Gunners want Gourcuff - Maybe.

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Yoann Gourcuff, a player that we have been continuously linked with over the past two seasons, has once again been summoned and is the freshest player being linked with us. Apparently we looked at him while he was at Milan - he went to Bordeaux at the end of AC Milans 08 campaign on loan, and sealed the deal at the end of 09, despite Milans best efforts to keep him at the San Siro.

Quick Facts
Yoann Miguel Gourcuff
French
23 years old
Midfielder
Bordeaux
Last Season: Played 42 - Goals 9 - Assists 10 

Is there anything in this transfer rumour? Well, someone seems to think so:
“While every effort is being made to keep Cesc at the club the boss is working towards an alternative.
“He believes Gourcuff’s finesse and grace will fit perfectly to Arsenal’s way of playing and will make it an almost seamless transition if Cesc does go.”
That is the quote of an 'Arsenal source' - and the source of this is The Sun. So then, transfer dismissed? I don't know. That quote above could well of been fabricated from what we want to hear, or it may not be a reliable source (This is the Sun, right?) , time will tell I guess.

If this was to happen, I could only see it happening if Cesc was to join up with his Catalonian roots - which is still something I wouldn't like to bet my house on, either way. It is clear to me Gourcuff is a quality player full of trickery, guile, technique and a canny amount of flair. I'll let you be the judge of that with this video, the maker of whom already thinks Gourcuff is a gunner. A little too conclusive, wouldn't you say?



O.K, that maybe a little long winded, so if you want something to tell you what this lad is all about, look to further than this short clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdVzzvMEG08&feature=related (Embedding disabled)

Rumour has it that Manchester Utd are also looking for him to sign on the dotted line. I think we hold the cards here. London, Chamakh, Wenger? He'd love it.

Have a good 'un gooners.

The Evil Witch of the Grassy Pitch

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When I was going to the pitch my granddad said "Where are you going?." "The pitch" I replied, "What pitch?", "The grass pitch" I said. "Ok, I will see you later."

So when I was at the pitch my friend asked "What foot do you shoot with?" , "Both of them" I told him, " But I am good in goals as well." So he asked me to go into goals.
When I was in goal I looked up and saw a witch! She came down and took my friend and I screamed "Oh No!! He was my only friend!" I went after her and grabbed on to the broom and flrew with the witch. She brought us to her house and licked us up in a cell.
Later on I looked out of the cell and saw that the weather was disgraceful. While we were sitting in the cell she was signing a contract. I asked her what hand she wrote with, she said her right. Then I asked when we’d be going home. "NEVER!!" she screamed! So I snatched the keys and when the witch was asleep I got out and ran for life. I said "Bye bye!" to the witch and threw her keys back at her. She chased me and I ran and said "Don’t touch mne you old, ugly witch!" She stopped running and said "Yeah I am really ugly" and she fell to the ground and the cold got to her so she died. We all lived happily ever after.



James Hayes 4th class

Our Stories

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My Story
(Based on my spellings)

My uncle asked me "Would you like to go fishing?"
I said "Which rod will I be using?"
He answered, "I'll tell you when we get there."
We got to the harbour and we took out our rods and then threw the line in.
My Uncle said "I think I have something".
"What is it?" I asked.
"It's a salmon!" he answered.

I thought to myself, 'I could write a story about this...'

By Luke Murphy

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The Naughty Boy


I looked at the weather - which was bad.

I went to see what it was to be like tomorrow. As a stood there looking, a witch flew across the sky.

"What are you going to do to me?" I asked.
" You have been a naughty boy," she answered.

By Jordan Delaney

Cesc Fabregas to Become Highest ever paid Gunner ( Arsene Wenger may increase his salary To 110,000 pounds a week)

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Arsenal handed Cesc Fabregas an unprecedented £3 million ‘golden handcuffs’ payment and upped his wages by nearly 50 per cent to £110,000-a-week to keep him at the club, 

The incredible package, which is believed to have been formalised last summer after lengthy negotiations, was agreed to compensate the Spaniard for his relatively ‘below-par’ salary.

It made Fabregas the highest-paid player in Arsenal’s history and has given the club hope that he will once again ignore advances from the Continent this summer and stay at Emirates Stadium.

In 2006, Fabregas signed an eight-year contract, which was worth an initial £60,000-per-week with annual increments built in. 

But the player and his agent Darren Dein began talks in 2008 to renegotiate the terms of the deal with the club to reflect his growing status as one of the finest young players in the world.

The board were so desperate to hang on to the player they signed from Barcelona at 16 that they finally sanctioned an unprecedented deal to not only increase his salary from £80,000-per-week to £110,000-a-week but also back-date his pay for two years to compensate him for being underpaid over that period compared to other elite Premier League players.

The result was the player received a one-off sum, equivalent to a signing-on-fee, of around £3m, which was effectively £1.5m, or £30,000-a-week, for each of those two years.

“Arsenal were so desperate to keep him,” said a boardroom source. “He has become the club’s talisman and the figurehead for the new generation. His status is similar to what Thierry Henry’s once was.

“Fabregas and his advisers know they have the club over both barrels.”


Big earners | Fabregas deal surpassed Henry's
Henry was also represented by Dein when he struck a similarly hard bargain as he contemplated whether to move to Barcelona in 2006. The switch was finally completed 14 months later.

The former Arsenal striker was paid the equivalent of £200,000-a-week during his final season in north London, when Dein was in charge of contract negotiations.

Henry received a £5m signing-on fee when he put pen to paper on the four-year deal, which was topped up by a £5m salary.

Although there was anger among some of the directors that the signing-on fee had not been spread out over the entirety of the contract, it appears that the board have been forced into a similarly tight corner with Fabregas.

Nevertheless, Arsenal are confident that the secret deal will help ward off predators, principally Barcelona, this summer.

It has taken the player near to the top of Europe’s high-pay league and has made him comfortably the highest earner at the club, above manager Arsene Wenger, William Gallasand Andrey Arshavin.

“Arsenal have been loyal to Fabregas and believe he will be loyal to them,” added the insider. “They know he can earn equally good money, if not better, elsewhere but there are two things in Arsenal’s favour.

“Fabregas is in awe of Arsene Wenger because he feels he owes his career to him and he is also a pragmatic man. He knows that he is young and Barcelona can wait.”

Although Arsenal’s transfer spending has been constrained by the construction of Emirates Stadium, that has not stopped them sanctioning big wage hikes for many of their players.

Seventeen players have been given improved contracts this season and the wage bill is believed to have increased to £115m, the third highest in the Premier League.