.Arsenal Transfered In: Thomas Vermaelen (Ajax, £11m), Damian Martinez (Club Athletico
Independiente, £1.3m), Jamie Edge (Cheltenham, undisc) Transfered Out: Abu Ogogo (Dag & Red,
free), Amaury Bischoff (Academica de Coimbra, free), Emmanuel Adebayor (Man C, £25m), Kolo Toure
(Man C, £14m), Jay Simpson (QPR, loan), James Dunne (Exeter, free), Rui Fonte (Lisbon, free), Rene
Steer (Oldham, free), [.
In the old days, Reid loved doughnuts more than corner kicks
I was leaning all week towards Everton's Steven Pienaar - his goal last night in the Europa League
only further confirming his chance as a Funny Feeling Friday selection - but, having selected
Everton's Rodwell just a few weeks ago - and seeing as Pienaar is already owned by about 7% of
managers - I went with an unlikely selection, the less than 1% owned Andy Reid.
As our currently absent Miss Spur alluded to some time ago, Niko Kranjcar finally completed his
move to Spurs yesterday. It's a Croatian to replace a Croatian by the looks of things after Luka
Modric picked up a significant injury at the weekend.
After being linked with a number of targets on deadline day, some good and some worryingly bad,
we ended up with just the one signing and probably the best of the bunch at that.
I've refrained from discussing the whole Paul Pogba/Le Havre thing for a few days, because I'm
still not entirely sure what to make of it. My goal is to do a fair amount of research and lay it
out as best I can. For now, I thought you all might enjoy this gem that was uncovered over on
RedCafe.
It seems that Pogba originally played with Roissy-en-Brie before joining U.
Bayern Munich right-back Christian Lell went missing when Stoke City Tony Pulis wanted to sign him
in the last few hours of the summer transfer window. A £3m deal was negotiated swiftly between
Stoke and Bayern but the German club could not located the defender in time to finalise personal
terms. With less than a couple [.
We're heading into a new season of European football, which for most people really only means
Champions League football. The big question ahead of every Champions League season is of course not
who wins it - Stuttgart won't, Wolfsburg won't and most probably Bayern won't either so why bother
- but who earns how much.
In the end, it was a damp squib of a transfer deadline day, hyped to the nines but delivering
nothing of interest, and nothing at all for Arsenal.
The whole absurd day, which has become a newspaper-selling website-hitting phenomenon all of its
own, with Sky Sports News the very worst culprit, is summed up for me by this one entry from the
Guardian's live transfer deadline day page:
5.
Los Cules strolled to a comfortable 4-1 win over Racing last night thanks to a double
from the Messiah and two additional goals from Pique and Ibracadabra. What else
did you expect? For Puyolita to bag a hat-trick of own goals? That won't be happening
anytime soon!
