before. The £23.7million transfer of Azzuri defender Alessandro Nesta from Lazio in 2003 had a similar rocky path to completition.

Schianchi expands on this:

Berlusconi officially announced that he would not buy the defender [Nesta] because the asking price was too high: the player was signed just three days later

The journalist then goes on to do his best to convince Berlusconi that the striker is worth the money:

Considering his age (24), the player would be an investment for the future; certainly more so than Drogba (30) or Eto’o (27, but has suffered several leg injuries). If the deal were to go through Milan’s forward line would need no further adjustments for several years: Pato is 18 years old, Kaka 26 and Adebayor 24. In short, Berlusconi should spend now to save in the future.

So will Adebayor remain at the Emirates for next season? According to La Gazzetta, it is only a matter of a decision from Berlusconi, yet I somehow think it is a bit more than this. Surely Wenger won’t freely allow Adebayor, last seasons top scorer, to leave so easily, especially with only youngster Vela and recovering Eduardo his alternatives.

Thoughts?