november 9th
Morning all. A few bits and bobs to tell you about this morning.
Let’s start with the news that the Mexican Carlos Vela is strongly rumoured to have signed for the club. There are no confirmed details yet but a story in Spanish daily El Mundo suggests that he signed yesterday but will play, on loan, for Valencia until he reaches the required age to play for Arsenal. Now, given the fact we signed Cesc at 16 and gave him his debut at the same age I’m not sure what that means. It’s not as if you have to be 18+ to play for Arsenal. If that is what’s going on it’s more likely he’s going there to gain European citizenship or get enough caps for his national side until he can get the work permit required to come to Arsenal. All a bit weird and terribly continental of us to sign a player then loan him elsewhere. No doubt we’ll hear more about this soon enough.
Meanwhile The Sun is reporting an upcoming £20m bid for Fernando Torres in the January transfer window.
In other news the boss is worried about burn out for Kolo Toure and Thierry Henry. Given Thierry’s injury struggle we all understand that but Kolo faces a couple of pointless friendlies, then the African Nations in January and the World Cup next summer. He’s certainly one of the best athletes at the club but everyone has their breaking point. Arsene Wenger is asking the respective national associations not to play both players for both of the upcoming friendlies. Here’s hoping they listen for once.
Finally, the September Part 1 archive is pretty much fucked. I’m trying to piece it together again using RSS scrapes but stand-by for a plea for help. Not just yet but if anyone, for some reason, has got it all saved please keep it saved. I’ll let you know more if need be.
Right, pizza for lunch today. Mmmmmm, cold pizza. No really, I love it.
