Andrei Arshavin has ditched his agent Dennis Lachter, he of the tortuous quote which can mean two things at once.
“This is in no way connected with the drawing up of my contract with Arsenal,” Arshavin told Sport Express. “In fact, I would like to express my immense gratitude to Lachter for helping me make the move.”
“However, Dennis, who has a newborn son, is living in Israel and can not be close by all the time. It’s simpler for me to solve things myself,” he said.
But Arshavin does appear to be dissatisfied with his contract:”I have a problem with my contract. Certain nuances emerged linked to taxation and some other things. As a result, I’m getting less money than I expected. It’s not critical but I still need to put it right,” the player told The Mail on Sunday.
Meanwhile Blackburn’s Martin Olsson has said it how it sees it on Theo Walcott, who he faces tonight. “He is extremely fast but not as good as everyone says,” said the Swedish left back. “It’s the players around him who feed him and make him good, so if we can shut them down I think we can prevent him from getting those passes. Against Finland, he had almost no chances and wasn’t that much of a factor.”
Ladbrokes put Fabregas’s odds at 1-4 to be at Arsenal and 6-1 that he joins Madrid this season. Barcelona are 9-2.
See Silent Stan is building up his Arsenal shareholding by stealth. On 24th June he acquired another 3 ordinary shares at £7,025 per share and now controls voting rights over, 17,627 ordinary shares in the representing 28.3% of the Company’s issued ordinary shares. On 15th June he got 9 at the same price, the same week a story about Usmanov being willing to undwerwrite a rights issue was circulating.
Whatever shame some of ‘the money’ can’t go towards buying another reasonable defender. The Newcastle Chronicle reports “people in Bassong’s camp have told the Chronicle that Spurs are the only would-be buyers to have expressed a firm interest in doing a deal with Newcastle at the price they want. That valuation may already have put off Arsenal.”
Arsene Wenger is London’s least popular Premier League manager in the eyes of his club’s own supporters, accrording to an Evening Standard survey.
Research company Football Fans Census asked more than 2,000 supporters ‹ with a minimum of 100 from each club ‹ to rate their manager’s performance last season. The top mark was +5 with the bottom grade -5.
Wenger got 2.1 compared to 4.6 in 2006, the capital’s most popular manager.
An Arsenal spokesperson said: “We don’t think too much emphasis should be placed upon the survey results as proof of our fans’ strong and deep bond with Arsene has been demonstrated consistently over the years.
“Most recently, at the Stoke game when a march was undertaken in his honour by the fans and the vocal backing from them was clear.’ Also it is not a really representative sample.
The Standard reported only 18% of Arsenal fans responding to the survey believed the players had justified their pay packets.
One player who certainly does in Keiran Gibbs who is set to sign a new deal when he returns from the u-21 tournament in Sweden.