Morning all,
it’s another Adebayor focussed morning as reports from various sources (or perhaps one report repeated across various outlets) say that Barcelona have made a final ‘take it or leave it’ offer of £30m for Emmanuel Adebayor.
Take it! Seriously. £30m is fucking brilliant money for a guy that’s had just one good season and who obviously wants to leave the club. Now, the Spanish press are really getting stuck in this morning. They say that Barcelona made a €30m offer and Arsenal said ‘No, €40m’ but apparently Laporta said that was totally unacceptable. But you know what’s coming, don’t you? Yeah, it’s the patented Spanish press player agitation move. Sport says:
Adebayor must demonstrate, unequivocally, that he wants to play for Barcelona for the seasons ahead. If he does that, if he shows his committment to the ‘blaugrana‘, there won’t be any kind of doubts of his respect [for Barcelona]
Heh, they really are a hilarious bunch of bastards. Something I cover in today’s Arsecast is the fact that one of the reasons Adebayor (and Hleb too) is so attractive to Barcelona is that they see him earning relatively a low salary so they won’t have to pay him that much more than he’s on at Arsenal. Might be a bit of a shocker if he’s expecting Thierry Henry wages. Certainly the next few days are going to be interesting. Will Adebayor sit and beg like the lapdog Barcelona want him to be? Will Arsenal continue to play hardball, if that’s what we’re doing, over his transfer fee?
Ultimately though, if we get anything close to £30m for Adebayor it will be as canny a piece of transfer business as we’ve ever done. With Ken Friar and Arsene Wenger managing the deal then it’s certainly not impossible. Let’s wait and see.
Who comes in to replace him remains to be seen. Does it mean more time for Bendtner? Is Roque Santa Cruz the answer? All these questions, and more, wil be answered in time.
And really that’s the only Arsenal story around this morning. Thank God for Adebayor turning into a silly twat this summer, I’d have had nothing to write about at all. Now though, Arsecast.
In today’s Arsecast I talk to Tim Payton from the AST about Stan Kroenke, you can find out more about the Arsenal Stadium Mystery, but not the film, the book, plus there’s the usual crap from the usual gadabouts and reprobates.
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Right so, have a good one. More tomorrow and happy July 4th to all our American Gooners out there.
