Gallas is the new Arsenal captain. 9 August, 2007

Sky Sports News are reporting this story that Gilberto is the new captain of Arsenal but it has been confirmed that William Gallas is new captain and Toure and Gilberto are the vice-captains.

I ran this story recently and I truly believed that Gallas wouldn’t get the armband. Maybe it’s a clever plot by Wenger so that this summer he’ll get bought by a top European team, who knows?

Wenger added that Jens will have a role in the captaincy too. I do agree that those four players have strong abilities as captain but I think Gilberto or Kolo would’ve been a better option, maybe I’m just saying that as a fun but I’m sure Wenger has made the right choice.

Our new captain has finally had something positive to say about the team. He talks about how this young team is going to go onto big things and he doesn’t see our squad as youngsters, we can still do great things with the team no matter what age they are. It’s wroth a read actually.

Van Persie has got some good words for Theo Walcott on the coming season. It’s on the same sort of subject as what Gallas has been saying and RVP think this is the season that Theo will really make an impact at Arsenal.

Eduardo has been talking about the new season and realises how difficult it will be to adapt to the physical nature of the Premier League. Against Ajax he was under quite a bit of pressure from the Dutch side but he performed well and that game was a great test for the upcoming season.

There are more rumours on the possible signing of Diarra from Chelsea. This article in The Sun says we’ve offered £5m for the midfielder. It’s been said many times before that we don’t need this player but this might be a deal too good for Arsene to miss out on.

Right I’ve got to go. Thanks for reading.