Are Marseille playing hard ball over Ben Arfa?
Posted on August 11th, 2010 | 130 Comments |
Maybe it just seems that way as it involves our club? Possibly, but for a move that had seemed pretty certain earlier in the week there doesn’t seem to be a lot happening with regard to it.
You can take a look at any number of sources for the latest information regarding the transfer, and I am willing to bet that you won’t find two articles that are reporting the same. The deal is on, the deal is off, Newcastle agree a deal, then they don’t and so on. At the end of the day it is the amount of time that the deal is taking that is causing these different stories.
The facts are that nothing has really changed. Nothing was ever going to happen during this week as Ben Arfa is with the France squad preparing for their friendly match tonight. To think that this delay caused by the international break means anything has changed with regard to a potential deal would be a bit silly.
Whether there is any deal in place, or whether there will be any deal at all are both questions that I don’t know the answer to, but every bit of news is being scrutinized, and what every person ‘in the know’ (and there appears to be millions of them at the minute) says is being scrutinized for any little bits of information.
That is understandable as I think that most fans want to seen exciting players at Newcastle, and Ben Arfa is one of them types. If he comes here then great, if he doesn’t then we haven’t missed out on anything. Well we have, but think back a few weeks and ask yourself if you would have imagined us trying to sign someone like Hatem Ben Arfa back then? I bet the answer will have been no, correct?
At the end of the day, not that much has changed really. There have been reports that Marseille have cancelled talks with Newcastle today, but are there any quotes to back that up? Probably not.
We’ll just have to wait and see what happens with this, although I can understand that our past history with regard to dragging out transfer dealings may well be playing on peoples minds. As it stands, nothing has been ruled out, by either club. That is how I see it anyway.
We shall just have to wait and see!
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