Good morning, it’s a quiet one after a long week and I’m not really going to tear the arse out of it. Enough has been said about all of it at this point, so que sera sera.
The main story doing the rounds this morning is how Loic Remy is ‘desperate’ to join us, which is understandable. When your choices are Alain Pardieux or Harry Redknapp anywhere else would seem like a fun place to be. A war-torn dictatorship. On tour with Justin Bieber. The inside of a septic whale. Callan in County Kilkenny, the most sinister town in Ireland. Anywhere.
So Arsenal would be like a paradise, a wonderland of green and red and white and crunchy gravel as you park your Lamborghini at the training ground. From the nonsensical spivvery of Redknapp and the wasp-mouthed shite of Pardieux, to the classic stylings of Arsene Wenger, why wouldn’t he be desperate?
I, however, am entirely indifferent towards him. I know he’s one of those names that’s seriously linked with us and perhaps in January he might have been a perfectly cromulent addition (had his ownership/off-field stuff not been so tricky), but now, in a summer when we’ve got eleventy-billion pounds to spend I’d really like to think we can do better.
He’s not a bad player really, but to my mind he’s a player at the same level as Giroud. His skill-sets are different in that he’s got pace while Giroud often looks like it takes all the effort in the world to run forward, but overall he’s not the ‘World Class’ forward everyone is looking for.
Loic Meh-my. Yeah.
Same goes for Carlos Vela who has, for some reason, been on many people’s wishlist since he went to Spain and got good. He seemed like a nice young fella who scored some lovely goals for us, but quite why people overlook the ‘went to Spain’ bit when it comes to his performances is beyond me.
There’s a direct correlation between him being in Spain and him playing well. He also was the main man in a team at a much lower level than Arsenal and sure, Atletico Madrid might be buying him, but again the key element here is ‘Spain’. I just think some players need the right environment to thrive. In Vela’s case the culture, language and style of Spanish football suits him, whereas England and English football doesn’t.
Plus, the idea that a guy who flopped here – and let’s be honest, that’s the only way you can put it when you’re shipped out on loan to West Brom – is somehow the answer to our striking problems seems ridiculous to me.
Carlos Meh-la (cheers Roxy!). Yeah.
If he does go to Atletico, we’ll have our coffers boosted because of the 50% sell-on fee we have on him, which will hopefully be used to buy a really, really good striker.
Who that is or might be, I don’t have a clue. The only good thing is that it won’t be El Hadji Diouf and for that we can all be thankful.
Right, have yourselves a good Saturday.
