Groundblog Day
Add comment June 7th, 2010
I have, you probably won’t have noticed, been a little quiet over the last few days. Well, frankly, I’ve had little to say: I wake up every morning to variations upon the same headlines. It goes pretty much as follows:
UMPTEENTH BARCELONA SPOKESMAN AFFIRMS FABREGAS INTENT
XAVI: “CESC HAS BITS OF UNDIGESTED BARCA IN HIS POO”
LORIENT DEMAND £8m + TWO VOWELS FOR KOSCIELNY
JOE COLE IS ISN’T IS ISN’T MIGHT BE POSSIBLY GOING TO SIGN FOR ARSENAL OR SOMEONE ELSE
It really is all getting pretty dull now.
The Fabregas situation shows no signs of ending. Baseless reports this morning suggest we’d be willing to see for around £50m, but it strikes me that Barca are a long way off producing such a figure. Xavi is continuing to attempt to seduce Cesc with all the subtlety of the Yorkshire Ripper, whilst Joan Laporta now has only a week or so to conclude the deal under his presidency. A change of regime could conclude the Catalan club’s interest, but that is probably just wishful thinking.
Laurent Koscielny might be a very good footballer. He’s regarded as one of the best centre-halves in Ligue 1 – a division notable for its dearth of goals. I, for one, have never heard of him. If he does arrive, I hope it’s to replace Silvestre rather than Gallas, if you catch my drift. We need some experience in our backline.
As for Joe Cole, I will only say the following: if he is signing for Arsenal, I suspect the deal will already be done. This summer of all summers we can ill afford to let a player ponder a decision for over a month, forcing us to put other potential signings on the back-burner. The situation reminds me of a story I heard on the radio the other day: a somewhat geeky man was told by a stunning girl he believed to be out of his league that she liked him. In his attempt to play it cool, he fumbled and said, “I’ll mull it over”. Don’t mull it over, Joe. Just sign, be done with it, and enjoy the World Cup.
Which, frankly, is exactly what I’m looking forward to doing. It’s pretty close now.
