Over the years there have been many boring transfer stories involving Arsenal.
In the very early days of the internet I remember reading, perhaps on the Arsenal Mailing List, about how Tim Sherwood was due to sign for us at any moment.
Then there were the stories about Steven Carr and how he’d been pictured in an Arsenal shirt and how it was inevitable that he would join. Sebastian Frey, the French goalkeeper, went through a period in his life where if he wasn’t linked to Arsenal, or talking about a possible move to Arsenal himself, he began to get withdrawal symptoms.
And then there’s Yaya Toure. Brother of Kolo. It is the laziest, most tedious story in the history of Arsenal transfers.
“He’s going to join Arsenal! Oh, wait. He’s joined Metalurg Donetsk. He’s going to join Arsenal! Oh, wait. He’s joined Olympiakos. He’s going to join Arsenal, for really real this time! Oh, wait. He’s joined Monaco. He’s going to join Arsenal! Wenger’s connections with Monaco and the fact his brother is Kolo make this 100% double-sure to happen. Oh, wait. He’s joined Barcelona“.
Yet still these stories appear in the newspapers. Still, websites and blogs run with them, full of excitement and wonder like a child seeing snow for the first time. And there is about as much truth to these stories as there is to an Irish bank’s end of year reports.
Yaya Toure is not going to join Arsenal. He’ll be linked with us for the rest of his career, possibly the rest of his natural life, but he’ll never join us. And we’ll never buy him. We’d have done it a long time ago if we were going to.
Don’t get me wrong. He’s a better player than some of the midfielders at the club but then that’s not really that hard at this moment in time.
He’s going to join Arsenal! No he’s fucking not so fuck off and stick your transfer story up your hole.
Arsene Wenger has been speaking about Samir Nasri but it’s all stuff we’ve heard before, really. He has done pretty well this season and got himself on the scoresheet with decent regularity. But perhaps we need a bit more from him between now and the end of the season, especially at the moment when creativity is so badly needed.
So as you can see it’s a fairly quiet Sunday. No game to look forward to today. But at least we can start thinking about tomorrow.
Till then.
