Almost to Monday
By: travis | February 15th, 2009Not a lot to talk about today, something doesn’t surprise me when Arsenal doesn’t have a fixture over the weekend. Tomorrow’s match against Cardiff City doesn’t exactly have me fired up, but it will be nice to have something to occupy my mind in the afternoon. Fortunately, there are a few rumors to dance around.
The annual Yaya Toure to join Arsenal rumor has started making the rounds, looking no different than in years past. I won’t waste my breath addressing these new and original reports from News of the World — Gunnerblog has a brief opinion that I wholeheartedly agreed with.
Here’s one that hopefully isn’t a rumor: Theo Walcott is close to signing a new, four-year deal with Arsenal. That’s most certainly good news in a season that lacks anything of that variety. Fingers crossed that this is true, although it is Goal.com reporting it, and you never know what their sources are.
Moving away from the rumor department, the next opponent in the FA Cup is set. If Arsenal can beat Cardiff tomorrow, it’ll be either Sheffield United or Hull. At the Emirates. That is a draw that strikes no fear, but rather gives me confidence that Arsenal might just have a chance at grabbing silverware in this competition.
Eduardo is chomping at the bit to get back into Prem action. As you may recall, he made a sub appearance for Croatia on Wednesday. I wouldn’t be surprised if he got 10-20 minutes at the end of the FA Cup match, assuming the result is secure. If it isn’t, don’t be shocked if he remains on the bench. They’ll be no Arshavin either, which is a good thing — he needs time to get in shape. And quick.
I’ll have a new thread up to comment for the FA Cup match. Til tomorrow.
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As someone who was lucky enough to work very close to Arsene over the last few seasons I can tell you now that the reason Arsene has never even bothered trying to sign Yaya Toure is because he does not deem him fit enought to be a qulity centre midfielder in the EPL. Arsene’s minmimum requirement is that all his CM’s average a total distance of 12km over 90 mins, Yaya only accumalates 8.5 km.
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Wow thanks for that bit of inside knowledge Carlos, it makes such a difference when the facts are made plain and simple – keep em coming!!
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