december 14th
14.36 – Since the introduction of the transfer window, there hasn’t been the same speculation each week about who’s coming in and going out of Highbury. Now, with the window set to re-open in January we have some dubious transfer rumours again.
Arsenal and Man Utd are ‘slugging it out’ to sign Turkish midfielder Basturk from Bayer Leverkeusen. The Stephen Carr rumours just won’t go away, and with Oleg Luzhny’s contract set to expire in the summer, and the whispers that Mr and Mrs Lauren would like a return to Spain, a close season bid seems likely. Although many of us would like to see a new central defender, it seems Matthew Upson is very much in AW’s plans and may save us a few quid…so we can buy a decent keeper with any luck.
Spurs chairman Daniel Levy says they’d consider a ground share with Arsenal. Now, I’m sure there’s not much Spurs and Arsenal fans agree on, but I think there’d be a united front on both sides for this one. A resounding “No thanks” and a large “Are you out of your tiny mind?” from both I would imagine.
“We’ve had two big games in a week at United and against Valencia, which we badly wanted to win, and feel disappointed that we haven’t done it. But there is another big game coming up now and we have to do our best not to disappoint our supporters this time”. Wise words from Freddie Ljungberg. Tomorrow is a seriously important game. With Man Utd 3-0 up on West Ham at the time of writing, nothing bar a miracle is going to stop them being level on points with us going into this one.
Spurs will want revenge for the 3-0 hammering they took last month, and no doubt will attempt to kick Arsenal off the park tomorrow. A win for Arsenal would go a long way to restoring confidence after a difficult few weeks. A loss is simply unthinkable.
