Comments on: Arsenal and Arshavin the latest victims of media mischief

By: Cajan

Cajan — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:55:29 +0000

I just love what the papers do. They make the preseason and January transfer windows very interesting. As for the players, i do not blame them, they are not less than us. We all switch jobs whenever we see an opportunity say either a better paying job or a job with much better job security. How would you feel if you were christiano ronlado and fifty 15 years from now players less talented than you are are bragging about their houses and cars and achievements and you have little to show for all your efforts. You wouldn’t want to end up a sports commentator , would you? I am a man united fan.

By: kukaka

kukaka — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:51:02 +0000

That is very obvious, Brad.
I hate the papers when it comes to transfers…

By: Brad

Brad — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:01:33 +0000

That wouldnt be enough, they need to do something about the stupid papers…

By: christopher

christopher — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:06:38 +0000

actually i will like to advice the arsenal coach to try by all means to let arshavin to play 4 the team because his a very good boy in times of commitment

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:40:13 +0000

And Graham is right about the press. Even here in the U.S. where football( the real football, I will say) is not as popular as baseball and our own football, the papers are always making big rumors about someone like Juan Pablo Angel of New York Red Bulls might transfer to some other club, and the fans will be on their back, and the player himself will start wanting to move, and lastly his form starts dropping.
I think it is time that FIFA files some sort of law suit on the press for being so fucking annoying. That might just make them only print the truth and no rumors they made up to sell their copies……

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:33:24 +0000

Personally, I like what Arshavin did at Emirate’s stadium.
I may be a ManU fan, but I would like to see Arshavin stay in Arsenal’s books- as I have always admired them for their players and manager- and it would be a shame if Arshavin left for nou camp before he could become a Gunner’s Legend, and a legend in the Premiership.

By: wengerball

wengerball — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:46:53 +0000

How on earth have we ended up with this miserable, incompetent and lazy lot?
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When “most” of the writers are ex or failed players,
When said writers have little or no access to players,
When there is really nothing to write about,
When the readers believe anything you write,
put it together and you get rubbished media all with their own agenda.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:42:07 +0000

They say that, as a country, you get the media you deserve. If so, then what have we done to end up with this lot? When you look at the high quality coverage both on TV and in print, that cricket gets, it beggars belief. How on earth have we ended up with this miserable, incompetent and lazy lot? What have we done to deserve Rob Shepherd, Harry Harris, Neil Ashton, to name but 3 and now even old Martin Samuel, who used to at least have one foot in reality, has sunk to new depths. It really is a crying shame.

By: Jack Staniforth

Jack Staniforth — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:09:54 +0000

There are a few established and loyal players still about but they`re the ones looking into the sunset a little and have been part of the furniture for a number of years. The sunset also offers a little more than beer money to make sure that their loyalties stay in tack….so there we have it. As for the rest it`s a money jungle.

As I`ve said before the only contract worth having has the Queens head on it and many wouldn`t reconize the Queen if they fell over her in the street.

Will Ashavin stay a week, a month, a season or honour his contract. Will he go to Barcelona, Real Madrid (for say 300.000 pounds a week or something) who knows and frankly I`m one of those who doesn`t care, there are another hundred waiting in the wings.

In not so many years from now those of us who are left will be saying ” remember the heady days when players were earning 200,000 pounds a week and transfer fees were in excess 50 million” The bubble will burst, believe me.

By: TheSKAGooner

TheSKAGooner — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:21:35 +0000

Actually, Arshavin DID say this.

Unfortunately for the Star, he said it almost a year ago when he was talking to Barca, Spurs and some of the Italian teams.

After the massive fail regarding Cesc Fabregas’ comments last week in the Sun (comments that prompted Cesc to make a statement through Arsenal’s official website reiterating his commitment to the club and wholly refuting the article by the Sun), one has to wonder if this isn’t a bit of “hit back” at Arsenal for calling the media out so publicly and embarrassing them.

They should be embarrassed and ashamed. But they’re not. The will continue to throw out the names of Arsenal players without any real connection to the purported “story” if only in an effort to, as you pointed out, disrupt the club, players and supporters of Arsenal. It’s pathetic.