Morning all, hope you find you well this Saturday.
Let’s start with our old pal Adebayor who has been talking, again, and urging his new club to buy Kolo Toure. He’s hoping it’ll be a case of Abu Dhabi Do, saying:
Kolo is a great friend of mine – he’s a big player for Arsenal and a top defender. If the manager could get him, he can get exactly what this club wants and needs from him, I’m sure about that. I know how good Kolo is and I think what Man City needs now is a top-quality defender like him or John Terry.
It’s funny how he’s been at the club less than a week and he’s already telling the manager what to do. Leaving aside the fact he’s urging him to sign one of our players. He really needs a big goblet of shut up juice right now, the lanky twat. Any vague feelings of goodwill towards him must surely be well and truly evaporated now.
Anyway, it seems like it’ll be a case of Abu Dhabi Don’t as Kolo’s brother, Yaya, reckons City aren’t big enough for his brother. He says:
The most important thing for my brother is that he can play with a big team. Arsenal play great football and City are not there yet. And they have Craig Bellamy. Who in their right mind would want to go to a club where that neckless savage plays? Come on.
I have to admit that down through the years I’ve always had kind of a soft spot for Man City. And by soft spot I mean I didn’t hate them quite as much as I hate all the other teams, simply because they were United’s rivals. But now. Pffff. Forget it. They are right up there with the most objectionable teams of all time. Like a family of knackers that has won the lottery. No matter who they’re playing next season I hope they get spanked like Max Mosley in a dungeon.
Gael Clichy sums them up perfectly. He says:
I really believe if you are a player who thinks only about money then you could end up at Manchester City. You have to think if you want to play for a big club and have your image or if you want to play for a good club and earn big money.
Hard to argue with that, is it? Why did Robinho go to Man City from Real Madrid? Prestige? The chance of winning important trophies? My arse. He went because they made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. The same with Adebayor. The same with Tevez. They’ve gone there because the money is too good to turn down and it’s brilliant that somebody like Clichy has come out and said exactly that.
Reports from Italy suggest a Fiorentina deal for Emmanuel Eboue is almost complete. Again the fee mentioned is aroun €9-10m which is fantastic money and even their current right back is talking about the possibility of him coming in. I shall await further developments before making any comment.
Meanwhile, you have to laugh at the reaction of some people to the fact that Lorik Cana has signed for Sunderland. It seems most people’s knowledge of him is based on a 5′ YouTube clip of him fouling his way around the pitch like the love child of Robbie Savage and Joey Barton.
I will happily confess to knowing very little about him other than that video and the fact he’s been built up, in some quarters, as this mythical answer to all our midfield problems. But doesn’t the fact that he’s gone to Sunderland say something? Doesn’t the fact that no other big clubs were even linked with him say something? If there was the chance of him signing for Arsenal wouldn’t he have hung on before putting pen to paper at the Stadium of Light?
I doubt we were even interested, mostly because anyone with any knowledge of French football beyond a YouTube compilation reckons he’s a staggeringly average footballer who is no improvement on what we have already. I will trust people who watch the French league week in, week out and if they tell me he’s not good enough then I will believe them far more than any hysterical blog which now reckons that we’re practically heading for relegation because we haven’t signed the Albanian Terry Hurlock.
Honestly, people need to get a grip. Nobody’s denying we need a midfielder but Cana is not, and never has been, the answer.
I’ve been avoiding the Patrick Vieira to Sp*rs stories in the hope they’ll go away. Ol’ Twitchy reckons Paddy wants to go there though, simply because he wants to play football. Christ, if he’s that desperate just to play football he can come play for my Astro team. Tuesday nights + a game of 5-a-side on Sunday, we’d win every game with him in the team and at this point he hardly needs money at all, does he?
I know he was a great player for us but if he goes there to play for them then his legacy would be tainted in a big way. Surely there must be dozens of other clubs who would want Patrick Vieira. Seeing him stroll about the pitch with a weeping cock on his shirt would be hard to take.
Anyway, that’ll be that. I have got no plans whatsoever for today. Some intense lazing perhaps, maybe a beer or two later. So, till tomorrow, have a good day.
