Barclays Premier League - Blues wait on Traore

Eurosport - Sun, 02 Aug 15:05:00 2009

Birmingham hope to find out soon whether Arsenal will allow them to sign defender Armand Traore on loan.

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Blues boss Alex McLeish has identified the left-back role as the one which is giving him most cause for concern with David Murphy and Franck Queudrue currently not fit.

McLeish said: "I don't want to upset Arsene Wenger by speaking (about Traore). I also see he has got a couple of injuries himself, like Gael Clichy, so I hope that's not ominous. We've got other targets but we want to bring in a bit of quality for the position."

He added: "It's not a bottomless pit in terms of the money and we'd try to structure a deal on maybe a loan.

"I'm not talking necessarily about Traore, there's one or two options. It's better that I don't talk about other people's players at the moment.

"All that does is upset the Birmingham fans when we don't get them."

McLeish is also keen to bring in another midfielder, with Sporting Gijon's Michel understood to be on his radar.

The Spanish player is rated in the £3 million bracket - the same as Aston Villa's Craig Gardner who has been another potential McLeish target this summer.

PA Sport

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  1. Arsenal shouldn`t help that sh1[ty club in any way­ after what happened to eduardo. I hope they go straight­ back down and out of business. Is that @#$% Taylor­ still playing? I hope to see him at the Emirates if hes­ got the bottle

    From JOHN R, on Wed 5 Aug 7:15AM

  2. The photo is Ashley cole not treaora

    From andyandmaxine, on Mon 3 Aug 9:54AM

  3. This is just another case of Yahoo sports showing how­ poor they are at reporting factual sports stories.­ Yahoo, if you can not get it correct then stop doing­ the reports. Your picture accuracy and reports are a­ bad joke. Score to Yahoo 1/10

    From Greg Zulu Bluenose, on Mon 3 Aug 9:27AM

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    From May, on Sun 2 Aug 3:51PM

  5. Clichy, not Armand Traore

    From ZuLhILmI Ab RaHiM, on Sun 2 Aug 2:23PM

  6. what a dumbass Reporter, That's Clichy ....not­ Traore. We all can see that...stupidass.

    From Chris, on Sun 2 Aug 2:13PM

  7. Headline mentions Traore.
    Anyone with a working brain­ cell would expect a photograph of the headliner.

    From overmarsanelka, on Sun 2 Aug 1:26PM
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    Dont let Birmingham have Traoure he is better then­ Eboue give thenm this slly Eboue he is no whorth and a­ bad influence for Sagna behaviour. AFC who never­ forgive Taylor sick takle

    From Paulo, on Sun 2 Aug 12:06PM

  9. yeah but if you actually read the article it mentions­ clichy........stupid

    From stevenstretton22, on Sun 2 Aug 12:05PM

  10. Yup that's Gael Clichy, not Armand Traore

    From Thomas C, on Sun 2 Aug 10:54AM

  11. thats Clichy you stupid

    From mohd, on Sun 2 Aug 10:43AM
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