Arsenal Set To Welcome Brazilian Trialists
Arsenal have booked out four hotel rooms for a one month period with Arsène Wenger believed to be welcoming a selection of Brazilian’s to the club for trials, Young Guns has learnt.
The hotel in question is the same one used famously by Andrey Arshavin as he nervously waited to complete his move to Arsenal in January. The nationalities and ages of the players are unknown yet it’s thought one room is for returning wing-back Pedro Botelho, and that the other three are also from Brazil and are all youngsters.
They would join, or may even include, Mirassol centre back Luis Gustavo Conte and Fluminense winger Wellington in spending time at London Colney. A second look at the pair wouldn’t be the most bizarre thing, but it would be a surprise as they already impressed when they spent 7 days with the club around Christmas time.
The news is encouraging as Manchester United have already shown the benefits of investing and taking a firm interest in the Brazilian market, and Wenger has already reaped the rewards of talent from South America with Edu, Gilberto, Denilson and the aforementioned Pedro Botelho all making the switch in recent years.
The latter has just returned from a loan spell with Salamanca and it appears Wenger may been looking for a player to send to the Spanish Segunda outfit for next season. There will be more to follow on this one once we get it.
Article By – J.Sanderson
Great info J, top notch reporting.
Gianni Sonvico said this on July 8, 2009 at 10:23 am
“The nationalities and ages of the players are unknown yet it’s thought one room is for returning wing-back Pedro Botelho, and that the other three are also from Brazil ”
u contradicted urself there:P
love ur blog tho..
sj said this on July 8, 2009 at 10:25 am
Come on, sign Wellington!! Hes class. And i hope we keep Pedro aswell. Will he feature for us in pre-season?
Alex said this on July 8, 2009 at 10:26 am
I like the look of Wellington we do need dribblers in the youth team players who dribble past players.
john said this on July 8, 2009 at 10:32 am
J, whatever happened to the young Argentinian goalkeeper we had on trial? Great reporting, as always.
Who do you think will be the players going out on loan?
haho said this on July 8, 2009 at 10:37 am
Does anyone have a link for extended highlights of the first leg youth cup final please? For some reason it is not on arsetv online? Thank you.
arsenehollis said this on July 8, 2009 at 10:46 am
awesome stuff J! Excited by Wellington.hope we get him.
KM in WALES said this on July 8, 2009 at 11:23 am
Don’t forget Silvinho, he was the first of the Brazilians to arrive at Arsenal. Also worth noting that ex-Arsenal youngster Juan is a key player for Flamengo now. Arsenal have a pretty good record of finding Brazilian talent, though of course there are many talented young players in Brazil so finding a few isn’t so hard I guess!
Paul said this on July 8, 2009 at 11:35 am
J.Sanderson: Just a quick request here. Could you remove the text color from the RSS-feed? As it is right now it’s white on white in Google Reader, so I’m not able to see anything other than the pictures and the headline
Dnasty said this on July 8, 2009 at 11:51 am
Thanks guys.
SJ – it’s not known, but it’s only a thought that it’s Botelho. It’s not confirmed.
Dnasty – I’ll try mate.
J.Sanderson said this on July 8, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Please J, tell me one of them is Felipe Melo, PLEASEEEEE. And try and get any information on Matuidi to us. Why should we sign him with such young, superb CM talents.
g4eva said this on July 8, 2009 at 1:01 pm
What is the story with Botelho? I seem to recall reading somewhere that he has bad attitude and maybe released? Or am I confusing him with someone else?
smoletar said this on July 8, 2009 at 1:58 pm
g4eva: Melo is a Juve player now.
smoletar: He won’t get released, he will be sold – if he does go. He did have problems with the coaches at Salamanca and it’s likely he’ll be given a different loan option next season (much like Vela at Osasuna) which we can have a fair assessment of whether he has learnt from his mistakes before he comes to us.
Samuel said this on July 8, 2009 at 2:48 pm
J, how far are we with Luc Castaignos?
haho said this on July 8, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Melo is not a juve player i still think arsenal will sign him up. Arsenal take ages to buy players. Look at nasri, arshavin, vermaelen
john said this on July 8, 2009 at 4:14 pm
I have the same problem arsenehollis, the home game is not on arsenal tv, thanks to Setanta Bankrupt I guess…
sharpovic said this on July 8, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Just seen that Nico Yennaris and Josh Rees have been selected for the England squad to play in the Nordic Cup
Gutbucket said this on July 8, 2009 at 5:08 pm
JS josh rees and Nico Yennaris have been called up for the England under 17s
john said this on July 8, 2009 at 6:45 pm
j can u get a confirmed report on the brazilians?
KM in WALES said this on July 9, 2009 at 9:40 am
Irrelevant to the story above, i know, but i don’t know where to post new threads.
Does anybody know if the guy on the link below is any relation to our own Emmanuel?
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=4300383
Kanu25 said this on July 9, 2009 at 1:29 pm