Adebayor the Clown, Skint Arsenal won’t drop out
The King Hath Spoken
Arsenal are doomed?
The usual suspects
So while I was away for a week in Australia’s Olympic City, all the transfer action goes on without me. Typical.
As you all know by now, Emmanuel Adebayor has gone and signed for the Man City ‘revolution’ or whatever the young kids call it these days.
Below is the man with that signature ‘I love this Club’ point to the badge.
The dreadies are a bit clownish, me thinks, especially with the pride of wearing a shirt with such obvious cash stapled to its back.
Personally, I preferred it when he beat his palm against the Arsenal crest after scoring so many times against Spurs, but this is exactly what happens when a player, coupled with an inflated ego, is ill-advised and attracted by the filthy lucre on offer at Eastlands.
He was a striker that provided about as many great moments for Arsenal as ones of total frustration – for the happy memories, I thank him, but for the flirting with other clubs and looking to ’secure his retirement’ at such a young age is the real reason he was driven from the club – with his ‘advisors’ behind the wheel.
So goodbye, Adebayor – we’ll miss the moments, but that was all they were. Thierry Henry brought with him an era, you brought aerial presence for three seasons. All the best.
The King Hath Spoken
Speaking of the King of Highbury, the now-Barcelona striker has said that it is ‘vital’ Arsenal keep Cesc Fabregas amid all the doubt about the club’s Top-4 credentials.
Seeing as we all know that Cesc is in fact staying, Henry can be forgiven for his doubts due to the fact he’s in Marca and Sport territory which will flood the press with any sort of lie to Barcelona or Real Madrid’s benefit. Henry had this to say:
“Cesc is the Arsenal captain, he’s young. I am sure he wants to give something back to the club. Knowing Cesc, that’s really important. The rest I don’t know. That, people will have to ask Cesc.”
People have already asked Cesc and the probably-frustrated man has answered time and again that he is staying. Nevertheless, it’s good to see Henry still has red and white pumping through his veins.
Arsenal are doomed?
The recent injury to Samir Nasri (broken leg – ouch!) has added fuel to the fire that Man City will overtake us in the coming season in that proverbial Top4 (trademark, registered etc) spot.
Firstly, after spending the GDP of Thailand on new players, Mark Hughes should be sacked as manager if he does not achieve anything less than first place this season. Claudio Ranieri got as much after Abramovich moved into Chelsea-Land and he was twice the manager Sparky ever will be.
Secondly, the other trio of Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea all have their own problems to deal with if they’re going to combat the Sky Blue force of nature headed our way.
Shorn of Ronaldo and the overrated Tevez, the Mancs now have such illuminaries as Valencia and proverbial crock Michael Owen to see them through the coming season, while Chelsea’s squad is not getting any younger and haven’t won the league since 2006.
Read it again – 2006 – that’s a drought given the expenditure they can afford and while you can go on about the Mickey Mouse Cup and the FA Cup being valuable trophies (the latter certainly is), it’s the league that I care about.
Nothing much else needs to be said about Liverpool either and if they don’t win it this season they never will.
Further more, the two best managers in the league remain as Ferguson and Wenger. The terribly overrated Hughes, Benitez, Redknapp (let’s all laugh at Spurs!) and Ancelotti cannot hope to compare themselves to those two and it is for those reasons that I go into this season confident enough.
That doesn’t stop us from needing a few more signings, but still – I’m ignoring all the calls for Arsenal’s demise, especially from ones who spout nothing but rubbish anyway.
The usual suspects
In transfer speculation, supposed long-time target Marouane Chamakh is heading to Canada for Bordeaux’s preseason tour after being linked strongly with Sunderland.
We’re also reportedly showing very strong interest in Klaas Jan Huntelaar as well as a personal favourite of mine, Lorik Cana. Nothing much to say to either, really.
Furthermore, cult-hero Emmanuel Eboue is being linked again to Fiorentina even after the collapse of any rumoured swap deal for Felipe Melo. My feeling is that Eboue will stay, for what it’s worth.
More tomorrow, but tonight is a bit of a special night for me – it’s my graduation and I’m set to pick up two handy little degrees. Always makes for a fine evening after four and a half years.
Happy travels, dear reader.
Filed under: Arsenal, Confirmed Transfers, English Premier League, Former Players, Transfer Rumours
Congrats on the degrees, my friend. Well done.
As for Ade…what else is left to be said? You're spot on…he gave us some memories and that's about it.
Ade's comments about the "fans drove me away" and how we never get on Cesc's back even though he's continuously linked with Barca and Real Madrid are comical. Cesc has NEVER, NOT ONCE EVEN FOR A SECOND courted either club to come and make offers for him. Ade, on the other hand, ran around all last summer like a tart with her knickers down, inviting one and all to get a good look and make an offer. Big difference there, Ade-ski. Big difference between you and Cesc as to how you've handled things and. Ade could also learn a thing or two from TH14 and Robert Pires about loyalty and how to actually BE an Arsenal player. Thanks for the goals, Ade. Now STFU and go enjoy the non-Champions League season at Citeh.
How is Ancelotti overrated? I don't like him personally but he has won 2 UEFA CLs and gone to three finals overall…sure he only won 1 serie A but hey…he's still good…might be a challenge if he gets Chelsea to click.
He's overrated in the fact that Wenger is twice the manager he is in managerial ability, and ran rings around his 'world class' AC Milan team a couple of seasons back on his own backyard.
Three cheers to the Bok of Oz. Congrats on the degrees, too bad the global economy decided to head south just as you were about to illuminate us with your talents. Perhaps, with your input we can achieve a turn-around sooner rather than later.
On Adebayor, let's stop talking about him already, he is a good player, not a great one. Personally, I think the Middle Eastlanders did us a great favour by paying us over GBP 23m for our headache. Let's not forget that he left AS Monaco under similarly inauspicious circumstances. If only Sparky new the goods he's taken delivery of…….
I'm glad you're back to your regular posts! Cheers there and congrats on the degrees!
Wenger is a good manager but I think we as Arsenal fans over rate him. The true sign of greatness is admitting your mistakes and then correcting them. The last two season he has said we cannot defend set pieces yet we persist with a squad devoid of a ball winning centre back. He said the midfield was week and we would need an experienced midfielder and so far that hasn't happened. I know there is time but knowing the transfer policies this club tends to use I am not holding my breath. Now don't get me wrong, I like Wenger a lot and I don't think there is a manager better suited for this club but it is not like the guys shit is made of gold.
Hey, it's Skantius. Long time no see. Cheers all – thankfully I'm already working at the moment, I'm perversely lucky in that regard.
BendyTheViking, interesting take but you can see by the way other clubs always have him on the top of their shortlists – just ask other fans and they would bite your hand off if he was on offer. Simply put, with any other manager, even Ferguson, managing this side and we would be 12th, 13th.
The club is desperately short of cash. Wenger is not afraid to spend if he needs to – 10mil on Vermaelen and 16mil on Arshavin proves this – but the Vermaelen money has chomped away at most if not all our available funds. Adebayor monies will probably go towards the clubs debts. It's hard to watch other clubs spending so casually, but accusations of 'cheap Wenger' are wide of the mark in that they miss the economic frugality that the club, above Wenger, has been forced into.
Wenger's just the best in the world with working with such impossible resources. We can win with this squad, it's just going to take immense patience from the fans.