Midweek Arse to you all and it’s a very quiet one really.
Most of what’s going on is transfer related and none of it terribly interesting. There’s more on Lassana Diarra furthering his ambitions by going to Portsmouth. I think we’ve said all that needs to be said about that and I’ll refrain from any further comment until he’s gone.
Yesterday’s Mirror (can’t find a link now) said we have agree a deal to sign Torpedo Moscow defender Vyacheslav Dmitriev. He’s 17 so one for thte future if it’s true.
Also yesterday we were linked with some bloke called Andrei Arshavin. Andrew Arse shaving, fantastic. Sounds entirely like agent-speak bollocks to me. Meanwhile Gillingham have denied a deal for 15 year old Englishman Luke Freeman has been done but this should go through shortly.
On the official site Arsene Wenger reveals his secret to signing players is to watch them play. Erm, ok. I do the same with food. I find the secret to finding out whether something is tasty or not is to eat it. You see?
Steve Bould talks about young players while Mark Randall’s Carling Cup experiences are doing him the world of good according to one of his teammates.
Fran Merida didn’t play for Real Sociedad this past weekend (they won 1-0 and move up to 5th place), I suppose it’s to give him a bit more time to settle in, while Carlos Vela played about half an hour for Osasuna (they lost 2-0).
And there you go. It’s quiet, eh? Almost too quiet. It’s like the lads are in detention this week after the Birmingham performance. They’ve been given extra homework and special projects to do ahead of the Fulham game. I’m told that Armand Traore was rather upset when asked to make a working model of the solar system because he hates astronomy.
It’s a hard life they have. Till tomorrow.
