Ars-Dragging On And More

And it was only 24 hours to Everton…sorry, woke up in a Gene Pitney kind of mood today which is vaguely disturbing. So, Zenit St Petersburg believe that they have reached an agreement with Arsenal over the ‘services’ of Andrei Arshavin. To be honest, this one has dragged, twisted and crawled over the rocks of transfer oblivion, I’ll wait until the club confirm it before getting over-excited. Zenit, meanwhile, are doing that:

A fundamental agreement over the fee in the transfer of the player has been reached between the clubs, subject to a medical. But, at the moment, the basic obstacle preventing the transfer going through are Andrei Arshavin’s personal terms. The player and his agent have made it clear to Arsenal that they will require a higher wage, which the management at Arsenal are not prepared to pay. At the moment, Arsenal will only satisfy those demands at a lower transfer fee. This puts the whole deal in doubt.

So, the clubs are happy but the player is not, according to his spurned ex-lover of an employer. Yea Gods, if a scriptwriter turned up for work at Eastenders with this sort of stuff, they would be marched from the building, having cleared their desk, had their access card taken from them and be handed a brown envelope containing their P45. Mind you, in this technologically advanced age, an email telling them, “You’re fired” would probably be the preferred medium for such a task.

Just to confuse matters, reports have emerged that Arshavin has entered the real world to get his move. Frankly, it just about sums up the current scenario as far as the media is concerned. It is nigh on impossible to get any semblance of the truth when a throw-away comment from Martin Skrtel is blown out of all proportion as if it is some kind of inside track. The hint to the Skrtel opinion was his use of the phrase “I understand“. Hell fire, I understood exactly the same thing from the media coverage in the summer and I have not an ounce of inside knowledge on Arshavin’s preferences for which league he played in. During the summer, his agent had him linked with every major league in Europe so presumably his client did not mind him being hawked around like some sort of footballing tart.

The news of Tomas Rosicky‘s return to training is also treated with some scepticism. Not that I do not believe the story, more that it is perhaps a longer return tio full tiness. Mixed with the missed deadlines over the past twelve months, I simply hope that he gets through this period without breaking down. Certainly, a fit Rosicky would give Arsene the nicest possible headache as far as selection is concerned and also the squad would possess perhaps the most creative midfield in the Premier League.

Right that’s enough of my cynical, bitter and twisted world for today. ’til Tomorrow.