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Arsenal is falling apart right before season kicks off. Locker room is a disaster, board and president are under attack by investors and the fans. Arsenal really need to spend money on quality players or the team will implodes.

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Emmanuel Adebayor seems to be set to permanently move to Spurs from City after being loaned there last season.

I really hope they make this happen. Ade held the ball very well for us last season, and even if he wasn't in position to make the big goals, he was always in the right spot to get others the chance to shoot. He's been very good for us, even if I don't believe he's been good enough for the outrageous pricetag he had with ManCity. A reasonable contract set, and I'd love to see him in a Spurs jersey again this year.

Lloris? This is the first I've heard of bringing him in, much less closing a deal. Interesting...

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Arsenal is falling apart right before season kicks off. Locker room is a disaster, board and president are under attack by investors and the fans. Arsenal really need to spend money on quality players or the team will implodes.

Arsen, what do you and the other Gooner fans think of RVP leaving and their trying to replace him with Giroud?
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Goddamn Sepp Blatter you are just terrible

http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/story/_/id/8159595/sepp-blatter-defends-role-fifa-kickbacks-scandal

Sepp Blatter defends scandal role

GENEVA -- FIFA president Sepp Blatter defended his role in a World Cup kickbacks scandal on Thursday, after his former boss Joao Havelange was formally identified for taking millions of dollars in payments from marketing deals.

FIFA published a Swiss prosecutor's report on Wednesday confirming that Havelange accepted kickbacks in the 1990s during Blatter's 17-year stint serving him as FIFA's top administrator.

Asked if he knew Havelange took kickbacks from disgraced marketing agency ISL, Blatter said "commission" payments were legal in Switzerland in the 1990s.

"I can't have known about an offense that wasn't even one," Blatter said in a question-and-answer sequence conducted by FIFA and published on its website. "Back then, such payments could even be deducted from tax as a business expense. Today, that would be punishable under law. You can't judge the past on the basis of today's standards."

Blatter acknowledged he was the senior FIFA figure identified in the dossier as "P1," who "would also have known" that a $1 million payment from ISL to Havelange was mistakenly transferred into a FIFA account.

Questions to Blatter failed to address his role in FIFA's attempts to ensure a criminal probe into possible embezzlement by Havelange and long-time FIFA executive committee member Ricardo Teixeira was dropped.

The report revealed that, in 2010, FIFA paid $2.77 million compensation to settle the ISL case only after insisting that proceedings against the two Brazilian officials were dropped.

Teixeira, the former son-in-law of Havelange, received at least $13 million from ISL between 1992-97.

Payments "attributed" to accounts connected to Havelange and Teixeria totaled almost $22 million from 1992-2000, Swiss prosecutor Thomas Hildbrand wrote.

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Arsen, what do you and the other Gooner fans think of RVP leaving and their trying to replace him with Giroud?

It's hard... Arsenal fans love RVP but believe Arsenal will do fine without him. Look in the past few years, every striker did great for Arsenal no matter who started. Arsenal survives more because of the system and not players. Giroud is 6'4 200lbs striker. He's a big boy. Montpellier screwed up by putting 13m buyout close on Giroud, dude is a monster and should of cost at least 30m. RVP is very injury prone and he never played a full season until last year but he's an awesome players when healthy. He's a true striker. He will not do tricks and he will not run away from anyone but he will score many goals in right system. Arsenal fans love him because he's been with Arsenal for almost 9 years. Imaging Steve Smith leaving the Panthers because he believes they're not in position to win anything. Sounds familiar?

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True enough Arsen, the system in place there is very consistent, even with only above average players (not saying your guys are), it can be implemented well. With great players, it takes off flying... it will be interesting to see how your guys do this year with all of the change-ups, but knowing Wenger, they'll be fine.

I really hope we're both gelled by the time the first darby hits...I look forward to our games the most during the season.

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