Olivier Giroud turns 28 today and can celebrate his birthday with a new contract from Arsenal and, perhaps, some timeless wisdom from Rumi, the Persian mystic and poet who was born on the same day nearly 750 years ago. So perhaps as the Frenchman nurses his foot injury, he will reflect on Rumi’s suggestion that: “Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”
That sounds like swill to the Mill but people won’t be quoting the Mill in 750 years time so what do we know? Here, let’s have some more insight from the learned Rumi: “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.” That’s more like it! We go again: “Stop being so small; you are the universe in ecstatic motion.” Yay, the wine is working! Onwards with the Mill.
Cristiano Ronaldo could return to Manchester United in two years blah blah blah blah. Forget that, let’s have some more Rumi: “Sit. Be still. And listen, because you’re drunk and we are at the edge of the roof.”
It’s almost like he’s watching us. Now sit, be still and listen: because Louis van Gaal has had another brainwave. Funnily enough, it’s one that David Moyes also had but couldn’t enact: sign Seamus Coleman. Why would Everton agree to that? Because Manchester United will offer them tens of millions of pounds. Plus Marouane Fellaini. Oh.
Chelsea are reported to want Coleman too, presumably because they only have two world-class right-backs at the moment. José Mourinho is also running the rule over Benfica’s 20-year-old midfielder Anderson Talisca, who may or may not respond by repeating Rumi’s most famous utterance: “Do not cast thy glance upon my golden face, for I have iron legs.” Even the Special One would struggle to find a comeback for that.
Perhaps Ross Barkley may make a similar declaration when Chelsea come calling intoning, for instance, that “maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots”. But word is Everton will not even answer the door unless the Londoners bring at least £50m with them.
Juventus want to gaffer tape Paul Pogba to the club by getting him to sign a new contract that will keep him in Turin until 2019 and triple his salary, while Aston Villa, Sunderland and Everton are among several clubs who like the look of Sampdoria’s 22-year-old striker Manolo Gabbiadini.
Finally, the further Simon Mignolet falls from perfection, the closer Liverpool get to giving free agent Víctor Valdés everything he wants. “Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird,” Brendan Rodgers might explain. And there ends today’s Rumi Mill.
That sounds like swill to the Mill but people won’t be quoting the Mill in 750 years time so what do we know? Here, let’s have some more insight from the learned Rumi: “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.” That’s more like it! We go again: “Stop being so small; you are the universe in ecstatic motion.” Yay, the wine is working! Onwards with the Mill.
Cristiano Ronaldo could return to Manchester United in two years blah blah blah blah. Forget that, let’s have some more Rumi: “Sit. Be still. And listen, because you’re drunk and we are at the edge of the roof.”
It’s almost like he’s watching us. Now sit, be still and listen: because Louis van Gaal has had another brainwave. Funnily enough, it’s one that David Moyes also had but couldn’t enact: sign Seamus Coleman. Why would Everton agree to that? Because Manchester United will offer them tens of millions of pounds. Plus Marouane Fellaini. Oh.
Chelsea are reported to want Coleman too, presumably because they only have two world-class right-backs at the moment. José Mourinho is also running the rule over Benfica’s 20-year-old midfielder Anderson Talisca, who may or may not respond by repeating Rumi’s most famous utterance: “Do not cast thy glance upon my golden face, for I have iron legs.” Even the Special One would struggle to find a comeback for that.
Perhaps Ross Barkley may make a similar declaration when Chelsea come calling intoning, for instance, that “maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots”. But word is Everton will not even answer the door unless the Londoners bring at least £50m with them.
Juventus want to gaffer tape Paul Pogba to the club by getting him to sign a new contract that will keep him in Turin until 2019 and triple his salary, while Aston Villa, Sunderland and Everton are among several clubs who like the look of Sampdoria’s 22-year-old striker Manolo Gabbiadini.
Finally, the further Simon Mignolet falls from perfection, the closer Liverpool get to giving free agent Víctor Valdés everything he wants. “Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird,” Brendan Rodgers might explain. And there ends today’s Rumi Mill.
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