Sami Khedira will take a pay cut to £80,000 a week to join Arsenal, we are told.
He may be better than Arteta or Flamini.
But Arsenal shouldn\’t be a rest home for 27-year old Real Madrid rejects who have just won a World Cup.
Recruitment should be mainly aspirational.
George Graham always looked to sign players who wanted to make a step up.
The fixture list is kind to Arsenal again this week, delivering winless Burnley to the Emirates.
Oxlade is right to say that Alexis Sanchez is our Suarez.
There are huge similarities. Both are razor-sharp South American warriors who fight for every ball and give 105% for 94 minutes in every game.
Southampton have made September & October interesting in the Premier League.
The Saints are two points above champions Man City and three above much-improved West Ham and five above Arsenal-Swansea-Liverpool.
November hasn\’t started yet but Ronald Koeman bought the two best players in the Dutch League last season and both Pelle and Tadic have been magnificent.
Koeman says he\’s not scared of any team in the league and I believe him. I can see why he says that.
Aston Villa have lost five in a row and football is a game of sequences.
They miss the legs of Fabian Delph -big time. Not sure they will improve against Spurs.
Liverpool terrify me right now.
Their next games are Newcastle away and Real Madrid away.
Newcastle are flying after ripping Man City to shreds in the League Cup and throwing them up in the air in a shower of sky blue fragments.
A month ago I got into the spa alongside retired Ron, who remembers Bobby Tambling fondly.
Ron was Membership Secretary of the Chelsea Supporters Club and then Treasurer.
He knows football, so I didn\’t waste time on preliminaries.
“Was Luis Suarez 60% of Liverpool last season? Or 70%?â€
Ron thought for a moment.
Then he said, “70%.â€
31st October 2014