Morning Gooners,I'm more relaxed today I promise.
I'm writing this just after Man City jumped above us into third and the thought of having to qualify for the Champions League next year is sinking in and in all honesty at the moment, I'm OK with it, actually, I'll rephrase that, I've accepted it.
With City only needing to match our result against Fulham when they visit the Reebok on Sunday most Arsenal fans are already looking ahead to who we could face in the two legged play off. Good news is that Arsenal will be seeded which means we will not be drawn against a 'big' team. If all the seeded teams win in the 3rd qualifying rounds then Arsenal will play either Udinese, Dynami Kiev, Twente, Kazan or Standard Leige (Team info taken from @jamiedalton82 on twitter). It not as if we have to play the mighty Young Boys.
I'll look more at what we COULD have to do once the season is over, for all we know, the players may actually decide to turn up and win our game at Fulham with Owen Coyle getting his boys to do us a favour and we won't have to think about anything other than who will be in our group when the competition really starts.
Other news floating about at the moment is mainly - unsurprisingly - transfer related. Lots of players being mentioned as joining but the worrying thing is the amount of stories linking our players with a move away from the club. Sagna, Clichy, Fabregas, Wilshere, Arshavin, Nasri and Van Persie have all been linked with moves away from London in recent weeks and Wilshere is the only player to come out and put the record straight letting us know he's going absolutely nowhere. Sagna and Van Persie are reported targets for Real as is Clichy who is also getting attention from several other clubs. You may not have read this anywhere, I've searched high and low for some contacts, had to make some dodgy deals with journalists and sold some body parts for this exclusive........ Barcelona are interested in signing Cesc!! I know, shocking news, I just never saw that coming. Arshavin is being linked with a move back to Russia and Nasri is supposed to be considering a big money move to Bayern. I'd love to say this is all rubbish, and most of it is but I honestly think we will see a lot of movement in the market this summer so right now, I'm not ruling anything out but again, same as our Champions League fate, I'll look at it more once the season is over.
Silent Stan has now completed the purchase of his shares however at the same time our favourite fat man Usmanov is still buying up single shares here and there. He has purchased a further 8 shares which confirms that he has zero intention to sell to Kronke which in all honesty could be a good thing, it'll mean that Kronke cannot get to a point where shareholders HAVE to sell so our club will not be run by a single person and also fans who have participated in the ShareSave scheme can keep their little part of the club.
It's been short and sweet today. We're at a weird point now where I just wish the season was over so we could concentrate on summer trade and look forward to fighting next year.
Till next time,
Goonerfish
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