Apologies for the lack of blog yesterday, I ran a half marathon in the morning and had exactly no energy left at so couldn't turn my laptop on let alone type anything.
Anywho, feel a little more human today so browsed through the blogs and Arsenal news and surprise, surprise, what's the first thing I come across, a bloody injury. Sagna has declared himself out of action for 3 weeks and as part of that missed France's game in the week. Eboue should be the one to step straight in and will certainly be looking forward to a run in the team and hopefully Birmingham could be a great game to come in to. It will suit Eboue to come back into the team in a home game against a team like Birmingham who will defend their hearts out giving our whole team plenty of chance to push forward and attack from all angles. I hope Eboue enjoys his run in the team but also hope Sagna gets back quickly, he has been one of our most consistent players and consistency is the main aspect we as a team miss from our game.
In other news, the head of corporate communications at Emirates, the very humorously named Boutros Boutros has given an interview to 'SportsPro' said that they are ripping us off with our shirt sponsorship deal. Ok, admittedly he didn't Phrase it exactly like that but as I read
"The shirt, yes, it’s worth more. But it’s like when you buy a house: you pay a heavy mortgage the first two or three years, then the value of the house starts going up and that’s where your value starts coming back."
I imagined him saying these things whilst stroking an overly grown goatee and chuckling to himself between sentences. Our current deal is only worth about £5.5million a year which is now peanuts
compared with the deals companies have with Man Utd, Chelsea and even the spuds who earn considerably more. (I don't know exact figures for the other teams so won't mis-lead you with finger in the air amounts) It's worth pointing out it was a UK record deal when we signed it but surely someone has to be forward thinking enough to know the deal would lose value and demanded a shorter term or set review periods. Either way we are currently being screwed and still have a couple of years left in the same deal.
If you want to read the quotes for yourself you can find parts of the interview here.
The other main talking points today are our little Jack Wilshere declaring he believes we're still in the title race........Good!! I'd never expect one of our players to ever say anything else, especially in October. The other is Nasri telling the world how he wants a central role. As pointed out by several other people including Arsene Wenger himself we have a wealth of players who want to play in that role and more importantly who are able to play in that role but a certain Cesc Fabregas will keep them from playing there simply because as skilled as our players are, they are not as good as Cesc.
I want to finish today by congratulating Benik Afobe. Our 17 year old striker bagged himself a hat-trick for England U-19 level against Cyprus. Even more proof that our youth system is producing some of the best talent this country will see over the next ten years.
Till next time Gooners,
Goonerfish.
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