Arshavin ditches Lachter, Vieira’s proposed Prem return & U16 news 26 June, 2009

At a time where misleading headlines rule the world/News Now, I have made an extra effort today to bring you an article that does exactly what it says on the tin. First, there some news from Andrey Arshavin and I guess it’s good news. He’s left his agent Dennis Lachter and will now represent himself:

“Recently I sent a formal letter to Dennis Lachter, which said that I do not want him to continue to represent me and that I will act on my own behalf.

‘This is no way associated with my Arsenal contract. On the contrary, I want to express my deep gratitude for Lachter’s help in moving to the English club.

But now I am having operational problems and Dennis, who has a newborn son, lives in Israel and cannot always be close to me, so it is easier to solve all these problems myself.”

I say this is good news because Dennis Lachter is a horrible football agent to deal with. After Euro 2008 he flirted outrageously to every top club in Europe to try get as much money for Arshavin and himself as possible. No one bought it and in the end he joined us for about half the price he wanted in the following transfer window.

I don’t know how it’s going to work now with Andrey representing himself but I’m sure it’ll work out for him. I’m glad because I’ve always been worried Lachter was going to start flirting with more top clubs sooner or later whilst Arshavin was still in contract with Arsenal; Almost immediately after sorting out the deal Lachter was already talking about possible moves in the future. Good riddance, Dennis.

Birmingham City are lining up a bid for Arsenal Legend Patrick Vieira. This comes after our ex-skipper saying he needs first team football ahead of next summer’s World Cup; it’ll be his last chance to compete in the competition and he wont get in the French squad just sitting on Inter Milan’s bench. He says he’s having a meeting with Mourinho to decide his future, if it’s not at Inter then he said he fancies a move to Ligue 1. PSG look the most likely to get PV4′s signature but Birmingham’s chairman David Gold has said they are going to give it a shot:

We have pulled rabbits out of the hat before and we want to do it again, but you can’t do these things unless you try. People would see Vieira as the second Dugarry if he came to Birmingham. Even now it’s not impossible but the odds aren’t good, we maybe only have a one in 10 chance.”

I doubt Paddy would want to join a club with such a low profile, as much as I bet he’d like to return to England I don’t see him playing in the Blue of Birmingham City. PSG, Lyon or Marseille would suit him much more and he’d still have a chance of first team football whilst playing for a top side. I’m interested to see where Vieira ends up so if there’s any more news on this I’ll bring you up to date.

And finally, U16′s and U18′s star Samir Carruthers has turned down a new contract with Arsenal and has chosen to move to Aston Villa. He has captained our U16 side on a few occasions and is a highly rated winger but he has chosen to move on. Villa’s academy director Bryan Jones said he chose to join then because of their excellent facilities and their record of giving youngsters a chance in the first team. Erm excuse me but aren’t Arsenal better known for both of those things? I would guess we would’ve wanted to keep him but there’s no official comment from the club on it. I dunno, maybe we thought he wasn’t going to make it as an Arsenal player. I hope he doesn’t go on to become a great player with Villa that we missed out on but I wish him luck in his career.

Right then that’s it for today. Satisfied with a non-misleading article? Tomorrow I’ll probably bring you news of ‘OMG ARSENAL STAR SET TO LEAVE AND BLASTS WENGER!!1′ when the story is actually Bischoff deciding to move on to a new challenge or something.

Thanks for reading.