by Craigie » Thu May 20, 2010 12:14 am
All I've read is the same "it's good he wants to play for us" from Barcelona that they were saying last week. There's been nothing new for the past 4 days then suddenly every website and blog decides he's gone. This is really no more concrete than "Cescs dad said" and "he has told friends". Then all of a sudden its all emergency meetings and nearly in tears.
If he wants to go thats fine but he said last week he wanted to stay and go to Barcelona some day, not next week. I don't buy the that they've told him it's now or never, because Xavi will be done in 2 seasons and there's nobody else they could get. Unless they offload Ibrahimovic they don't need him this season, and really now is not a good time to leave Arsenal since it looks like the only season that we might actually get some decent players in, and if he threatened to leave that could force the club to make a bigger commitment to investing in the team to keep him happy.
The Spanish league is a joke now anyway. Barcelona 99 points, Madrid 96 points, Valencia 71 points. It's just big teams slaughtering small teams. The difference between 1st and 3rd out there is the same as the difference between 1st and 8th here.