Pre-Season,The endless loop and Much more!

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A lot has been happening around the gooner world since I last posted, the Asia tour, Gervinho (FINALLY!) and of course there’s the Cesc, Nasri, Cesc, Nasri, Cesc, Nasri endless loop among a whole lot of speculations! 

Ryo Vs Malaysia XI

Let’s start with the Asia tour, not much here as I think it was more a commercial tour than a sporting one. Finally we get what a pre-season tour should be about. I picked up a few things from the games we played, which saw us beat Malaysia XI 4-0 then draw 1 all with Hangzhou Greentown. Among them is that Mr. Bean has not changed one bit. If you watched the Hangzhou Greentown game and have a brain between your ears and have been watching Arsenal over the recent past, you will surely bare me witness. Hangzhou just sat back and defended pretty well all we could do is… well you already know what we do in these situations. It worries me that we still don’t have another dimension to our play to see off a ‘pub team!’ Onto the positives, Carl Jenkinson looked real good on the right, he tackled well, made good runs forward and pretty good crosses.Yes he was caught out a few times but always got back! It was nice seeing the Verminator back, his partnership with Kosc did look solid. Ryo Miyaichi is special, for those who have not seen what he can do, imagine Theo Walcott with a whole load of step overs and a football brain! I hope that my high hopes in this kid don’t crash and burn. Nasri showed us all that he will play his best for us no matter what is going on off the pitch in case you doubted. I end my Asia wrap up with a concern, down the left with Clichy gone, we are left with Gibbs and Traore as options, not much huh? At least Gibbs got through a whole 90 minutes spanning two games without breaking nor spraining something! Traore back from his loan spell at Juve, where he did not get much play time but he did look a bit more confident and settled than he was when he left us. Between these two we have the experience of a teenage mum. What am saying is we need a left back and not the Verminator! Oh and Rosicky scored..

Clichy left (hehehe) as I have previously said,he had become a liability and it was about time he moved on. I do hope that he carries his form into Man city though I don’t see him making it to their first 11! Denilson completed his move to Sao Paulo (*does the Tevez dance*) on loan (*slowly sits down but still nodding head*). I hope he rediscovers his Brazilian roots and actually starts playing like one, then maybe we can have him back. Gervais Yao-Kouassi (Gervinho) is finally a gunner, must our transfers drag on this long? Anyway he is here, better late than never I guess. I have already said this he is a welcome addition to the squad, he can play at both wings and just behind the striker. He is fast, skillful, powerful and a real fighter. From his 93 appearances for Lille he’s scored 36 goals and created 14 others, pretty impressive. His arrival should create the competition needed in our forward line, especially for F1 piki piki. I hope he does feature in Koln so we can all catch a glimpse of him.I think he'll wear the #9 shirt,which is rather obvious.

In the rumor mill, reports are that we put in £10M bid for Everton’s Phil Jagielka, which was rejected. First why should we even go for Jagielka in the first place? He is not all that, in fact his partner Sylvian Distin is way better. Jagielka just like most English players is overly over rated. I absolutely see no reason we should get him, he is exactly what we have now. Short (meaning he has no aerial presence ) and shaky! Another that got me is that we have given up on Cahill and are looking to sign Birmingham’s Scott Dann, HOW?!! Why would we be keen to sign defenders who are worse off than, or even the same as what we already have? Defenders who are playing in teams that leak in more goals than ours?

We play FC Cologne in Köln, Germany tomorrow before the start of the squad’s training camp. This to me is our first real pre-season fixture. Not taking away from the teams we have faced, but Cologne should give us real opposition and a chance to gauge ourselves heading into the season. A main stay of the Bundesliga, Cologne finished tenth last season on 44 points. They have the likes of Lukas Podolski,Kevin Pezzoni, Milivoje Novakovic and Michael Rensing in their ranks. Again this should be a real test for the squad. Sources have revealed that Almunia, Diaby, Eboue, Bendtner and ofcourse Cesc will miss the trip to Germany,all who have been linked with moves away from the club. The game kicks off at 16:30 Kenya time you can catch it on SS3.

To the endless loop, one part of the loop seems to have reached an end as Nasri looks happy and set to run out his contract. That is if we fail to convince him to sign a new contract before then. Mr.Bean says he is willing to lose him on a free, I don’t know if that is the smartest move financially but it goes to show you the confidence Mr. Bean has in the King Cobra. I don’t want to see us lose him anytime soon, he is a great player and an integral part of this group. I agree with the good professor on the risk he has taken in not selling him, it could make the difference between winning trophies next season and not. 

The other part of this loop doesn’t seem to have an end in sight, and it worries me. The cunts are just being themselves, making it difficult for all of us, with chief cunt Xavi leading her divas in the ‘Cesc has Barca DNA’ choir. And when I mean they are making it hard for everyone, this includes Cesc. We all understand that he would wish to go, the club has made it clear that a £40M price would have to be paid to facilitate this. So what do the cunts do? They go ahead and make a £25M bid, if I were Cesc I’d have been very insulted. As much as it is difficult for the maestro, his silence is not making things any better, though at this time it looks like the right move. He doesn’t want to make a statement that would come back and bite him in the ass! What if he comes out and says that he wants to go to the Cunts now, then the poor (you already know the name) can’t come up with the cash and he’s stuck with us? But he could always say that he is happy with us and doesn’t want to leave, there’s no harm done there lol!

I don’t need to reiterate the importance of keeping el’capitan with us. What he offers us, is I dare say almost irreplaceable. Since August 2008 Cesc has created a goal scoring chance every 25 minutes he is followed on that log by Xavi at 27 minutes and Iniesta at 46 minutes. Our squad is built around him and his abilities, he is our captain (whether he is a leader or not is a debate for another day!).The ‘4-3-3’ formation we use was adapted to suite him. Selling now would mean that Prof will have to restructure big time, it’s not the time to do that. Not when we are very close to realising the potential this squad has. Although people argue that his sale may spark a rejuvenated side of sorts, bring out another player. Most give the example of Liverpool with Torres and Manure with Ronaldo a while back. What they don’t realise is that the two were more of finishers rather than creators, you can easily replace finishers. The real architects behind Manure were Scholes and Rooney, Ronaldo only put the finishing touch to the piece. See what losing Xabi Alonso did to Liverpool? 

Now this brigade seem to have the support of the professor, he had this to say in Malaysia when asked “When do you say,I have to let him go?” by a journalist. The ‘him’ does not refer to any player in particular. Here is what he sayed..

  “When he starts to disturb the efficiency of the company and only you as boss will know that. Sometimes it’s difficult to know, because when a guy is very important at a company, the natural run of that company goes through him. That has a disadvantage too, because it keeps other employees with qualities quiet. Then if this guy goes, sometimes you see others step up and take responsibility and you didn’t even know they had it. Sometimes you have to take these decisions without really knowing what will happen afterwards. It’s always better to get rid of someone who is too disturbing rather than keep him because he has the quality.”

Now if these quotes are indeed true,they look like quotes from river road because prof. already said he wants to keep him.. then I think I should drop my campaign to keep the maestro!

They say a picture speaks 1000 words.. well these Chinese gooners summed it up for me. (Don’t mind the English)

For those who have china phones it reads "Barca pay 40 million take cesc away or go home to wank!

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