Afternoon all,
Apologies for toady's post being very late. Problems with my O2 connection again...
Anyway, moving swiftly onto the Arsenal...
The big story of the day is Almunia's future. Despite Arsene's insistence that Coco will remain at Arsenal during the January transfer window there are a miriad of reports suggesting Almunia's future lies elsewhere than the Emirates Stadium. In reality the Spaniard has fallen to third in the 'keeper pecking order with Fabianski now having to fight of a claim from his younger Polish comrade for the top spot.
"I have my thoughts, but I don't want to talk about them,"
Not exactly the words of someone who wants to stay at a club to fight for his place. Almunia's never exactly been a favourite with Arsenl fans. Even though there was initial excitement when he replaced big Jens "I reckon I'm a Panzer" Lehmann, this slowly faded away. We all tried to convince ourselves that he was the man to replace the aging German, even though he had a reputation of being gaff-prone. In the end he never managed to grow out of the error-prone tag.
What worries me is that Fabianski seems to be following in his exact footsteps. Errors in Fabianski's earlier matches, whilst Almunia was still number 1, have not been forgotten and do any of us really have faith in Fabianski to grow into this supposed 'world-class' keeper Arsene keeps claiming he will be? Granted, all keepers have bad days. Even David Seaman, Peter Schmeichel and Iker Casillas have had their bad days. But the difference is that they never let it bother them and carried on to produce excellent performances in subsequent matches. We've yet to see Fabianski look composed and assured to five matches in a row since his promotion. I stick by my call that we should give Szcznesy a run of games. Either the young man will thrive or if he doesn't and Coco moves on in either in January or at the end of the season, we can spend a bit of cash and bring in someone to allow Szcznesy a few more years in which to grow.
Nasri and Gallas are continuing their war of words. Nasri has said he didn't even say hello to Gallas for a year and doesn't see why he should shake Gallas' hand. The whole situation is funny/pathetic in equal measures. Seriously now, last time I saw two people consistently wind each other up so much they got married a year later.... Now THAT brings up an interesting possibility. Are Nasri and Gallas just hopelessly in love with each other and just unable to admit it? Did their disagreements start in an after-match bath game of 'Spot the submarine'? Well I hope not. If so they aint going to be allowed to Qatar for the World Cup in 2022, or at least if they do they'd better follow Blatter's farcical advice and not share a room....
Diaby hopefully will be fit for Saturday's match against Stoke. Diaby apparently is the best player at Arsenal during the mini 5-a-side games during training. F*cking wish he could show that form in a Premier League match...
Lastly Eboue is rumoured to be a transfer target for Roma. A lot of Gooners I know can't stand him but personally I like the Ebouesaurus Rex. I view him as a sort of lucky charm. Or at least the same type of lucky charm that sailors in the olden days had, ie. the most useless member of the crew was considered a lucky charm and IF the ship ever got into a really really bad storm they'd throw that person overboard as a sacrifice to the sea-gods. Trust me guys and girls, come the end of the season and we desperately need a win on the last day to take the crown, you'll all be applauding my foresight as we sacrifice Eboue to the Footballing gods and are rewarded by the title....
Take care all, see you tomorrow
The Afterthought
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