Arsenal winger backs down after slating manager and team-mate
by stresster on July 9th, 2008
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Goodness me. A player gets plucked from obscurity, has a decent season in the Premier League and turns into the footballing equivalent of Whitney Houston in the process. The Independent reports that Alexander Hleb is busy trying to retract recent comments made about the Arsenal manager and Cesc Fabregas, especially as he may yet be teaming up with them when the season starts!
To say that Hleb has handled the situation badly since the season ended would be a massive understatement. He and Emmanuel Adebayor seem to be having a competition to see who can make the biggest ass of themselves before securing a transfer away from the Emirates. Anybody would think that Arsene Wenger has left them rotting in the reserves all campaign, rather than giving them a chance to shine in front of a global audience.
“I am very grateful to Arsène Wenger,” he said. “He is the best coach of my career. And not just a coach. He is a very good man and intuitive psychologist. I very much appreciate his support. I talked to him twice before the end of the season [about my future]. It is also not that easy for me to leave this club, because it has become my home. I think he is upset, though it is better to ask him, maybe he is glad.
“In life, everything changes,” Hleb added. “I believe that there are 10 top clubs in world football and when a couple of clubs are interested in you and offer better terms, I believe that others would have done exactly the same. But Arsenal is dear to me, I am grateful to Wenger for everything he has done for me. As an Arsenal player, I can say that there is no better club in the English Premiership.”
The 27-year-old also sought to clarify his relationship with Fabregas, insisting the pair get on well. “Cesc and I understand each other very well on the field,” he said. “And it is very, very pleasurable for me to play with him. He’s a very pleasant guy both in life and as a footballer. He is just more egoistic in goalscoring opportunities, if he had a chance to score, he always used it, unlike me.”
Somebody has been having a word in Hleb’s ear, especially as he accused his Spanish team-mate of not passing him the ball enough recently! Is Arsene Wenger fighting a losing battle buy virtue of the fact that he gives unknown players a shot with Arsenal, only for them to leave straight away? Perhaps he’s doing his job too well!
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Tagged Under: alexander hleb, Arsenal FC, arsene wenger, Cecs Fabregas
Mike - July 9th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Retract?
He didn’t make the claimed comments in the first place, why would he have to retract them?
Poor, lazy journalism. The “media” has lost a huge amount of credibility with this particular round of dishonesty. The readers out there are wising up to these so-called “journalists”.
Hleb&Flamini - July 9th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
goodness, i sometimes find that we as arsenal fans, many of us are easily deceived. I mean, to be honest, don’t you know the media does that so that readers get to read what they want to read. They pick someone who maybe has a little reasons to be unsettle in the club, then try to make people think that he’ll leave. Especially it’s during a transfer window.
Most important is, there’s always a question to every answer. He’s simply replying in good deed about his manager and his friend, cesc.
I pity footballers and stars most of the time, every sentence or word they say, these journalist would just “copy and paste” the ones that they want to a new sheet and make as if it’s what they meant.
Big D - July 9th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Hleb Fuck off your useless, Adebayor fuck off to Barcelona and show how shit you really are without cesc setting up half your goals, Getting really sick and tired of the moaning of these shitheads, RVP Walcott Vela Eduardo Bedtner need I say more
TP - July 9th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Is Arsenal not one of the Top 10 clubs in the world?
David Villa - July 9th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
No TP, Arsenal aren’t
C.Dan - July 9th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Arsenal isn’t really in the class of Real Madrid, MU, Barca, Ac Milan, Bayern, Liverpool, Juventus
That’s why flamini left for bigger club Milan, even there’s no CL football. Maybe it’s due to our ambitions… we’re not as ambitious as we were back 5 years ago or more.
People now just settle for a 3rd-4th place, or a close challenge of title. When henry, vieira left, they all said we coped with it, and we are now better… I wonder if we really are, having to know the fact that the best years were when we had these players… Overmarcs, Pires, Bergkamp, Henry, Vieira, Ljungberg….