A quiet day today with but mere morsels to whet your arseppite.
Peter Hill-Wood will meet with Satan Kroenke in the next two or three weeks apparently. The Chairman says:
I’m looking forward to meeting him to hear what he’s got to say. But we are quite confident we are in good shape the way we are.
Some papers have reported that as a ‘softening’ in the board’s stance towards the American with the comedy ‘tache but I think it’s just old fashioned diplomacy. Let’s hope he goes over and presents him with a beautifully handcrafted SARS blanket.
Jeremie Aliadiere is a target for Middlesboro but the move is complicated due to Mark Viduka not making his mind up about whether he should stay or go. Viduka is currently in orbit around Jupiter on his summer break, giving astronomers the world over a genuine thrill as they see him speed around the gassy giant (I said Jupiter, not Paul Gascoigne), so we’ll have to wait and see what happens there.
Nicklas Bendtner is determined to take his chance at Arsenal saying that no other clubs were ‘interesting to’ him. Oh the vagaries of the English language. It’s ‘interested in’, Nicklas. He’s got youth on his side but he’s going to have to work a lot harder than he did at Birmingham if he wants to make the breakthrough.
Peter Marinello was the Charlie Nicholas of his day and when he signed for Arsenal from Hibs great things were expected of him. Things didn’t quite work out though although he did have a good time in London. He talks to the BBC about his time at Arsenal, amongst other things, and to promote his biography which really does sound interesting when you read the bumph on Amazon.co.uk.
Former young Gun, Steve Sidwell, has decided to join Chelsea. No doubt it’s football that’s the main draw there and not the £53,000 a week Chelsea are paying him.
Champions League final later. It’s too tight to call, really. More than any manager Benitez will know how to stifle Milan but let’s just hope we get a good game of football out of it. The last one wasn’t too bad, was it?
