july 16th
The Sun says Vieira has told Arsenal he wants to go to Real Madrid. They say Madrid are likely to use Fernando Morientes as part of the deal. According to The Sun ‘Perez met with new Real coach Jose Camacho on Wednesday to discuss their move for Vieira, 28, and insisted: “I will buy who Camacho tells me to.”’
All well and good, but Marca says that Camacho wants a team of 14 Galacticos and has asked Perez to sign either Emerson or Carvalho. They make a brief reference to Freddie Ljungberg’s plea with Vieira to stay. AS.com has nothing new on the Vieira story.
What else do we know? Well, we know there was a rapidly arranged board meeting at Highbury yesterday, more than likely called to discuss this whole situation. What happened in there we don’t know yet. The board could have been discussing an offer from Real Madrid, they could have been preparing a rebuttal of some kind, or when Peter Hill-Wood says the Vieira stories every summer are ‘irritating’ does he mean that he thinks Paddy and his agent have been fluttering their eye-lashes at Madrid from afar? Who knows? We’ll find out soon enough though. I’ll update here if I get any more information during the day.
Franks Stapleton and McLintock reckon Morientes would be a decent addition to the Arsenal squad, but not at the expense of Vieira. Cheers Franks.
In other news Sylvain Wiltord could hook up with his old strike partner, Nicholas Anelka, at Manchester City. How interesting. See the new stadium getting built before your very eyes with the Arsenal stadium web cam. Count the trains. It’s a larf an hour, or so. Not much else happening this morning.
*John the foreman prayed at work.
