Morning all, happy Sunday to you. Today it’s not just raining here, it’s windier than an old man after a feed of mushy peas and cabbage. Oh well.
This morning’s Adebayor latest is that Milan say that Arsenal want to sell the player but want to move him on to Barcelona for their own motives. Perhaps it’s because we can get more money from Barcelona, or that we can sell him and Hleb in a package deal, or that we want a Barcelona player as part of the deal. Who knows? Not me, and frankly I’m finding it very difficult to give a fish’s tit about this any more.
The Spanish papers latest take on it is as follows: Sport says Barcelona have to sell Eto’o to fund the purchase of Adebayor. Chelsea and Milan are the clubs they say are interested in paying for the Cameroonian lunatic but didn’t Milan say just the other day it was ‘Adebayor or nothing’?
Meanwhile El Mundo says that two of his Arsenal teammates, who prefer to keep their names secret (how convenient), have received a text message from Adebayor saying “I already see myself in Barcelona”. They say that since Adebayor learned of Barcelona’s interest a couple of weeks ago he made it clear to Arsenal that he wanted to become part of ‘the Barcelona family’.
Excuse me while I just lean over and vomit. The Barcelona family? What a crock of shit. I’d rather be a 8 month pregnant actress and spend time with the Manson Family. As I said yesterday I’ll wait to give further opinion on this thing, particularly with regards to Adebayor, but seeing two clubs with the ‘prestige’ of Barcelona and Real Madrid to have spent most of this summer acting in such a classless and tawdry way makes a mockery of their reputations, in my opinion.
In other news Andrei Arshavin does want to leave Zenit St Petersburg and there can’t have been a manager in football unimpressed with him this season. After a great campaign with Zenit, in which they won the UEFA Cup, he’s played the last two games for Russia at Euro 2008 and been outstanding. He was fantastic last night as the Russians made the Dutch look very ordinary indeed. He looks like an exciting player, someone I could very easily see in red and white, but it all depends on how much he costs and how much control Russian forces have over his transfer.
The News of the World says we’ve had a bid for Diogo, Portuguesa’s Brazilian midfielder, turned down. I think I read this somewhere else too. It must be true so.
Not much else happening really. Tonight sees Italy v Spain at Euro 2008 and so far the 1/4 finals have thrown up some surprises. Russia last night and Turkey on Friday. Despite their wealth of attacking talent would it be a surprise to see the Spanish choke again on the big stage? I don’t think so but I think I just about fancy them to take it tonight. Unless Luca Toni stops his Tony Cascarino impression I don’t think Italy have enough to trouble the Spanish defence, which is hardly water tight at the best of times. Should be a good game though.
Rightyo, that’s it. Have a jolly good Sunday, stay out of the wind. It’s humming.
