Morning all,
it’s a relatively quiet Sunday in terms of Arsenal news but if ever you needed an example of how crazy football has gone it’s there in the reports that Ronaldinho is set to join Manchester City in the next 48 hours and will earn in the region of £200,000 a week. Obscene is not the word and if it goes through it’s just further proof that players today are motivated only by money.
From an Arsenal point of view there’s not a lot going on. The Sunday Mirror tries to run an ‘exclusive’ saying Alexander Hleb is off to Barcelona and we’ll replace him with Samir Nasri. Fucking hell. At first I thought some new boy who hasn’t been briefed on how to rework stories from the blogs put that together but it turns out it was Steve Stammers. Lame.
Both the main Catalan dailies say the Hleb deal is in the final stages. All they need to do is negotiate a price with Arsenal. Like this is some kind of after-thought. Cunts. El Mundo says that Barcelona will also ask about Adebayor but they understand this would be a much more difficult deal to do than the Hleb one while Sport says they understand that Adebayor has given his word to Arsenal that he’ll stay.
Meanwhile the Daily Mail suggests that the relationship between Arsene Wenger and Adebayor is so strained that we’re going to sell him and replace him with Roque Santa Cruz. Really, we shouldn’t give utter shite like that the oxygen of publicity but it’s so fictional the more people see it the more they can look at future articles by Rob Draper and realise he’s talking out of his fucking hole.
The News of the World links us with a move for Newcastle’s Shay Given. Can’t see it. Almunia’s just signed a new contract, Fabianski is waiting in the wings and the young Italian Mannone has been given a 5 year deal as well. That’s our 1-2-3 in terms of keepers for next season.
Arsenal interest at Euro2008 was restricted to Philippe Senderos in the opener last night. The Swiss went down 1-0 to the Rosickyless Czechs while in the other game Portugal beat Turkey 2-0. The highlight of that game was a crude tackle on Nani which sadly didn’t do too much damage. Cristiano Ronaldo pulled off his first dive of the tournament after just 10 seconds.
Slaven Bilic, Croatia’s coach, says they’re going to ‘do it for Eduardo’ after the Arsenal man’s horrific injury against Birmingham. I hope they do it for Eduardo better than we did it for Eduardo. They play co-hosts Austria tonight (we might see Manninger in goal) while in the second game Germany play Poland.
Spain don’t play until Tuesday but Cesc is unhappy at the criticism levelled at him for his performances in the national shirt. Critics say he’s too similar to Xavi, sort of like a Spanish Gerrard/Lampard situation (except Cesc and Xavi aren’t complete and utter cunts), but I reckon they can work together. We’ll see when they take on Russia.
Right then, not much else stirring. Have a lazy Sunday folks.
