There Is Only One Sinnacle

It’s about damn time that this Cesc Fabregas transfer sags is over as the former Arsenal player moves on to Barcelona for a transfer fee up to 39 million. Now I’m going to contiune doing what I do oh so often and that is rip Arsenal for the way they handled this. Barcelona basically knocked the front door down, ate all the food, took all the china and left the place a mess for Arsenal to clear up.

I still can’t understand how Wenger with a straight face only a couple of days ago could flat out lie and say he expects no players to leave. It’s a damn shame Arsenal don’t have an owner who has any vision for this club cause Wenger should be answering a lot of tough questions right now. This is Arsenal right now, they can’t sign World Class players because they are “too expensive” and even when they produce a so called world class player he is going to want to leave for bigger and better things like Cesc did.

Arsenal could of played this so much better, they should of sold Cesc the second the season ended and spun it as they sold a player for 40 million that they pretty much stole eight years ago. Then right after spend that 40 million of players to give Arsenal fans hope going into the season. Now Arsenal fans have little hope cause even they know Wenger doesn’t get it anymore. It was beyond foolish that Arsenal let this drag onto the season which showed in their performance against Newcastle on the weekend.

Now with Cesc playing for Barcelona are they going to play a 2-7-1, I’m sure they will make it work but boy do they have a ton of midfielders. I do hope Barcelona falls and that the fans turn on Cesc. It would be karma for leaving a club where the fans blindly always sided with him even when it was clear his heart wasn’t into being Arsenal’s leader anymore.

Sure it’s pre season but I loved this scoreline. I also love this clip because it didn’t show the Barcelona goal. Puyol is already banged up, maybe once Cesc signs for them they can play one at the back in Pique 10 midfielders and 1 forward.

The first thing which came acorss my mind when I heard about Barcelona signing Alexis Sanchez for 22 million with another 10 million down the road is Ibrahim Afellay. Afellay must be thinking hey I’m every bit as good as Alexis Sanchez but you know Sanchez is going to get every shot of making the starting 11 where as Afellay who signed for next to nothing will be the 3rd guy off the bench since Barcelona need to justify the price they have paid for Sanchez.

No denying the talent but it will be interesting to see how quickly Sanchez makes the jump from the expectations placed upon him at Udinese to the non stop you have to be at your best at all times pressure he will face playing for Barcelona. With the moves Barcelona, Real Madrid and Barcelona have made this year it’s easy to say the rich get richer.

Remember last year when Onyewu was going to give up his final year of his contract with A.C Milan and play for free cause he was hurt the previous season? I didn’t think that was going to be needed and luckily for Onyewu he is right since Sporting Clube de Portugal have signed the American international.

Thanks to the power of twitter Onyewu wrote “So thrilled and excited to have just signed to Sporting Lisbon (SCP)! Great things to come. Thank you all for ur support and prayers. Bless!” I’m thrilled to have him playing in Portugal. Hopefully his knee problems are behind him because he’ll now be playing for a club who will have plans for him unlike his stay in Milan.

Hopefully I’ll get to see him when Sporting takes on Juve in Toronto this summer.

Rafa Benitez soon found out you can’t replace Jose Mourinho but former Genoa coach Gian Piero Gasperini should have no trouble replacing Leonardo as head coach of Inter even if he was the 6th choice for the role.

Gasperini was well liked and more importantly well respect by his Genoa players during his 4 years there and to his credit he left the club in better shape then when he took over. Is this appointment a home run for Inter? Well, no but there are some pluses. Gasperini knows how to get the most of Diego Milito plus with all that attacking talent Inter have you know he isn’t going to try and counter attack. I think most of the Inter players are going to enjoy playing for Gasperini and that is half the battle right there. Now the only question is will he be able to not only create a tactic to score goals but to also keep the back from out of the back of Inter’s net as well.

Much like when Liverpool signed Andy Carroll I like Jordan Henderson the player, I don’t like the price tag they paid for him but I understand that is the price of doing business in the EPL.

On the flip side for some reason I do like Manchester United signing Phil Jones but the reality is Jordan Henderson will have more of a chance to breakthrough into the first team with Liverpool than Jones will at Manchester United.

Take away the 20 million pound fee and Henderson is the right type of player Liverpool should be going for. He is young, English, perfect for the EPL game, a lot of upside and a great box to box complement to go along with the likes of Lucas and Raul Meireles.

As for Sunderland being fans being mad they sold Jordan Henderson, Sunderland chiarman Niall Quinn should remind fans they are in the business of football. If Ronaldo has a price then surely Jordan Henderson does as well. 20 million quite simply is good business. More English teams should honest with themselves and admit every player has a price instead of fighting a losing battle. Where English clubs like Sunderland have failed is how they revest the money. If Sunderland were smart they would of already scouted replacements for Henderson six months ago and are now perpared to throw around some cash to sign 3-4 players to boost their squad.

The good news Helder Postiga scored (what a cross by Nani) the bad news Helder Postiga is our best striker.

What Rui Costa retiring for me must be the same as Paul Scholes retiring for many Manchester United fans as a era is slowly coming to a close. As for me personally while I respected Scholes game and have even more respect for what the likes of Xavi and Zidane have said about him I never throught he should of been mentioned with the likes of those players. A great player yes, a superstar who won games on his own no.

Sorry this was late as I was sick. Some would say maybe I’m sick of Barcelona winning which is true but congrats to Barcelona who are the best team in Europe after running circles around Manchester United who very much looked like the opening act compared to Barcelona headlining the show.

I can’t blame Sir Alex Ferguson for going toe to toe with Barcelona but much like 2009 the likes of Extramarital Giggs and Michael Carrick couldn’t slow down Xavi, Iniesta and Messi. In other words bring on those Luka Modric rumours. One thing I did like is Barcelona letting Eric Abidal lift the Champions League trophy. Wasn’t a big fan of the violence which oocured on the streets of Barcelona. Stay classy Barcelona but congrats on winning your 4th European title.

This entire Ryan Giggs story makes me laugh. It also makes me wonder if Ryan Giggs still thinks it’s 1991 has clearly he has never felt the power of the internet.

I couldn’t care less if he had an affair with a fame whore. I do think he is a moron for not thinking people would find out about it. What makes me shake my head at how backwards Ryan Giggs is to the modern world is the fact he sought out this “super injunction” thinking just because it stopped the British press from reporting that no other outside media outlet was going too either. Of course a Spanish newspaper killed that pipe dream a couple of weeks ago and basically confirmed the rumour that it was indeed Ryan Giggs who had this affair. Don’t get me started on privacy issues because one of the trades off you make for being a millionaire football player is the fact if you have an affair people are going to want to know about it. You know his wife must be pissed when Giggs is going to this length to kill the story.

It just kills me that he is going after twitter for this. Like British MP John Hemming said “it would not be practical to imprison the 75,000 Twitter users who had named the player.” Giggs is acting like an old relic who clearly is not in touch with modern communcations. It also kills me that a lawyer (I guess nothing Lawyers do should shock me) went along with this thinking hey let’s go after twitter cause the world revolves around some silly British “super injuction.”