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Morning all from a very cold Dublin.
It’s currently -2 with a real feel of -7, which is right down there for this part of the world. My daughter, who moved to Canada in September and has experienced temperatures of -40 in the last week would probably laugh if she read this, but a) she won’t, and b) that’s her own fault for moving to Canada. That’s like setting up camp on the sun and complaining it’s too hot.
Remarkably, we have a bit of transfer news for you this morning. It’s not the good kind where someone comes in, but it’s the other good kind where someone leaves. Cedric Soares has been linked with a couple of Turkish clubs, Besiktas and Trabzonspor. Now, ordinarily you would take these stories, which have come first from the Turkish press, with a pinch of salt.
I would have to look this up properly, but I would say that down the years the hit-rate on transfer rumours involving Arsenal players and Turkish clubs, and Turkish players linked with Arsenal, have a hit rate of about 0.00000001%. And that’s being a bit generous. It is often – in football career terms only – the last refuge of the damned, and more often than not the damned never get there in the end. Nevertheless, Sami Mokbel (someone very much on the Arsenal beat) has reported that ‘talks are ongoing‘.
To be fair though, that is a little bit vague. Cedric is into the final 6 months of his contract, and it might be a case that his agent (our old friend Kia Joorbachian) is negotiating with clubs about a free transfer in the summer. Those are talks. The kind of talks we might want to hear about are the two clubs working out a deal for him to leave in January. Besiktas have just appointed former Portugal boss Fernando Santos as their new manager, and Cedric won most of his 34 international caps under him. So, that adds a little weight to the story.
Some might ask ‘Can we afford to let an experienced player go when we are a bit light defensively?’, and it’s a good question,…
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Publish date : 2024-01-17 07:42:51
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