2. Arsenal in for Tiote
Number two. And ‘number two’ is an appropriate way to begin this one, because it is a story about Arsenal wanting to sign Cheick Tioté. I am hoping that this is purely speculative paper talk, as he really is a pile of shi… number two. The lad seemingly can’t go a game without picking up a booking and his technical ability is capped at the mid-table level. In short, he is a liability and he isn’t good enough. No matter how sceptical I am about the Sami Khedira or William Carvalho deals being done, if we are going to sign a defensive midfielder, we should do it properly. We have the money to sign the best possible players available to us now, so why settle for Tioté? And, just to finish, it wasn’t long ago that we got rid of Gervinho. Do we really want to introduce another big forehead so soon?