Nasri, Gervinho and others

The news seems to be that Samir is interested in United, OK we all knew that and reports today suggest that United are prepared to table a bid of around £10m. Now that to me seems like a complete piss take. When you consider that Henderson went to Liverpool for £20m and Jones to United for £12m. Nasri is easily better than both of these players so £10m is a low, low offer and people say "Yeah but they're young and English", that may well be the case but it doesn't neccessarily make them good, England haven't won a World Cup in decades (Now I've said this the U21's will probably win the Euros). But if this news is correct then its smart play from United's camp. A bastard for us, but smart from them. They know he's deliberating over what to do and this means that he won't be happy staying so £10m is low but as we're in the current situation we may end up considering it.

However as I said in my last blog, if he doesn't want to stay for the sake of an extra 20k a week then he can fuck off. We don't want players who are motivated by money, we want players who want to win and have the capability to help us. It also appears that Clichy may well be off to Liverpool for around £5m, taking all into account not a bad price and its been on the cards for a while now. Although I've been blowing Gibbs' trumpet all season I'm hoping Wenger will dig into the money pot and buy a solid left back as I do think we need one.

Now the story was broken yesterday by Arseblog that we have engaged in talks with Lille over both Eden Hazard (what a name) and Gervinho. Now of course these aren't defenders but Lille did win both Ligue 1 and the French Cup (I know right!) so they would both be welcome players. But they are two of Lille's instrumental players so whether they'll be willing to let them go for the price we offer is a totally different question.

Reports today also suggest we are interested in the young lad Oxlade-Chamberlain. Now don't get me wrong the 17 year old is a good player and certainly has a bright future but is he really what we need at this precise moment. Not really however this being said he does sound like a typical Arsenal signing, young and with plenty of potential. Should we sign him then I would imagine Wenger will keep him locked away giving him plenty of reserve team play time or even loan him out which I suppose would be a good thing. All game time is good game time and all that.

I'll finish today with an interview I saw on Sky Sports News with Djorou. Now as regular readers know I've been his biggest critic this season by a long way but he said that we need to strengthen the defence and that he is prepared to fight for his place. Now he may have caused us some problems and cost us some goals but its nice to see someone who actually has a desire to better himself as a footballer and not a desire to piss of for an extra £20k a week. No prizes for guessing who that was directed at. If anything big happens I'll be sure to post but until next time, enjoy this fine weather!