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| Tottenham new-boy would have preferred Arsenal |
by Rupe
on 24/8/04 at 14:13
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Tottenham's new signing Michael Carrick has been expressing heavily-veiled disappointment that he ended up at White Hart Lane instead of Highbury. "If you get the chance to go to Arsenal, you go. But that deal fell through...". He went on to say, "...Tottenham came in and this has been an ideal move for me". One can't help but feel that he means "ideal move" in the sense that it was the best move still on offer (but he's wrong in that too because Harry Redknapp made it clear that he wanted Carrick at Portsmouth).
One has to feel for Carrick. He clearly felt that the Arsenal deal was on the cards. Some people have expressed the notion that Arsenal pulled out because they sensed, or knew, that Patrick Vieira was going to be staying after all. I have to admit that that was my feeling when the Carrick move was allegedly aborted: "aha! Paddy's staying".
But having seen the strength of the Arsenal midfield in the first 2 games, without the presence of either Vieira or Edu (our strongest central midfielders last season, by some distance), I suspect now that it was more a question of Le Boss having seen in training the quality of the new players such as Cesc and Flamini, and realising that even if Vieira left then the Arsenal squad would be looking pretty bloody healthy in midfield. Would Carrick have got into this team?
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