october 27th
Morning all. We’ll start with Robin van Persie who may find himself on the bench again despite scoring two at the weekend. With Freddie and José back and the manager looking to balance experience with youth he may have to make his mark coming on as a sub and scoring a cracking winner. The boss is impressed with him though, saying “His performance shows he is improving, physically he looked very strong and very mature, he had a great performance.I was pleased with the way he used his body against Sunderland, that was his problem when he arrived here because it is not as physical as that in Holland.”
Another of the Carling Cup squad who has ambitions of the first team is Swede Sebastian Larsson. He’s always looked a useful player to me, certainly better than Song,
and he wants a chance to play. He says “This is something I have waited for and now I have got to show the boss that I can play well against Premier League opposition.”
Despite lots of talk about him in the last few days the boss has ruled out an imminent move for Mexican Carlos Vela. He’ll go back to his club and Arsenal will keep tabs on his progress. Anyway, if we do make signings in January I think we need to focus less on players who have the potential to be great in a couple of years and bring in some players who are great now.
Former Arsenal manager George Swindin has died. He was 90 years old.
Not a lot more happening than that. How nice to see Chelsea get beaten last night even if it was only in the Carling Cup. Robert Huth cost them a goal and missed a penalty. He wins an all expenses paid trip to Siberia for the rest of his life, courtesy of Uncle Roman.
Till tomorrow.
