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Written on 8th, July 2008 by Block19erDo summers get worse or is my age catching up with me as I currently feel totally pissed off with what is being written and talked about in the media. I don’t buy the rags anymore, they piss me off so much with gossip it’s not worth it, but you can’t get away from these stories. Everyone is talking about them and every programme on tv or the radio are reporting on them.
As Ryan said the Ade/Hleb thing is driving us all mad. Maybe the best thing that can happen is for the boss to tell them to go.
Will that settle the squad? Or is that too dangerous? If those two follow Flamini out of the door does it make Cesc think about it? With Barcelona on the verge of collapse and Milan trying to attract players for the UEFA cup I really don’t know what to think.
Arsene’s comments the other day have obviously led the press to speculate what is going to happen to Arsenal. There’s certainly a lot of shit being sturred up. Dein has his greedy mits on it and scum supporting journo’s love it!!
Has Dein lost his sense of reality as well as loyalty? He said;
“Chelsea spend on average £1.5m per point - if they get 80 points in a season, they have probably spent £120m to get those purely on wages.
Their wage bill is between £120- 130m.
“Arsenal get, say, 70 points and they have spent £70m on wages - it’s £1m a point. Manchester United have 85 points, that’s about £1.25m a point.”
Dein should stick with facts, it was 87, 85, and 83 points at the end of the season. Instead of the 15 point gap he is talking about it was 4 points, it was two refereeing decisions or an injury to Van Persie from the title. Not scrapping around with Everton for 5th place.
Dein will say anything to push his views so much so he went on to say the board will change because they are getting old and a couple of them are ill. I honestly think David Dein is some Orange faced scum bag, wishing people to die (or ill-health) so he can take over the club, that’s greed gone mad!!
To top it all off we apparently have two players trying to twist the knife. Long term moaner Hleb has today been quoted as saying;
“When we get scoring opportunities, Fabregas is much more selfish than me.
“Given a chance to shoot, he always goes for it — unlike me.”
Forgive me for this but, you Fucking Twat Alex that’s why we want you out, you’ve scored 7 league goals in 3 seasons, your embarrassing!! If Barca are crazy enough to take you the fans will turn on you quickly with a return like that.
Hleb has distanced himself with any critism of Cesc. Which is true I don’t read his comments as disrespecting Cesc but just Alex pointing out to himself he’s a twat and needs to shoot more.
Then we’ve got Ade, when will these player realise one good season doesn’t make a career, he wants to be rewarded like Thierry, give us what Thierry did, then I’ll be glad for him to coin it in. Can you see Ade breaking Thierrys record? I don’t think so.
The trouble we now have is how to sell these two. Hleb thinks he can go to Barcelona, why would they want him? To replace Messi, Ineiesta, or Ronaldinho. I don’t think so. So really to shift Hleb he’s gonna have to find a minor team or a desperate one at the end of the transfer window to get a move.
As for Ade I have no doubt Milan or Barca would take him for next to nothing but will Milan meet Arsenals asking price and will Barca do anything with no president.
It really all is a bloody pain in the arse if you ask me.
I’ve always seen such great spirit at Arsenal - lets just hope this aparent adversity brings out the best in the squad. If our team against West Brom reads - Almunia, Sagna, Toure, Gallas, Clichy, Vela, Cesc, Denilson, Van Persie, Walcott, and Bendtner I won’t be too upset. With Eduardo and Rosicky to fit nicely back in before Christmas plus the squad will be strengthened with the addition of a couple of players like Samir Nasri. Are you that worried? Will losing Flamini, Hleb, and Ade turn us from title contenders to UEFA chumps??
One player I think we should be looking at to replace Hleb is Malouda. He hasn’t hit the ground running at Chavski but he has got talent. He’s scored goals when he’s started and under a proper manager like Wenger he would be a big player in the Premier League. He’d certainly get more than a 2.33 goals per season average. Perhaps that’s cos he’s greedy and shoots every now and then!!
The players (-injured/euro2008) were back in training today but it seems just so long to wait to get back on the field because you know we’re gonna show them what football is all about once we ge ton the pitch. Lets hope with the players away from their agents and back with Le Boss it will dampen all this hype.
I guess I am just now disalutioned with it all!!
Roll on August.
Ade/Hleb saga
Written on 7th, July 2008 by ClockEnd RyanThe whole Ade/Hleb thing is pissing me off now. It’s being dragged out for ages, clearly Hleb is struggling to find someone to take him or else he’d have been long gone by now. In a telling interview Peter Hill-Wood admits Hleb is unlikely to be at Arsenal next season, and Ade looks like he has burnt his bridges by giving some stupid (and very mixed) quotes to various newspaper articles. I’m sure some of these have been twisted by the papers, but there’s no question that Ade’s loyalty and willingness to work for the Arsenal cause will have taken a massive hit in the eyes of the fans, and probably Arsene too. If he does end up staying will he still be the fan’s favourite as he was this year? I doubt it.
There’s not any ‘new’ news unfortunatley, and I suspect that any further signings may depend on the decisions on the players mentioned above. I’m sure Arsene will be eyeing up potential replacements, so we may end up getting news of departures and arrivals in fairly quick succession. Even though it is annoying not knowing what is really going on with transfers etc, I’d much rather Arsenal did everything behind closed doors like they do than shout about transfer targets in papers and on the website (see the Mancs for a good lesson on how to make yourself look like twats re. Aaron Ramsey!)
Finally, I want to echo Block19er’s comments yesterday - I’m not normally a massive tennis man, but yesterday’s final was unbelievable. Easily the best game I’ve ever seen, but also as a spectacle it was up there with some of the great sporting events - two players, clearly head and shoulders ahead of everyone else in the world battling it out over 5 sets with loads of great shots/rallies. The crowd even sounded pretty decent for a tennis match as well!
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