Arsenal are reportedly set to make a sensational bid to bring Patrick Vieira back to the club.
The Sun reports that Arsene Wenger wants his former captain to return to Arsenal, after he was sold to Juventus in 2005.
The midfielder is now out of favour at Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan, and the paper reports that Arsenal have offered Vieira a one-year deal that will reduce his basic wage, but include heavy bonuses.
Tottenham are also keen on bringing the Frenchman to London, and have offered him similar terms.
Fulham and Birmingham are also reported to be interested, but clearly Arsenal would be favourites to sign Vieira if he decided to return to England.
Wenger initially signed Vieira from Inter's rivals AC Milan in 1996 for £3.5million, and was sold nine years later for around £13million.
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Morgski
"Bring him back! Just give Cesc the captaincy :)"
Richaldo
"Please Please Please bring back Viera!!!!!!
If that happens..... party of the century in North London (the good half)!!!!!!!!
Come on You Reds! "
ktcw84
"an given day, Vieira is still Vieira..he is a fantastic althete and a leader..but the latter worries me as Cesc might feel a bit treaten...wat u guys think??"
Setzer
"I suspect that Arsey Wengs silence on this is just him giving adopted son Paddy a bargaining tool to help him with his wages from whichever club he actually joins.
Me personally, I'd like to see the prodigal return, because along with Gallas (who they say is looking very sharp) and Silvestere I believe it would give us the right amount of expirence in the squad. Imagine you got divorced from from your only true only to get a second chance 4 years later, how hard would you try to get it right ? Older and slower maybe, oldeer and slower defineantly."
tokunbo
"well i do not see that happening as Arsenal is trying to emulate Manu with our owen."
vickkybram
"brilliants idea, perhaps something better could happen, give it a trial"
EoinMUFC
"very short term solurtion to a very long term problem... would be an interesting signing for the Arsenal, if Wenger didn have such a poor +30 transfer policy he'd still have Vieria and Pires in his team for his talented youngsters to look up to...
He needs to spend at least 30m out of the 40 he's got from Citeh to be anything next season... "
lokitrickster
"Viera's last season in Serie A: 19 games (38 games per season), usually sub. 19 games x 90 its 1710, Vieira played 997. 1 goal, 7 bookings...... Is this really what Arsenal needs right now?"
OnlyArsenal
"Would be great to have him back even if he did not play much just having him there would be great for the club. funny thing about this story is read somewhere else on here(Yeah a F365 Jurno so we knows it gonna be crap) That with all this talk about him joining Spuds he would become a instant hate figure, that would never happen you retard moron, we not the spuds we know how great he was for us and thats enough we will always have a special place for him.
Unlike the Spuds with Campell"
postmanphat
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