Baptista and Reyes cause more headaches for Arsenal
For all the praise Arsene Wenger has received over his transfer policies, there are a handful of transfer deals in the last couple of years that haven’t quite come off.
Two of the biggest examples of these ‘failures’ (they aren’t failures but considering Arsenal’s success they seem like failures) are Baptista and Reyes.
As things stand right now, Reyes is 50-50 for staying in Real Madrid (Real Madrid would probably agree to a swap deal with Baptista or pay 10m or less, both of which would be unacceptable to Arsenal) and Arsenal Baptista has almost no chance of staying at Arsenal (chances of a miraculous recovery were shot down by Baptista himself.
Baptista’s turnaround is not too surprising but considering how ‘happy’ he was pushed as being at the start of the season, this is full circle for Baptista at Arsenal.
Here’s Baptista bitching about the weather and the Premiership:
“The weather over here is killing me. We get one day of sunshine for every 30 days of rain.
The Premiership is very hard. I enjoy making clever touches but the game is so fast I don’t have time to think.”
Here’s Baptista talking about his future:
“I could stay at Arsenal but right now I can’t see myself anywhere for definite.
But it is clear in my mind that I’d tackle a second chance with Real with far more maturity than I did my first.
My girlfriend and my mother are frightened about not seeing the sun in England. They miss being in Madrid.”
Here’s proof that he’s learned one thing from Arsenal:
“The teams from the north of England are terrible. When we play them I have counted their centre-backs booting up to 30 long balls upfield per game.
The moment you stop to think, someone has taken the ball off you and knocked you to the ground.
Over here they value a corner kick more than a fancy flick. I am lucky to be with Arsenal, as they are a team that likes to play proper football.”
Not relentless whining, you negative fucks – proper football, of course.
And the absolute inability to score.
[Source: BBC]
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Who cares on both accounts! Wow am I glad we didnt get him 2 years ago! He will go back to Madrid, I cant see a future for him at Arsenal.
As for Reyes, who cares. If he comes back he will play and add that something we really missed this season. But I think Arsenal will cut their losses and take what they can get for him. Perhaps we could sell him to a third division team in Siberia.
April 19th, 2007 @ 17:17hell i hope we make reyes come back, it will be funny to watch. either that or makeweight for torres
April 19th, 2007 @ 17:34What’s he on about – the last 15 days have been glorious sunshine – better than Spain where it’s been pissing down!
April 19th, 2007 @ 17:53I know soccer players aren’t geniuses (Rooney’s autobiography makes that pretty clear) but surely these comments can’t be taken seriously as anything other than excuses.
I live in Australia and I haven’t been to England since I was three, but even if I hadn’t (particularly if I had been living in Spain, driving distance from England) I WOULD ALREADY FUCKING KNOW THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE COLD!
As for the traditional, faster game less talent, argument – it’s not like the rules are different in England. Maybe Baptista hasn’t had enough (meaningful) international caps to realize that the other team’s defence aren’t on your side.
I must say I have a general distaste for the above argument in general if players were able to look outside their own ego and stop making their excuses they would see that good sides have to be able to be flexible in the way they play. If Roma had’ve been more pro-active (read: less shit) in their defence against United they might’ve settled into the game instead of sitting back and being blown away in the opening 15 minutes.
April 19th, 2007 @ 19:06I can tell you one thing. The chances of Madrid paying £10mill or €18mill. for Reyes are slim to none. The only possibilty would be a swap but i doubt Arsenal would agree to that.
April 19th, 2007 @ 19:29I don’t even think Madrid is keen on a swap anymore. Reyes has been even more of a disappointment than Baptista. I never wanted Baptista to go in the first place after the last 10 games he played in 2005-2006, practically carrying the team on his shoulders to ensure we got second place. It was ridiculous of these new idiots in charge to do this deal. Thankfully for us he’s failed in England and wants to come back. They say humans are above animals because they don’t trip over the same stick twice, let’s see if that’s true in the case of Mijatovic and Calderon.
April 19th, 2007 @ 19:56Arsenal has almost no chance of staying at Arsenal ?
April 19th, 2007 @ 23:40*Off Topic*
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Well Boohoooooo Mr Crybaby!!! Bitchin’ about the weather, OMG!!! are you in 6th grade or something?? Is your girlfriend’s tan getting pale? Does your mom have to wear wool stocking to keep her c*nt warm???…Childish behavior absolutely childish !! You have no time to think on the pitch?? are you actually admitting to your incompetence? Will someone buy this man a electric heater Pleaaasseee!!!!
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April 20th, 2007 @ 10:30Baptista will be an Arsenal player next season. Wenger has been chasing him for a while and he is not going to give up on him after one season.
Reyes will go on the other hand, he clearly does not want to be an Arsenal player and Wenger will not keep him.
April 20th, 2007 @ 17:47Jade that was a comment worthy of a 6th grader. Maybe you made that comparison because you hear these sort of comments from your fellow students every day?
April 20th, 2007 @ 18:36We need wide players, Ribery will be good on the right,, but we still need a left winger. we are fine upfront and through the middle.We miss Pires.
May 13th, 2007 @ 07:43Reyes was not a bad buy, he played decent and scored some big goals, you dont know their going to sulk about the weather. Reyes will stay in spain, Baptista back to spain and we’ll use the money for Ribery.
Our worst season since wengers been in charge, atleast were not tottenham!
Baptista is a waste of space. i want Reyes back. at least he could make opportunities and net a few himself.
May 18th, 2007 @ 17:06i rekon that we should keep baptita because he has done wonders for us this season were as reyes just ditched us for spain n all he did was fall on the floor and cry
May 28th, 2007 @ 14:08fair play to th14 that true what we could do with money if we sold reyes and got rid off baptita
May 28th, 2007 @ 14:10