A very good morning to you, and a very merry Christmas.
Yes sir, unlike some other (arguably lesser) Arsenal blogs we at Up For Grabs Now think that you deserve your slice of all things Arsenal 365 days a year, even if that means sacrificing a bit of my own valuable arguing with my relatives time – time I hold very dear indeed.
I hope you all get the presents you wanted. It feels to me that if Arsenal were a child, it must have been particularly bad this year to deserve what has been dumped on it by the world. Perhaps it killed another child. And then ate it. Or even worse some sort of religious figure. Maybe it punched a priest. Maybe that’s What Arsene Did Last Summer.
Because just as it seemed things couldn’t get any worse, Cesc went and got out for four months. It was almost as if God wanted to remind us that there always something worse than the current situation - a trick referred to in theological circles as the ‘Tottenham Fan Hypothesis’.
On the plus side it seems he won’t need an operation, which I suppose is better than needing an operation. The last person we heard of needing an operation was Tom Rosickly, and I need hardly tell you how poorly that’s gone for his presence in the team.
Talk abounds about what we should do next. Lots are saying Arsene will buy two new players in the interim, but I don’t think he will, necessarily.
The problem with no Cesc is not actually in finding a Cesc replacement, which is pretty much impossible, but in the creative strain it puts on our already-depleted wide areas. Getting Theo back will solve some of these, but we’ve already got lots of players who want to be central midfielders: Nasri came inside for the last bit against Liverpool and looked pretty convincing there for my money. Song and Denilson would probably like to be central too, as would a fit Rosicky.
But presuming that Arsene wants to stick with the Song/Denilson as holding players model, and I’m with Grabs in thinking that there’s nothing to suggest either of them couldn’t yet blossom into the Flamini figure we’d like them to, then the real midfield issue is a wide one, which feeds back in to the Arshavin Allusion of yesterday. Other than that I have to say I don’t feel I have much to add to the transfer suggestion pot. Some people on Le Grumble were talking about Cana, who I looked at on youtube and found pretty amusing, but that might be because I like the idea of having an Albanian enforcer. I suspect, as ever, that the boss has some chaps up his sleeve.
In other news Homer is off to West Brom for a bit. Good luck to him, I say, and get ready to come back in a hurry if Bentdner pisses off as he’s threatening to, to go and play first team football somewhere where they don’t mind having a twat-booted never-scoring striker, as opposed to at Arsenal where they only mind some of the time.
Right, I’m off to eat some turkey and bread sauce before arguing with everybody all afternoon and then losing at racing demon.
Here’s to hoping some of the spirit of Christmas rubs off on everyone at the Emirates…
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