For those of you who listen to the radio, you may tune in now and again to Talksport… and if you do you may be familiar with Gabriele Marcotti – an Italian with an American accent who surprisingly knows a lot about football. He’s also featured on Eurosport and Channel Five’s football shows…
Yesterday he was asked about Melo and what his thoughts were and he basically talked about how Arsenal were the club who were leading the race for Melo’s signature and that Arsene and respresentatives of the club are due to speak to him after the confederations cup tournament ends later this week.
Some news regarding the transfer is that we’ve actually agreed terms with Fiorentina and that this doesn’t include a swap for Senderos – although Fiorentina are interested in the Swiss International – a deal may happen shortly afterwards. Also, news is that the player has agreed terms with us but that contradicts the previous statement that we are going to talk post Confederations… contradiction sometimes means that it’s a made up story, or sometimes means that it’s all done, but we’re just waiting for some t’s an i’s…
Mixed signals from the player and his agent, whilst publicly trying to keep a good relationship with Fiorentina and additional keeping a “professional” image…
“Obviously it is a good thing that great clubs are interested, as it shows that I worked well. But as I said, I have a good relationship with Fiorentina, with the directors and the fans.”
He has reportedly spoken to Maicon asking about Inter and Gilberto Silva asking about Arsenal, so I wouldn’t discount a “Inler” stance were career progression wasn’t an option!
Let’s stay close to this one, there may be something in it!
In other news, Liverpool have reportedly agreed the signing of Glen Johnson and that’s a good bit of business for them, but at £18m, I’d rather have 3 Sagna’s any day of the week. It’s a bit of the usual usual with the other transfer news with Ade linked here and there, but no-one really interested, Tevez linked with Chelsea and Barcelona although many people think he’s already signed for Man City to join £18m Santa Cruz… yawn… yawn… speculation, speculation…
And the Setanta Premiership debacle has been resolved as ESPN has bought the rights to the games which were previous Setantas… the BBC web site reporting:
ESPN has bought the rights to show 46 games in next season’s English Premier League that were to have been shown by struggling broadcaster Setanta.
Disney-owned ESPN has won the two packages of games shown on Saturday teatimes and Monday evenings. Both will be sold to customers through BSkyB.
Not sure how that will affect Arsenal TV Online – I hope I don’t have to sign up to another sports package with ESPN to watch those games, as I need to keep Setanta for my Arsenal TV Online addiction!
I’ll keep this one short for now as I plan to get back to the office at some point, upload some nice pictures and continue with another piece later…
Til then…
