Hello everyone,
Lovely weather here in Rawalpindi. Its been raining all morning and thats quite a welcome relief from the scorchingly hot weather that we have had to endure over the past few days.
Moving on to all things Arsenal, there still isn't a great deal happening around the club as you can imagine, there are however little bits and pieces of Arsenal related news floating about that yours truly has been able to find.
The first of which is that Steven Appiah (how many times have we heard this before?) has been offered to Arsennal boss Arsene Wenger. Steven, 27, is now a free agent, having left Turkish club Fenerbahce. I'm not sure who exactly has offered Appiah to us. The player is available for free, he's 27 (rouhgly where most players hit their prime) and was during his Juventus days an excellent defensive player as well as who could play the offensive game. In hindsight, the player has a penchance to injuries and would go off to play the African Cup of Nations (reschedule the damn thing please!!) during the definitive times in the premiership.
There is however no gamble on signing him, he will certainly add depth, bring in some experience to the midfield and as I mentioned earlier, he's available for free and when fit is certainly a better option than having Eboue cover as a CDM.
In other news, Armand Traore has been talking about how Tony Adams inspires him and how he would like to learn a few tricks of the trade from the old dog. He says:
“Tony can bring lots of things to my game like positioning, how to defend when you’re one-on-one and where I need to be when we don’t have the ball. He’s got so much experience."
He also goes on to talk about life with the new club and at the end of the day I'm very glad Traore is gaining valuable experience at a Arse-mouth which no doubt would prove rather beneficial for us as well.
Le boss is very confident that we can still deliver the goods despite not adding reinforcements et al. I personally have no doubts over our abilities but I still stand of the view that a defensive midfielder is the need of the day.
Finally, the blog has just been added to http://www.goonernews.com/ the one stop to all things Arsenal. I'm very thankful to their team for this honour.
Right then, I'm off to enjoy the rather lovely weather.
Have a good one!
Come on you Goonnneeerrrssss!!
Friday, September 5, 2008
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4 comments:
i like pie
well i was calling for him a few days back, seems AW has listened:p
but still it aint clear wheteher hell be availible in JAN or inthe coming days,im baffled coz hes free,the guy is eager to play but lets c if WENGER can do a gamble on anoder African,certainly this is better than BITCHOFF(ohh BISCHOFF:p)!
Bischoff I believe has been bought to play in the reserves for the time being. If he does show enough potential he can drafted into the first team, otherwise there is no harm done.
If he is a free agent, Can he be allowed to join Arsenal right now? I'm not sure about that
I'd like Appiah to come before next weekend. He'd make a great addition, plus he's free. If he underperforms, we simply sell him, and then we've made a profit either way. The way I look at it it's win-win.
By the way, gooner14, would you be interested in a link swap? I recently started an Arsenal blog and I wondered if you'd be interested in increasing both our traffic flows? It's at:
http://fab4arsenal.blogspot.com
Would you be interested? Great post whatever, I hope Appiah signs!
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