Arsenal on the verge of missing out on talented Frenchman

Arsenal on the verge of missing out on talented French youngster

Arsenal appear to be on the verge of missing out on signing Toulouse powerhouse Etienne Capoue with the French club having accepted an £8.6 million offer from newly promoted Welsh club Cardiff City.

Toulouse chairman Olivier Sadran has given Arsenal fans cause for optimism, having told L’Equipe, “Now the clubs interested in Etienne have to know we will not accept any offer inferior to the one from Cardiff,” thereby suggesting that the club is still open to receiving more offers for the defensive midfielder.



Arsenal though will need to move fast if they are serious about adding Capoue to their squad before he can sit down with Cardiff for contract talks. The 25 year old French international is believed to not be in any particular hurry to make the move though as he thinks he can land himself a bigger club and doesn’t particularly want to be involved in a relegation dog fight.

Capoue is a very talented player and it is a tad surprising that there are no other suitors yet for his signature, but there is still over a month to go before the transfer window closes and a lot can happen in that time.

Just because he's having talks doesn't mean hes going to sign.
The only way we would get players of his calibre is to offer silly wages.
Most players would normally want to compete and win trophys, I don't think that's going to happen here. Not for a while anyway

Reading between the lines this is another Ince situation all over again.

Just hope Malky doesnt let it drag on as long as Ince.

Reading between the lines this is another Ince situation all over again.

Just hope Malky doesnt let it drag on as long as Ince.

It very much looks that way.

However, I think we have a two fold transfer strategy 1. Sign very good promising players (Cornelius/Brayford) 2. Still pursue a marquee signing such as Etienne Capoue.

We seem to be doing very well on the first but the latter was always going to be a struggle against the odds, but fair play MM is still plugging away.

Reading between the lines this is another Ince situation all over again.

Just hope Malky doesnt let it drag on as long as Ince.

To be fair. Ince was blown to the papers. As soon as he got back from his holiday
he came down to meet with Malky. Malky gave him the extra day or so because
of the birth of his baby, fair enough. He wasnt to know that the reason Paul Ince
got his lad down here for the day was to try and force a Bigger Club to make a move.
The media coverage was all instigated by Paul Ince knowing that by the time his
son got back off his holiday everyone would know Cardiff were interested. This
was all about Paul Ince taking the piss but if you look at the actual timescale from
when the Club made an official bid to when the spoilt little c**t said no - there
wasnt that much wrong

Nothing like Ince at the moment.

It has been a day since the bid has been accepted.