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Frimpong, Squillaci, and other funny words

16 comments August 20th, 2010

Hello all. I write this blog from aboard a train from Edinburgh down to London. As I speak, I appear to be passing through some dank, uninhabited highland wilderness, wherein WIFI and 3G as absent as any other recognisable signs of civilisation. I think it’s called ‘Newcastle’. For that reason, I will not be able to stretch my limited connection to go in search of links to substantiate today’s blog. If I tell you something, you’ll just have to take my word for it. Frightening, I know.

We start with the news that Emmanuel Frimpong has been ruled out for six to nine months with a knee injury. It’s a blow to the player, first and foremost – after an impressive pre-season he had jumped ahead of Craig Eastmond in the queue for first-team places. Arsene even suggested that the emergence of Frimpong, as well as Wilshere, is what stopped him from signing another midfielder.

I don’t expect that policy to change now that Frimpong is injured. Cup competitions aside, I suspect he would only have played in the absence of Song, Diaby and Denilson. Hopefully he recovers swiftly and without complications, and with any luck we’ll see him in action again before the season is out.

Fulham have rejected a second Arsenal bid for Mark Schwarzer, after we failed to increase our initial offer of £2m. I wonder how and why we thought that might turn out any differently. Do you think we presented it differently? Maybe we offered them 200,000,000 pence, and thought they’d be gulled by that great long list of zeros.

It’s a similar state of affairs in our move to sign Sebastien Squillaci, with Sevilla reportedly holding out for £6m as we refuse to budge beyond about £4m. Brinkmanship is, as ever, the hallmark of our transfer window antics.

Finally today, William Gallas is due to undergo a medical ahead of signing for Spurs. It’s a controversial move, but I think we should be clear about one thing: it is not in the league of Sol Campbell’s switch from Spurs to Arsenal. Campbell was a Spurs hero, whereas Gallas spent much of his time at Arsenal as a pariah. It’s not even as controversial as Gallas’ initial switch from Chelsea. I won’t be booing him with much force because this isn’t a betrayal: I knew he was a mercenary when we signed him, and he’s only confirmed that.

Right. Gonna call it a day there. Bye for now.


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