Gallas On His Way Out Of Arsenal?

So Gallas finally pushed his luck a little bit too far at Arsenal and lost the captaincy he really didn’t deserve.

And rumour has it he won’t be travelling to Eastlands today either —although he probably wouldn’t be all that welcome after he’d run off at the mouth to the press this week anyway.

Of course, coming from a Chelsea fan, any negativity about Gallas has always been written off by Arsenal as bitterness, and yet here we finally are; at a point where we can say ‘told you so’.

Because, let’s face it, it was never a surprise to anyone at Stamford Bridge that Gallas was just a little self-obsessed.

And whether they wanted to admit it or not, even Arsenal supporters must have had more than the odd doubt themselves—if not before his sit-down protest against Birmingham—then certainly after it?

But then it’s not like they weren’t warned.

For a start his behaviour prior to his transfer should have started the alarm bells ringing and as if that wasn’t confirmation enough, they’d apparently been warned by a ‘former member of Chelsea’s hierarchy’ not to make him captain.

Not a bad reference considering he was alleged to have said he’d score an own goal at the club paying his wages at the time.

And why was that? Because he was asked to play at left-back so he wanted to leave? We’d be in a right bloody mess if players like Michael Essien or Juliano Belletti had that sort of attitude these days eh?

Still, off he went to Arsenal, with them apparently getting the best part of the deal?! And having got his own way over the move, he just kept getting pandered to.

He wanted the No. 10 shirt—no problem. He considered himself captain material—again, no problem.

And yet this week, it did become a problem.

Because this week, in his extra-curricular captaincy duties, Gallas saw fit to embarrass his club and his team-mates by airing their dirty laundry in public—and as far as Wenger is concerned, that wasn’t in the job description.

So, with him seemingly taken down a peg or two, is William Gallas on his way out of the Emirates?