Morning.
Bit of a later blog than normal today. Blame it on a couple too many beers last night.
It is not like you I missed much though by being a bit later than normal. There really isn’t much happening in Arsenal-world right now.
Our incoming transfer business is done. I do not expect us to sign anyone else unless someone big leaves. And as it stands Thomas Partey is going nowhere.
As for outgoings, everything is very quiet.
We have over £100m in players that are likely to leave this summer, but so far the only players we’ve sold is Granit Xhaka and Pablo Mari. What is strange is that our players are not even being linked elsewhere.
Yesterday Arsene Wenger had his statue unveiled.
Regardless of how it ended, Wenger is an Arsenal legend deserving is his statue.
7 FA Cups, 3 Premier League titles and an unbeaten season. He is a huge reason we are what we are now.
If it was not for Wenger, we could have easily become an Everton level club in the late 90s/early 00s and fallen further behind.
Whenever a new statue is unveiled, it always comes with some fans saying “XYZ player should have a statue”. It is usually George Graham or Rocky and Wrighty.
I agree they should have statues (although Graham did manage that lot). And just because they do not have one now, does not mean they will not get one in the future.
Recently I went to Oslo and they have the world’s largest sculpture park made by a single artist. I walked over an hour from my hotel in Central Oslo to visit it. Around 2 million visit it a year.
I can definitely see a time when we have 15-20 statues around the stadium celebrating legends and key figures in our club. It will then become an “attraction” with fans coming from all over to take a walk around the “Arsenal statue park”.
World’s largest football statue park has some ring to it.
Enjoy your Saturday. Watch cricket and relax. that’s the plan.
Keenos
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon 
The way things are going, there will be so many statues that it will make it difficult to get into the ground. 🙂
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