january 12th
08.31 – Have to get right back into the the swing of things now. The first Monday of the first full working week of 2004. And it’s minging. Oh well.
Freddie Ljungberg scored his 6th goal of the season against Boro on Saturday, but the punishing schedule means he’s having to play through the pain at the moment. A long standing foot injury has now been accompanied by a groin problem. With the squad depth not quite as …erm…deep as previous seasons, we have to hope these knocks don’t develop into anything too serious over the coming weeks and months.
With the striker crisis at the club it’s inevitable that names start being bandied around again. The Independent reckons we’re about to make a £7-£8m bid for Juan Pablo Angel, but Villa want £20m. Who are they kidding? Angel is a decent player who could well fit in at Highbury, but in today’s market you’d have to say anything over £6m for him would be a bonus for Villa. Arsene Wenger is hoping that Kanu will be allowed to stay as that would fill a gap until Bergkamp and Wiltord are fit again, but Nigeria want him to report to their training camp in Portugal today. AW says “Kanu will put me in touch with the Nigeria coach and we will try to sort something out. We need this situation clarified by Wednesday morning at the latest.”
Not a lot else going on this morning.
