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Le Boss has said the right things about our tie against FC Twente:


"It's a football country, the clubs are always well organised and we will be favourites. It will be important for us to be at the top of our concentration to go through. We play the first game away. We know we are a wanted target and we want to go to the first game with a top level concentration."


And it's hard to disagree. I can't see us slipping up so long as we take the game seriously enough. That shouldn't be a problem. We've got a team of eager young 'uns eager to prove themselves - unlike the bunch of malaised laggards currently over at Everton. What's rather uncomfortable is that we will have to fly off to Holland in midweek before jetting back for our opening game against WBA. Good thing it's not in like Ukraine or Russia or Turkey, so I shouldn't really complain. Since everyone's nice and fit, and the depth of the team looks good (save for one more signing), we should get by quite nicely. First real look, though, will be tonight against Juve. That should be yummy. Hopefully, we'll have good long looks at the likes of Nasri, Ramsey, Bendtner, and who knows, Jack Wilshere?


Speaking of Twente and their manager loser McLaren, the Independent has a pretty funny, but ultimately honest piece on the coming game. They're spot on that for a long time, McLaren has nothing to lose. So good luck to him. Maybe they'll come out all guns blazing at home - only to get shot down on a series of counters.


Other news is of course that Ade has signed a new deal, worth something like £70,000 a week, and up to 2012. He's doubled his salary, and I think the whole pathetic episode with Barca and Milan must've woken him up to the reality of life. He wasn't going to make £120,000 a week with anyone. Let's see what happens this season. If he plays just as well, and Barca and Milan are still interested, then we can still sell him off for a killing. In signing the new deal, the dude has of course said all the right things, including this:


“When we started talking about my contract I never told him [manager Arsene Wenger] I’d be leaving this club and he knew my desire. My desire was to stay at this club so for me he’s like my father. He’s my boss so whatever he tells me I’ll do it. Our relationship at the moment is strong.”


Sounds like the twilight zone to me. So maybe we'll just put down the summer shenannigans to inter-galactic forces at work that sorta just put the entire concept of reality out of whack.

Okay then, it's two weeks to go. One to the Charity Shield, which really I wouldn't give a shite about except to hopefully see Chelski lose on penalties again. And in less than two weeks, I'll be back to the yummy routine of getting up at 3am for a Champions League game. ha!