July 4th, 2009
Translated via babelfish:
Chief technician of the Gunnerblog Gilbertosilver, in denying of the transfer rumours of the past several hours, which sees Emmanuel Eboue definitely at other clubs and reporting to potential meetings to finalise the transfer of the player, underlines the following:
“Fiorentina, having set the article of purchase for Felipe Melo at €25m, have propositioned a reduction in the amount set in trade for Emmanuel Eboue to be included in any deal.
The Violet Ones should therefore discern that we have of Eboue the value €50m.â€
OMGWTF?!?
July 4th, 2009
Every day you peel back the card to reveal that another player has agreed terms on a new deal. After Aaron Ramsey and Jack Wilshere, yesterday it was Kieran Gibbs – and now speculation is rife that Robin van Persie is just an announcement away from being confirmed as an Arsenal player until 2014.
Arsenal will play Valencia in a pre-season friendly. Hopefully it’s one of those friendlies that you can include as part of a transfer fee on Football Manager, and we’ll be returning from it with David Villa, Silva, and Mata.
In this video Martin Keown talks about our summer transfer activity. It’s not very interesting, though. To be frank with you, I sort of blew my blogging load in that first paragraph with all that new deal talk. It’s good news about Robin: I had a sneaky suspicion he might have run his contract down. Speaking of moving on a Bosman, is Michael Owen the luckiest man in football right now? I bet he can’t believe it. I’m sort of still hoping that this is just an elaborate wind-up and soon Rio Ferdinand will appear with a camcorder yelling something about how Owen got “merked”.
Oh, there is some news about Marouane Chamakh, who is now being linked with a £12m switch to Sunderland. Steve Bruce is obviously sticking with his tried and tested policy of signing anyone Arsene a) sells or b) wants but doesn’t buy. SkySports have since run this:
10.11 Bordeaux coach Laurent Blanc explained in Friday’s press conference that Marouane Chamakh could stay with the French champions if he has not left by 22nd July. The Moroccan has been linked with Arsenal and Sunderland.
But I’m not convinced that that “explains” anything at all, really.
Right-ho. Till tomorrow. I have to wear a suit later, in this heat. Pity me.
