And I’m being serious. As Arsenal fans it is rare that extra money will make an actual difference to our signings in January, if indeed Wenger decides we need them, so therefore for the so-called football club with principles, it is time to make a stand against footballers saying whatever they want, whenever they want while still picking up their £80K cheque each week.
Gallas is a disrespectful, complete moron of a man and simply doesn’t deserve to ever step into the Emirates again. This is not just about the latest ridiculous, morale murdering comments tat he has come out with in the last few days, it is merely the latest in a long line of concerted efforts to put pressure on his team mates, diverting the attention from a captain who has very rarely done the Arsenal shirt proud since his move to the Emirates in that infamous swap deal. The first thing he did was to complain and to criticise and instead of punishing him for his antics, he was given the captaincy following one injury hit and form-less season with Henry leaving the captaincy spot clear for someone else.
You could see that move as an atempt to appease Gallas and maybe channel his anger, but it has done the opposite. Despite an excellent team effort last season overall, the real leaders were Flamini, Fabregas and even Adebayor, Sagna and Clichy, certainly not the Frenchman with the perpetual chip on the shoulder. He criticised Theo, questioned the team’s average age before finally going all out to embarass the club with an unbelievable show of pathetic stropping at Birmingham which would signal the start of Arsenal’s problems in the run-in to May. A toddler would have seen himself on the naughty step for a good while for the same behaviour, yet Gallas was still captain.
He has become an old, senile and grumpy excuse for a man, whose best days were very much behind him and whose relatives are only praying for the day when he leaves them for good. Sure, he has the so called “will to win” and has the odd very good perfomance this season, but has still been some way short of being our best player or indeed leader, yet he felt the need to complain further and really stick the knife in with his latest gripes.
He picked upon Nasri in his autobiography for his lack of respect towards Gallas. Well, maybe Samir believs, as I do, that respect needs to be earned, and that a pathetic, mentally unstable 31 year old who cried over a penalty decision when we were clear at the top of the league deserves very little, if any, respect at all.
Then he turned his attentions to the Arsenal team and had a go at an unnamed 25 year old who also annoyed him recently, before revaling disputes and arguments at the Tottenham game, before moving on to complain about his treatment as captain, that he is blamed for everything and that he is overall just a good egg who is misunderstood. Boohoo.
Well, I for one have had enough. Stripping him of the cpataincy is the bare minimum that should happen. If he feels he is so mistreated then he should just walk out shouldn’t he? He doesn’t need the money, he’ll no doubt get a decent enough deal at another club anyway, so go on, Mr Gallas – LEAVE. It’s just about possible that it’ll be the first time that you actually do us a favour.
