Good Friday to you all.
We’ll start with Emmanuel Adebayor. In this morning’s Sun he has made his position quite clear despite all the speculation surrounding his future. He says:
I came to Arsenal with a mission to succeed. I’ve assured the gaffer Arsene Wenger I’ll stay because I believe in the team and I want to assure the fans my concentration is here. I have no reason to leave so I’ll stay to ensure that together we’ll win silverware.
It is hard to imagine Adebayor using the term ‘the gaffer’ but nevertheless it’s a fairly unequivocal statement. This comes on the back of further reports in Spain this morning that he is the number 1 choice for Barcelona this summer. This is on the back of reports yesterday that Zlatan Imbrahimovic was the number 1 choice for Barcelona this summer.
Still, it’s good to hear him so positive. Meanwhile Barcelona’s outlook on Alex Hleb has changed somewhat. They still want him but they want to do the deal for €15-18m and not the maximum €20m they said the other day. They also want to see if, perhaps, we’d want to do a player swap. Can’t think of anyone we might want from Barcelona though. What a pack of useless shitkickers they are.
The Mirror, yesterday, linked us with an £8m move for Wolves keeper Wayne Hennessey. I mean, come on. Seriously. Obviously the player’s agent is mates with a Mirror journo who put that story together to raise the profile of a player nobody had ever heard of really. I don’t see us spending that kind of money on a keeper, certainly not a 21 year old. It’s gonna happen now, isn’t it?
Gratuitous Nasri content – Did you know an anagram of Samir Nasri Arsenal is ‘Airman lasers rains’. I think when he does sign if he doesn’t laser the rain during his first game we should consider him a complete flop. Yeah, he might score a couple of goals but dammit I want players who can shoot lasers at the rain.
Now, onto the Arsecast.
I tried to get someone involved in a blog chat this week but the clever bastard, knowing there was no Arsenal news to talk about really, claimed his kitchen had been destroyed by a cyclone or something so it’s just me waffling today.
On the show though there’s a player history from the Man in the Bar, Eboue is there, George has a tale of the unexpected and some other waffle along the way, generally involving Arsenal, Hleb, Nazzzzzzzzri and stuff.
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Right then, that should see you right for today. Talk to you all tomorrow.
