Morning Grovers… and what a miserable one at that, on the football front and the weather front!
So… first up.
Adebayor is staying, Hillwood says that he is one of our best players, he has 3 years on his contract and that is a contract that he will not be released from.
Tough shit Ade… you’d better pray the Gooner faithful are in a forgiving mood.
Hillwood did however admit that Hlebinho would be leaving for pastures new, as reported by Le Grove last week.
“Hleb has made it clear he wants to go,”
“I think maybe he will go.”
Barcelona is Hlebs preferred destination, so let’s wait and see on that one!
The one good thing that may come out of this is that if Barca sign Hleb, it leaves that path clear for us to sign ’2 games’ Arshavin. Apparently the Chav’s have dropped out of the race and Arsh would like his kids to learn English in London. His agent said this,
“The clubs who are following him are only just warming their engines.”“Arshavin’s future depends on what happens with Hleb and Adebayor.”
Exciting stuff there then! We sell a player who can’t score or assist and buy in a player for less money who can do both of those and more. What is even better about Arsh is moving to Britain would be the equivalent of a Brit moving to Spain… he is gonna love the weather! Weather he can hack it physically is a different question, but for me… his a 27 year old footballer, he’ll be alright!
Finally onto something darker… the quotes from yesterdays NoTW interview can from Agence France Presse (AFP), the worlds oldest press agency! So, unless someone comes out and denies it today, take the quotes at face value. If you read the interview, I think what is clear is that it wasn’t about Arsenal becoming a selling club… it was about player power, maybe an unintentional slip of the tongue by Arsene?
All the same, it raises the ugliest of questions… what do you want?
A) Usmanov to add us to his portfolio and catapult us to the top of the spending leagues with his dirty money.
B) Nice guy Stan to takeover as he is the favoured Billionaire. He could turn us into a big time player just like he has with his other sporting successes. Beware though… the weak dollar would probably see him levy the debt against the club.
C) Remain a selling club with the current board for 17 years because we have a long term plan.
I’ll let you decide the best option there, but one thing I will say it this…
Everyone is expecting a big implosion with football. Many people are saying the type of wages on offer cannot be sustained and people will just switch off in the end. Well, can I point you in the direction of Baseball, Basketball and NFL. They might be American sports, but I am pretty certain they don’t have the same following as the Premier League, yet the wages make the Premier Leagues look pathetic. We’ve already had a TV rights crash and we’ve come back even stronger.
Spoilt brat mercenaries are here to stay, sorry people.
There is a reason the Oligarchs and the Billionaires club are tracking only English clubs… they see a future in it and they see money in it.
Anyway, I’ll leave you to chew the fat off today’s post!
Happy blogging!
Maybe he did Pedro…otherwise why would Ramsey say that. High hopes? Maybe he knows something we dont. Tell the truth guys….when last season began with Flamini playing centre mid with Cesc, who envisaged that in the summer?
dont belive it pedro, I read that it was 50p a bottle in Romania but when we got there it was more like £2 (£25 in some of the clubs we went to)
No I haven’t Choy… I’d to see India! Have you been (Goa)?
andy b.. i paid 40 rupees for a beer.. that is approx half pound…
in clubs it will be be a pound minimum.. but on the beach side … 50p maximum…
just got back from there pedro.. wanted some blue sea water but the arabian sea has only dark green sea water!!!
TJ… Diarra said similar things… that is why I am worried.
Selective hearing!
Andy… I went to Poland think that I would have the same issues as you…
‘Oh you can pick up a beer for a quid’
Only to find out it is like Czech Rep… expensive.
But Poland was really cheap… a round of 3 drinks was about £3.50 even in the swanky bars. Krakow was really good value and the food was amazing.
I am shocked about Romania though?
lets hope the UCL is in India next season then
So you’d recommend their Choy?
It looks amazing on the TV…
haha.. how much do you guys pay for a beer in england then?
so was I pedro, mind you there were semi naked girls in all the bars we went to, although not in the hotel and that was £4 a pint! and all they sold at the ground were warm cups of coke and fucking sunflower seeds!
choy – £2.50 – 3.50
more in clubs etc.
Choy, £3.50 for a pint in a normal bar… I was in Mayfair a few months ago and they wanted £9 a bud! That is a bottle… mental!
Andy… so you were out there for the Football! Do you go out for many away games?
it is strictly ok.. a lot of people from all over the world… nothing high class and all that.. but if you’re on a low budget.. you’ll have fun!!!
met this english couple who had opened up a small cafe.. beef stew and butter roll… mmmm!!!
Another day another dollar earnt, but no dollars spent by us, arrggh! But Im staying positive, gotta have patience whilst all those around you panic no matter how frustrating it is!
Stevie… too much noise coming out of Arsenal this week for something not to happen…
Keep em’ crossed!
hmmm.. at fancy places we pay similar charges… but if you buy it at the supermarket.. it works out really cheap!!!
Pedro – yes last seasons UCL, won it in the NOTW, 2 tickets, on the team plane, 5 star hotel, the works! But alas I have 2 young kids, so no I dont get to others. When they are older I will or if the mrs fucks off
yes pedro.. looks like this will be the week.. have you guys met any arsenal players? and no not eboue!! lol…
But the checkout girls are not dancing on the tills in their underwear in the supermarket choy!
haha andy b… true true!!
I did when I was younger courtesy of my old man having a box, which was pretty lucky. Lately the only footballers I have met would be John Terry in Faces and Ray Parlour in a dirty little bar I care not to mention!
Teddy Sheringham and a few west ham players… but you said footballers right?
Andy, that sounds like a pretty special prize!
pedro .. lol.. what about henry or fabregas or clichy ?
Yes Pedro, fantastic.
Choy – I met Paul Merson if Frankie and Bennys in Watford
No, not yet!
We saw Clichy outside the bar we were in last year… £90k range rover with 3 birds in it. What a boy! haha! He looked like a kid driving!
One of my friends reckons he is going to get some Arsenal players down to the opening of a bar… so I’m keeping them crossed!
Oh and my mrs sat on the next table to GG, at some charity do…….. she didnt know who he was though till someone told her
I think Van Der Vaart did play in every game. Was so poor though that most people probably forget he was playing.
o ok.. and monsieur wenger anyone?
fuck me wot an evening that was!!! I live in sheffield and have family etc, etc, so don’t often get to games, in fact first game i got lines up is a free pass to the reebok come end of september courtesy (how do you spell courtesy?) of a company i deal with, by then with the fixtures we got, we’ll be 10 pts cleat at the top of the league!!!
I was only 10 seats behind all of them on the plane to romania, but we wern’t allowed to speak to them.
Had I of known what I know now I’d of given Hleb and Ade a slap! and Flamoney for that matter
spellin mistake on previous sign in name, oops!!!
Pierre – either that or all our players over 10 will be injured and we will have to forefit the game!
I’m off now Grovers!
Till tomorrow!
Have a good night…!
Pierre – sorry, what an evening what was?
Later Pedro!
so do you guys think ade will stay?
nite pedro!
I hope he goes. No room in the team for players who think they are better than everyone else. I mean £120k a week, as good as TH14, what planet is he on? Im not going to bang on about it but hes not fit to lace the great TH14s boots.
Anyway, Im off now.
Perhaps there will be some more positive news to chat about tomorrow.
yup m off too… nite all!!
SSN’s – I love this
Holland international midfielder Rafael van der Vaart has ruled out a move to Spurs.
The Hamburg playmaker – believed to be a target for several sides – says Tottenham ‘are not the club I want to go to’.
Nite Grovers
Can somebody please give Hill-Wood another bottle of single malt and lock him back in the board room.
pat
yes mate , i wont comment on the ‘actual trip’ as most of it was rated triple XXX,
but i can tell you the drive up to bangkok was stressful yet adrenaline pumped!loud music , a real boys road trip !!!
and the drive home i was just fantasizing about who we bought in the transfer market .. I stayed away from the bangkok post and all things news so i could get over loaded with arsenal news that i missed out on for several days upon my return!..
seems i dont know why i bothered !
Cant help but say i told you so about gilberto !
Its a shame AFC dont have the same ruthlessness when it comes to eboue or even gallas recently ! But with limited playing time last season the writing was on the wall and shouldn’t be a shock to anyone …
I certainly expected it !!! and its all part of the plan to make our club operate on 100 quid a week ! …
treze,
don’t worry about your mate , im sure anyone else other than die hard fans will soon become turn coats also! people do like winners ! and its obvious we are not displaying the killer instinct to compete ! its something ive commented on before , about displaying a winning mentality ,uping the ante to compete by spending a bit to get more fans on board !
You have stupid AKB fans who ooze faith and remember a long forgotten era
and hope that it will return 1day ! rather like cultists .. and you have die hard fans
like us who are extremely disappointed in the clubs progress for the past 3-4 seasons and realize we are trying to run in quicksand ..
AFC are not displaying the killer instincts needed for victory in the EPL !
all the other fans can and will be converted and move on !
we are not recruiting players for this season , yet lose our better players
to other clubs willing to pay good wages to our star players to tempt them away. Its a disaster ! and its almost a crisis !
whilst this mentality is in progress, AFC will be nothing more than a bit part addition to the EPL !
good…. but not good enough !
do you really blame fans for not supporting us ????????
i mean really ????
frustrating times are ahead being an arsenal supporter !
no signings …. management filling us with promises that aren’t coming true!
its all very worrying ! and unprofessional
share lock downs as the board is running scared over being taken over !! and sacking key board members , Once they fall out of favor !
wenger coming out and stating we will lose our best players for the next 17 years ! money issues ! money lies like 75 million transfer kitties !
we will not operate well next season with the likes of diaby-eboue-senderos-song-denilson-ade , all fucking very average players.
definitely not players that should be relied upon to win titles !
sure 1 or 2 might shine in time !
but shouldn’t we already be running at top gear after 4 seasons of rebuilding ?
ethan – you say we’re gonna lose our better players but not bring anyone in, then you mention ade as an average player, which is it?! denilson and diaby are also certainly not average, incredibly talented players who just had a hard time last season. We’ve currently only lost flamini, who twelve months ago most of us wanted to get rid of anyways, and who is very easily replaceable.
Some fickle fans don’t seem to understand the way things work. Arsenal don’t have the spending power of Chelsea and Utd (yet), and therefore the way we compete and stay at the top is by buying players who are raw, and young, and therefore cheaper, then developing the players into some of the best players in the world. For the success of the invincibles etc to happen, it meant that we had to pay top wages to keep the likes of Vieira, Henry, Pires, whilst they were the best players in the world, and therefore once that generation was gone, we had to start early again, there was always going to be a period of regeneration and development. We now have Sagna, Clichy, Fabregas, Walcott, Vela, Bendtner, Van Persie who are all some of the top young players in Europe, and have got to a point where they’re at a level to dominate the premiership again. Add to that Denilson, Diaby, Fabianski, Eduardo, Nasri, who also could all be amongst the best players in their respective positions in Europe and our future looks very rosy in terms of the young players, who look ready to cross the line between potential and the realisation of being top players. Not to mention Toure, Gallas, Rosicky, Hleb, who despite having difficult times at points last season have all been considered amongst the best players in Europe in the past, and still have years left in them.
It’s easy to see how the young players have developed and matured in their performances, as well as the team as a whole, it’s factual in terms of the points totals in the premiership. I’m certain we’ll be very very close to dominating everything next season, we were absolutely incredible at times last season, and we’ll be much better this season just due to the team’s age and maturity.
fuck me ivejust read hleb’s “exclusive2 in the sun. somebody please give me a ring in a year’s time when i stop laughing.
that really is the most ridiculous article ever! i dunno where they got the attacking wenger quotes from, i’d imagine they’re probably completely made up, and how is the cesc thing attacking him in any way?! i really can’t stand the anti-arsenal agenda in the tabloids, its ridiculous
Hey A & Noel, is that along the same lines as this?
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/article1392828.ece
It’s bullshit. He probably complimented Fabregas with that quote more than anything.
He didn’t say anything disrespectful and just confirmed what we all knew. No big deal.
Denilson incredibly talented? Incredibly talented at doing sweet fa in my book. He can switch play well enough but then so can any professional footballer. He’s rank average and the sooner Wenger gets his head out of his arse and realises that the better.
Diaby is talented but lacks motivation and intensity.
When it comes to The Arsenal it does appear that the English press carry on as if they begrudge the club. Its is now becoming all too clear to me during this transfer window that any comment/quote to do with Arsenal, gets twisted by some journo to create shit.
…….the Australian way to deal with the knockers (not the ones in Pierre’s avatar) is to shove it right back up where the sun doesn’t shine, by WINNING!!!
N.B The MCC carry on like pompus old farts to the Aussie cricketers, so in return Aussie cricketers come out a win The Ashes. Its been the same for 131 years.
……the times when the Wallabies haven’t shown respect to the All Blacks during the Harkka, i.e the time our boys turned their back on them during it, the All Blacks belted the Wallabies on the scoreboard.
……so @ the moment the English press is sticking the big size 14 boot into The Arsenal, so let all gooners whallow in the pleasure of seeing the cunts squirm when we take The Title @ manure. Oh!!!! How sweet it is
A
we have lost reyes-TH14-Freddie -pires-PV4- Flamini – Hleb soon !
and many more !!!!
also constantly tested in the media and by spain about Cesc !
you are kidding right ?
None have been replaced ! 3 of them wingers ..
and if you say ade replaced TH14 ill laugh so hard ill probly cough up my intestines !
if you put your faith in diaby etc .. then i pity you ..
your either a man of faith ! or a total looney !
but in a professional team like AFC , i would never go in half cocked !
the stadium generates more money than any other EPL team, therefore it has
loaning capacity, the board just doesnt want to get into debt because they want the club to be worth a mint FOR RE-SALE prior to the end of the wenger era ! ! at the sake of ruining our football stature !
and as a fan that is hard to take !
Alton Towers who the f*ck needs it we have more ups and downs than any of there rollercoasters.
I cant believe we have turned down a bid like that for Ade after all hes had one good season which so many strikers have look at Martins,Drogba,Berbatov,
We made exactly the same mistake with TH14 held onto him a season too long and then only got 16m for him when the season before he was worth double.
As for Hleb hes mad his position impossible to come back talk about burning bridges where has all the loyalty gone??????
Hello Old Blighty, (Arsenal Section). Has Gilberto left?
Gnarley – If he goes to the Greek club for a pittance, a normal AW move now, it means he’s been offered a decent contract to keep him playing for a few years – Didn’t PV get a 5 year one? There’s also the possibil;ity it will favour us for the kid we want from them.
This move would also show that AW sees the CMF as the position of importance for us to stop the high balls coming in and tighten up our defence rather than disturb Gallas (this season!) so expect a really talented player there – Yaya for Hleb might be a possibility!
I get the impression that Nordvelt will be challenging Gallas by next season and WG will be the age to be outed then and a captain might be available then: possibly Cesc but might be a newcomer brought in this season?
Cheers P7, So there are rumblings, about a move for him to Greece. If he goes, I wish him well. I saw a couple of Grovers mention it, but there was nothing on newsnow, etc.
I reckon its inevitable that Cesc will be Captain, or at the very least be offered the position.
It’s on NewsNow this end posted 19.37 last night by Arsenal Analysis.
Morning Grovers!
That Hleb interview looks pretty similar to the one we posted last week!
I am surprised he said that about Hleb… but I guess that is the only way you get a move… act a cunt…
Oh well, roll on Arshavin!
Agreed Pedro! Good morning also or in present company should it be G’Day?
1st – well it’s worth a try!
Patrick, beware, the whiley Rico is most likely stalking the no.1 spot.
That reminds me… I am working from home today, I must set my alarm for home and away… Australia is the greatest place in the world…
If only English women looked that good…
So, three things I am pissed off about today:
Berto being sold (If true)
Hleb slagging Cesc off
Negative Arsenal PR as usual
hleb please pack up you horse and cart and fuck off comarade!!!!!!!
cant wait to see you become the latest victim of the arsenal – barca ,curse .
arsehole………………..
Pedro, the only thing good about “home & away” is the location. Palm Beach. In fact that whole norhern beaches down to say Freshwater is sensational.
Gnarley… have you seen the women?
Yes, some are little cutties
but @ first I thought you were taking the piss
New Post!
Where? I can’t see it 8minutes later.