June 8th
Ashley Cole blah blah, appeal, restraint of trade, blah blah blah, top lawyer says Cole could be retired before he gets a judgement. “He is quite entitled to exhaust his rights of going to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, but if he did want to go all the way to the European Court of Justice, he would probably be retired by the time he gets an outcome.”
I’m sure that won’t bother him though, he’s obviously a man with a mission who believes passionately in this campaign of his and that even spending hundreds of thousands of pounds of his own money on it while his agent and lawyers get their cut no matter what will be worth it in the end. If it wasn’t so ludicrous and pathetic it might actually be genuinely sad.
The Mirror reported yesterday that we turned down a £15m bid from Juventus, personally I’d have bitten their hands off and I’m sure there’d have been some on the board quite willing to do the same had a bid like that really existed and not been just a figment of the Mirror’s imagination.
Speaking of bids Barcelona president Joan Laporta says they didn’t make an offer for Thierry Henry, which may or may not be true. And by that I mean it may not. He says they want Thierry because he’s a good player but that doesn’t set them apart from every other club on the planet.
According to this site we’ve agreed a deal to sign 16 year old Lincoln defender Jack Hobbs.
Rumour time: The name everyone seems to be bandying about at the moment is Stuttgart’s Aleksander Hleb and some suggest a deal could be done this week. Also, it’s been suggested that Arsenal have come under the watchful eye of a business tycoon who could be looking to make significant investment in the club. Finally, it’s rumoured I’m fed up with living in a hotel in a business park and with the German weather.
At least one of those rumours is true.
