Arsenal Face Competition In Felipe Melo Bid
Premier League club Arsenal would have to confront stiff competition in their bid to sign the highly rated Fiorentina midfielder Felipe Melo.
The Gunners’ interest in the skillful Brazilian medio has earned interest from Arsenal, who are seemingly on the verge of making a bid for the 25-year old. The creative midfielder had earlier played for Spanish clubs Real Mallorca, Racing Santander and Almeria.
But according to the player’s agent, Arsenal are not the only club to have expressed an interest in the player. If Jose Rodrigo Bastos is to be trusted, then the London side would have to stave off the challenge of another European powerhouse.
Bastos said, “Felipe could become one of the great names of European football. Fiorentina have already taken steps to keep him by improving his contract.
“Apart from Arsenal, another powerhouse of European football has shown interest in Felipe.
“I believe that if he continues to play at these high levels then Fiorentina will have difficulty in retaining him.”
The question then is which is this mystery club? Any clue, anyone of you?
Topics: Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, English Premier League, Fiorentina, Football Transfers, Serie A
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Let me guess . It is that other North london team . Totenham Hotspurs. They always want players we try to sign. They took Luca Modruc from us, when we were about to sign him
January 1st, 2009 @ 13:25They said european power house mate that rules tottenham out straight away.
June 17th, 2009 @ 22:32The other big club is inter milan I beleive they have had there eye on him for a while.
I agree Tottenham arent an european powerhouse, they arent even in europe. I think its inter milan actually that have been also sniffing about! Wenger better move in quick time!!
June 18th, 2009 @ 15:09The other European club is Inter Milan. There’s no word on official bids yet but Inter would be making a 25 million euro bid and Arsenal are about to make a 15 million pound bid. Melo has said that he wants to go away from Fiorentina and he wants a move to no other club than Arsenal FC. So we can now pretty much expect Melo to be wearing an Arsenal shirt soon.
June 18th, 2009 @ 20:14i would like to thank manager Arsene Wenger for landing a 15 million pounds bid for Melo…i will also like him to bid a lot of Brazilian players who are talented players and may fit into the squad…… We need strikers…Hurray Arsene ,Hurray Arsenal and the staffs
June 21st, 2009 @ 16:42chelsea as always
June 24th, 2009 @ 10:40but wngr is gng to sign him
i thinks the other club is Juventus and i really hope wenger signs melo. it would also be good if he signs chamah from bordeux to replace adebayor
July 24th, 2009 @ 19:20