Happy Monday to you all.
Hope you had a good weekend. It’s a Monday filled with nothing more than rumour and speculation, but you love all that, don’t you?
Aaron Ramsey, the Cardiff City midfield wonderkid, flew to Switzerland at the weekend to meet Arsene Wenger. The Independent says he’s leaning towards joining us but I don’t know how they could possibly know that. As I said last week if he signs great, if not then I’m not going to be too bothered. We’ve got lots of good 17 years olds already.
The Hleb situation goes on and on. In today’s Sport Hleb’s agent, Uli Ferber, says:
Barcelona can close the deal with Arsenal this week. Alex has more offers but this is a great opportunity and he feels very proud at the interest Barcelona have shown in him.
Hleb is currently on his honeymoon, apparently, but I’m told things aren’t going well. As soon as he gets near the box he freezes up and tries to get someone else to finish the job. Honestly though, this is as tedious a transfer story as we’ve ever had.
Misleading headline of the day goes to Sky Sports who says Jens Lehmann had a ‘parting shot’ at Arsenal by saying he felt a lot of anger and disappointment at his final season. Player who loses his place and feels frustrated shocker. Bunch of arse.
There’s some Arsenal interest in Euro2008 today as Robin van Persie looks set to start for Holland. There was some story in the Dutch papers about how he took out Wesley Sneijder on purpose but it seems to have been overblown. Although if someone told you the Dutch players were having at each other with baseball bats and planks with nails in them you wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised. The Dutch play Italy.
Meanwhile France, with Arsenal and ex-Arsenal interest, take on Romania. William Gallas is the only current Arsenal player in the squad while ex-Gunners like Thierry, Patrick Vieira and that little dolphin headed cunt could all take part. Speaking of Vieira reports in this morning’s Daily Star have linked him with a £4m move to Portsmouth. Perhaps to replace dolphin headed cunt who could be on his way to Sp*rs, thus making him one of the biggest cunts ever to have worn our shirt.
An Eduardoless Croatia beat Austria 1-0 last night and according to their coach, Slaven Bilic (what a lovely earring he sports), Eduardo could return for pre-season training with Arsenal. I’m a little concerned that we might be building our hopes up a little here but if it’s true then brilliant.
Carlos Vela scored for Mexico in a 4-0 over Peru at the weekend. That’s his second goal in 5 internationals and I have to say I’m really looking forward to seeing this kid next season.
I wonder if anyone at Euro2008 has caught AW’s eye yet. There hasn’t really been anybody outstanding, I know the BBC were trying to talk up Modric yesterday but he looked distinctly average and very lightweight. Certainly not a £17m player based on the evidence of yesterday.
Right, here’s to some good football later. More tomorrow.
