Quote (rollen @ May 3 2012 10:03pm)
The Infamous “Summer of Weasels”
Wenger has said he could write a book on the 2011 Summer transfer window. I hope he will some day. I offer him this title for his book: “The Summer of Weasels.”
The Cast of the Summer of Weasels
If the Barca Bastards, FCB, Fabregas, Nasri, Mancini, SAF and Vieira II had schemed together, they couldn’t have MF’d Wenger and the team any worse:
Cesc: “I will only play for Barcelona.”
Barca Bastards (Pique, Xavi, Puyol): “We’ll stir up shit all Summer so that it’ll be a shit-storm in the dressing room if they even contemplate keeping Cesc for another year.”
FCB/Rosell: “We’ll drag out the negotiations with slow and low bids so that we have them in a corner on price and we screw up their Transfer Window. Teach them to keep robbing our nursery.”
Na$ri: “You know what would really screw them over…”
SAF: “Samir, you’re wearing the wrong shirt, lad. Why don’t you come over here and win some trophies, lad.”
Mancini: “Yes Samir, what he said, but with a shit-load more money.”
Vieira II: “Samir, did I ever point out to you that I’m French also? Voulez-vous jouer avec nous?”
God: And on the seventh day, I shall nobble my own Word Made Flesh and Cesc’s heir apparent, Jack Wilshere, because I don’t think this Weasel shit-storm is weaselly enough. I will make it look like it is only going to last a few weeks to push it past the close of the Transfer Window so that Arsenal can’t react but then I will turn weeks into months until finally Jack is ruled out for the season.
List of assorted sinister characters: The Journos, The Media, Piers Morgan (Large “M” and small organ) and the Fans with the short memories.
The Passion of the Wenger
From Michael Cox of Zonal Marking and ESPN:
“Imagine the worst situation — we lose Fabregas and Nasri — you cannot convince people you are ambitious after that,” Wenger said early in the summer. Nasri was representing Arsenal’s ambition. It is astonishing the Gunners could actually improve on last season’s fourth-place finish after losing both players.
Now maybe YOU could have handled this weasel-fest more skillfully. I know Tim Payton could. It’s not Rocket Science after all.
FCB, we’re more than a club…we’re a pack of weasels.
Cesc became FCB’s flunky, their stooge, their dupe, their witless agitator. Now don’t get me wrong, like the vast majority of Arsenal fans, I still love Cesc but in his heart of hearts he knows that he got suckered into the role of a lifetime, Judas Iscariot. In fact, Cesc even had to chip in to make up the 30 pieces of silver. (Nasri left for lots more money while Cesc took a pay cut.)
After that plague of weasels conspired to blight us, Wenger had no good cards to play.
It turns out i had way too much to say in 2 posts, so the 2nd part of this Trilogy just got split to make a 3rd part:
Tomorrow, the Interview scoop of my journalistic career. I interview Sandro Rosell, President of FCB, to get his view on: the Summer happenings; whether Sir Alex would have done better; and how he feels about Tim Payton and John Cross.
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Who is Tim Payton?: See below. In general I find him to be very negative on Wenger. On a number of occasions he has stated that Wenger plays at “Par” as a manager. He lauds the performance of Redknapp by comparison to Wenger. And being the Spreadsheet Warrior that he is, he has stated that this Summer Transfer stuff isn’t Rocket Science. I beg to differ. He has a right to his opinions even though they piss me off.
In fact, I would guess that because Tim is trying to make a career in Sports Communications, he is trying very hard NOT to like everything at Arsenal. It allows him to show how much smarter he is than Wenger from his desk. After all, no-one hires a consultant who can’t see any problems.
It would appear that perhaps Tim has a conflict of interest between his ambitions and the role at AST.
Dobry wywiad.