Up For Grabs Now

Somewhat calmer today about our captain. But not calmer in a ‘oh, he’s ok really, the poor chap, he was just trying his best’ kind of a way, more calmer in a steely-eyed, finger on the trigger kind of a way. Gallas is a weapon. A good footballer on occasion (in the olden days occasionally a great one), but stupid, vain and proud. No captain of Arsenal.

However, part of what makes his behaviour so unacceptable is that there’s no way it’s a good idea to get rid of him at this stage of the season. If he was going to be a complete asshole, this is the best possible time for him to do it – as Nigel Winterburn has come out and said, there’s no way Arsene can get rid of him now, with the club in turmoil. In the first place, the last thing we need is more disruption whilst we try to get the season back on course, and in the second there’s no obvious replacement. The blogs have been discussing it, and consensus seems to be that if anyone were to step up Toure would be the most obvious choice. This isn’t completely ridiculous, but I feel slightly that if Arsene were going to go down that route he’d have done it by now.

The other candidate people have started to suggest is Gael Clichy. This is an idea I’m much keener on in the long run: he loves the club, is intelligent and would give his own every much. It remains to be seen whether he’s quite spunky enough when the chips are down, and whether he can do the motivational speeches. Still, since I have my reasons for not wanting Cesc to be captain of Arsenal, he gets my vote.

But not now. Gallas is a weapon. City away is not going to be an easy ride. They have some famously good footballers, and no doubt Arsenal are exactly the sort of scalp the richest club in the world will be looking to claim as they go about their campaign of world domination.

Anyway. We must wait to see what emerges about the skipper’s situation from Arsene’s press conference. I don’t know what I want from it. I hope Arsene knows.

Tags: Arsene Wenger, Gael Clichy, weapon, William Gallas

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