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Arsenal rumours of rumours being quashed

Suburban Gooners Logo Suburban Gooners Logo What’s good about the world we live in these days when it comes to football rumours, is that even the rumours of rumours get reported on. Like last night, where a chap on ‘The other platform’ called ‘HandOfArsenal’ took to the platform to tell us all that there would be an article coming out in Marca talking about Real Madrid taking late steps to destabilise the Zubimendi to Arsenal deal, apparently with an Alonso “call that changed everything”.

I’ve already talked about the fact that Madrid have a few guys in the position that Zubimendi plays already as a potential reason as to why this might not materialise, but there are plenty of other things we can all point to that make this story today merely a click-bait exercise from Marca to stir up a story where there potentially isn’t one.

The player himself has apparently already given his word, the two clubs (Arsenal and Real Sociedad) have been talking for ages, La Real would probably ideally not like to see Zubimendi in their domestic league, plus we have to take anything that Marca say with a pinch of salt.

What I’ve enjoyed about this morning is that Arsenal clearly have their own countermeasures they are willing to deploy, in the shape of a certain Mr Ornstein, who already this morning has released a message basically saying that Real Madrid’s interest was never fully confirmed and concrete, that Arsenal are expecting him to report to training when the team gets back together. Hey, Ornstein doesn’t speak unless he’s triple-checked his workings, but when you couple that with the fact that a few other people qwho seem to be reasonably well-informed have also given us all a pre-emptive strike based on the Marca story last night, I think we can all be pretty chilled on the situation at the moment.

It doesn’t mean something random couldn’t happen, it doesn’t mean that Madrid don’t do a dirty on us, but from all of the noise that surrounds this, it feels like this is one of those “one in a million” situations, so we just need to chill. That doesn’t mean that everyone will and there will be people losing their sh*t today with this news, but I’ve listened to the odd football podcast recently and the noises about how the club are very happy with how the summer is panning out is comforting for me personally. We all know City and Chelsea are making their moves, Liverpool are edging along too, but with Ornstein also saying that this week is expected to be busy for The Arsenal in terms of potential incomings, I think we can be perfectly happy with how things are unfolding.

If by 1st July we haven’t made a single deal, then I think there’s some cause for consternation, but not at this early stage in the window.

In the meantime, we still have these tedious international matches to worry about, of which England are playing tonight and Saka is due to start. Just let the boy stay fit and go on his holidays please, Tommy T. None of us really want to see him break down at any stage. Let’s have all of our lads given a clean bill of health and then over the next week let’s seem them on yachts and beaches across the globe as they rest themselves up for what is going to be a huge season for The Arsenal.

And if you think about it, it WILL be massive, because the weight of expectation now on the shoulders of those Arsenal players are big. I was having a drink with a work mate who is Leeds fan the other day. I was recounting to him the gloriousness of that first season we finished runner sup to City. Every time we conceded at home there was a sense of “come on lads, we believe in you” and the atmosphere at The Emirates was amazing. The second season we had that run at the end of the season which really hit home just how good we were and whilst the atmosphere wasn’t quite as good as the season before, it was still buoyant. Last season it was less so too, probably because we were out of a title race early on and it felt like the world (and especially PGMOL) were against us. Last season felt like it was our season but the fates had decided against that for whatever reason. So for me, in my head, I’m already looking at this season coming up and thinking “surely, it’s ours this time around, right?

I knowit doesn’t work like that. We all do. We could have another injury-hit season again. We are pretty much nailed on to get shafted on refereeing decisions because we’re not a North West-based club. But I am starting to get a feeling in my belly that we are ‘destined’ for some kind of success next season and that is a dangerous way to think. But I can’t help it. We’ve had the best defence two-years running. City are still in a rebuild. Liverpool surely can’t have as much fortune as they had this season, so surely the football gods need to align to send us towards the trophy-laiden promised land, right?

Wrong. You have to get everything right and that includes doing the required things in the summer that puts your team in the perfect position to be that best side. The players we have are all now coming into prime age, whereas a few season’s back we were still a little on the young side. But they have to get it over the line. Nothing comes to you just by you wishing it into being, you have to go out and prove it. With others around us strengthening right now it feels a little like we’re standing still, but I have faith that we’re going to start to see some movement in the next week or so and when that happens, I suspect there will be plenty of Arsenal fans that will breathe a sigh of relief and look towards getting a good pre season under our belts.

But for now, as I’ve said before, let’s stay ‘calma’.

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Gooner born in 1982 from Harlow, Essex, now living in Uxbridge. I say what I see - frequently wrong, but hey, it's just an opinion piece, right? Leave a comment and let me know what you think.