Tough to Get THAT Excited Over Rumors

Saturday, 06 June 09, 12:16 PM · Comments(0)

Well the season ended and the real news dried up in a hurry. No surprise on either case. Of course, it being the silly season, rumors abound of arrivals, departures, hijackings and enough money being thrown around to build your own harem of supermodels.

But if you've noticed that I've been absent, it's not by choice. Life gets in the way. And the rumors that are going around are not necessarily that exciting. Let's look at them:

1. Arsenal will sell Emmanuel Adebayor to Milan: well, Ade's agent has come out and said no one's called him yet. To be fair, Milan right now are too busy with the Kaka' deal, which is rumored to bring in anywhere between 50 and 70 million pounds.

BUT the problem is that having just appointed Leonardo to take over Carlo Ancelotti, it's unlikely that the Milan braintrust has gotten together to determine how they're going to rebuild their side. On top of that, with clubs like Chelsea after Pato, I think they're more worried about hanging onto their players than buying at the moment.

It could still happen, but not right now.

2. Arsenal will buy Christian Zapata, Thomas Vermaelen and/or Edin Dzeko.

On the outside, they look like the buys we need. Zapata and Vermaelen are good defenders for Udinese and Ajax respectively. Meanwhile Dzeko is the big, tough, score-crazy striker that Adebayor was two years ago.

Except for one simple fact: Arsene Wenger is in China, scouting out there. That doesn't mean they're not on our radar, but the simple fact is that players like Dzeko and Zapata are on EVERYBODY's radar.

Plus saying we're targeting a central defender "X" or "Y" just takes what everyone knows is our top transfer priority and tossing some young, heralded player's name out there and see what sticks.

So in short, as the silly season goes, remember that the majority of the "breaking news" are unlikely to come to fruition.

Tough to Get THAT Excited Over Rumors

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