I’m a but surprised at how quiet it is this week, I have to say. I was expecting a lot more to be going on, not just in terms of Arsenal but for most teams. Maybe there’s a lot of work going on behind the scenes. Is Arsene sleeping? Who can say?
Transfer news this morning sees us linked with Chelsea’s Lasanna Diarra again and this time we’re about to test Chelsea’s mettle with a £5m bid. It strikes me the last thing we need is another central midfield player but I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if we bought him simply because, Eduardo apart, that’s the way our transfers have been this summer. On the other hand the story in the Sun is written by Mark Irwin who ran the ‘Wenger’s Hot Rod’ story on the back page about Rodrigo Palacio, which as we all know now was just a wind-up. I’m not saying his credibility is shot or anything but it’d be like calling Stevie Wonder as an eye-witness to a crime.
Robin van Persie has been talking up Theo Walcott. The pair of them started their pre-season training back in June having spent a long time out with injury and Robin has been impressed, saying:
I like Theo as a person. He is a young man but I think he has big, big ambitions for himself to show his qualities. His ambition is one of the biggest things about him. He is just 18 but I see in him a big, big desire achieve his goals.
And Theo is someone we want to see make progress this season. I think he’s someone we need to have patience with though as his young age does seem to pass people by a bit.
Sky Sports are dubiously linking Johan Djourou with a loan move to Birmingham. Can’t see it happening, especially when we lose two defenders in January to the ACN.
Coming later today in the ‘columns’ section a season preview, as per usual. Thanks to everyone who took the time to call up and leave a voicemail with their predictions for the season ahead. I have to say the confidence and optimism people have about the upcoming campaign is quite refreshing. Maybe those feeling not so positive can’t be arsed to phone up because they’re so glum and down in the dumps and suffering from the blues and stuff.
According to this small article here Arsenal’s TV channel will be run in association with Setanta Sports. Interesting.
All summer long the official site has been running a series called Great Gunner Moments – at number 2 today is Anfield ’89. What the fuck is number 1? Could it be the day they got an interview with Robert Senderos? I think it just might be, you know.
Answers in the arses, if you please. More, including Arsecast, tomorrow.
