Adebayor options + Superstar in the making could be on way!

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Good morning, welcome to your daily dose of Le Grove goodness.

On the agenda today are a number of items.

Firstly, Adebayor.

If the press are to be believed, Adebayor is sailing the Arsenal nest… where he goes, nobody knows, but one thing is for sure… he is rated by a lot of managers all around Europe. I don’t think anyone can deny that he offers something different, he is fast, powerful… prone to the odd finish. He is a younger Heskey… another player many didn’t rate, but always seemed to get games and caps.

It’ll be a shame to see him go, but his attitude and the emergence of our young Dane have put paid to his Arsenal career.

If he’s going to leave; personally, the money wouldn’t be of interest to me as a fan. It’ll just end up in financial purgatory like the rest of the income we make. I think it’s players we need and if we’re going to sell one of our best (<– I’m marketing him ok!), lets get a little something in return in the same way we did with Ashley Cole. By the way, before we get cracking with this, I saw this link from the ArseSpeak twitter page which was interesting… I digress…

Chelsea:

Flush with cash and a new non English speaking manager, Chelsea could be a prime destination for our Egotistical Togan. They’d be able to match his wages and Chelsea have a few players that could be of interest.

Options:

  • £10million + Alex
  • £5million + Mikel
  • £19million + Carvalho

Man City:

As the middle east collapses, their royals are over here splashing cash like they are MP’s on the last last day of the month… Adebayor is exactly the sort of power house City need up front and Mark Hughes is a big fan of strikers in Ade’s mould.

Options:

  • Robinho >>> Adebayor (Straight swap)
  • Onuoha + £10million
  • £35million cash (They don’t know football… lie and tell them he is the new Pele…!)

Milan:

Flush with £65million cash from the sale of Kaka, the most likely destination is Milan for Adebayor. Replacing Kaka with Adebayor is a bit like losing someones Rolex and replacing it with a turd in a brown paper bag. Hey ho, I’m not going to argue with Milan logic…

Options:

  • Adebayor >>> Pato (Straight swap)
  • £12million + Flamini
  • £18million + Gattuso

So, that is how I’d play it. Personally, I’m not interested in the cash because we rarely end up spending it… I’m interested in what our asset can get us in return. This is a good opportunity to bring in a great player for peanuts…

Oh, apparently the Daily Mirror has been reading the Le Grove comments section again, they’ve cleverly linked us with Grover favourite, Edin Dzeko for £8million. The guy looks a bit special (Link), but please… lets remember he is playing in arguably the 4th/5th strongest league in Europe and to my knowledge this is his first prolific season. Wolfsburg winning the title says a lot though… he would be a signing in the mould of Eduardo… I’ll watch with interest! At least he has a goal record… Ade never had one at his previous clubs.

Grover favourite, Edin Dzeko.

Grover favourite, Edin Dzeko.

On the whole subject of transfers, I did hear that Florentino Perez, the new President of Madrid said that massive transfers pay for themselves in marketing. I guess it is a logical assumption really. Big players attract big interest… they also have a better chance of winnning things… a by product of winning things is a larger fanbase… a larger fanbase usually means increased revenue streams. There is a chance I’ve over simplified that… but you get the jist!

Before I go I must remind you that it’s Le Chump, Le Champ of the year time. Your chance to vote on who your winners and losers of the year! Get voting, you have a week —>

Happy Friday Grovers, the first guest blog hits the web tomorrow!

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  2. Keyser

    David – Champions ? Heh I mean savour it, it’s like Vela’s goal against Sheffield United, or Eduardo’s against Burnley or whoever, in the grand scheme of things it means nothing, but they were awesome as good as yu’ll ever see.

    It’s not pointless is it, it’s whatever you want to take away from it, I don’t want to be Barca or United, I want us to win on our own merits.

    You can choose whatever you want from watching Arsenal and I’ll respect it, but thats you not me and never will be.

  8. David

    Fair enough Keyser…

    Id take winning a trophy over a pretty goal any day.

    But as you said…its you and not me.

    :D

  9. Mayank

    Of course we have a better attack than man IOU. Their attack can be summed up in one word Ronaldo. When Carrick and Anderson are your teams creators and heartbeat you can’t be all that. Arshavin summed up their playing style very nicely, “They play like machines while Arsenal and Barcalona are dreamers”

  20. Keyser

    David – You’re not joking ? Mate, of course I’dlove it more if we one, the point is if we don’t there’s still plenty of things I’ll remember about the season and appreciate.

  24. David

    Nite Mayank

    WEll i do admire youre Strength’s Keyser…always looking on the bright side of things when we havent won in 4 years…but i really cant take another season like this one…we were humiliated twice by 2 of our rivals…and Arshavin saved our blushes….

  27. patthegooner

    I have been in and out the last couple of days,

    What happened to that Vermealen chap from Ajax? is that still on?

  30. dennisdamenace

    I’m now now in the Freemasons Arms on Long Arce, this is your roving reporter reporting mudda fuddas!

  33. goonerpress

    Wow irishgunner. All I can say is Wow! Proves that my statement of ‘irish girls are cute’ is true. Every single one I’ve ever chat/spoken to has been.

  42. David

    Come come now we’ve already established how hot Irish is…we dont need to over stress the issue…although…one more time wouldnt hurt..

    :D

  46. David

    Irish…you’re one of those Pussy Cat Doll’s

    On the stage singing…”dont you wish youre girlfriend was Hot like me”

    And then you stick youre tongue out like MC hammer…”you cant touch this” LOL :D

    Youre too modest you know that already! Heeehee.

  47. David

    I dont understand why Wenger would have 3 meetings with Real Madrid only to turn them down.

    A simple no over an email wouldve sufficed.

  51. irishgunner

    Wenger meeting Real Madrid maybe shows he isn’t too happy with Arsenal one?

    Also as people here keep saying, Arsenal can survive without Arsene Wenger and by the same measure Arsene Wenger can survive without Arsenal.

  53. David

    LOL LAzer…

    GP…you had youre chance! I know youre a good guy but as they say….good guys finish last! heehee.

    It is worrying what is going on with the board…if Arsene says the volatile real Madrid job is “Strongly Attractive”

  56. leon

    irish

    i think it was bit spite when he made those statements about madrid offer,i also feel he quite susprised and haert after the roasting he had the shearholders meeting and he did not expect that at all

  58. irishgunner

    True Leon – I like to think he went to the meeting just to have a snoop, see if he could take any ideas

  61. leon

    iknow alt fans said he should be sacked but be replaced with whom because there not many manger aroung as good a better tha wenger and get decent team with budget he has

  62. irishgunner

    Maybe they had a lot of info or Perez had that nice wine AW likes ;)

    End of the day he is still here and wants to improve us, thats all that counts.

    Its not the first time Madrid came after him, really they must learn “No means No”.

  64. irishgunner

    same reasons why Beckham trained with us – to keep fit.

    Arshavin has had an odd season, coming to us in the middle of our season but the end of Zenit’s one.

  65. choy

    he was jobless incesc.. so why not go visit your old club.. no harm…

    if henry was in london.. i am sure he’d want to train with us…. and we’d welcome him.

  68. bk

    should of added last season.like the blog,clear out the dead wood,our rejects would still bring in a nice wedge.Famini for ade…i wouldnt even be too bothered about +cash

  70. gnarleygeorge9

    Is Big Raddy away on holidays I wonder? If so, my advice would be to stay as far away from English cricket as possible :lol:

    I’ve got the old Sopranos song ringing in my head.

    “Woke up this morning, had myself a laugh”

  71. Geoff

    Gnarley, I keep telling you cricket is a girls game, talking about it is like being gay. You’ll know soon because girls will feel comfortable in your company!

    Anyway Big Raddy is English!

  73. gnarleygeorge9

    …..Geoff I won’t mention cricket again, I don’t think i need too :) , so back onto football. If the Oz get a draw against Qatar we qualify, officially for the World Cup 2010 in South Africa.

  75. ethangunner

    whats happened football wise GG9 to the aussies ?
    harry – vids- cahill all those boys are getting old in the tooth and i havent seen many new names of class pop up recently ?

    too much AFL perhaps ?
    too much cricket ??

  76. Geoff

    Gordon Brown really is an embarrassment, I’ll give you that one!

    How did you know I was playing golf??? Spooky!

  79. gnarleygeorge9

    ethan re 07.39

    As you know we have never been much good @ the round ball game, but what does that make Asia if we dominate them :)

  80. gnarleygeorge9

    Of my 3 observations, if you off load one you should remedy the other, but the cricket is a bit of a problem, that may never get fixed. I don’t mean fixed as in using lollies to doctor the ball either :lol:

  81. Geoff

    Thanks Gnarley! Michael he has no pride he’ll hang on until next June, he’s also a complete cunt.

  82. goonermichael

    I did a hair show a few weeks ago at his old school in Kirkaldy (it’s a hair and beauty college now) and they think he’s an embarrassment. I’m off to work now early start. se you all later

  83. gnarleygeorge9

    Its got me stuffed why all these Arab billionares want to pour millions into English football clubs, when they would do better spending it in their own country improving the national team.

  86. ethangunner

    i think the aussies would have trouble beating Thailand – china – japan – Korea , lucky they only play people like NZ and soloman islands :)

    i think on the day a game could go either way ..
    but hey .. Im not Asian :)

    Im English :)

  87. gnarleygeorge9

    ethan, where have you been in the last 4 years, we have to qualify/have qualified through Asia. We flog thailand, china, Japan & korea. Actually I’m not sure about Thailand, I didn’t know they had a team.

  89. gnarleygeorge9

    Lords London: Holland 6/163 English 5/162 20/20 World Cup 2009. Not a good time to be admiting you are English me thinks.

  90. Geoff

    I just saw a clip of Dzeko’s goals, he’s very impressive, I would have him over Ade, less trouble and knows how to stay onside, reminds me a bit of Alan Smith, but with tricks.

  93. LAzer

    Quote of the day-

    “We will not miss _______. His technique is average, he lacks the speed and skill to take the ball past opponents, and ninety percent of his distribution either goes backwards or sideways. He wasn’t a header of the ball and he rarely passed the ball more than three meters. Younger players will arrive who will cause ________ to be forgotten.”

    Can anyone guess who this player is, a bit of clue in the last sentence I left in I suppose??

  94. LAzer

    If you all are talking cricket, didn’t India take it last time? I would reckon they are favorites based on that.

  98. gnarleygeorge9

    Geoff there are over 20 million Aussies who would freely admit to being gay about cricket today. Its always a gay old time for us when the poms come a cropper @ cricket.

    Inside it was Japan, but they had to get something back after we fucked up their World Cup 2006, 3-1. But I take your point :)

  99. gnarleygeorge9

    LAzer the Indians can have it, our boys are there for the ashes, this is just a warm up for the real thing later in July.

  100. LAzer

    However, despite his value to the team, Makélélé was one of its most (relatively) under-paid members, earning a fraction of that paid to team-mates like Zinédine Zidane, Luís Figo, Raúl, Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos, Steve McManaman, and Guti. In the summer of 2003, feeling that his position at the club was insecure after the shock sacking of Del Bosque and the arrival of David Beckham, and encouraged by team-mates Zidane, Raul, McManaman and Fernando Morientes, Makélélé decided to ask for an improved contract. The Real management flatly refused to consider his request. Upset, Makélélé handed in a transfer request, whereupon he was signed by Chelsea.

    Club president Florentino Pérez infamously poured scorn on Makélélé’s footballing abilities and proclaimed that Makélélé would not be missed:

    “We will not miss Makélélé. His technique is average, he lacks the speed and skill to take the ball past opponents, and ninety percent of his distribution either goes backwards or sideways. He wasn’t a header of the ball and he rarely passed the ball more than three metres. Younger players will arrive who will cause Makélélé to be forgotten.”

    In his autobiography, published in 2006, McManaman described Makélélé as the most important and yet least appreciated midfielder at Real. Retired former Real Madrid player and captain Fernando Hierro also criticised Perez for both Makélélé’s departure and the manner of his departure, saying:

    “I think Claude has this kind of gift – he’s been the best player in the team for years but people just don’t notice him, don’t notice what he does. But you ask anyone at Real Madrid during the years we were talking about and they will tell you he was the best player at Real. We all knew, the players all knew he was the most important. The loss of Makélélé was the beginning of the end for Los Galacticos… You can see that it was also the beginning of a new dawn for Chelsea. He was the base, the key and I think he is the same to Chelsea now.”

    For the past several years since Makélélé’s departure, Real Madrid have failed to progress past the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

  101. LAzer

    Yeah I can understand that GG. Personally I think 20/20 is pants anyways, just made to bring back some sort of crowds back to the game that’s all.

  103. LAzer

    BTW I wasn’t trying to make any point about a player in particular or anything, just that Perez was/is an idiot who fucked over the last squad and will probably do it again AND that it is OK for us to have different perspectives on a player.

  104. Geoff

    Well if you were happy with those players last season, enjoy next season, because Wenger won’t sell them.

  106. gnarleygeorge9

    Geoff, I reckon next season could be :) …………no its going to be moe of the same isn’t it :(

  107. LAzer

    Never said I was happy with them, in fact pretty much the opposite. Denilsong weren’t and aren’t ready for a first 11 spot imo and at best are squad players currently. Wenger should never have gone with that and it cost us five defeats. Diaby for me needs to go, simple as, am sick of his shit.

  110. LAzer

    It’s just a quote about Makelele I found Kelsey. Read my post at 8:35, that puts it in context. I’ll say this again, I wasn’t trying to point anything out about one of our players, just that Perez is an idiot and its OK to have different perspectives on players at times. Obviously Perezs’ was proven wrong.

  111. gooner-pak

    geoff the link tht you provided of this dzeko guy… he seems to be more like box player…like dudu

  115. LAzer

    Dzeko looks like he has a real accurate boot on him, something that clown Ade has about once every 5 games, unless the midfield is creating easy chances for him.

  117. David

    Damn Wenger for not Signing ribery….cAnt believe he chose Rosicky and Hleb over Ribery….wot a dumb mistake…”almost signing class” is equivalent to “almost winning trophies”

  119. bk

    Id be just as keen to know who we are going to sell and by fuck do we need a bit of house keeping.The squad in general has no balance. Wenger seems to be collecting attacking midfeilders and trying to fit them in other positions.We have no natural wingers,you have the likes of ebuoe,diaby,bentner,denilson and eddie playing there and for arshvin,walcott and nasri its not there position. We havnt one natural wide man.Its like hes afraid to sell fringe players in case they turn good but quite a few have to go

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