June 9th
So yesterday morning we were linked with a player called Giorgos Samaras, a Greek striker who plays in Holland. By the late afternoon some reports were saying we’d signed him for £3.5m but he would stay with Herenveen next season and join us for the start of the 2006-7 season and not long after that his father was denying any deal had taken place at all. I think that’s lesson 1 of ‘How to make your unknown professional footballer son a little bit more known’.
Hopefully if we do sign a striker this summer it will be somebody established and not another young talent. We have enough of those and one of them, Robin van Persie, showed again what potential he has by setting up two and scoring one in Holland’s 4-0 victory over Finland. That was only his second cap too.
Ashley Cole’s appeal against his £100,000 fine could take place this summer. How exciting. Alecksander Hleb’s agent says the player would like to play for Arsenal but that no agreement has been made between the two clubs. I think our transfer cards are going to be played very close to our chest this summer and I wouldn’t be surprised if we signed people we were never linked with.
Not much else happening at this earliy stage and it looks like summer has really kicked in. Without the Cole business there’d be very little to write about but so far there hasn’t been that little that I’ve had to comment on how little there is. Do you see?
