June 14th
Early starts plus early nights mean there’s little or nothing to write about just at the moment. Summertime has always brought these problems and this season I’ve finally come up with a solution to the lack of news.
Write really big so it looks like there’s more content than there actually is.
Hmm, that’s not really going to work, is it? Anyway, I’m sure I’ll think of something to fill those white, white spaces each morning. Or maybe I’ll just stick with the tried and trusted method of waffling about nothing in particular.
As I mentioned yesterday the Thierry Henry story bubbled to the surface after AS.com ran their completely made-up piece about Thierry wants to play there. AS is very pro-Madrid and with Barcelona champions and being linked with the Catalans it wouldn’t do if the Meringues weren’t seen to be in the mix too. The Mirror however is reporting that Thierry will sign a new £80,000 a week deal before the start of the season and that winning the Champions League with Arsenal is something a priority now. He says “It’s never been done here and that is the only thing missing on my CV, but there is plenty of time.”
There appears to be no movement with regards to Robert Pires’ contract. He’s been offered one year on top of the year he already has left but he wants two. I think his first choice would be to stay with Arsenal but I don’t think he’d rule out a move at this stage either. I hope he stays.
Norwich want David Bentley, either on loan for another season or permanently if Arsenal are willing to do a deal. It would be a surprise to see him go having been handed a 5 year contract last year and the move to Norwich was obviously designed to give him experience of first team football he wouldn’t have got at Arsenal. I have a sneaky feeling he could probably do a job on the right hand side for us, depending, of course, on who we might or might not be signing for that position.
A nice rebuff of a strangely grumpy Arseweb article by Goodplaya – although I certainly see Rupe’s point about the Arsenal America article. They seem to have a increasingly large number of features on their site by people whose inability to express an opinion well is matched only by their inabilty to use the English language properly. My feelings re: Cole haven’t changed and I think we should sell. I think the club has to make it clear to its extremely well paid employees that there is certain behaviour that is just not acceptable. We missed the chance, in my opinion, to make that clear with Vieira and I believe it would be remiss of the manager to let the Cole case go the same way.
Right, another early start meaning first arse is going to be international, most likely. If it’s you let me know where you’re from.
