Raise your hand if you feel sorry for Aleksandr Hleb…
Add comment July 21st, 2009
*waits*
….anybody?
*waits some more*
…anyone at all?
*Mathieu Flamini raises hand*
Not you, former Gunner and now Hleb’s fellow idiotic bench warmer. Your views don’t count.
It is a little cruel, but you have to laugh at Hleb’s lamentations about his decision to move to Barcelona. What makes it even funnier is that we don’t miss him one bit, having replaced him with two players (Andrey Arshavin and Samir Nasri) who are arguably superior. It’s becoming quite the maxim, but not many players leave Arsenal and prosper. Emmanuel Adebayor: you have been warned.
Arseblogger references a radio appearance last night by journalist Xavier Rivoire, who claims Gilles Grimandi informed him that Marouane Chamakh would be making a widely-expected move to Arsenal. I feel like I’ve talked about this player enough, really. Also, his name still sounds like an onomatopoeiac term for a duck’s sneeze. Not that that’s a reason not to sign him – if anything, the opposite is true.
Last night an ‘Arsenal XI’ won 3-2 at Lincoln with goals from Gilles Sunu, Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, and Luke Ayling. The likes of JET, Coquelin, Sanchez Watt, Barazite and Simpson all played – I wonder if this means they won’t be at the training camp in Austria.
Arsenal play a friendly this evening against SC Columbia Floridsdorf, an Austrian side not to be confused with Colombia the country or Columbia the American city. The match will be shown live on ArsenalTVOnline, who had advertised their screening of four pre-season games as a “FOURsome offering”. Clever, eh. However, with just three games to go, their main banner is calling the triple-offering “THREEmendous”.
Now, that just doesn’t work. After the delay in announcing Adebayor, this debacle is the final straw. I’m boycotting Arsenal.com (until 5:30pm GMT, when the match starts.)
Till tomorrow, folks.
