Arsenal versus Fulham.....

From other posts on this Blog you will know that this Middle Aged Man is an Arsenal supporter. And in truth that is something of an understatement, Arsenal is life, well actually a little bit more important than that. So on my little blog yes I will post up on the subject of the Arsenal from time to time.

This post is written the day after the 1-1 draw with Fulham. Disappointing to be fair. It was a bad day at the office for so many of our team. But I guess we are all allowed those every now and then. The excuse/reason for such a bad day it the "burn-out" and "after-effects" of a Champions League game on Wednesday. Yes history shows that teams who play a CL game, more often than not have a bad day on the saturday after, and its hard to argue with the stats. Although why professional footballers can't play two games within 3 days is something of a surprise. But at that level, maybe there is something in it.

However, and this is a becoming a really big issue for me, if tired legs following a CL game was the reason for such a low energy performance, then what's Arshavin's excuse ! Our little Russian is becoming a liability. He does not run, he puts in such little visable effort, he no longer hurts teams, and just appears not to really care anymore. For me the time is up on him, it is time to cash in and replace him. He should have become a serious star for the Arsenal, instead he is fast becoming excess baggage that we simply cannot affort to carry.

At the Arsenal right now we have two or three players that need moving out, okay so some may even name up to five, I know I could, but Arshavin and Chamakh are definately two that really should go. I do think we would get £10m for each and that £20m could be used to buy a really good striker to back up RVP. The other alternative is that we sell Arshavin, bank the cash, and open some space for Alex the Ox, give him a little more space to get some game time. We are no longer a team of kids, so it is actually easier now to play other kids because the support is there around them.