Arsenal gaffer Arsène Wenger went absolutely postal this weekend when his well-trained young charges went off the rails and got beaten 2-1 by Premier League scamps Hull City…

So offensive was his team’s display that it upset his footballing stomach. Super-chef Gordon Ramsay

is known to let food drop out of his mouth, so sensitive are his tastebuds, and Wenger probably has similarly sensitive tastes in football. The Times claims that:

“Arsène Wenger has vowed to make wholesale changes to his side for tomorrow’s Champions League tie against Porto after condemning a performance that he claims left him feeling physically sick. The Arsenal manager was as angry as he has been in 12 years at the club after Saturday’s shock 2-1 home defeat by Hull City and took the highly uncommon
step of publicly criticising his players.” (Times)

After succumbing to such a rotten defeat, Wenger is surely determined to show his steely side to his players. A team packed with so much youthful talent always runs the risk of appearing rudderless at times, and Arsenal definitely need to bounce back against Porto.

Spurs aren’t very good at the mom

ent. In fact, they’re
the worst team in the Premier League, having failed to beat any of their six opponents in the league to date. True enough, the departures of Robbie Keane and Dimitar Berbatov upset the applecar

t at White Hart Lane in the summer, although

the current performances are no better than those under Martin Jol twelve months ago.

Everything had seemed rosy for Tottenham last February, when Juande Ramos led the club to success in the Carling Cup. Despite a poor finish in the league after this triumph, it was generally think about
ed that Spurs were moving in the right direction, with the Spaniard making improvements to the defence which might see them challenge the ‘Big Four’ this season. Instead, the Daily Mirror reports that ‘Magic Juande’ is wary of now losing his job.

He said

: “That is something that doesn’t depend on me. We have a board and a chairman who decide that sort of thing.

“It’s true that we’re
in a complicated situation right now. And when you play badly nobody seems to help you. Everyone is quite upset about it.”

Former White Hart Lane boss Martin Jol won twice as many points at the same stage last season, but was sacked in October.

Travelling fans chanted: “You don’t know what you’re doing’’ when Ramos replaced £12.5million striker Roman Pavlyuchenko, but the boss is unconcerned.

“That doesn’t hurt – what hurts is losing matches,” he blasted.

Indeed, it was baffling to see Pavlyuchenko substituted for Bent when his team were chasing the game, and it’s now a question of confidence for the Spurs team, who don’t seem to be playing with the spirit of a Hull City, who are incidentally their next opponents. Spurs fans, do you think Ramos should be given more time to turn things round?

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This Dane is peeved about missing out on all the fun this season, having been relegated from first-team start

er to Carling Cup duty!

Daniel Agger will snub contract talk

s with Liverpool until boss Rafa Benitez confirms his role at Anfield.
The Dane, 23, isn’t
happy at being a back-up central defender and may look for a January move.

Jamie Carragher and Martin Skrtel have established themselves as Rafa’s preferred pairing.

Agger lost his place through injury last season and has played just twice so far in this campaign. (Lancashire Evening Post)

I guess there’s

not much Rafa can do, his current pairing is doing just fine so until injury strikes or either has a patch of poor form, then Agger is destined to be bench-bound. In many ways, I guess you can comprehend
the frustration that the centre-back feels. After all, he looked pretty solid before injury struck and I guess in some ways, it’s good to see a player showing some emotion. After all, it would be very odd if he expressed satisfaction at having to sit out the season. Do Liverpool fans think that Daniel will come good and fight his way back into the team?

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Reports from many sources are suggesting that Juande Ramos is hopeful of securing the signature of a Brazilian whom he used to manage.

23-year-old Adriano has been at the Rojiblancos since 2004 and has made 74 appearances during his time at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan, with the versatile left-sided Brazilian reportedly topping Ramos’ list of targets in January to strengthen his options on the left at White Hart Lane.
Adriano is inside the final two years of his current deal with Sevilla, with Spurs hoping that he does not put pen to paper on a new contract until they can make a move to bring him to the Premier League. When the transfer window reopens in January. (premiershiplatest.com)

This left-sided player is also attracting consistent attention from Jose Mourinho’s Inter side, but the fact that he was brought to Europe by Ramos may give him the edge on a signing that could be a decent one. Not to be confused with the ‘other’ Adriano who of course already plays at the San Siro, this diminutive player has a lot of flair and is adept with both feet, not to mention very good going forward. However, the question would have to be, why would Spurs need another wide man as they appear to have a great many as it is?! Do Tottenham fans think the club should think about
such a signing?

Argentine wonderkid Sergio Aguero is on the wish list of massive

spenders Manchester City, according to reports that emerged last week. But it seems that his current club, Spanish giants Atletico Madrid, have denied any such link-ups.

An Atletico Madrid spokesperson has emphasised that they’ve
no bid from Manchester City for Aguero, 20, whose rise to stardom in the past couple of seasons at the Estadio Vicente Calderon has been phenomenal. So much so that a number of top European clubs have already come knocking for the kid they know as ‘Kun’. Last week City did something similar but Atletico’s spokesman insists that no official bid has arrived from the blue half of Manchester.

He said

: “There’s
no news on this subject, neither City or any other club have contacted us about Kun and Atletico isn’t
interested in seeing the exit of this player.”

But somehow you do feel that Man City will return again for Aguero.