Oh it’s busy busy these mornings. Loads to get through and lots of linkage.
The financial stuff was the story of the day really. You can read the main points of yesterday’s press conference here while there’s been all kinds of talk of £70m war chests for Arsene to spend, snippets from Danny Fiszman and Keith Edelman, and then Chairman Peter Hill-Wood dismissing Chelsea’s ambitions to be the biggest club in the world as ‘bullshit’ and ‘pure fantasy’, which is bang on the money, so to speak. His comments about money being irrelevant to how big your club is are just perfect.
The bottom line is that the club is being very well run and is in very good shape. As I’ve said on here before the reason people like Dein and Usmanov want to ‘invest’ in Arsenal is because they know there’s enormous potential to make money. That’s it. They’re not altruistic, they’re not fans pumping money into the club to make it better, they’re speculators who want to make as much cash as they can from Arsenal. They will take money out of the football club and that’s the last thing we need having worked so hard to get on top of things financially. We don’t need them and the board don’t want them.
Ok, now onto football and tonight we face Newcastle in the Carling Cup. The boss has already said he’ll be making some changes with Fabianski, Bendtner, Denilson, Diarra and other set to start. It’ll be tough opposition though. I can’t see Newcastle making so many changes to their squad, certainly not with such young players, and Walrus looking cunt will be out for another victory over Wenger. He’s been in the papers saying how good a squad we have and how great Arsene is even if he hasn’t shown Allardyce as much respect as he should have.
Pffff, respect is earned, cuntbubble. Sending out cloggers like Kevin Davies to elbow your way to victory really doesn’t merit a great deal of respect. Hopefully the youngsters can step up to the plate again like they’ve done in recent seasons but this competition really has to be our lowest priority this season. If we go through then great, if we don’t I’m not going to be too gutted because I think our sights are set somewhat higher this time around. That said though it would be lovely to get one over on Allardyce.
Full squad listed here and Fran Merida and Henri Lansbury are included – while it seems that Alex Song will be playing at centre-half. Gulp.
Cesc was in the news yesterday talking about how, at the moment, he could see himself staying at Arsenal for ten years because he’s enjoying it that much. And how could he not be enjoying it? He also spoke about Thierry Henry’s departure as something liberating for the young players, saying:
Henry intimidated us. He is a great player but it was not easy to play alongside him. We were a bit inhibited by him – dependent on everything he wanted to do and his demands. Now it is different.
Completely understandable comment, in a way, but at the same time I don’t think it’s entirely fair to suggest all that we’re doing well this season is because Henry has gone. His departure has enabled others to take more responsibility (something William Gallas has commented on) and do better but there’s a danger of painting Henry as this villainous character, twiddling his moustache before deciding which youngster to tie to the railway tracks. Let’s remember Henry hardly played for the last 6 months of the season and it wasn’t as liberating then. I can see where Cesc is coming from though and if the lads feel better without Thierry then fair enough.
Emmanuel Adebayor reckons we’re changing people’s attitudes about this team. After being written off by the press all summer long they’re now creaming themselves over us. A perfect illustration of how the press works. Way too negative when things are going wrong, way too positive when things are going well. It’s no wonder the manager is making sure people keep their feet on the ground. Meanwhile the boss talks about Adebayor’s form and says he scored a ‘Thierry goal’ at the weekend.
And speaking of the Jedibayor, his hat-trick shirt, the one he wore against Derby, went for £50,000 in an auction to raise money for leukemia research. Props to Adebayor for donating and even more to the person who paid that much money,
Now, thanks to Goonershirts.com we have three of these lovely t-shirts you see to your right. Click the picture to see the bigger picture, so to speak. To enter all you need to do is answer the following question:
Invasive, dismal roundhead is an anagram of ‘David Dein Alisher Usmanov’. Is that a) True – ?
Answers to [email protected]. You have till tomorrow Weds night to enter, winners announced on Thursday morning.
And that is entirely that. More tomorrow and come on you reeeeeeeds tonight.
