No Regrets…

Thierry Henry has spoken out and said he is happy with his decision to stay at Arsenal and to lead the team into a new era at the Emirates.

He also said that although Chelski are linked to huge amounts of money, they have won back to back titles because they are a good team.

Well it depends on what you call a good team. The Chelski fans obviously don’t think so because they have tickets on General Sale for their first home game and first game of their title defence against Manchester City!

If they don’t want to watch them why does anyone else!

And Adebayor has hit out at Reyes telling him “We don’t want you anyway”.

And he also pointed out that Henry is a perfect example of how to deal with interest from other clubs like Real Madrid and AC Milan – that we should just say no.

Jens Lehmann has been quoted as saying that Chelsea are not a big club, and that only Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal are.

Well Crazy Jens might have a point with the fact Chelsea can’t even sellout a 43,000 seater stadium when they’re Champions!

Which One Of These Guys Is Leaving Arsenal?

Looks like Chelski have apparently ‘broken off’ talks with Arsenal over signing wantaway left-back Ashley Cole because Arsenal want too much for the England International.

Mourinho has spoken out and said Chelsea have given Arsenal an ‘excellent offer’ and how the Gunners won’t move from their own valuation which is evidently higher.

Well Mourinho, you can f*ck yourself.

First you illegally meet one of our players, and now you want him on the cheap.

Arsenal should not and hopefully won’t lower their valuation of Cole and sell him a penny cheaper than they want for him. I don’t care if Cole wants to leave – the little b*stard isn’t going to hold the team to ransom.

What Arsenal are doing is spot on.

You cannot bow down and let Chelsea run the show. If they want Cole they’re going to have to stump up and pay full price. It isn’t an eBay auction here!

I don’t like Cole but if he stays he has two options.

He can play for his place and give it 110% when he wears the Arsenal shirt, or rot on the bench or in the reserves.

But maybe this is when Real Madrid or some other team come in and get Cole? Who knows – football is full of surprises so don’t rule anything out yet.

The other wantaway player Jose Antonio Reyes however has made better progress with his desire to return to spain and Real Madrid now appear serious to buy the left-winger.

Even though Reyes has engineered a move away from Arsenal, for some strange reason I don’t have the same hatred towards him as I do towards Cashley.

Maybe it’s because he didn’t slag Arsenal off in his biography, maybe it’s because he’s actually shown the club some respect. Or maybe it’s because even though he’s never really been happy in England he’s always given us 110% – and you can’t ask for any more than that.

Things will be much clearer when the Premiership kicks off in 9 days time…

You wonder what is going on inside the kids head.

Well all know he hasn’t adapted to life in England and to his credit has been totally honest about it. One minute he’s saying he’s okay at Arsenal but then he comes out and says how much he wants to move to Madrid.

The problem with that is Arsenal would only sell him for at least £15 million and I just cannot see Real Madrid putting in an offer like that.

Is Jose really the kind of player that Fabio Capello would buy?

Do I think Reyes will leave? Personally, I don’t think so.

The source for all this Real/Reyes talk is from Marca, and we all know what they print can be taken with a pinch of salt.

I cannot see how Real would buy Jose after signing Van Nistelrooy – they also have Robinho, Baptista, Ronaldo, Raul, Cassano and Beckham as the offensive players and you can’t play them all at once!

Football is a crazy game, and when our unbeaten Premiership Champions lifted the trophy in 2004 after beating Leicester City at Highbury if someone said Reyes would be going to Real, Cole to Chelsea and Vieira to United I would have laughed!

But in the next 4 weeks all these transfers could be reality.

Cashley has almost certainly joined the Russians unless something amazing happens. Cole has been hell bent on p*ssing everyone off at Arsenal and he’s succeeded. Well done.

And Myles reports that Cole did arrive to pre-season training, but stormed out after only an hour of talks with Double D.

Jose Antonio Reyes has (as always) been linked strongly with Real Madrid, and this morning has seemingly kept his options open on moving to Spain. We know he’s not adapted to life in England as he would have liked, but Arsene Wenger will have the last say in whether he goes or leaves.

And then we come to our previous captain.

Patrick Vieira has been trying to jump ship at Juventus, like most of his team-mates, and because a move to Inter Milan seems to have stalled he’s almost asked United to come and get him by saying “Everyone wants to play for a club like Manchester United…”

Football is really a crazy game…