【卫报】沙皇驾崩！阿尔沙文转会正式告吹，现正准备飞回俄罗斯！
http://www.guardian.co.uk/footba ... -transfer-breakdown
接近阿尔沙文的消息灵通人士透露：因价钱谈不拢，转会正式告吹。
Arshavin's move to Arsenal collapses over money
• Sources close to Arshavin hit out at both Zenit and Arsenal
• 27-year-old playmaker to fly back to RussiaJamie Jackson
guardian.co.uk, Monday 2 February 2009 11.53 GMT
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Sources close to Andrei Arshavin have launched a scathing attack on Arsenal. Photograph: Tony Marshall/EMPICS Sport/PA Photos
Sources close to Andrei Arshavin have said that the on-off transfer saga is "definitely off" and laid the blame at the door of Zenit St Petersburg and Arsenal.
"We're very disappointed, a deal has been worked on for nine months. First it was Tottenham last summer, now Arsenal," one of the sources said.
"What has been the problem with this deal? Money as always. The Russians are [unrealistic] and how can Arsenal offer less than £15m and half of Arshavin's contract?
"He's getting 3.875m euros and the club is offering half. Who would take another job for half the money? Arsenal have been making big waves by saying this would be the big historic transfer in the history of the Gunners. Well, its bull.
"They thought they could pull this off by saying we are a big club, this is a nice country, all that stuff. But he's not a 16-year-old from Africa. The life in England is more expensive - a car, a house, it's all more expensive in London, and he has to bring his family. He has one kid who is three years old, another who is one year old. It's ridiculous."
Is the deal definitely over then? "Yes, I'm afraid so." Would Arshavin go to, say, Manchester City? "No." Chelsea maybe? "No. No other clubs."
With the transfer window about to close, it does seem unlikely Arshavin will sign, unless there is a considerable rethink form all the three parties involved, and the 27-year-old is thought to be heading for a private jet, having left the Hertfordshire hotel he had booked himself into in anticipation of a possible medical if the deal did happen.
