July 20th
Mid-week and still no signings. Sack the board, I say.
Beastwatch: So yesterday we heard from old Beasty himself and he said this “In August, I will get my papers in order to get Spanish nationality and I will no longer take up a non-European place, which is very important for me. I have already adapted to the Primera Liga and to adapt to another league would be complicated.”
So yet another twist to what’s becoming a Vieiratastic summer transfer saga. However, as much as he wants to stay in Spain our pesky little chum del Nido will be cacking it now because next year he can expect to get about 20% of what he’d get for Baptista this summer and the player himself has pretty much ruled out prolonging his contract with Sevilla so I’m not convinced that the deal is dead and buried. There may be other complications we don’t know about though. And reading an interview with him this morning in as.com he says quite clearly “I don’t want to go to England at the moment.”
Maybe it is dead and buried then. Could the Beast’s decision to stay in Spain mean the arrival of Real Madrid’s Guti? Not sure he’d been up for the rough and tumble of English football, to be honest, but he’s been told he can leave Madrid. The chairman defends the Ashley Cole contract offer, which is definitely not the £70,000 being reported all over the place, but interestingly confirms that contract talks are ongoing with Freddie Ljungberg and new captain Thierry Henry. Which is good news.
And that’s about all there is to tell you. Mrs Blogs is back today so I’ll have clean underwear tomorrow. It’s amazing how I went through 11 pairs in just 3 days, but there you go.
