junialum said:That is exactly what pisses me. Cole has a possiblity of becoming the next Anelka.
I got the same impression from Wenger's words. His talk said one thing but his look said the otherwise. The problem is that Ashley keeps stabbing the club's back, not to mention his notoriously tenacious agent. Ashley cound have just stopped pursuing appeals AND signed a new long-term contract. Yet he chose to do the opposites in these two aspects. What does he expect? Arsenal to apologise?LuKaZaN said:From watching Wenger's interview after Barnet it does seem he thinks Ashley Cole is off.
Cruisio said:No team ever became successful because of a world class left back. We defended better and reached the Champions League Final without Ashley "the c*nt" Cole. Nuff said. Sell him for £16m and that's brilliant business
When footballers declare their undying love for one club shortly before leaving it to earn more money at another, the Fiver is always gobsmacked. Not by the predictable actions of the self-serving mercenaries in question, but by the extraordinary reactions of gullible fans who continue to labour under the delusion that footballers care about (a) them, (b) their club, and (c) anything other than money.
So when a statement from Anfield revealed that $teven Gerrard had refused his club's "offer of an improved and extended contract because he wants to leave Liverpool" we weren't a bit surprised. After all, here was a man who'd wondered "how can I leave after that?" in the wake of his team's Big Cup triumph just six weeks ago.
What did knock us for six were the missives sent by gullible Liverpool fans to Fiver Towers in which they expressed their total surprise that their captain would abandon them in order to fill his boots at Chelsea or Real Madrid. "I really thought $tevie was different," wailed one hapless buffoon in an email, prompting paroxysms of mirth throughout the office.