january 29th
After appearing to be almost dead certain to happen in the transfer window it seems Edu’s move to Valencia may not happen until the summer. Valencia manager Claudio Ranieri says “It’s 99 per cent certain that Edu will not arrive in this transfer window. Edu is a great player and he’s free in June and if we can we will sign him then.”; while Arsene Wenger says “At the moment, it looks 50-50. It could happen or not happen at all. If it doesn’t happen at all, I had a chat with Edu and he will give his best until the end of the season for the club.”
The Spanish press seem to think it’s definitely a non-runner until the summer. Then the big question is will we use him if we need him for the rest of the season. AW said yesterday that he is taking the FA Cup seriously and that he’s confident the flow is back in our game. He’s just hoping we’ll keep the pressure on Chelsea in the hope that they might just stumble. Stranger things have happened so we have to keep going.
The boss also reckons Jermaine Pennant needs help to get his career back on track and says that Arsenal will help him even though his time at Highbury is definitely over. He, quite rightly, believes Pennant is wasting his talent and has let down the club and his team-mates and wants Tony Adams and his Sporting Chance charity to get involved. It’s hard to feel any sympathy at all for Pennant – he’s had a chance that most of us would give our right arms for and even after being given a second chance after previous bad behaviour he still hasn’t had the good sense to do things the right way. Obviously being surrounded by the hangers-on and ‘yes men’ that earning thousands of pounds a week brings can’t help but common sense isn’t that hard to come by.
And that’s it. Football for me later on. Have a good weekend. Talk tomorrow.
