Hello everyone, meant to post that last one yesterday but cocked up. It's here today and so will this one be. I was planning on posting some more analysis but have decided to discus some other stuff.
There's been a lot of huff and puff about a BBC interview that the Red & White guys gave about the right's issue that was proposed to the board. I'm bad with business stuff and really don't know much about the ramifications of the right's issue or anything about it really, only that it's a proposed alternative to the club going into debt after borrowing money from Usmanov. I love our club and how it's run and that Wenger has final cut. I don't think I want to see anything change but we have to prove that we can compete as is. We did it for 8 years winning trophies and playing stunning football. Wenger made brilliant discovery after brilliant discovery and turned a number of players from unknown youngsters into superstars, even making Thierry Henry the best player in the world. For a time. He's been critisized for letting players go, but our old stars don't have a good record of going on to do well. The latest of course being Hleb, who said he regrets leaving us. Fuck him.
Anyway, people seem upset about the interview, which I didn't myself see. Arseblog comments as does ACulturedLeftFoot. They both mention the same stuff about Red & White being dispicable and that perhaps David Dein has a hand in the background. I used to love David Dein and really appreciate his time at the club and his relationship with Wenger. Now a days, I'm not sure.
Now to things more football. I watched the Gold Cup final today, seeing Mexico beating the US 5 nil. In the first half it seemed that the US were dominant, although they didn't have their strongest team. In the second half our boy Vela came on for Mexico and turned the game around entirely. I'm not sure if Mexico were playing their strongest team, but I imagine that Carlos Vela would be in it, starting over Giovanni Dos Santos, a totally fluffed, useless player who couldn't even make it at Tottenham after leaving Barca, not managing to get a place over Darren Bent. Vela may have been left out due to his injury but he came on in the second half and really ran the show, setting up 3 of the goals and getting one himself. He ran at defenders with confidence and ease and counter attacked very well. It looked easy for him, nobody could keep up with him and for all his possession and running at defenders he was only tackled twice. His finish was beautiful too, running the ball into the box past three defenders, leaving them all behind. He went a little too far wide it seemed but when the keeper came out he chiped it over him and it fell slowly and deftly into the far corner with the recovering defenders sliding desperately to try and keep it from going over the line. I really hope to see more of him this season, he's a good little player, very skillful and a fine finisher, I think he just needs to work on fitting into the team and really take his chances when he's given them, this is the only way he'll work his way up the pecking order, as he's our last choice striker at the moment.
Another thing is our center mid problem. I still haven't seen any evidence of us trying to chase down our man but it did occur to me that we were once in for a sniff of Ruben de la Red. He's young, only 23, and can play as a holding mid or more of a playmaker. He had a good showing in Euro 2008, where I think he played one game in the group stage after Spain had already qualified. He ran the game and even got himself a goal. I did a little research on him and discovered that last October he collapsed during a game having suffered an effort syncope. This is a complex term for fainting for a number of reasons, but in de la Red's case it was probably due to lack of oxygen in the brain. This ended his season last year and it has been confirmed that he won't take part at all this season as they try to find out what causes him to pass out while he runs, so I suppose we won't be signing him.
Not much else for me to discuss, until tomorrow,
Highbury86
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