Arsenal target South American striker, Gilberto to leave? Is Sepp Blatter for Real? And all this time Wenger remains silent..

Apparently the story doing the rounds is that The Arsenal are targeting striker South American striker Falcao. Now this player shouldn’t be confused with the Brazilian World Cup winner and afro sporting midfield king pin Falcao who must be the best part of 50 odd but seeing as the media are keen to see The Arsenal implode, it might be worth a punt to get him on board. I bet he can still kick it though. Anyhow I digress, the Falcao The Gunners are apparently are after is none other than Columbian hitman (easy, I’m on about hitman in the football sense, not the militia sense) Falcao, yup, never heard of him either. The striker plies his trade for Argentinean side RIver Plate and has cracked 38 goal in 58 games, this transfer rumour could be true or it could be a bag of shit. The only thing I know is that every one is jumping on this story. I think at the moment the media might as well be pulling names out of a hat and saying The Arsenal are after that player, bit like shooting fish in a barrel, could be true, might not. The one thing we all know in this is that the rumours wont be confirmed or denied, so we just have to put up with them.

However the price quoted by River Plate for the player is £12m. Now I’m no Premier League manager, but I have watched South American football and a lot of the leagues are based on individual skill and obviously loads of South American’s make it in European leagues, namely Spanish La Liga or the Italian Serie A. However this player is only 22 and has never played in Europe so it’s a huge risk, for that money why not stomp up some more filthy lucre and snap up someone like David Villa? Anyway we’ll soon see if this is a goer, time will tell.

Gilberto to leave? Septic Bladder and Wenger stays quiet..

Brazilian play maker and ex Arsenal vice captain Gilberto is apparently going to be sold to bubble and squeak team Panathinaikos. His advisors have flown to Athens to broker a deal for the Invisible Wall and are looking at getting £2m out out of the Greek team. This story first broke on TribalFootball and The Sun Online – must be true then Gooners. Given that our midfield will be completely different next season what with the departures (and arrivals, well once they arrive) I find it difficult to believe that Arsène Wenger would let Gilberto leave as he is a strong believer of continuity and consistency in the team. So what to you Gooners think? Do you think Gilberto who is the ‘daddy’ of the team in terms of age and experience will leave?

Not Arsenal related news but I had to have a quick spout off about this. Unscrupulous, corrupt, back handers taking FIFA boss Septic Bladder has put his size tens into his gob again. The FIFA boss has publicly stated that Manchester USA winger and lady boy impersonator Cristiano Ronaldo should be allowed to leave the northern monkeys. For one, Blatter shouldn’t get involved in matters between clubs especially when the Manc’s have said River Dance isn’t for sale. On top of that, the way Real Madrid have conducted the manner of going after Cristiano Ronaldo should be punished not condoned. It shows you what side of the fence Blatter is on in my opinion. Anyhow the quote which sticks in my throat about Blatter is:

“I think in football there’s too much modern slavery in transferring players or buying players here and there, and putting them somewhere.”

Now Blatter should pick his words very carefully. Slavery? Slavery? How can you compare slavery to a player earning £120K a week? Last time I looked in the history books no slave got £120K a week. They maybe got 120 lashings, a crack on the skull, treated like shit and were denied their freedom amongst other heinous crimes against their liberty. How does this man stay in power? Just what is his purpose? Is he on Real Madrid’s books? He has never stepped in and taken them to task when they openly tap up players. Instead he says players should be allowed to go there, WTF? Now don’t get me wrong I’m not a Manchester United sympathiser, far from it, but it Septic Blatter can get involved in this, who’s to say he wont get involved or try and get involved in other transfer tug of wars? OK rant over.

Lastly, the only thing I want to say is that we’ve heard from Alex Hleb wanting to leave, the AC Milan vice-supremo Adriano Galliani saying The Arsenal are willing to sell Emmanuel Adebayor (damn, nearly got away with this post being Ade/Hleb free) however in all this Arsène Wenger has remained as quiet as a spurs fan at full time against The Arsenal. Has the wily coach got a trick up his sleeve? Let’s hope whilst everyone is spouting off and getting bent out of shape and shouting the odds the shrewd one is conducting his business all quiet like and then POW surprises us with a signing or two and I don’t mean the Samir Nasri one which seems to be always go through ‘tomorrow’. 

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