Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor fresh from refuting claims he wanted a massive pay hike after his agent said The Togonator wanted £80K a week has said he is flattered by interest coming from Barcelona and AC Milan. What cracks me up or winds me up more to the point is the way the media are reporting this by adding that the player is flattered with the links and he is happy at The Arsenal…. for now! They can’t leave it alone can they? They have to be mischievous don’t they with adding the ‘for now’ for added emphasis, twats. But then again what do you expect from the media anything to give a story an added twist. Adebayor says he’s happy, fair play, end of story. I don’t see him leaving especially not to Barcelona, I mean we had another striker go there recently who’s a much better player and it isn’t exactly working out for him is it?
The annual Yaya Touré to Arsenal stories have cropped up again, I think he is linked to The Arsenal more often than Obafemi Martins. Touré the younger who some think will be offloaded by Barcelona in the summer wants to play alongside his brother and said that it would be great. Now what with Mathieu Flamini taking the money and running, Yaya Touré would be a good bet to play that defensive midfield position. But given that Wenger could of had Touré the Younger for next to nothing from former Belgian feeder club K.S.K. Beveren a few years back I think it would be a massive surprise if Le Gaffer would break out and dust down the chequebook for Côte d’Ivoire international. We’ll see, but be sure to wait for the next installment when Kolo Touré comes out and tells Wenger to buy his brother, again! Having seen Yaya play I reckon he would be a great signing for us, but we’ll see what happens there.
I suppose we could do a swap deal with Alex Hleb going the other way as his agent seems hell bent on getting his 10% cut. Hleb’s agent, something ending in ’ski’ no doubt just can’t keep his trap shut and revealed Hleb wont buy out his contract. However the agent seems to do be doing all the things to ease his client out of his Arsenal contract. Hleb himself has jumped on board the ‘I want to get away but can’t put in a transfer request as I will lose money from my signing on fee’ bandwagon as he revealed ‘He is not a big city man’. Where the hell did Hleb think London was when he signed from VfB Stuttgart? So does that mean Hleb will soon be playing for the likes of Plymouth or even Leicester City? Or would Hleb consider those big cities? I think a line needs to be drawn under this, basically Wenger needs to tell Hleb he is under contract, so honour it and tell Inter, Barcelona et al that there is a £20m price tag on the Belorussian’s head, put up or shut up, simple. I’m bored of this saga already. However with Hleb not exactly saying he wants to stay at The Arsenal I’m sure there will be more comments from him or his agent, yawn.
Arsenal old boy and leg-end Patrick Vieira is showing his love for The Arsenal as he is a bit concerned with the players leaving for more moolah. It’s no secret that we have a strict pay structure, however not sure about you but getting £35K a week isn’t exactly ’strict’ in my book. I agree with Paddy that we do lose players or even lose out on players because of dirty cash, but where will it stop? Is Flamini really worth more than the £55K a week we were offering?
Allgoonerdup awards and St Michael t-shirt: The end of season Allgoonerdup awards is coming your way. Next week as there will be nothing but speculation and more rumours so I’ll shall be doing the awards type shenanigans so remember to check in for that.
Also later this week I shall be showing off the special limited edition St Michael t-shirt which will be available in the Allgoonerdup Shop, just n time for St Michael’s day, which is nice.
Jump on board good people and getting posting… see you in the comments section.
May 14, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Everybody is banging on about Wenger having the opportunity to sign Yaya Toure for nought 3 years ago, the bottom line is he couldn’t due to work permit problems, otherwise I think he would have. Wenger is not adverse to going back for players he missed out on previously (Diara and Baptista are two that spring to mind) and the fact we have always been linked with Toure indicates Wenger has never lost interest. The past few seasons we have had an abundance of midfielders so the opening has never really been there to sign Toure, especially as Wenger was progressing Cesc. Also being realistic we were not going to be able to compete with Barca for his signature last year. It does seem that with the changes in management at Barca Toure may well be out of favour, and with us having lost Flamini this makes the ideal situation for both parties. We need a defensive midfielder and he is likely to go straight in the starting XI alongside Cesc. Out of all the rumours, and there have been many (We are getting like Spurs now, linked with ever player under the sun), this is probably one of the more likely to happen. Toure is certainly better than Makoun and in all possibility will costs about the same price so I say to Wenger get your cheque book out now. And I mean right now before Juve, Inter, Chelsea and all the others jump on the “Oh Wenger wants to sign him so we be better get in there as he must be good” bandwagon.