Cole blast Arsenal in new book
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Arsenal chiefs are scrambling over the release of Ashley Cole's new book.
Cole, linked to a £16million move to Chelsea, blasts the Gunners over last year's tapping up scandal in his forthcoming book.
His words, due to be published just two weeks into the coming season, have left the club's top brass furious - and seem certain to hasten the defender's exit from the Emirates Stadium.
One Arsenal insider told The Sun: "The book has caused a right ruck.
"The club want to veto some of the criticism but Cole is determined to have a go at them.''
Arsenal would be able to have a say in the book's content only if Cole remains under contract to them.
But that looks increasingly unlikely as the Gunners star, who signed a new £60,000-a-week contract extension last summer, is determined to make a move to Chelsea or Real Madrid.
He simply cannot forgive the club for reporting Chelsea to the Premier League over the affair - and feels that Arsenal let HIM down.
A spokesman for book publishers Headline confirmed: "Ashley talks openly about the 2005 tapping-up scandal, following the meeting with Mourinho and Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon in a hotel room and the storm that followed.''
Cole, linked to a £16million move to Chelsea, blasts the Gunners over last year's tapping up scandal in his forthcoming book.
His words, due to be published just two weeks into the coming season, have left the club's top brass furious - and seem certain to hasten the defender's exit from the Emirates Stadium.
One Arsenal insider told The Sun: "The book has caused a right ruck.
"The club want to veto some of the criticism but Cole is determined to have a go at them.''
Arsenal would be able to have a say in the book's content only if Cole remains under contract to them.
But that looks increasingly unlikely as the Gunners star, who signed a new £60,000-a-week contract extension last summer, is determined to make a move to Chelsea or Real Madrid.
He simply cannot forgive the club for reporting Chelsea to the Premier League over the affair - and feels that Arsenal let HIM down.
A spokesman for book publishers Headline confirmed: "Ashley talks openly about the 2005 tapping-up scandal, following the meeting with Mourinho and Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon in a hotel room and the storm that followed.''
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