Good morning to you.
I can assure those of you with such inquisitive dispositions that the lateness of this morning’s blog has nothing, nothing I say, to do with gin and tonics, beer, red wine and Irish coffee. Not one jot. I was merely biding my time until something interesting happened for me to blog about but I have to come the conclusion that I could be here for some time.
Not only that I’ve had to sit here with a pounding headache that must be from all the thinking and considering about the blog I’ve been doing and certainly not from the hooch I consumed in mild amounts last night.
There’s not much to tell you about though, I’m afraid. There’s a vague story in the Mail about Robin van Persie signing his new contract. Apparently he’s gonna do it. Although they do say we’re ‘likely’ to sell Emmanuel Adebayor (hurrah) and Gael Clichy (not hurrah).
I don’t get why we’d sell Clichy at all. He certainly didn’t have his best season last time around, defensively he didn’t cut the mustard and he still doesn’t do much from an attacking point of view, but the previous season he was really, really good. Gibbs is coming on nicely but I don’t think he’s quite ready to be first choice yet, so that leaves us with a simple choice – Clichy or Sylvester at left back and that’s a bit like asking if you’d like to go to bed with Angelina Jolie or Bella Emberg.
I know Traore is coming back too but who knows what we’re gonna do with him. Plus any consideration of him at left back would make the last paragraph about Sylvester irrelevant and when material is in such short supply that must not be allowed to happen.
The News of the World has a story where Philippe Senderos says he doesn’t see a place for himself at Arsenal. The quotes are a few weeks old though and we know Milan aren’t going to take up the option so we’ll have to wait and see what happens.
There’s a story in the Spanish paper, Sport, with a headline that says “Cesc: If Guardiola calls me, I’ll come”.
I’m not sure about the rest of it because the Sport site is down. Maybe he means he’ll come over to Guardiola’s for afternoon tea. No doubt we’ll hear plenty about it as soon as the Sport website is back up and the websites go to town proclaiming Cesc’s imminent departure for Barcelona.
Oh, the website’s back up and he doesn’t actually say that at all. He talks about how Guardiola was his hero but says he’s happy at Arsenal, he’s captain and he’s had no contact whatsoever with Barcelona. You know, I’d swear some of these sub-editors fabricate a headline with little relation to the story just to make people read. You wouldn’t catch me doing that.
They ask Cesc about our supposed interest in Yayayayayaya Toure and he says the following:
We are used to playing with footballers like Vieira, Gilberto Silva or Flamini and for sure this year we’ve been a bit lame in such an importan position. It’s an undervalued role, but key, above all for teams like ours, that attack, that have a lot of the ball. To know there is someone behind you is fundamental.
Interesting stuff. I still think getting a proper partner for Cesc in midfield has to be one of our priorities this summer. It seems he thinks so too.
And that’s really about all there is today. I now must go and find some tablets to reduce the pain in my head then lie down and pretend to be much worse than I really am so Mrs Blogs doesn’t make me do something like go to the garden centre today. Good job she doesn’t read this.
I am so smrt.
