Gird Your Loins, People: Freddie Might be Headed Our Way!
By: Martha | July 10th, 2007
No less authority than The Guardian (bow at its feet, if you please) is saying things this morning that make it sounds a hell of a lot like this Freddie Ljungberg-to-Fiorentina thing really might be happening.
Viola reps were in London yesterday for a formal meeting with Arsenal officials and, though the two teams are still about £1 million apart on a price, discussion are taking place, and it sounds as if there is some room for negotiation. At the moment, Fiorentina are reportedly offering “only” £5.5 million cash, but if the report that they’re willing to throw Valeri Bojinov in as well is true, that increases the value of the proposed deal in a huge way (their supposed asking price for him is over €10 million). When it comes to personal terms, the Viola would be willing to make Ljungberg their highest-paid player, but the £1.5 million/season he’d earn would nevertheless represent a significant salary cut for the Swede.
It’s been a crappy couple of years for Freddie in London, and if he’s finally healthy he’d certainly find more chances with Fiorentina than he would with Arsenal — one could certainly argue that, pay cut or not, it’s a move that might make sense for him. And, if reports at fierenzeviola.it (AKA my new favorite website) are to believed, the man himself agrees: They’re reporting the deal will be finalized later today. Be still my heart.
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How exactly does one go about girding one’s loins? Wait, don’t answer that…
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Remember the Russian supermodel I linked to yesterday? That’s her.
Boy, she really gets around.
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wonder how much he has left in the tank? from what i saw of him at arsenal last year, it wasn’t much. freddie will surely make le donne happy though.
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Chris, if you’re serious my mind is truly blow. Either way, I’m glad you appreciate the chick — I thought of you and Mike when I chose not to feature one of just Naked!Freddie.
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Please don’t think of Chris and I when perusing at your nude Freddie collection. Thanks!
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Yup, her name is Natalia Vodianova.
I knew there was a reason I took Russian in college. This Eastern Bloc road trip is an absolute necessity at this point.
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Brilliant Martha! You managed to squeeze nearly-naked Ljungan in there without having it count against the Chris’s topless male quota, because there is a nearly-naked woman topping Freddie. So to speak. AND it turns out to be Chris’s Russian supermodel fetish! Stroke of genius.
Really, I love and adore Arsenal, but I simply don’t have time in my life to follow 3 leagues, so rolling Freddie into Serie A would be nice. And it would give him more playing opportunities, provided he can stay healthy. Cept I wouldn’t know who to root for during Milan – Fiorentina games…
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*blinks* Well I tried to leave a brilliant comment, complimenting you, but the computer claims it’s sp*m. So it may later show up out of context and order… Perhaps it was the word f*tish.
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“It is reported that Fiorentina have offered Ljungberg a four-year contract worth £1.5m per season, but the wages will be topped up by a series of sponsorship and modeling deals.”
Cue the tighty-whitey D&G ads…
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