july 6th
The main news this morning is that we’ve signed an Italian striker. Granted he’s only 17 years old, but Arturo Lupoli is definitely an Arsenal player and he’ll take part in his first training session today. He joins on another Cesc-esque deal, where the player hasn’t agreed a contract with his club enabling him to join another for little or nothing. It’s believed Parma will get somewhere in the region of £200,000 compensation though.
I don’t know too much about him, apart from the fact he’s represented Italy at various junior levels and has scored goals at all of them. To see a picture of him go here, and as far as I can make out he’s the blond lad, back row, last on the right beside the pink shirted keeper.
And according to the press here in Spain, Miguel Aluminium has signed for Arsenal after going through a rigorous medical yesterday. A fee of €4m has been mentioned.
Thierry Henry has hit back at Jaques Santini’s assertion that he had a fight with Robert Pires. TH took time off from his holidays to issue a statement, saying “How can you imagine that I would have a fight with Robert? It just isn’t true. You know what I am tired of ? I am so tired of having to say that all this crap is wrong. Robert and myself are good friends and we had an argument that was finished as soon as it had started. No fight. Nothing like that.”
Former Gunner Stephen Hughes has been signed by Coventry. He was a languid (lazy?) midfielder, and his handy knack of scoring goals against Chelsea and his sweet left foot made many people think he had a bright future at the club. But AW sold him to Everton and he didn’t make it there. He then went to Watford and didn’t make it there. Then Charlton signed him and I don’t think he played a single game for them, so you’d have to think this is going to be make or break for him now. I hope it all goes well for him.
The non-Euro 2004 Gunners are back at pre-season training now, so hopefully this will mean a bit more news over the coming weeks.
