The 35 year old defender, Sol Campbell, has admitted that he would have stayed at Arsenal for another year, but Wenger “had a certain budget to spend on wages” and wouldn’t move on it. So when Newcastle offered him a better deal (and a two year contract) he had no problem accepting the move.
But Campbell [...]
Arsene Wenger has admitted that he was keen on bringing Sol Campbell back to Arsenal next season, but says that he wasn’t too surprised that he chose to move to Newcastle instead.
Campbell has just moved into a new house in Northumbria with his new bride, and with Newcastle being local and promising the 36 year-old [...]
It has just been announced that Sol Campbell has decided to sign for Newcastle United this season after declining offers from Celtic, Sunderland and Arsenal.
Campbell has just returned from his honeymoon and it looks like he has chosen family life over long-distance travelling, as he and his new wife have just moved into a newly [...]
All the papers today are suddenly certain again that the Fulham keeper Mark Schwarzer is definitely on his way to the Emirates, and the word is that Arsene Wenger has told both Manuel Almunia and Lukasz Fabianski that neither of them will be first-choice keeper in the new season.
This rumour has been never-ending since the [...]
According to a report today, Arsene Wenger is not in a hurry to sign another defender as backup to Laurent Koscielny and Thomas Vermaelen, because he is nearly certain that Sol Campbell will re-sign for another year at Arsenal.
The London Standard “understands” that as soon as Campbell returns from his honeymoon, he will be back [...]
The transfer window is getting more interesting as the new season approaches, and the Sol Campbell saga has been second only to Joe Cole in the suspense stakes. But it is being reported today that Campbell has made a final decisuion to play for Newcastle next season.
A report on ESPN said: Newcastle United have managed [...]
Sol Campbell said at the end of last season that he was very keen on being taken back on by Arsenal for the coming year, but while Arsene Wenger has been away at the World Cup Finals, the 35 year-old has been looking at his various options for next season.
Celtic boss Neil Lennon has made [...]
After all the excitement this week, it seems that most of the Arsenal transfer rumours have been saying that Mark Schwarzer is nailed on to be the next arrival at the Emirates. It has even been reported that he had a second medical, which normally means that all the other formalities have been concluded.
But, alas, [...]
Thomas Vermaelen joined Arsenal last summer, and quickly fitted into the team and made an impact from the start, but the Arsenal legend Martin Keown doubts that Laurent Koscielny will be integrated quite so easily.
He is worried that because of Laurent Koscielny’s inexperience, he may not be able to get used to the pace of [...]
The Celtic manager Neil Lennon is pulling out all the stops to convince Sol Campbell to move to Parkhead next season, and he has even suggested that he will take the captaincy off Scott Brown if Campbell agrees to move to Scotland.
When Lennon was asked about whether Brown would still be captain next season, he [...]