Schalke are not expecting a bid from Arsenal for Klaas-Jan Huntelaar in January, as they claim the Gunners do not have the money.
Arsenal signed forwards Olivier Giroud and Lukas Podolski in the summer, with Theo Walcott another attacking option, but they have been linked with a number of strikers - Netherlands international Huntelaar among them.
Reports have suggested Gunners boss Arsene Wenger has a substantial transfer kitty available to him and he has said he is looking for "top, top players". That assertion is at odds with the information Schakle have at their disposal.
"There have been no offers or any sign of Klaas-Jan leaving," Schalke general manager Horst Heldt is quoted as saying in the Sun.
"If someone comes to us six months before the expiry date, and has a lot of money, we will deal with it.
"But from Arsenal circles we hear there is no money anyway."
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I'm surprised to hear that- I would have thought that Huntelaar would have been the perfect fit at Arsenal.
Hes not too expensive and he is a prolific scorer of goals, somebody that could play up top with Giroud.
It also makes it sound like the transfer kitty wont be spent either.
No Klaas
posted on 29/11/12
Why should we listen to what Schalke's general manager has to say?
posted on 29/11/12
"There have been no offers or any sign of Klaas-Jan leaving," Schalke general manager Horst Heldt is quoted as saying in the Sun.
That is a quote that came from Sky Germany. Do you expect Heldt said otherwise?
posted on 29/11/12
Has anyone bothered to make sure that Arsene knows Huntelaar's "on the transfer list"?
posted on 29/11/12
We really need to something about Stan it's getting ridiculous. We can't afford Huntelaar who Wenger has been a long term fan of whom won't cost more than 10m. Yet we can throw away a similar amount through inflation of the 150m in the bank which is only there to push share prices up.
posted on 29/11/12
Apparently we paid £8m in corporation tax last year.
I love us being so financially sustainable.
posted on 29/11/12
Stan is genuinely going to ruin this club at this rate, there is no excuse for having 150m pound in the bank, what kind of business allows it self to go down hill and continues to take out the profits.
posted on 29/11/12
If Arsenal 'don't have the money for Huntelaar' then something is horrendously wrong.
Not to mention the fact that we've ended the transfer windows in profit for the last 6 or so years, and our ridiculously inflated ticket prices, we've just signed a massive new sponsorship deal ffs.
I smell BS