Arsenal stars are ‘jealous’ of Arshavin

SOME of Arsenal’s established stars are jealous of the immediate impact Russian playmaker Andrei Arshavin has made at the club, according to his agent.

He’s hinted that the club is dominated negatively by French speakers, and that many of the more established players at the club are jealous of Arshavin’s growing status as a hero to the Emirates faithful and within English football as a whole.

Controversial agent Dennis Lachter is quoted in a Russian newspaper as saying: “The players of Arsenal are not easy to deal with. The squad consists almost entirely of foreigners. The French diaspora rules there.

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