Up For Grabs Now

Hello all, sorry for yet another hiatus in the blogtrain. Grabs and myself are, unfortunately, both hilariously busy. And, quite genuinely, we don’t particularly want to interrupt all of your interesting lives to deliver any old slice of codswallop when it’s not necessary. Aside from the mighty Arseblog, we feel that there are too many Arsenal blogs delivering daily rubbish rather than concentrating their might into less frequent but more prescient postings.

Goonette – I’m sorry you are disappointed, I hope you keep coming back, and forgive us for prioritising quality over quantity.

Anyway some bits and bobs to discuss. Ivan Gazidis has given a little interview, in which he reiterates that Arsene has money to spend. I’m not sure anyone’s ever doubted this. Perhaps it’s true that we can’t compete spending-wise with United and Man City, but I don’t think that’s been the obstacle; rather Arsene has not seen fit to spend it. And as we saw with Arshavin, a bit of shrewd manoeuvering can get you instant results: remember how close Spurs were to spending waaaay more to get him fresh out of the Euros.

We also haven’t yet spoken about the Usmanov situation, which is a tad worrying. It seems unlikely you get a blocking vote in a company unless you want to, er, block votes, or at least carry the threat of doing so. At the same time, however, you’ve got to agree that there’s no point owning 24% of a company when 25% gives you a much more important role, and despite the drop in equity prices Boss Nass Usmanov is still not a poor man, although he doesn’t seem to have spent much on his gym membership, the Gungan-looking bastard. All we can really do is wait and see, and hope that Fiszman keeps his word RE selling. I’ve got a lot of confidence in the board. Perhaps one thing the supporters could do is each bake a cupcake and send it to Red & White holdings, and hope that after eating 60,000 cupcakes he finally explodes like Mr Creosote.

Fun article here in the Mail about dream teams. These lists are always bollocks, more or less, but it’s good for a nostalgia trip. Carrick? Really?

Sunderland’s next up: what team would you pick? I really hope to see Carl and Andrey get a start, but I’m not sure it’ll happen this weekend. This is a huge run of games for us, let’s hope the boys keep their scoring boots on, and that Villa lose to Chelsea. Is it just me or are Chelsea becoming much more pitiable of late, somehow? All that money and they’re still crap, and they still bin world-class managers. You’ve got to think Mourinho goes to sleep every night with a huge grin on his face…

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Tags: Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, Manchester United

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