june 1st
11.36 – Welcome to a brand new month on Arseblog.
It’s officially summer, the transfer window is open and the action can begin. Firstly, clubs have used the transfer window’s opening to list players that are no longer needed, and according to the Sunday Mirror the following Arsenal players will not have new contracts offered to them: Graham Barrett, Jermaine Brown, Oleg Luzhny, Guillaume Warmuz. We know Barrett has gone to Coventry, but for the others, they’ve got to spend the summer looking for a new club.
No sign of Dennis Bergkamp or David Seaman on the list, as according to an Arsenal spokesperson “..we did not list David or Dennis because both players are in negotiations over a new contract. Talks are ongoing and they are weighing up their options.”
Interesting.
There’s a big story with Marc Roger in today’s News of the World about how he ‘hates David Dein’, which then goes on to make claims of meetings between Wenger and Perez at Sopwell House. Roger says that he is a ‘great friend’ of Wenger. Obviously that’s why he’s banned from Arsenal’s training ground and his star client, Patrick Vieira, changed agents after the carry-on a couple of summers go. He also claims David Dein said he’d give him 10% of the Anelka transfer fee, then didn’t pay him the £2.3m he’d promised. Like the club would offer the bloke who engineered Anelka’s unrest 10% of the transfer fee.
The whole crux of this article though is how much Roger hates David Dein. If that’s the case, why should we believe anything he says? He’s got his gripes with the vice-Chairman, now he’s stirring the shit to make life difficult for Arsenal. How many times does Arsene Wenger have to say he’s staying until at least 2005 for these stories to stop?
Latest transfer info for you, Claudio Lopez could join for free from Lazio. They’re broke, we could pay £40,000 a week to the Argentinian. Harry Kewell wants to go to Barcelona but his missus (whose family are all Arsenal fans) wants to stay in the UK for her TV career. Ferguson wants him to go to United, Kewell doesn’t want to go there. Liverpool are buying Dribbly Cissy, so Kewell will join Arsenal. Or stay at Leeds. Or possibly move to Newcastle who want to sell Laurent Robert.
Hope that clears everything up. Have a nice Sunday, and if you see Marc Roger go shake his hand, then do that thing where you tickle their palm with your middle finger. That’s minging. Or you could just run the cunt over.
