june 2nd
08.57 – It’s all a bit strange that the players we’re being linked with at the moment are forwards. There’s Harry Kewell, Claudio Lopez and now Sporting Lisbon’s Ricardo Quaresma. He’s been a target for Man United in recent months, especially since they brought in a Portuguese number 2, but that article reckons Arsenal could spend £6m on the 19 year old wonderkid.
At the end of the season AW said he was looking for a goalkeeper and a defender and that was it. Now we’re linked to forwards all over the place. In recent years Arsenal have had a decent chunk of money to spend on transfers. We got £23m for Anelka one summer and £25m for Overmars and Petit the next. So when Arsene went shopping, everyone knew he had money to spend and set their prices accordingly. Does anyone else think the fairly public information about the transfer budget (odd from a club who keep their financial cards very close to their chest if at all possible) is a bit of smokescreen?
Maybe we’ve got more money to spend than people suggest, we’re just not telling anyone about it. Or maybe that’s something I’ve just made up really early in the morning. Still, it makes some sense if you think about it.
One goalkeeping target who won’t be joining is Sebastian Frey, as he pledges to stay with Parma. Possible targets could be put off by the fact that David Seaman could sign a new 1 year deal with the club. We’ll have to wait and see what terms he signs that deal under though, but he’s stated he wants to be number 1, and I don’t doublt he’d leave to get regular first team football.
And that’s about all the news I can find this morning. Given that Arsenal didn’t make their first signing until July last summer, June could be slower than Cygan.
Oooh, forgot to mention Scaryduck’s May 26th 1989 story. So click here for Scaryduck’s May 26th 1989 story. It’s about May 26th 1989 and it’s by Scaryduck.
