William Gallas needs to shut up

Not content with mouthing off about Chelsea as often as he can William Gallas is now becoming more than mildly irritating mouthing off about Arsenal.

Quite unnecessarily he slated Alexander Hleb nearly a week after the Champions League exit to PSV when any criticisms he had should have been kept in house. Now he's talking about the injury that kept him out for three months and having a pop at the Arsenal medical staff. He says:

If I had known from the beginning that I would need three months, I would have accepted it. But at first they told me it was a cramp, when in fact it was a strained muscle. Do I have something against the Arsenal medical staff? A little, yes, with the error in diagnosis.

Now, anyone who listened to Arsecast 19 will have heard Philippe Auclair from France Football saying that Gallas was a very forthright individual with strong opinions. That's fine. He's quite entitled to his opinions and some of what he says about this team lacking a killer instinct and experience is fair enough.

However, there are ways and means of going about things. If he has a problem with the Arsenal medical staff then he should discuss that with Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal medical staff. If he has a problem with the lack of goals or the lack of experience in the team then he should discuss that with the manager and not some journalist from L'Equipe that he uses as his mouthpiece whenever he feels like having a bleat about something.

Add to that the speculation that he's refusing to play at left back when he's the obvious choice in the absence of Gael Clichy and the man is becoming very tiresome indeed. He's only been at the club a wet weekend yet he feels that he can slag off his teammates, the medical staff and by proxy the manager. That is not how we do things at Arsenal.

He's obviously a very talented talker and from what we've seen previously he's an excellent footballer but we've yet to really see too much from him in an Arsenal shirt. Perhaps he might be best to shut his mouth and get on with playing. Then, once he's put himself in a position where he's earned the right to give us his opinion, he can talk.

Until then Gallas, shut up.