It’s a fairly quiet Friday morning, so it is.
Yesterday more stories emerged about Emmanuel Adebayor and AC Milan, some of which say Adebayor has told his agent to tell Arsenal he wants to leave and go to Italy. AC have admitted their interest in the player despite the fact that Ade has made two statements so far this close season saying he’s going to stay at Arsenal.
This could be because they really, really want him or because they’ve been given some indication by his agent that he would open to a move. I just wonder if there isn’t a little too much smoke around this story for there not to be any fire. Adebayor must surely be aware what his agent is doing, perhaps it’s just a ploy to try and get him an increase in wages at Arsenal. On the other hand we have his fairly unequivocal statements about his intentions so I think we need to give him the benefit of the doubt, for now.
Hleb to Barcelona looks to have gone very quiet. Reports say that Arsenal have asked for Yaya Toure to be part of any deal but I didn’t find anything about that in the Spanish papers. They do say that Bayern have admitted their interest in the Belarussian though. There are reports that the Catalans have made a bid for a Sao Paulo midfielder and there’s an editorial in Sport which says that Hleb is not the kind of player Barcelona need and they should not buy him and concentrate on getting Cesc next summer. Cunnies.
It also looks like Barcelona have made David Villa their top target of the summer. I did like the quote from Aulas, President of Lyon, about Karim Benzema. He said:
For €40m I’ll sell you the ear of Benzema.
heh. Reminiscent of Del Nido at Seville who said similar things about José Antonio Reyes before we bought him. And look how well that turned out! Erm…
Teamtalk reports that newly promoted West Brom want Armand Traore and Alex Song on loan for next season. Certainly Traore needs a loan spell, he needs to play regularly as for all his pace he looks very, very raw at first team level. As for Song I’d be surprised if he went, the boss seems to really rate him.
The Telegraph links us with Robinho while there were some reports yesterday saying Atletico Madrid were trying to hijack the Nasri deal. All I can say is if Nasri chooses Atletico over us then more fool him.
Eurowatch – Germany were beaten 2-1 by Croatia yesterday, Jens being particularly unlucky with the second goal. He did get into a nice ruck with the linesman and ref after Schweinsteiger got sent off and for all their good football the Croatians are just a bit too divey for me to support them, which is a shame. Bilic seems like a real character, he’s refreshing in the world of football management, but some of the antics of the Croatian players are a bit OTT.
There’s Arsenal interest today as France play Holland in the evening game. Robin van Persie could play for the Dutch while Gallas is set to start for France. We might even see Vieira and Henry at the Wanked off stadium tonight. Italy v Romania is up first today though.
No Arsecast today, sorry about that. It’s gone on a package deal to Santa Ponza where its going to get the back of its neck sunburnt, drink lots of beer, eat chips and pass out in a pool of its own vomit before coming back next week in need of a holiday all relaxed and refreshed.
Right then, busy morning, more tomorrow.
