And the summer begins… 29 May, 2009

Today the long summer ahead of us has finally sunk in for me. The sun has come out and I have been to the beach today with the weather set to be getting even better over the weekend. It might even hit 25℃ around here, which is nice. Friday is usually a busy day with Arsene’s press conference but for the first time there’s pretty much no news to report on – the first of many dead Fridays to come. I can tell this is going to be a long and boring summer.

There is only one football match left and it’s this weekend’s FA Cup Final between Everton and Chelsea. I guess I will be watching it as my last football fix of the summer, and obviously I’ll be going for Everton – Goes without saying really doesn’t it. My hate for Chelsea has intensified this year. Actually so has it for a lot of teams, it’s been a very hate-filled season it has for me. Hmm.

Anyways… well there is a bit of news I guess. Cesc Fabregas has been talking about his old club Barcelona:

“Which player would not like to play for a team like that at the moment? They are probably the best team that I have seen play in history and I have a lot friends there who are always telling me great things.

Of course, you feel envy in a healthy way because of the way they play football. Everyone’s dream would be to play in a team like this.”

I guess he hasn’t really said anything wrong there but this is always going to spark rumours. The Sun has translated it as “Cesc Fabregas: I’d love to play for Barcelona”; however the harsh truth is that he wouldn’t even get in their team. We laugh at Hleb for going there and getting no football but with Messi, Xavi, Iniesta and the likes, even Fabregas will find it hard getting games. It’s the harsh truth for Cesc. They may now be managed by his boyhood hero who has just won the Spanish Treble for the first time in history in his first year as manager, but I don’t think it’s time for Cesc to return to Catalonia.

He’s also been talking about Thierry Henry after his much talked about, long awaited Champions League win:

“I spoke to him yesterday and that was the only thing that he was missing. He was delighted. He had a difficult year adapting and this year he came into his own. Guardiola showed faith in him.

Now Henry has everything and I do not know if there are many players that can equal his honours list.”

Yep, he’s right. It’s something Cesc will be aiming at but I just hope he isn’t thinking of leaving us so soon! He can achieve a lot here if this team sticks together – the fans, players, staff and manager have to all be patient and it should be worth the wait.

Nicklas Bendtner has been talking about extending his contract but Robin van Persie says there are no developments with his. The Dutch striker admits that no progress has been made but, “Maybe I will soon have something new to report.” I hope so. He’s proven a lot this year, for example that he can sty fit for a whole season. With Adebayor likely to leave this summer we really need to get RVP signed up. Sort it out, Arsene!

That’s about all there is today, so I’m going to leave you to it. Enjoy the sun.