Good day to you Arselings, and we’re just about to get into the swing of the international weeks so news is becoming thin on the ground.
Arsene has been talking about his new contract though and he says something should be sorted by Thursday or Friday. He says he feels a ‘responsibility’ to the young players he’s signed and you can’t really argue with that. He’s the one that has dictated this policy at the club and to walk away now would be very strange indeed. What his signing will do is bring about a measure of stability when the club is going through one of the most difficult periods off the pitch that anyone can remember.
As well as his contract he spoke about summer signing Eduardo and said he’s ready to ‘explode’. Now, maybe it’s just me but I thought we’d get better value for money than that. Less than three months into his Arsenal career and he’s at a point where he’s going to spontaneously combust. I’m sure we’ve got something written into his contract that a large chunk of the fee should be repaid should he detonate but the inconvenience is immeasurable. Let’s just hope it happens outdoors and not in the dressing room because that much blood would be really difficult to clean up.
Johann Djourou has been talking to the Swiss press and via a roundabout translation Gunnerblog carries the interview. He sees himself as more of a midfielder than a centre-half but with our collection of central players and lack of defenders I can’t see him playing anywhere other than at the back for us. It’s good to know he sees his future with Arsenal though and the regular football he’ll get at Birmingham between now and January will do him the world of good.
Despite being out ‘injured’ for us Jens Lehmann seems set to play for Germany against Wales and Clint Eastwood’s son is going to try and make him make a mistake, or something.
Arsene sticks the knife into Raymond Domenech, sadly not literally, and sadly not with a photon torpedo instead of a knife.
Steve Earle, American singer:
I don’t care what you think of them. I’m an Arsenal fan. I fucking am. Fucking Manchester. Fucking Oasis.
All right. And that’s about the size of things this morning.
