Poor old Ashley.
The lad is absolutely obsessed with his former club, Arsenal.
You would think, after six years of rolling in Roubles and scooping up a good haul of trophies, that he would be able to get over it.
But some tic of the psyche, some deeply ingrained weakness of character, means he just can’t let it lie.
A couple of weeks ago, showing what a good winner he is, he was bragging about how many trophies he had won during a period when Arsenal had won nothing.
Yesterday he was at it again, this time boasting about the fact that he had won a Champions League medal and telling Arsenal supporters to “get over it.” (We already had. Who wants to be the worst team ever to have won a Champions League? When we win it I want to do it in style).
Some would say he has every right to respond to the handful of Arsenal supporting Twitter trolls who have sent him abuse.
But doesn’t he realise that every top footballer – indeed just about every figure in the public eye – gets that sort of stuff all the time? Yet the vast majority don’t feel the need to respond in kind with their own name calling. Or at least they realise that to do so would bring them down to the level of the idiot trolls.
But Ashley seems happy among the trolls, perhaps because he has many of the characteristics of a fairy tale villain.
I sometimes wonder what drives Ashley’s obsession with Arsenal. Yes, he left under a cloud after being found guilty of participating in a tapping-up meeting (he was fined £100,000 by the FA for that little indiscretion you may recall, although, of course, in Ashley’s eyes it was not his fault). But that was years ago.
And he gets a lot of stick from the crowd when he returns to Arsenal in a blue shirt. But, really, that’s par for the course in the Premier League. All fans like to boo an old boy they feel let them down. But, unlike Ashley, most “old boys” don’t harbour the same antagonism in reverse. The smart ones cause far more pain to their erstwhile fans by just ignoring them. Ashley, by contrast, rewards the Arsenal fans and fuels the animosity by constantly acknowledging it and responding to it.
The root of this Arsenal obsession must lie somewhere in Ashley’s psychological make-up.
If we were to go on an expedition inside Ashley’s mind, what might we find? Well, first, I expect we would be astonished by the sense of emptiness. All those wide open spaces where nothing much is really happening. We would probably feel like a mouse in a cathedral.
But gradually we would become aware of the hum of synapses working away somewhere. Moving towards the vibration we would soon see a large, vibrant network of connected neural pathways glowing and pulsing with energy. This, of course, is Ashley’s “Football Brain.” And it’s a good one – at least five times the size of Emmanuel Eboue’s Football Brain for example. This part of Ashley’s head is what has made him arguably the best Left Back in the world in the last 10 years.
Moving past the Football Brain we would pass a number of smaller – but still vibrant – centres of activity. These would relate to things like “sex” and “music” and “flash cars” and “havin’ a larf with JT and the boys.” Although not on the same scale as the Football Brain, these parts of Ashley’s mind make-up are all functioning well.
Then we go further in and… oh dear… what are those small, shrivelled things, barely alive at all? Ah! Of course! Ashley’s morals.
Here we find “Loyalty”, pulsing weakly and showing almost no energy, just the occasional quiver if the aural centres detect any mention of the word “Cheryl”.
Beyond that, and almost completely inert, is “Personal Responsibility”. This is the neural centre that needs to be functioning strongly to prevent a person from, for example, driving at 103mph through a residential street in Kingston, South London, or firing an air gun at a work experience student from five feet away, or admitting that agreeing to secret, illicit meetings might be partly your own fault.
Further on, past Ashley’s morals, the mind is just an ashy wasteland, a void of degeneracy and narcissism… until we spot something throbbing ahead in the distance. What is it? It’s throbbing with an intense red light. It’s small, but so very, very powerful.
Could it be…? Yes, it is. It’s Ashley’s Guilt Centre. And, unlike his Morals, it is very much alive. In fact it’s pouring a special kind of poison into Ashley’s heart and soul.
So at last we have reached our destination. This is why Ashley is still so obsessed with the Greatest Football Club in the World. It’s because he is wracked by guilt. Guilt for the wrongs he did us and the lies he told; guilt for abandoning the one club that’s trying to do things the right way, in order to line his own pockets.
And the problem with this guilt is that it sours the taste of every trophy and medal Ashley has ever won since he left the Arsenal.
Winning things through financial doping no doubt provides some satisfaction, but it is a tainted form of satisfaction. It’s like using cheats in a video game or beating someone at tennis by lying about whether the ball was in or out. Sure, it’s a victory, but it’s not a pure one.
Ashley knows that when Arsenal’s next triumph comes, when we win our next title or our first Champions League trophy, it will be worth more than all the baubles that have been bought for him over the past six years.
I know it makes me less than saintly, but I take some comfort from the fact that, in the small hours of the night as he lies on his water bed listening to the gentle snoring of his latest slapper, unable to sleep, in a bedroom festooned with pictures of himself, poor Ashley can’t get those thoughts out of his head. Those thoughts about the Arsenal and how, deep down, he should never have left.
Am I sinking to Ashley’s level by thinking all this?
Would you have done what Ashley did and take off post haste for the big bucks the moment they’re offered?
Is he any different to Robin van Persie?
Should we help Ashley to cure his obsession by all agreeing to ignore him henceforth?
I would welcome your thoughts.
RockyLives
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ignore him, same attitude costed England on penalty shoot out.
Morning all,
Like most sportsmen very little goes on in their head and Ca$hley is no different.
He is a total ninny for giving trolls the oxygen of publicity yet the Rock points out rightly that it is probably due to some guilt complexes surrounding the sordid manner of his departure,
Of course we should give him stick when he comes back to the Grove in the uniform of the siberian gangsters lackeys; does he think he’ll be playing in front of a county cricket audience ?
Let’s keep encouraging him to open his gob…will land him in trouble with the FA eventually. Probably repeatedly. He’s got a touch of the Terry’s…”I am above the law!”.
He is the King of Mental Gymnastics…looping reality, knotting it until it resembles what he wants it to look like in his head. Unbelievable, arrogant little toad.
The good news about Twitter is that it seems to remove the social handbrake we all put on ourselves…go on there often enough and eventually the filters of common sense seem to come off and, if you are a twat, your twattitude will come shining through for all to see.
Ca$hley Cole?….. f*ck him.
Fkn lol… Comedic writing ! But C@$h is a comedic character soo….
lmfao!!! Dude, ur comments are well put in a funny way. Reminds me of Dwayne Johnson (The RocK).. Similar to the way he mocks people. Great way to shun one in the face of Ashley.. 😀
Ashley Cole is the biggest loss that Wenger has had. Even more so than Fabregas. He was a homegrown Arsenal boy who was and is the best left back in the world. Think about the points lost over all those years due to our weakness in his position right up to this day, whilst Cole has not stopped collecting medals. I’d love him back, even now. The failure to keep Cole was as much to do with the way the Arsenal board dealt with the negotiations as anything else. I’m sure Cole would have derived more pleasure winning all those trophies with “his” team but it wasn’t to be. He is probably the best left back in the history of Arsenal, and we have had many wonderful players in this position.
Wonder wot ashes fav choccy bar is ?? Bounty anyone…….
Lol, soz. Couldnt resist.
Nice one Rocky,
I would be laughing my head off, if it wasn’t so sadly true.
Would Wenger sign him on a free next summer as cover for Gibbs/Santos?
The comparison between RvP and Cashl€y / Na$ri isn’t a particularly fair one.
When the latter two left they were 25 and 24 respectively with arguably their best years in front of them…not as men, clearly, but as players. We were, particularly for Cole, the club that turned them into household names and to pay that support back by nearly crashing your car when you were offered the “disgraceful” sum of £3m a year is pitiful…and Nasri’s attitude since leaving our club show us all why he came to us with a reputation as difficult…a shame, ‘cos he conducted himself brilliantly while with us…still, I suppose the truth will out…
As for RvP…very different. at 29 he knows he’s in the last chance saloon. he’s at his most marketable – after years of injury problems he’s finally put 1 1/2 seasons in the books with a remarkable strike rate and the feeling must be one of “making hay while the sun shines”. This is his last big contract and he has, probably, 3 years in which to potentially win trophies. Who can blame him for exploring his options?
Yes…it will be disappointing should he leave, particularly in light of the support the club and fans have given him through his various injury troubles…but he’s a man with ambitions and a family who has given us many years of service…in fact, just one left than Cole / Nasri combined…
Disappointing if he goes? Yes. A betrayal in the manner of Cole? I certainly wouldn’t go that far.
Cashley was a brilliant left back for all times…at Arsenal. but not in the world. Marcelo is more like it or even leighton baines looks stronger…Eric Abidal, Roberto Carlos
He”s got mental issues when he did that tap-up wth Mourinho..Maybe he still suffers…
What a superbly entertaining piece of writing. I try to be cutting and bitchy lol; but damn, I would not like to get on the wrong side of you.
“Mouse in a cathedral”
LOL
Classic.
Simon
Totally agree with rhyle,
I don’t get all this putting money signs in RVP’s name, he is nothing like Cole or Nasri & I can understand where he is coming from & let’s be honest, I haven’t been impressed with our ambition for the last 5 years oh so, looking a damn site better this coming season though 😉
Cole article is humorous & I agree that buying success is not nearly as good as winning things “the proper way” so Cashley knows his Chavski trophys are tainted
Ashley Cole likes to tweet from his mobile,
which is harder than it sounds because he keeps it up his arse.
say what you like about his morals,
but tweeting with a phone lodged up your arse is a talent very few people possess.
*very few*
Epic, rocky, truly epic.
The worst team ever to have won the CL?
Eboue’s footballing brain. I was thinking about that the other day when D98 mentioned that penalty he gave away in the 14th minute of injury time against the dippers.
The journey through Cashley’s brain is just brilliant. I wonder if he’d read it if I tweeted it to him. 🙂
Poor wickle Ashwey wasn’t ‘tapped up’, he was just caught up in the confusion over two overlapping meetings involving Pini Zahavi !
….in his own words.
“I look back now and still can’t get my head around half of it; how, in the space of 18 months, the dream was undone so fast. It does my head in thinking about it all: the mess I found myself in, the storm that whipped up around me, the abuse of the fans, the charges laid against me. Overnight, they stopped singing my name and the party ended as abruptly as someone pulling the plug out of the wall. I became the treacherous Ashley Cole, the Judas of Highbury.
I was well down on the day when I drove into town to see Jonathan Barnett (my agent) at his offices. We jumped in Jonathan’s Bentley and he told his driver our destination: the Royal Park Hotel. It was Thursday, January 27, 2005.
We walked by reception and into a meeting room called the Green Room where we found Pini (Zahavi, Chelsea’s agent) sat alone. We must have been in there about 20 minutes when Pini suddenly flicked his wrist to look at his watch — “Time! Time! My next meeting . . .” and he started to get up out of his chair. The door opened and José Mourinho and Peter Kenyon walked in.
I remember noticing Jonathan was gearing up to leave, reaching around his chair for his coat. The small talk, the pleasantries and the goodbyes lasted another 15 minutes as I genuinely saw no harm in being there for a few extra minutes as these two meetings overlapped.
Mr Mourinho pulled out a chair and sat at the head of the oval-shaped table and Jonathan was sat to my right. It was normal chit-chat from then on. I mentioned how well Chelsea were doing in the league. “Yes, and we are going to buy two more players — a midfielder and a left back,” he said.
And that’s when Pini made a flip remark, “Well, we are sat with the best left back in the world!” and Mr Mourinho smiled and said, “Yes, I agree.”
We talked about general football stuff before Mourinho asked how life was with me. Life’s good, I told him. “And are you happy at Arsenal?” he asked. This was not an unusual question in my book. Friends and family had been asking the same thing for weeks and Mr Mourinho had just walked in on a meeting with Pini Zahavi. It wouldn’t take the most perceptive of people to get nosey on that one.
“No, I’m unhappy but it’s a long story,” I told him. He asked if it was because of Arsène Wenger. I told him it wasn’t; the boss was brilliant, I had a very good relationship with him and my unhappiness was with other people. I could tell he was itching to ask more, but, at that point, Jonathan stood up and said: “We had better be going. Gentlemen, it’s been a pleasure.”
I can only speak about what was said and not said while I was in the room, and in those 15–20 minutes, the chit-chat never strayed anywhere near what could be considered an approach by Chelsea. Not once was there anything mentioned about figures, transfers, further meetings or even leaving Arsenal.
BY THE following weekend it became clear that, while war had not quite broken out, a major scandal had. Me and that famous Gunners No 3 shirt had been caught out of position as piggy-in-the-middle between both clubs, an Arsenal player chatting with the Chelsea manager, and this is what was exposed in the News of the World as an illegal approach by Chelsea. Tapping-up, in other words. Or, if you want to get technical, a breach of Premier League K3: the rule forbidding under-contract players from being approached by, or talking with, another interested club or manager.”
A look inside his head… begin quote:
“$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$”
Man my wife is insanely hot, I think I’ll cheat on her $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
I hear they play lovely football in Pari$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$”
There you have it, an exclusive interview
Poor Ashley, moving with very peasantly little brain, let’s give God advantage of helping him, and God is faithful sure he will get help. Meanwhile ignorance is his security, even at euros’.
Thanks for that, Rocky, and thanks also Chas, I’ve never read any of Ashley’s attempt at justification, and it’s interesting to read it now. What leaps out to me is just how utterly exposed players like Cole are to rapacious agents.
Based on Cole’s own description of the meeting, it is pretty obvious that it was arranged by his agent (Barnett), Zahivi and Kenyon. Mourinho, being an intelligent guy, would have understood what was going on. But Cole? Perhaps he really didn’t understand, perhaps he genuinely believed that so long as no-one literally said “Will you leave Arsenal and join Chelsea if we pay you £x?” everything would be ok, and no rules would be broken, since it was just a chat.
I wouldn’t dream of saying Cole is morally upstanding, but like most footballers, the world of rules and contracts is probably very abstract to him. All that matters to most footballers is the remuneration and the length of the contract; everything else (including how Premier League Rule K3 works) is just detail that others, principally the player’s agent, have to deal with.
What Cole should have done after the meeting, when the expose broke, was sack Barnett, distance himself from the meeting, and tell everyone what Kenyon, Mourinho and Zahivi had done. His mistake was to continue to trust Barnett. He chose not to sack him, presumably because he was counting on Barnett to get him his valuable move to Chelsea, that was the priority at that point.
A combination of greed, naivety and an underdeveloped sense of personal responsibility: that would sum up what I’d think of Cole. He’s not unique, perhaps many of us would respond in the same way to the bizarre world in which elite level footballers exist. But for all his undeniable talent, he’s a pretty pathetic, squalid example.
On a totally different point of order – I’m still after a question being answered? Can anyone say why Afellay was being offered up so cheaply? Or were those rumours simply not true? It seems that he hasn’t settled at Barca so there’s no smoke without even a tiny flame. We have got so many rumours flying around with links to old tom cobley and all, I wanted to know why and where this one got put to bed. Who’s got the low down?
He never was a good one for interacting with fans I believe.
I remember taking two of my kids into the players lounge after a cup tie against Blackburn years ago. Adams and Edu were there and spent time chatting to the fans. Cole..walked through the lounge, signed 2 autographs but never smiled, made you feel like it was a huge inconvenience to sign the shirt etc etc. My kids were certainly not impressed. In the car park after we met Lauren, Keown and Dixon and all of them could at least smile even though they were interupted going to their cars to get home to sign for the fans.
Cole had no class even then.
Non Football question for Londoners.
When I was growing up my Mum used to fry left over Christmas pudding on Boxing Day. She was Irish so I have always wondered ..is that dish a London tradition or an Irish one. Any other Londoner used to eat Christmas Pudding that way?
I haven’t read the post yet, but it seems to be very long on such a minuscule topic.
Chas
That just shows what a massive lying front bottom cashley is.
Straight to the point evonne 🙂
Bryan
You’re right about van pussy being nothing like nasri. Nasri has more class.
Neamman,
Left over Christmas Pudding? You must be joking!
That’s what my reaction was, gm.
26’s take on the story has made me re-evaluate ……………………….but I’d still say lying front bottom. 🙂
gm,
Your respect for the FFBW compared to your contempt for Fabregas and Brave Sir Robin both puzzles and amuses me every time I read it.
Is Cashley still obsessed with his former club?
GM – I was shamelessly quoting you in your absence 🙂 Norfolk thought I was a hairdresser 🙂
Chas – that video is fantastic, Drogba on the bench!
Hello All
Can’t stay long – I’ve got to take the kids to look for alligators. Or crocodiles (they have salt water crocs in the Florida Keys – who knew?).
Thanks for the (mostly) kind comments (cheers LB!).
evonne
You’re right that Cashley doesn’t merit such a long screed, but I enjoyed writing it as a bit of a laugh.
chas
thanks for that Buzzcocks clip earlier. They were “my” band back in the day. I went to uni in Manchester ’78-’81 when they were in their pomp. Managed to see them a few times. Great singles band.
chas
funny about the “footballing brain” thing. I chose Eboue as an example precisely because of D98’s comment about the Liverpool game…
You have to see this, it is absolutely hilarious.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/picturegalleries/9449610/John-Terrys-Golden-Games.html#?frame=2298695
LB – yes, it is very funny indeed 🙂 D’you think JT regrets that CL moment of glory?
Evonne
Unfortunately, no.
Haha, Rocky.
Snap.
I carried on with the footballing brain theme to that game at the shithole where Eboue got sent off for two of the most moronic bits of behaviour I’ve ever seen on a football pitch.
Pleased you like I Don’t Mind.
LB,
I think you can put a picture up using html. I believe it has to be resized to fit the width of the comment area though.
I like the photo. It’ll be interesting to see how Terry plays this season. He looked pretty ropey last year.
he’s your typical uneducated black lad from the ‘hood’. who lives for ‘reps’, usually surrounding themselves with likeminded backstabbers, snaking there way through life dropping friends as soon as the grass looks greener. wide eye’d at the ‘fun’ terry and co seem to have until among it and that little arsenal bell of family and respect goes off more than once.
cant blame him really. just another weak minded product of situation long scripted before he was born.
at least he’s rich, innit?
Rocky – that’s absolutely fabulous, brilliant! But more to the point, I think you are right, Arsenal was his first love and he never got over it. He married a rich old bitch for her money but the pure true love will haunt him forever. Good.
Anyway, he had always been a half wit and a spineless git, remember this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxC3eb62SWI&feature=related
From Goal.com
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Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usmanov has launched another angry attack on the club’s board, citing “the current politics of the club’s management” as one of the factors behind their trophyless run.
Usmanov owns 30 per cent of the club, and remains the second largest shareholder after Stan Kroenke, but does not have a place on the board.
After issuing an open letter in which he expressed his concern with regards to the running of the club and its ambition, he has again called for changes to be made.
“Disregarding the series of trophyless seasons, you have to accept that a few of the current board of directors were at the helm during the greatest moments of the Arsene Wenger era,” Usmanov told Forbes Magazine Russia.
“But the footballing landscape has changed. Our point of view on which direction the club is going today, and our disagreement with this direction, have been laid out in our open letter to the board.
“We do not consider just qualifying for the Champions League to be the chief ambition of the club, and with all our hearts we support the team and wish them well for the new season.
“Victory is absolutely not ruled out, but the current politics of the club’s management will leave Arsene Wenger and his team with fewer and fewer opportunities in the long run.”
Usmanov also insisted that as a fan of the club, he failed to see foresee its current situation, and regrets the way it was handled.
Having acquired David Dein’s 14.6% share in the club in 2007, a figure which he has since added to significantly, Usmanov has described the process as ‘unobjective.’
“Arsenal were one of the first teams I saw on television, and at that time I started supporting them,” he added.
“I was introduced to David Dein by a mutual friend. At that time I was looking at a number of possibilities to invest in Premier League clubs, but the chance to buy a small shareholding in Arsenal outranked all other considerations.
“When I bought shares off David Dein I was happy with the opportunity to get to know the footballing legend which Arsenal represent. I was absolutely satsifed with this purchase and wanted to buy more shares in the club.
“At that time I never imagined the depth of conflict between the shareholders.
“I was also disappointed, and very much regretted, that Danny Fiszman, who at that time ran Arsenal, dealt with me on the basis of totally unobjective opinions and assertions of a few individuals.”
The 58-year-old insists that despite being unhappy with the club’s position, he is not prepared to sell his own shares.
“We plan to continue to buy shares in the club,” Usmanov confirmed.
“From the point of view of investment, this has already been a successful policy: the value of the club has rise from £300-400 million to £700-800m.
“But this is not the point. I am a fan and I am not going to sell these shares at any time, since this is the club that I consider the best in the world.”
Usmanov is a selfish bastard for saying it, Kroenke is a selfish bastard for giving him the pretext for saying it.
I don’t understand why Usmaonv is so badly vilified- he has a bit of a shady past and served some time for an offence that he claims was a political set up . He is obviously an ardent Arsenal supporter, he attends most games and is buying his 2nd box and yet on AA he is treated like a devious monster.
On the other hand we have our American majority owner who only turns up for board meetings and like most American owners he wants a well run profitable company.
I don’t get it………………………
GN5,
I dislike Usmanov for two reasons.
One is that he was reported as being a Manc fan when he first surfaced as here.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/267191/Gunners-boss-is-a-Man-U-fan.html
The second is that all of the bloggers and blogsites I detest on the net seem to want Usmanov to become Arsenal’s sugar-daddy which immediately makes me wary and want for the opposite.
I hadn’t seen that he attends most Arsenal games and can’t seem to find proof of it anywhere?
p.s. I’m not keen on Stan either.
Cazorla’s been confirmed as in Germany with the Arsenal by the BBC…
NorfolK Gooner
As no other Londoners have heard of it I guess it was an Irish dish my Mum brought over. Actually tasted quiet nice.. I guess like the Glaswegian deep fried Mars bar which sounds terrible but which is actually delicious!!
Arsenal set to confirm Santi Cazorla deal
By David Ornstein
BBC Sport
Arsenal are set to confirm the signing of Malaga midfielder Santi Carzola after he passed a medical and joined the club at their pre-season training camp in Germany.
The 27-year-old Spain international will sign a long-term contract for a fee below £15m.
Malaga’s financial problems delayed the move, but it is likely to be announced on Tuesday.
Arsenal are also working on a loan deal for 23-year-old Real Madrid midfielder Nuri Sahin.
They hope to add the Turkey international to a squad already boosted by the arrivals of Germany forward Lukas Podolski and France striker Olivier Giroud from Montpellier.
Doubts remain over the future of captain Robin van Persie, who has said he will not extend his current contract when it expires in 2013.
But the Dutch striker is with the squad in Germany ahead of Sunday’s friendly against Cologne on, which was agreed as part of the Podolski transfer.
The Cazorla and Sahin deals are unrelated to Van Persie, but were accelerated by news that Jack Wilshere will not play before October as he continues his recovery from an ankle injury.
Cazorla, who joined Malaga from Villarreal last summer, stands at 5ft 6ins and featured for Spain at the 2008 and 2012 European Championships.
Real Madrid signed Sahin from Borussia Dortmund on a six-year contract in May 2011 but he has struggled to establish himself at the Bernabeu and Real boss Jose Mourinho would let him leave on loan.
GN5 @8:33 my brother and senior “G” I couldn’t care less if Jabba the Uzz served time all my best pals have served a lot more more than a carpet, Jabba ain’t a Gooner!!! I’ve heard him say in an interview that he supports Manu’er!! So where did you get the info that he supports the Arse?
Not that I think any of us has to like the people who own the club, here are a few things I hold against Usmanov:
1. He’s an oligarch. There are no nice oligarchs, they all got their riches by stealing pieces of the then-fragmented Soviet state in the chaos of the 1990s. None of what Usmanov, Abramovich, Berezovsky, Derapaska, Khorodkovsky, Romanov or any of the others owns was gained legitimately. They’re just thieves with private jets and megayachts.
2. He’s not an Arsenal fan, at best Arsenal is just an investment for him, at worst a plaything to massage his ego.
3. He maintains a public campaign that does nothing positive for achieving what we want, success on the field. I know he would say otherwise but his public statements are about him, not us.
4. I don’t trust him. I say that based on what I see in the public domain and what I know from people who have dealt with him directly (much of my business being in the CIS).
I don’t hate Usmanov, but he’s just one more rich guy using our club for his own purposes. So is Kroenke of course, but without having any affection for the American, I trust him more to create the sort of stability we need to continue to develop.
Rocky a truly epic insight into the psyche of Ashley Cole. Who knows why he still wants to talk about Arsenal….but he seems to want to so let him ramble on. He picked a number of AFC players in his first XI of best players he has played with so it’s not always a sneering talk.
As for Usmanov he will say whatever he wants to gain control.
The question we have to ask ourselves is two fold.
Why did David Dein sell to Usmanov?
Why did Fiszman sell to Kroenke?
I think the answers to those questions are quite obvious, and for that reason I go with Kroenke to have been the best owner to keep the club safe. This isn’t just about footballing glory, it is about the stewardship of the club and it’s safe keeping. How many times do we have to see teams go to the wall to realise self sustainability is a far better option.
To each his own……………………….
chas @8:47 I heard him interviewed in Russian and I don’t speak Russian so I have to trust the translation (Not always easy) but the text below the pictures gave his answers as he’s a SAF Manu’er fan,
The Beeb are reporting Carzola has joined up with the lads in Germany.
Anyone thinking the signings we have made this summer represent no ambition need their head testing. None of the signings will be sold for more than purchased. None have been completed because we have sold.
From twitter
♪ Zorla, Sa-santi Cazorla, Sa-santi Cazorla ♪
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVXmMMSo47s
Is Santi’s signing official yet?
Greg Rutherford is a massive ManU fan. Wiggins is a Pool supporter. But we have Mo, there is a nice vid on the official Arsenal site of Mo visiting the Colney training camp
Flying visit.
Great posts/comments last few days. Great reading.
Brilliant news about Santi. Just what the doctor ordered. So excited.
Evonne,
Apparently he’s with the lads in Germany, so that’ll be a Yes.
Morning all
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Lol