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Em Wed, 08 Jun 2005 14:32:08 GMT, Nick Marstin
<nickmarstin@blueyonder.co.uk> escreveu:
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> "PivotalG" <pivotalgubbins@nospamsent.com> wrote in message
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>> Dan, how do you see Cole's role in all of this? I, like you, think
>> Chelsea are beyond stupid by pinning the blame on Arsenal. However,
>> Cole is acting all innocent but, surely, he is far from it? He has
>> deflected the blame as much on Arsenal as Chelsea have. Just wondered
>> what your view of Cole was, as an Arsenal fan, because it is becoming
>> quite hard to make sense of it all from the outside.
>>
> Personally I think that Cole probably did know about the meeting
> (whether he
> instigated it or not is another matter) purely and simply as a bargaining
> tool to use against Arsenal when negotiating his new contract. The
> problem
> for him is that its backfired as the board are now aware of this and are
> unwilling to allow this to be used against them. He is arguably the best
> left back in the world at the moment (Zambrotta and, for those people
> still
> living in a world 5 years ago, Roberto Carlos, the only players
> comparable
> to him) so it could be argued that by allowing him to leave the Arsenal
> board are being stubborn. Cole's now left in a situation where he wants
> to
> save face so could well leave for one of the Italian or Spanish clubs,
> but
> it certainly won't be to another premiership club. He's a silly boy who
> let
> the idea of milking more money out of the board ruin his chances of
> remaining at Arsenal, the club that I believe he generally does love. In
> short he's been greedy and, due to hiring an incompotent, greedier agent,
> he's got himself stuck between a rock and a hard place as it were.
>
>
just to say that I agree Roberto is cooling out (unhappily)
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Eduardo Liguori
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Chelsea Football Club
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