“I’m leaving”, but “I’m going nowhere” 9 May, 2008

Confusing title, maybe, but these are the words from Alexander Hleb and Emmanuel Adebayor today. The Belarusian has been linked with a move to Inter recently and now his agent has said he is definitely going:

Alex is preparing to make one of the most important moves of his life. He is leaving even though Arsenal want to offer him a new long-term contract.

Only time will tell if it is the right decision but there’s no way back now. Everything will be settled in the next two weeks.

Fucking hell he’s not letting us down easy is he? Not like, “His time at Arsenal has come to end and, Alex is keen on a new challenge…etc” What a wanker. In today’s press conference, Wenger said that he has never received any interest from other clubs for Hleb and he has never heard anything from the play himself asking to leave. It all seems a bit strange to me, whatever, we’ll see how it goes. I’m not really that bothered if he leaves; I was more worried about Flamini. Wenger says he’s under contract; he’s definitely staying, but his agent says otherwise.

Adebayor has also been ‘linked’ with a move away. Basically, someone made up a story that he wants more money, or he’s off and it’s absolute bollocks. Wenger admits he has no idea where this idea has come from. This afternoon we heard from Ade, and he’s described it all as ‘rubbish’. However, he does admit he’s upset that we haven’t won anything and he’s desperate for trophies.

In other news, Wenger says Jens might retire and Rosicky will miss Euro 2008. Arsene, like me, has said that he’s not bitter over Flamini’s departure saying that he always gave 100% and was a true professional, pretty much what I said the other day. Good luck Matty.

Right, I’ve got to go to Job no.2 now. Jesus this is a long day. Have a good evening, don’t get too drunk…I’ll get jealous. See ya.