July 6th
I can’t have been the only one who looked at Newsnow yesterday afternoon and thought ‘What the fuck are we doing buying that useless shite’ when I saw the headline saying ‘Gunners land Traore‘. Luckily for us it turns out not to be Liverpool’s Djimi, he of the unnecessary D, and some French kid called Armand Traore who joins us from Monaco. Reports suggest he’s a full back, right or left I don’t know yet. But at least he’s not Djimi. Turns out he’s a left back. Interesting.
Sevilla President Jose Maria del Nido says he rejected an Arsenal bid for Julio Baptista because “…we consider it a derisory offer.” He also says that Baptista has rejected a new contract so an improved Arsenal offer should be enough to bring the beast to N5. Ooooh, I’m shivering with excitement. The Sun says we’ve upped our bid to £10m.
See Alecksander Hleb during his first day of pre-season training. If those pictures have told us anything it’s that the alleged new away top is actually a training top and we’re still to see what we’ll playing in away from Highbury next season.
I wonder does Ashley Cole look enviously at Steven Gerrard’s agent realising that he’s done everything right to get his client a move to Chelsea without him looking like a total cunt. Gerrard is blaming Liverpool saying they never wanted him to stay, Liverpool say Gerrard rejected a £100,000 a week deal. I don’t think anyone would be too surprised if they learned this deal was done a long time ago, that this season was part of a waiting game and that there’s been serious contact between Gerrard, his advisers and Chelsea. The only surprise is that Peter Kenyon hasn’t been caught coming out of Gerrard’s house with a large folder called ‘OFFER’ on it. Chelsea can spend £40m on him, nobody else, including Real Madrid can. And why would Liverpool sell anywhere else anyway? Only Chelsea have that kind of money to spend and only Chelsea can offer Gerrard the enormous sums of money he needs to go along with playing for a side that can contend for the title.
It’s raining here this morning. That’s crap. I hate rain.
