october 12th
International interest centres around Ireland v Senderos. I might just sneak out and have a beer and watch that one. Is it Sky Sports or RTE, anyone (comments please, no emails!)?
In the other game in that group France take on Cyprus without Thierry Henry who is, of course, injured. However, according to Chairman PHW Arsenal will be offering Thierry a mega-deal when contract talks begin on the twelfth of never next summer. He says “We’ve not talked about the offer yet but it is fair to say he would become the highest paid player in Arsenal’s history – and deservedly so.”
I’m don’t think it’s all about money with Thierry. He’s got enough money to last him the rest of his life already so as much as we’re willing to pay him top dollar he may want to see us splashing a bit of cash to bring in some new faces, if not in January, certainly next summer. As for his return from injury he says “For the past two weeks I have been working in the gym on an exercise bike and with weights. I have restarted running outside only today. I have no schedule to return to playing again. I cannot predict or programme anything.”
Thank you to everyone, and I think ‘everyone’ is the right term here, who has emailed me to tell me about some rapper called Jay-Z (sounds more like a brand of easy-chair) wanting to buy shares in Arsenal. I just don’t have time to answer all the emails. Cheers again.
My Norwegian spy tells me Arsenal had scouts at a recent Start v Vålerenga game a couple of weeks ago. Apparently they were looking at two players in particular, Kristoffer Hæstad and Fredrik Strømstad. More than that I just don’t know.
Finally, please look back at the last couple of day’s posts for details of the Football Manager 2006 competition. Question and prize details to be found below.
It’s a holiday here in Spain today. Not for me though. Slave to the corporate grindstone, so I am. Or maybe I’m just working coz we get paid extra and there’s fuck all to do on a Wednesday anyway.
