He's gone at last. But news filters through that our last season's laziest, most despised and without doubt most overpaid player apparently delayed his signature with Citeh in order to demand a two million pound loyalty bonus from the club he and his agent have been jerking around and trying to leave for a couple of summers. I don't know what your thoughts are but incredulous is the only single word I can find to describe how I feel about this money grubbing scumbag. It makes me sick to think that such a slug would ever even consider kissing our much loved current corporate logo. Right now he's well up there in the Gooner popularity stakes with the likes of Sheringham, Van Nistelrooy, Keane, Roberts, Bremner and others of that ilk.

Getting rid of this fast talking egotistical slug has been like trying to flush one of those huge unsinkable turds away. You know the feeling. No matter how hard or often you pull the chain it just stays there on the surface lazily meandering around doing a dead casual back stroke and pretending not to notice. But in practice you know that it is quite deliberately and determinedly defying all your best efforts to flush it around the double bend.

Last summer the only club he was able to whore himself to was AC Milan. Now following a season of disinterestedly loping around in a hopelessly offside position the only club desperate enough to take him off our hands is one who seemingly collects soccer's biggest mercenaries. Or maybe Manchester City are just building a squad based upon the football world's pushiest agents. Either way thank the good lord that there is now someone else, other than the Chavs, out there with more money than sense.

For a while there with this protracted on/off transfer my thoughts had turned to the prospect of his not actually leaving. What an earth would Wenger do? He was quite clearly not the most well loved member of our squad, and he was so obviously not everyone's best friend. I don't see how Wenger could have played him. Then again I don't see how he could have sent him off to rot in the stiffs because we no longer have a stiffs department. Just youths who clearly could have taught him the offside law or how to use his left foot. But would you have wanted him to pollute their thoughts with advice on how to rotate clubs, enjoy disputes with your national team, make friends with your bank manager and accountant or inflate an already huge ego beyond belief.

Anyway there's now a huge collective sigh of relief in the Gooner community. No doubt he may come back to haunt us as ex-players usually do, but right now we know where we stand. Adebayor is now right up there in the most loved ex-Arsenal players stakes alongside such notorious characters as Cashley, Stapleton and Anelka. And I'm sure he'll be welcomed back to our place with a similar heartfelt intensity.