I suppose my analogy falls short in that Santa doesn't threaten to take some of your old toys and give them to billy across the road. A decade ago, the transfer window was viewed almost exclusively as a window of oppertunity, while in recent years it seems quite appropriate that we should lock our best players in the toilet for all of January and take the batteries out of their phones while we're at it. The most recent and probably painful example of how the transfer window has become more of a threat to us, is the departure of Robin Van Persie to a rival premiership team no less. No doubt the departure hurts Wenger as much as it does the fans and it seems safe to assume that Wenger would be trying to avoid the same happening with Theo, whether such a departure would come this January with a fee or this summer as a Bosman.
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The whispers around the twitterspehere and news sights are somewhat positive on the matter with some news sights even reporting last night that a four year deal had been signed though it now appears, a day later, that it is not the case. Le Boss has been reaffirming his belief that Theo will indeed sign but take from that what you will as he has been answering this same question for a few months now and it's hard to imagine he would suddenly respond to the millionth "will he sign?" question with "probably not". Lets keep our fingers crossed. We have all known for a long time that Theo has potential and since Wenger has given him a run upfront and said ''show me'', he has certainly done just that. We have to be mindful that we cannot offer wages like other teams in the premierleague. The least we can do is offer the best possible deals within our wage structure to our most valued players. With that in mind and in light of all the recent high-profile departures I would imagine Wenger is all too happy to offer Theo an increase in wages. I wonder is it the monumental increase is wages a player would receive at City, Chelsea or United that Theodore has his eye on. His agent's eye more likely.
Despite worrying about losing some valued players there are quite a few squad members we would be all to happy to have tapped up and snatched away. One night I had a dream that Xavi and his delinquent chums, Pique and Iniesta were feeling a bit giddy during a sleepover in La Masia and decided to upload videos of one another claiming Chamakh had Barcelona DNA. It was one of those dreams where things are so bizzare that you realise mid-dream that there is no way it is real. sigh.
In other news, Demba Ba appears to have signed a three and a half year deal with Chelsea. There are some gooners out there disappointed that we never made a move for him after the media had linked us with him. Whether he would have performed for us or not, I think its safe to say he is not really a Wenger signing so it was never going to happen in my mind, so lets not get lost in 'what if's'. As for Newcastle, Cisse should slot into Ba's position and do just fine. I think newcastle will go on to discover last season's form now that they're over all the Ba speculation. Sturridge has gone to 'Pool. It will be interesting to see how he is integrated into the liverpool team with Suarez playing so well. I honestly wouldn't have been falling over myself to sign Daniel Sturridge though.
That's all for today. More to come tomrrow my fellow gooners.
The Goonatic
Despite worrying about losing some valued players there are quite a few squad members we would be all to happy to have tapped up and snatched away. One night I had a dream that Xavi and his delinquent chums, Pique and Iniesta were feeling a bit giddy during a sleepover in La Masia and decided to upload videos of one another claiming Chamakh had Barcelona DNA. It was one of those dreams where things are so bizzare that you realise mid-dream that there is no way it is real. sigh.
In other news, Demba Ba appears to have signed a three and a half year deal with Chelsea. There are some gooners out there disappointed that we never made a move for him after the media had linked us with him. Whether he would have performed for us or not, I think its safe to say he is not really a Wenger signing so it was never going to happen in my mind, so lets not get lost in 'what if's'. As for Newcastle, Cisse should slot into Ba's position and do just fine. I think newcastle will go on to discover last season's form now that they're over all the Ba speculation. Sturridge has gone to 'Pool. It will be interesting to see how he is integrated into the liverpool team with Suarez playing so well. I honestly wouldn't have been falling over myself to sign Daniel Sturridge though.
That's all for today. More to come tomrrow my fellow gooners.
The Goonatic
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