Set the standards, Gallas out. The AGM, and more

In today's blog i will be covering a lot;

• The AGM
• Gallas and the fag
• Beckham training at Colney
• Blaise Matuidi
• And of course a preview of Sunday's London Derby.

The AGM took place on Thursday, (good summary here) and Arsene Wenger made a hell of a lot of points. By now you are probably up to date with what he said but i will go over the important points.

Peter Hill-Wood on squad investment.
Arsene on how to get the fans going.
Video technology is on Arsene's wanted list.
Hunt for the MD

Find all the articles here

Overall it was a positive AGM, Arsene spoke out for the first time about the fans and i feel that part of the lack of confidence is because we don't support them as much as we probably should, I'm not hitting out at the fans i just feel we could be a little more vocal when things are not going our way.

I don't go to many games so who am i to talk about it after all.

Now, the Gallas picture;

It took me a hell of a long time to find that!

Wenger has spoken here and here about it.

Now a captain is someone you look up to, the face of the club in many respects. He is the role model, the father figure.

Look at the picture, is he those things?

Is he heck!!

I call for him to be stripped of the captaincy and dropped, his attitude is a disgrace and I'm ashamed to see an Arsenal player like that, this is a club of class, our players do not stumble out of nightclubs in the early hours with fags in their mouths. I used to support Gallas 100% but now i think he just has to go, he must have lost all of his respect from his fellow players. Come on Arsene, it is a very bad example to our youngsters and it has embarrassed the club. Strip him of the captaincy.

Ive got a few comments of Arsene on the incident here;

“He has a responsibility as captain of Arsenal Football Club and [smoking] cannot be accepted.”

“It is a public job with a public responsibility,” he said. “That is exactly the same for everybody."

He then said this in my previously linked article earlier. Maybe trying to deflect some criticism off him.

Ive made my views clear, i will not comment on them any more unless absolutely necessary. I just hope he wasn't drinking and driving but I'm not going to make assumptions.

Update: This article seems to say its the early hours of the '25th October' and as that day is yet to occur, i am a bit sceptical of the purpose of this picture and whether it is designed to make mischief.

Last year when the MLS season finished in America David Beckham trained with the first team to improve his fitness in hope of England suggestion. This season the tabloids have been doing their usual crap churning duties and Arsene Wenger has said he will help Beckham but he won't take him on loan;

“I wasn't in touch with him at all and I'll certainly not [sign him] as a player for the Club,” Wenger said at Friday’s press conference. “Certainly not.”

“If he wants to be fit and practice, why not? But we have Theo Walcott who plays in this position and Emmanuel Eboue who plays in this position so we are not looking for a right midfielder.”

I don't see why we don't sign him just to have his leadership in the team, the time he would with with us would be important in the season, and with our seemingly lack of leadership, he could have been there to offer his advice and experience.

We have been linked to a January move for French midfielder Blaise Matuidi. I don't think we will sign him, i think there are probably better players out there with more to offer. Saying that, i have never seen him play. We have enough young midfielders and i think it is total and utter cal.

Our dearest Eduardo will be 'back in three weeks' according to Arsene at the AGM. It is truly fantastic news and i will be digging out the best comeback situations for him from months ago now.

Preview: West Ham v Arsenal

This will be a tough game but West Ham are another team struggling for consistently and they will not think twice about sticking balls into (no, not like that), the box for their strikers to get their head onto. Therefore, i think they will score at least one.

I think that we might go for the 5 man midfield again, it would be a good decision, carrying on the momentum from the midweek win and a win is vital to get 6 points from this weeks London derby's as we do play the Sp*ds on Wednesday, a truly stupid day for a derby.

I predict a 1-3 win. I just feel we will have too much in attack but i will be glad of a win, however it comes.

Right, that took a while.

Back soon guys.