At last, the final day of the transfer window has arrived! The online community had been champing at the bit all season for the transfer window to re-open. After lengthy and ill-informed debates, an online consensus was reached that our team is guff and requires at least a defensive midfielder, a winger and a warrior centre-half. The radical wing of the online community also demanded the punitive sales of players like Bendtner, Eboue, Song and in some cases even Denilson, but by and large sense prevailed and the extremists grudgingly allowed them to stay in the post-January Arsenal team, “as long as they never have to play”.
Arsene duly delivered… a series of grumpy press conference performances, and no signings. This has got Le Grumblers jumping up and down, gnashing their teeth, and swearing grim oaths against Arsene.
Yawn.
But that’s all going to come to an end today because …[wait for it]… SkySports reports that Andrei Arshavin has boarded a plane for London! The saga will end! Andrei’s on his way! Hurray!
But what’s this? The Daily Heil reports that Arshavin’s plane is bound for Honduras where he will snub Arsenal in favour of a “dream job” as a taxi driver in a sleepy coastal town!
The Daily Mirror reports that Andrei actually missed his plane and so will have to make a swashbuckling motorcycle dash across the European continent if he’s to make it to Blighty by the tea-time deadline!
Goal.com has an exclusive report which says that Andrei sent a body double onto the plane in order to fool the dull-witted English tabloid hacks clustered around the gangway, and that he intends to “live the free life of a rover” rather than involve himself in the hurly burly of Arsenal’s fight for the fourth Champions’ League spot.
PremiershipLatest.com reports that it’s one of the worst websites of all time!
Whatevs. I’ll get excited if we suddenly sign ‘Lil Lionel Messi at 16.45. Other than that, don’t even bother to wake me up.
Update: we’ve been contacted by Tottenham Hotspur FC about some missing persons. If you know of anybody currently playing in the Premiership area who used to play for Tottenham Hotspur please give Daniel Levy a ring. They’ve managed to find most of the players they’ve sold in recent years but are hoping for a few more before the deadline. If anyone knows where Younes Kaboul is, do let them know as apparently they want to sign him for a mega £24 million.
Updated Update: Brian Swanson, he of SkySportsNews fame, is telling anyone who’ll listen (which on a day like today happens to be roughly 347 live bloggers) that Andrei is off to Russia, having spent just hours at his hotel in London. Swanson says that Arsenal and Zenit still haven’t agreed a fee and so Andrei is hot-tailing it back to Russia, Swanson apparently having seen him leave the hotel bound for a mysterious London airport. Which seems like a bit of a rash move in such an on-off saga doesn’t it? It also seems like quite a lot of detailed information to be coming from some wally with a brolly freezing his bollies off outside a nice hotel. It also seems like exactly the kind of shit SkySportsNews need to come up with to justify having a rolling news station dedicated to a sport which only really happens on mid-week evenings and weekends.
If you ask me, it’s more likely that Andrei’s going to London Colney and that Brian Swanson is gibbering out of his ass.
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Tags: Andrei Arshavin, Yawn
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:19 am
deal is off. get the latest
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:37 am
Well. Im snowed in today like many of us, got the sky sports news on, tat 10:21 am…. and it’s been reported that Arsshaven Is ON HIS WAY BACK TO ZENIT! It seems like Our trusted team cant stump up the money.
Whatever the reason, this whole saga has made Arsenal look like a 2nd rate club. Im a Gooner for over 36 years and Our performances and the excuses after the match are getting stale.
It have 2 QUESTIONS for our fans: If it’s all about money then why did we cave in and give ade more money to MISS infront of goal? yes he can header. but can he shoot? paper over cracks comes to mind with headed goals…
Why are we talking as if we’re not in a crisis when we have a press conference? I was at the match on saturday and for the first time in months ive seen us go out positive for 10-15 mins. Then when we couldnt score…. we ran out of ideas.
AGAINST WEST HAM.
Arsense I have a LOT of respect for you and the board but you could learn a thing or two from Fergie and give some of our so called players the HAIRDRYER treatment!
I cant stand looking at the team. Yes, i agree with many that we do we need another striker, YES, if you saw the last few games. you would realise we havent been scoring freely. Arsene, we need help NOW. One thing i have learnt over 36 years of watching and playing, it’s BEST to have the player either on the bench or on the field than NOT to have him at all.
Bye bye Arseshaver…. You burst of speed will be missed, as Ade/Bentner havent got any. Your eye for goal will be missed as Ade/Bentner havent got any.
Heartfelt vent of spleen over.
Alex
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:43 am
NOW i AM A BIT WORRIED COS i DON’T THINK THERE ARE ANY MORE PLAYERS WHOSE NAMES START WITH ARS i THINK RATHER THAN OBSESS ABOUT WINNING TROPHIES, LETS TRY TO BE THE FIRST TEAM EVER TO HAVE A TEAM OF PLAYERS THAT INCORPORATE THE CLUBS NAME IN THEIR OWN. HERES A COUPLE OF STARTERS. FABRARSGAS ,ARSBY DAIBY THEARSE WALCOTT ARSDEBAYOR IT’S NOT HARD GOONERS WE COULD BRING BACK DENARSE BERGKAMP TO HELP ARSENE MAKE IT HAPPEN LIFES FUN WHEN YOU’RE NOT CHASING ARSETON VILLA