Well here we are on the eve of the first home game of the new season and it’s as quiet as a church-mouse who has had his feet covered with tiny little socks and his vocal cords severed so instead of squeaking he makes a practically inaudible whispering-gasp.
I think this is a good thing as the press can’t decide whether or not to say nice things about us, which would cost them dearly, or to continue the doom and gloom despite two very good results.
The only thing of note to talk about this morning is the team news and that sees Eduardo back in contention after pulling out during the warm-up at Celtic the other night. He had a little groin problem, apparently. Theo Walcott is still out, the back injury that the manager expected to be a matter of days last weekend is still troubling.
Arsene still thinks it’ll be a matter of days but was unable to say whether or not he’d be fit for Man United next weekend. So that’s a little bit of a worry if one were inclined to worry but at the moment I’m saving my worry for other stuff. He’ll be fit when he’s fit. Aside from that we have no new injury worries. Djourou, Rosicky and Nasri are all banjaxed as we know while Carlos Vela appears to have become one of the desaparecidos.
There’s not a mention of him on the official website as one of the injured, Arsene doesn’t mention him in the little video clip, it’s all a bit strange. ¿Dónde estás, Carlito?
Arsenal announced three signings yesterday but for the executive team. Tom Fox (Chief Commercial Officer), Svenja Geissmar (General Counsel) and Trevor Saving (Head of People and Operations) will all start with the club by the end of September. Ivan Gazidis is building his team behind the scenes, we can only hope that similar signings are made on the pitch too.
And you’ve gotta love Trevor Saving. He joins Arthur Hoarder, Bob N’Dur D’Mattress and Gilbert Stockpile as the men who’ll keep things ticking over in the Current Economic Climate©.
Nicklas Bendtner‘s agent and also Dad claims that the striker has not yet agreed a new deal with the club but is in talks and things are going well. I just thought you might like to know that despite it not being a particularly interesting piece of news.
And that’s about that so we might as well head on to this week’s Arsecast. On the show the always fantastic Amy Lawrence about our start to the season, the squad and much more. The Celtic games are reviewed/previewed with Kevin from The Lord of the Wing, Sylvester’s there, there’s exclusive content from Denilson and William Gallas’s goalscoring parts say hello too.
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And that’s that so have yourselves a good Friday, the excitement builds ahead of the Portsmouth game which will be previewed fully on tomorrow’s blog.
Finally though, happy birthday to the Mugsmasher who is off to do some crazy running, cycling, kayaking, mountain climbing, tunneling to the centre of the earth thing in Mayo this weekend. Lunatic. Have a good one, ‘bro.
