March 12th
Morning, Arsechums and it’s another big, big game ahead. Given our league sitation and how much we need all the points we can every game is going to be a big one no matter who the opposition. Today though it’s Liverpool and we certainly owe them after their late, late win at Anfield a few weeks back.
The manager talks about how we have to ‘dig deep‘ to try and get the 4th Champions League spot. What we have to do today is make sure we follow up a great night in Europe with a a great afternoon in the Premiership and that means the same level of committment and work from everybody. The European nights have been great but unless we can sort things out in the Premiership there won’t be any unless we in the CL.
AW on Thierry’s contract – “I do not say it has been agreed, but I just do not think that will be a problem.”
The rumourmill regarding David Beckham coming back to England has been steadily growing stronger and Arsenal are one of the obvious candidates if he does decide to leave Madrid. Yesterday Arsene Wenger added fuel to that fire by saying he would ‘take’ the England captain. By that he means he would buy him and not duff him up after school. He said “I can give you 20 names of players who could become involved in Arsenal Football Club – exceptional players who would add something, and if we need it we’ll do it. He could be one of them.”
At the start of the season I wouldn’t really have been able to see a place for Beckham in the Arsenal team and it’s still hard to see where he’d play but he’s been quality for Madrid this season and if the money wasn’t too silly we’d be remiss not to think strongly about bringing him on board. Anyway, that’s one of the manager.
Amy Lawrence writes a great piece about Arsene Wenger and English players – “Arsenal’s back four have the best record in the Champions League. And it cost less than half of Glen Johnson. Johnson was sold for £6m to Chelsea – 10 times what Arsenal paid for Eboue – and was last seen missing a flight for Barcelona after a night out. Terrific value-for-money English player there, then.”
Kolo Toure cost Arsenal £250,000. Glen Johnson cost £6m. You could get 24 Kolos for one Glen Johnson. Arsene knows what he’s doing. Another ‘cheap foreigner’, Cesc Fabregas, talks about today’s game against Liverpool, scoring more goals and how his dream would be play Barcelona in the Champions League final. That would be a fine night out, you have to say.
And there you go, my body is aching after a 6-2 yesterday which sees us qualify for the 1/4 finals of our cup competition. I think I need a pint or two to recover. Have a good Sunday and come on the lads!
