Emirates Cup / Clichy / Director of Football

April 24, 2007 on 9:26 pm | In Arsenal FC | posted by Block19er |

I saw today that Inter Milan have been invited to play in the Emirates Cup and the proposed date is Saturday 28th July 2007. I am sure this would guarantee the sell out Arsenal would want with the return again of Vieira. It has also been rumoured PSG and Hamburg have been invited due to their links with Emirates but it is also thought Colorado Rapids are involved. That is something ’silent Stan’ would definitely want.  Gael Clichy has stated today the importance of Sundays’ fixture. I would get behind him on that especially as the games against Chavski and Pompey will be tough ones. Hopefully the fans will in turn back the players. Clichy said (on arsenal.com) “We were looking forward to getting the three points on Saturday so we could have been through to next season’s Champions League,” “But now everyone needs to be focussed for the next game against Fulham so we can qualify. We need to do that for ourselves and for our fans.” Fulham will be up for it they can see they are in big danger of the drop so it is important Arsenal are at it and I hope Freddie makes it back to fitness, he has showed in recent weeks, he can be a good forward replacement. Fabregas had a niggle for the trip to scum-land and had to come on prematurely he was so good though, he seemed 100% fit to me. 

I was concerned to see the G14 are not happy with the Dein/Arsenal relationship. Dein took over as the top-dog at G14 it would be a nightmare if Arsenal were no longer part of a powerful group of European football clubs after so long leading the way. It looks like it is Dein who will be removed from the G14 board and I hope that the current board keep our relations up with the other G14 members. Replacements’ for Dein have been thrown about for the first time today. The guy who has the director of football role at the Spuds said today he wouldn’t drop the scum in it, if an offer was there though, would he? That would be funny. Has he really made great signing at the spuds? I suppose it depends who is responsible for finding the players, I would presume it was Jol and not “sporting director” Damien Comolli. A friend of Wenger has thrown his hat in the ring, Henri Biancheri, a 74-year-old French man. He was instrumental in bringing Trezeguet and Ribery to the top of the game. These are two Wenger has long been keen on so there may be some truth in that. 

On the summer transfer front there is a big rumour Madrid will track down Gallas and may offer the Gunners £15Mil for him. I can’t see Wenger going for it despite the huge sum. Gallas is a definite starter when fit and with Toure, Eboue, and Clichy, must form one of the strongest, and fastest, back fours around. Whether Gallas will want away is another story.