Cole not worth £1 according to Mourinho.

Captain
By Boris Mellor
August 10 2006

Mourinho claims that Chelsea aren’t prepared to pay an extra £1 for Cole, they have made their offer and that is it. Now Chelsea have been prepared to pay all kinds of exorbitant fees for coffin dodgers over the last 3 years. What will Sheva be worth in 3 years time? But they want Cole on the cheap.

After all they have helped in unsettling him, and now they want to destabilise Arsenal by giving them as little as possible in return. But think on Ashley, they think so much of you that a year ago they denied having met you. Jose said you were too short for Chavski. They threw you to the "sharks" – now they are squabbling over money rather than release you from your Arsenal Hell. You don’t mean that much to them. Disagree with Mourinho and he will have the shirt off your back.

Henry please stop bleating

According to the Sun, and Henry writes for them, Thierry believes it will be a major setback if Cole leaves. Will it? We got to CL final without him, and then he forgot about the offside trap and left Lehmann in the shit. Yes he was a great back, but his mind is not on Arsenal, its not Wenger’s fault he wants to leave, there just aren’t enough Chavs at Arsenal. There just aren’t enough people to go out night clubbing with since Pennant left. But hey there’s a great scene going on down at Chelsea.

Wenger has done everything he can to get him to stay, to try any harder would be self defeating, besides how will the team react to having a "mate" booed throughout the game?

Henry you have to think of team morale. Yes it’s bad news if he goes to Chelsea, I hope he goes to Madrid, but we have lots of options, Clichy is just as good, Traore is amazing – give him a few months. Flamini and Hoyte can provide good cover.

Cole hardly played for us last season, it did affect us a bit, more in attack than defence. But we broke the record for not conceding a goal in Europe, and by the end of the season the defence was as solid as ever.

I am sick of Arsenal being used by England Players

Both Sol and Cashley only showed any real enthusiasm for the cause with the approach of the World Cup. They were both keen to play in CL final, and Wenger indulged them. But before then we had all kinds of antics from them as to why they couldn’t play. They both forgot whatever differences they had with the club in the stampede for a CL place. It took the return of them both to see us concede the first goal in months in Europe. Unfair, perhaps – bitter – yes, but if they are so bloody good why did Arsenal concede two?

Cole you could have been an Arsenal Captain, or so some say (isn’t intelligence and judgement needed for that?), but you blew it for that Russian Gold. Do us a favour, go quickly, and Henry get over it.