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Thursday the 26th of May

if Vieira wants a career in football once he's retired then where better for him to have it? Bring him home, Arsene.

One of his first tasks, perhaps, would be to find Patrice Evra and kick his fat mouth in. The world's gobbiest left-back has been talking about Samir Nasri <http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/may/26/samir-nasri-arsenal-manchester-united?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_c ampaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Ffootball%2Frss+%28Fo otball%29>
and suggesting he needs to go to Man United to further his career. In an unbelievably poncey manner too:

If Samir comes, he has to know there is no room for mistakes. I have been at Manchester United for five years and I can't remember how many trophies I have won … 13? 15?. So 'Petit Prince', if you want to be King, you know where you have to go.

Petit Prince? Petit Prince?! Right up there with 'Capi' for me.
Honestly, if there's such a thing as hell then Evra's fiery eternity will be spent on a lumpy, pot-hole ridden football pitch, perpetually chasing a 50-50 pass with Ryan Shawcross coming from one side and Martin Taylor from the other. With Glenn Hoddle and Chris Waddle performing 'Sussudio' at a volume setting of 11. Which is one louder than 10.


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Tuesday the 31st of May

Morning all,

some interesting quotes from Arsene have emerged from a radio interview he did in France. They've been carried via the Twitter account <http://twitter.com/#!/ascfr> of the President of the A/rsenal supporters club France/. And if yesterday's performance by Mr Blatter has taught us anything it's that Presidents are men of honour and quiet dignity who are to be trusted implicitly.

I don't want to throw the two gentlemen into the same category by any means but there's some interesting stuff in there. He talks about
Nasri:

With Nasri there's a little disagreement on the financial terms of his new contract. What is certain is we won't sell Nasri to Man Utd.

Which tallies with what I've heard about the problem. Some suggest it's because he's looking for a role in the team that he can only have if another player leaves but what it's coming down to, as I told you the other day, is money. I'll leave it up to you to decide if he's worth what he's looking for (alleged parity with the very top earners at the club) on the back of one admittedly good spell at the start of this season.

Then he talks about Cesc:

This year, there's no interest for Cesc. So I want to keep him because he's the best midfielder in the world and he's our captain.

There might well be a key word missing there when he talks about no interest, and that's 'yet'. The Mirror <http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Arsenal-transfer-news-Barcelona-have-launched-their-latest-attempt-to-sign-Cesc-Fabregas-but-face-being-outbid-by-Manchester-City-article742907.html>
runs a story this morning saying Barcelona are ready to bid £30m which is all well and good but when £30m won't buy you a fully grown Andy Carroll they'd want to seriously increase what's on offer for Arsenal to consider it. And I think they will do that, whether that ends up being acceptable to the club remains to be seen.

As for the rest he says he'll be trying to buy defenders from the Premier League to help make our defence better able to cope with the Premier League (Cahill? Samba? John O'Shea?), he won't be going on holidays because he'll be going to South America to look at players (Copa America?) and that old reliable:


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Wednesday the 1st if June

It's quiet, man, like John Wayne in Ireland.

Still a few rumblings and grumblings regarding transfers with Nicklas Bendtner's agent and father (who is also his mother in a hilarious real life version of Cartman), speaking about how much his son is worth. He says <http://www.sport.co.uk/news/Football/53867/Bendtner_given_high_valuation.aspx>
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One hundred million crowns!

I'm not the only one hearing Doctor Evil, right? He goes on to say:

He has been valued higher before. But of course, if you are on the bench the price goes down. Nicklas has the qualities to live up to this sum and we can certainly find a club that is willing to pay.

Can they though? Can they really find someone to pay £10m for Nicklas Bendtner?

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THursday the 2nd

Some transfer rumours this morning involve Gonzalo Higuain <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1393281/Arsenal-Spurs-Man-City-target-Gonzalo-Higuain.html>
, who is apparently available from Real Madrid, and Wigan's James McCarthy <http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Liverpool-Chelsea-Arsenal-Wigan-transfer-news-James-McCarthy-will-be-allowed-to-leave-Latics-but-club-claim-no-offers-yet-article743662.html>
, a player I know the manager has had his eye on for some time. The latter more likely than the former but still not that likely, in my opinion. It would require a Diabpature for it to be realistic, I think.

Apparently Alex Song has had some kind of Nasri-esque bust up with Samuel Eto'o on international duty and been dismisssed from the Cameroon squad. I don't have much interest in this, to be honest. I know some people might suggest that Song, being a young guy who has won precisely fuck all in his career, ought to be more respectful of a guy like Eto'o who has won quite a lot, but then who really gives a shit what any of them do on international duty?


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all this

especially this

Some suggest it's because he's looking for a role in the team that he can only have if another player leaves

Punch becoming a legend!!

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Tuesday the 7th of June

I don't think I could be a football agent.

Firstly, I'm just not that kind of hard-nosed businessman driven solely by money. Secondly, I'm not a particularly great liar. Mrs Blogs always knows when I'm spoofing because of the look on my face. I tend to make a face which suggests that I'm making a face so as not to look like I'm fibbing but the face says "I'm fibbing". When she asks who left the beer bottle caps in the cutlery drawer, in with the little spoons, I can never successfully blame the dog.

So when a player came to me and asked me if they thought our course of action was what was best for their football career they would know that I was having them on. That the course of action was, in fact, best of their bank balance and ultimately best for my bank balance.


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dans ce cas je vous pense le besoin de parler français

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Wednesday the 8th of June

Good day to you all and we'll start this morning with young Theodore of the clan Walcott who was speaking yesterday at the launch of something I don't care about.

It seems that as much as we're thinking about who might come and go, he is too. Let's start first with what he says about players coming in <http://www.express.co.uk/football/view/251474/Theo-Walcott-warns-Arsenal-silver-comes-first>
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The manager has said he is going to spend and I’m intrigued about who is going to come in. You need to add players. We’ve had a small squad, so I’m interested in who we’re going to get. I’ve heard rumours about Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema. Someone like that would help you hold on to your best players and get the crowd on their feet.


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Link to the relevant piece on arseblog at the end of your post each time would be nice, if you're gonna do this every day

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Link to the relevant piece on arseblog at the end of your post each time would be nice, if you're gonna do this every day

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Just "like" the page on Facebook dude, and there is a direct link everytime.