Welcome to Tuesday
Add comment July 7th, 2009
The name comes from Middle English Tiwesday, from Old English Tiwes dæg, named after the Nordic god Tyr, who was the approximate equivalent of the Roman war god Mars, and Greek god Ares. Tyr was a God who most despised football news of any kind, and contrived to render Tiwesday almost entirely unbloggable.
It tells you something when the most newsworthy story revolves around Mark Randall, who has pricked the interest of Derby County. Despite Randall’s potential, it’s hard to see him making the grade at Arsenal without significant exposure elsewhere.
One man who knows all about being shunted out on loan is Philippe Senderos, who now finds himself linked with a £5.2m move to Bordeaux. The past few weeks have seen Senderos linked with a whole host of clubs, and at the moment it’s anyone’s guess where he’ll end up.
Tales now of two Brazilian midfielders: transfer target Felipe Melo is reportedly edging closer to a move to Juventus, whilst former stalwart Edu has returned to his native Brazil to join Corinthians, where he’ll be a team-mate of Ronaldo (full name: The Fat Ronaldo).
In an hour or so arseblog will publish an exclusive interview with the club’s new CEO, Ivan Gazidis. Credit to Gazidis: he’s one of the first people on the club’s payroll to acknowledge that an audience exists outside of the official site. Hopefully this is the start of more congenial relations between the club and the huge online community that surrounds it.
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Typical. You finish the blog and a couple of pieces of news appear instantaneously:
ps. Philippe Senderos’ future is becoming clearer – it certainly won’t be at AC Milan, who’ve just signed American centre-back Oguchi Onyewu instead.
pps. Agent Dennis Lachter has reportedly invited Barcelona to make an official bid for Andrey Arshavin. Dennis: a reminder for you.
