Good morning everybody.
A fast Monday weblog for you earlier than I hand over the reins to different chaps for per week or so. I see numerous Martin Zubimendi chat this morning after Spain performed within the Nations League final night time. It seems to be like Portugal gained on penalties, which is an actual disgrace as a result of meaning Cristiano Ronaldo is blissful and that makes me unhappy.
Zubimendi scored within the first half for Spain, Mikel Merino took one of many penalties, and David Raya was on the bench, after which my curiosity is fairly restricted. Particularly as Cristiano Ronaldo is blissful. Hopefully the Arsenal lads, and shortly to be Arsenal lad, can have a pleasant break now and get some relaxation forward of subsequent season.
Clearly at this level, all of the gamers in every single place needs to be on holidays, however there are World Cup qualifiers to cope with. I assumed Thomas Tuchel’s quotes after England beat the mighty Andorra 1-0 the opposite day had been fascinating. He stated:
I didn’t just like the angle that we ended the sport with. I didn’t like the shortage of urgency and it didn’t match the event. It’s nonetheless a World Cup qualifier.
On the one hand, I get it. He has a job to do and video games to win, nevertheless it’s now practically three weeks because the Premier League season ended, and the difficulty for me is way extra in regards to the schedule. How motivated are you able to be for a recreation at this level in what needs to be the low season? When it’s abundantly clear gamers don’t give a crap about taking part in what’s, on paper at the least, an essential recreation, then I feel larger focus needs to be on why that’s quite than the gamers themselves.
There are some Arsenal gamers in motion this week for his or her respective nations, so like their Spanish friends, I hope they arrive by way of their video games okay, after which change off correctly for a couple of weeks.
In switch information, Oleksandr Zinchenko is being linked with Lazio however there are recommendations his wages could possibly be a difficulty. I think that’s in all probability true for many golf equipment who would have an curiosity in him, to be trustworthy. I can’t think about he’s going to go to a top-tier membership primarily based on how his inventory has fallen during the last 12-18 months, however there are at all times methods round it. One in every of which is {that a} potential suitor’s outlay is mirrored within the worth they pay the membership who actively needs to promote a participant, so Arsenal might have to just accept a smaller price than they could like with a purpose to transfer him on. Let’s see what occurs.
Past that, not a lot occurring right this moment, so I’m gonna go away it there. There will likely be an Arsecast Additional a bit in a while, however I’m unsure but precisely what time we’ll be recording. After that, I’m taking per week off to go someplace heat and never do something aside from absorb the solar and possibly drink a beer or two. It’s been an extended outdated season, and I really feel like my batteries have to be recharged. So, that would be the final podcast till subsequent week in some unspecified time in the future, however as soon as I’m again regular audio service will resume right here and on Patreon!
Within the meantime, the weblog will proceed as ever with Andrew, Lewis and Tim offering your every day updates of one thing and nothing. Hopefully way more of the previous than the latter, and all the most recent tales of substance could be discovered on Arseblog Information.
For now, take it simple of us, I’ll speak to you in per week or so, once we’ll undoubtedly have signed all of the strikers we want. Proper?! ❤️
* There aren’t any zebras on this submit. It was merely a ruse to draw the individuals who love Arsenal AND zebras. I’m sorry hoofy-stripe followers.
