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Morning.
After all the fuss, I guess this a proper ‘Welcome to the Interlull’ morning. Now I have a Bo Burnham earworm in my head, so I think you’re going to have it too (v NSFW!). Over on Arseblog News, Andrew put together a list of who is doing what during the break – the players who are away, the ones who are staying at the training ground.
One man who will be around is Raheem Sterling, rekindling his relationship with Mikel Arteta after their time at Man City together, and I’m really curious about what we’re going to get from him. There’s no question he had a fantastic career for club and country, and while at City he won plenty of trophies while a key part of Pep Guardiola’s team. Look at the stats: 339 games, 131 goals, 73 assists. That is very significant number of goal contributions.
Obviously things didn’t go as well as he might have wanted at Chelsea, but I don’t think it’s possible to look at players at that club and really judge them properly because of how unstable the environment has been since Abramovich was sanctioned out its ownership, before being taken over by Todd and Chad and Chud and Chet and all the lads at that hedge fund who bought a trillion players with borrowed money, and will have to pay the piper at some point. I don’t think their hiring of managers has been great either, but in some mitigation to those individuals, turning up to work every day and having to learn the name of another three random lads must make life difficult.
The fun part though is that Chelsea continue to pay the majority of Sterling’s £325,000 a week wages, and with a contract until 2027, this is a situation they’re going to have to deal with again next summer. It seems pretty clear that he didn’t much care for what was going on there, and in his first interview as an Arsenal player, he said:
I spoke with Edu and you can see the real togetherness from Mikel’s time here, you can see the journey that the boys are on, and you can see…
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Publish date : 2024-09-04 07:03:18
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