Update July 24th

By: Jennifer | July 24th, 2009

Yay, go uncreative titles. I’m as tired as hell running errands and working, so this update will be quick and sweet.

First of all, I can’t believe this blog is a year old! When Inara and Martha first thought that I should blog for Bordeaux, I wasn’t so optimistic. Honestly, I didn’t know much about Bordeaux at all at the beginning. I was gonna have a co-blogger who is actually A REAL BORDEAUX FAN STRAIGHT FROM BORDEAUX, but he had a kid and is now devoting all his time to that. I think near the beginning, I had one loyal reader (hi Julien!), but I have no idea where he is now. Anyways, thanks guys for the great times we’ve had in the past year (I’m indulging myself), and hopefully we’ll have an even greater 09/10 season!

-Valverde has officially left Bordeaux. After the signing of Carrasso, Valverde clearly drew the short end and joined Boulogne-sur-Mer (just promoted to L1) after being tested there. Good luck to Mathieu.

-Sunderland hopes to conclude the deal with Chamakh, but Bordeaux isn’t looking to letting him go. They’ve offered him a 2 year contract extension, raising his salary to what he would be paid in English (about 200,00 euros a month). Gourcuff also made it clear that he would love to see Chamakh stay.

I know there’s a lot of speculation of Chamakh joining Arsenal after the departure of Adebayor, but right now that is unfounded and Chamakh seems to prefer Sunderland (Blanc prefers neither).

Chamakh is in Montréal right now for the Trophée des Champions match tomorrow and also a game against Montreal Impact. He says

“Frankly, I did not want to go to Canada to make this trip. My head is in England”

(He makes me sad..)

Needless to say, I’m sulking in Toronto.. GUYS, TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE. If you’re a Girondins/Guinamp supporter that happens to be reading this blog, CALL ME UP WE CAN CHILL IN SEPTEMBER, and also, you can get tickets here. I’m pretty sure you can still get tickets for Bordeaux VS Impact, but really do you want to torture yourself?

-Diarra also extended to 2013.

-I’m also hearing of Bougherra turning down Bordeaux. The reasons I’m too tired to look up. Who really cares anyway?