Arsene’s new striker target, Ribery update, and more…
Abel Hernandez – not particularly camera shy
Newspaper offices all over the country will be dreadful places to be today. Just dreadful. You’ve got your showbiz and fashion desks, all nursing serious wine and amphetamines hangovers, after having to pull an Oscars all-nighter.
The animals on the news desk will have overdone the whiskeys as usual, whilst the delightful young men in the post room will be grumbling because they spent most of Saturday night repeatedly circling a blonde girl on a nightclub dancefloor, and she didn’t once offer to have sex with them. What a cow.
Anyway, in the midst of this crumbling empire will be the football journalists – still alert, smoke coming from their keyboards, mobile phones ringing off the hook playing the MOTD theme tune. Here’s what they’ve uncovered today (thanks to The Mirror, The Sun, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail etc…):
Arsene Wenger’s ongoing quest for a footballer who can round off his team’s balletic style of play by simply hoofing the ball into the bloody net has led him to Abel Hernandez, a 19-year-old chap from Uruguay, who plays for the Italian side, Palermo. He’s a six-footer, which would suit the team well, and there’s a little clip of him below (at the bottom of the article).
In other Arsenal-related news, William Gallas might yet turn his back on London, and head off to sunny Roma to be reunited with his old boss Claudio Ranieri. His current deal ends in six months, and he could go on a Bosman.
Whilst, over at Chelsea, the sound of around thirty ears pricking up in unison echoed up and down King’s Road just moments after Franck Ribery said this:
“I’m not 100 per cent going to Real.”
“Barcelona and Chelsea are also very interested. We will see. It will be decided in two to three weeks.”
Here’s Abel Hernandez scoring a goal, as promised:
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