Good day to you all, hope I find you hearty, healthy and hangover free this Sunday. It is Father’s Day, of course, I received the present of a Piggy Bank from the Blogette. I suspect this is so she knows exactly where I keep all my change instead of the hiding place I have it now so it doesn’t end up in her teenage pockets.
Kids, so thoughtful eh?
As it’s a Sunday we’re on tabloid overdrive so let’s have a look at the various stories. We’ll begin with the Daily Star saying Chelsea and Carlo Ancelotti want Emmanuel Adebayor for a cool £25m. I’ve always wondered why large sums of money were considered ‘cool’ and not some other adjective. Wouldn’t a ‘moist’ £25m be much more evocative. I’d love a ‘tawdry’ £25m lotto win. See, much better.
Anyway, according to them Adebayor is keen to leave having ‘launched a stinging attack on the Arsenal boo-boys‘ and Ancelotti was keen on him when he was at Milan.
For £25m I’d bite your hand off and I don’t care if he’s being sold to Chelsea, United or Bucketflange Rovers. I suspect, however, that this is just a lazy story used to fill some space. Seriously, think about it. If you were a journo, you had a word count and a deadline and you wanted to get the hell out of the office to go drink some summer beers, a quick ‘Adebayor to Chelsea’ would do the job in no time.
The News of the World are in lazy mode, they bring us the Felipe Melo to Arsenal using Philippe Senderos to Fiorentina as part of the deal story that popped up during the week. Perhaps there’s something to the story but we’ve heard this much of it before. Come on NotW, you can do better than that. How about linking Theo Walcott to Man United with a headline that screams ‘Walcott wings in to weplace Winker’? Byline by Jonathon Ross, natch.
The Mirror says Kieran Gibbs will be offered a new long-term contract with the club. Makes sense and there’s really not much more to say about it than that.
Emmanuel Eboue says he knows nothing about a move to PSG. Rumours suggest the French club are set for a €7m deal. I’m sure with our great negotiating skills we won’t have to pay that much.
Some bloke called Mouhamadou Dabo says he hasn’t heard from any of the clubs reportedly interested in him, one of which is us, apparently. I’ve never heard about Mouhamadou Dabo so I guess that makes us even.
Another chap called Yohan Cabaye says he’d rather play another year in France before joining Arsenal. Good for him. I like a man without any ambition whatsoever. Makes me feel better about myself.
There’s an interview with new signing Thomas Vermaelen on the official site. He describes himself a ‘physical player’, which is good, we could use a bit of that, and he’s got cold, dead eyes of a killer. Ok, I might have made that last bit up but I prefer to think of him that way.
Anyway, that’s about that. It’s a dreary kind of a day today so I’ll sit around, drink more coffee, read the papers, then drag my carcass off to play 5-a-side.
Have a good ‘un.
