Dzeko & Melo are going nowhere, Bischoff is though 30 June, 2009
Posted by lasagnechef in Arsenal News.trackback
Hello from a surprisingly rainy Bournemouth. As London passes the 30℃ mark I’ve been sat inside watching the rain all day. A bit jealous but I guess we do get our fair share of sun down here.
Anyway, the top story in the Arsenal world today you’ll notice is not in my headline – and nor should it be. The Sun have printed a ridiculous story with the headline ‘Andrey is Shavin a laugh’. The article is only five lines long. Five lines of absolute shite:
ANDREY ARSHAVIN has stunned Arsenal by revealing he wants to play for Barcelona.
The Russian striker, 28, who joined the Gunners in a £16.9m deal five months ago, said: “If I have the chance to play for Barcelona, I’d be really happy.”
Wow. Just wow. I thought the Cesc stuff last week was ridiculous but this is something else. I was getting angry about the Fabregas rumours but this just makes me laugh. Using a complete bullshit quote completely out of context just to fill a gap in a newspaper. Now the story has spread and ‘Arshavin to Barca’ stories are all over the internet. It doesn’t deserve any of your time so lets just laugh and let it pass.
There’s some big news on the transfer front as two European stars announce they’re staying at their respective clubs. Dzeko has said he is 100% committed to Wolfsburg and is looking forward to the new season with them. That should mean that AC Milan will set about signing Adebayor as their 2nd target. This might get moving next week now so expect some action.
Felipe Melo has also decided to stay with his club signing a one year contract extension. No doubt this will mean an improved pay cheque for Melo but it also includes a buy-out clause. This new contract doesn’t necessarily mean an end to the transfer speculation; Fiorentina have set a price at which he can bought out so if any club decides to meet that then he can still be off.
Today, Amaury Bischoff has left Arsenal along with seven others. Arsenal Blogs around the world are today paying tribute to the great man and Arsenal Shorts has news of a support line set up by Vic Akers. Oh Amaury, we hardly knew you. Reports of Barcelona coming in for the midfielder were dismissed as ‘a practical joke’. Maybe he’ll go back in the wilderness to find his inner child, who knows? James Dunne, Rui Fonte, Abu Ogogo, Raul Rogers, Rene Steer, Vincent van den Berg and Anton Blackwood are all following Bischoff out the door at London Colney.
It’s not all sad though because Luke Ayling, Craig Eastmond, James Shea and Cedric Evina have all signed professional contracts with the club after last season’s Youth League and Cup double winning side.
It wasn’t a good night for Theo Walcott’s England U21′s last night as they lost 4-0 to Germany in the final. I went down the pub to watch it and we didn’t threaten enough. I think we had the more attacks but the Germans were much more clinical and sealed it with some good goals. Theo didn’t look very dangerous again up there on his own but Gibbs did a good job down the left.
So everyone is on summer holidays now. Cesc, Gibbs and Theo are all done serving their countries. Obviously they all played the maximum amount of games they could rather than getting knocked out early and getting a rest, but that’s just our luck.
What can you look forward to this week then? Erm I’m not sure, maybe the transfer of Adebayor might speed up and we can get the transfer ball rolling again.
Speak to you soon.
To be fair (or unfair, I don’t know, does the Confederations cup really matter? It seems the Carling Cup of international affairs) Cesc’s Spain did not reach the final, nor did he feature in the 3rd place game. Barring any more training ground tackles by Alonso he should hopefully come back unscathed.
All in all not a bad day but um looking forward to next week even more now after that Dzeko news because its almost certain [wish it was 100%] that Adebayor is going to be bid for hopefully wat we can do isdrip them for all they worth for that idiot…wow i have never been this excited about a possiblity of selling a player hahaha Hleb does come to mind though
Just ask yourself if you want to play for Barca. Who wouldn’t?
if adebayor doesnt get sold, well lets pray he has a missive season for us because wenger will start him. hope he can produce 30 goals atleast, but even if he is sold, who can replace him? he probably had a rough season, but i would sell him if we get 30mil pounds. the market has been inflated, its crasy the amount of money passing around, a good stricker would be hard to find with a good price hope cana comes, sad to say about melo. hitzelsperger and tasci have also been linked, they are very good and underated as there isnt as much media attention to their league, so they wud be good cheap signings!