Busy busy busy, so I’ll try and keep this brief.
The main story this morning is that Chelsea have offered us William Gallas as a straight swap for Ashley Cole. If that is true then they can go fuck themselves. Firstly, we don’t need Gallas and secondly there’s a rather large difference in price between a 25 year old with two years left on his contract and a 29 year old in the last year of his.
I really wish they’d sort this thing out once and for all because it’s unseemly and distracting especially when we have a game to concentrate on this week. When you consider that a lot of the delay is down to Cole himself it’s even more galling. Just piss off, Ashley.
As I told you the other day José Antonio Reyes agent went to have more talks with Real Madrid and he’s quoted in today’s Sun:
If all goes well, Reyes will move. Since he was 12 he always wanted to play for Real. But there’s never been an agreement. It was a love that stayed undeclared.
Maybe because José only learned to speak when he was 17. Fuck me, what a load of melodramatic bollocks. Marca is reporting that according to the Guardian that AW is looking at Jonathan Woodgate to bolster our defence. Insane. The bloke has never played more than 7 consecutive games in his entire career and all he’d do is keep Gary Lewin too busy to look after Emmanuel Eboue next time he pretends to be injured during a game.
This, I have to say, has been possibly the most unhappy summer transfer window I can remember.
In other news Theo Walcott talks about how he felt at home the moment he touched the ball in his fine debut, Jens Lehmann wants to go one better in Europe this season. Tomas Rosicky talks about his fitness and how well he’s settling it at Arsenal and Freddie Ljungberg talks about how proud he is to be Swedish captain.
Finally, to Robert Pires who, like Edu last season, left Arsenal for a Valencia based club and has torn his cruciate ligaments meaning he’ll miss most of the season. A real shame, get well soon Bobby.
Finally, finally, it’s about time we had a competition. My chums at Goalhanger have given me 4 of these brilliant Dennis Bergkamp t-shirts and 2 A1 sized posters of the Highbury periodic table.
All you have to do is answer the following question: Arsenal fans went walking along and singing a song in a Bergkamp:
a) Underpants
b) Wonderland
c) Panzer tank
Answers to [email protected]. Winners will be announced on Thursday.
Ok, more packing. Hurrah.
