A few bits and pieces to keep us going this morning.
I suppose we’ll start with the Amaury Bischoff thing. According the player he’s going to join us to play in the reserves having failed to make a single start for Werder Bremen in his time at the German club. I think much of that was due to injury rather than ability.
Still, I can’t help thinking this is a very odd signing if it happens. We’ve just bought Aaron Ramsey, Arsene spoke at the end of last season about Fran Merida and what high hopes he had for him, and we already have Cesc, Gilberto, Diaby, Denilson and Alex Song competing for central midfielder. When you read about highly rated Henri Lansbury being given a professional contract it does seem rather strange to bring in a player to ‘get in the way’, so to speak.
On the other hand he’s free, he doesn’t cost anything, there will be no charge for him, he comes gratis, we don’t have to pay a transfer fee and we get him for nothing, so if he does turn out to be a decent player then all well and good. I’m still struggling to understand why we’d sign a reserve though. Oh well.
Interesting news this morning that AC Milan have apparently pulled out of the Adebayor ‘race’ and will instead focus their attention on Ronaldinho. Ronaldinho obviously plays for Barcelona and the Catalan club has spent big already this summer. They’ve brought in Caceres, Dani Alves, Gerard Pique, Keita from Sevilla and another young centre half called Henrique and the total cost of that is over €80m. They need to sell to be able to buy. If they sell Ronaldinho to AC Milan then they get some cash to add to the Deco and Zambrotta sales which will enable them to spend some more. And it’s likely Adebayor will be subject to a bid at that stage.
Pascal Cygan says he’s heard that Arsenal are after his Villarreal teammate Marcos Senna. The Cyganator was on his way out of the Spanish club until Barcelona bought Caceres and he’ll now stay another year. The Senna thing? Who knows.
The Sun has a little report on Eduardo and his recovery. They’ve got some shots of him on the beach and some close-ups of his scarring but the main thing is when he’s due back. They quote Eduardo, saying:
I am returning to Europe from Brazil at the beginning of August, perhaps even the end of July. Doctors tell me by then I will be fully recovered and able to play football again. I hope so too.
And that is truly excellent news. How amazing that despite his horrific injury he might be back playing before Rosicky.
Chairman PHW talks about Stan Kroenke’s possible involvement with the club at board level. In a fairly obvious shot at Fat from Fat&Orange, he says:
He is quiet, not ostentatious in any way. He could be a very good ally and colleague. There is some logic in him getting close to us. He is a sensible man who is a sportsperson and has got some expertise in his business and that has helped him to develop a fanbase there.
Reading between the lines here I think what the Chairman is saying is that it’s good that Kroenke doesn’t smell like a bucket of goat corpses covered in cat shit, that’s been left out in the summer sun, due to his intense corpulence and the fact he’s a hideous, disgusting, fat cunt of a Man United fan. At least that’s what I’m taking from it.
Which makes sense. Hopefully on the Arsecast this week I’ll be chatting to the AST who went out to Colorado to meet Kroenke, so we can get some more info from them about the man and his intentions regarding Arsenal.
Finally, for those of you despairing that we haven’t announced the signing of Samir Nazzzzzzzri yet, or generally in a tizzy about transfers, have a read of Goonerholic today. I’m trying to imagine what it would have been like if we’d had the internet back in those days. I think it would have snapped clean in half with the amount of shit people would have talked about that particular deal.
And there you go. The sun in shining and it looks like we’ve got summer again. Hurrah!
Oh, wait. It was just a break in the clouds. Carry on.
