Morning all,

The Arshavin deal seems to be, millimeter by millimeter, getting closer to a conclusion, but, we may well be stuck in a ‘who will break first scenario’.

Zenit have never budged from their £20 million, Arsene never wants to break the bank, who’s hand will be forced first.

Zenit risk losing him for even cheaper next time round and they won’t want that to happen, whilst Arsenal is crying out for some creative gumption. Who will break first and make the big call?

Yesterday Arshavin even talked about what shirt number he would take, mentioning a club that had not got the number 10 shirt available,

“I would prefer my present No 10 but in the team where I hope to move it’s not vacant. So I’m ready for any number they are going to offer me.”

Now William Gallas holds our number 10 shirt, but so does Robinho of Man Citeh so that really does not shed any light on the issue what so ever as to what club he is going to join, and i believe, that we are the only club in for him at the moment.

The fact that he is even talking about shirt numbers probably means a deal is likely, even though the price is probably being negotiated, im informed that the original deal was £10 million up front, with other fees adding up to £5 million in the future.

I don’t think it would be the £15 million price tag that is the problem, its probably an issue with the money not all being paid in one go, something this club is notorious for not doing.

It is what held up the Nasri deal in the summer, Marseille wanted all the transfer fee in one go, whereas we wanted to spread it over a period of time.

Im banging on about this transfer no end and i really hope it will be done and dusted by the weekend, sadly, i think its going to stretch to the final days of the transfer window. And interestingly enough, many other rumours seemed to have died down since our interest in Arshavin has become known.

Reports yesterday in the Czech Republic suggested Thomas Rosicky would be ‘handicapped’ for the rest of his life and unable to ever play football again, his agent has said otherwise..

“He has been going through a shit moment, but he’s back.

“Everything is working well and he will be back in March.

“He can still play!”

Well thats putting it fairly bluntly, no politics there then!

I really hope he does return the player he once was, he really was a key member of the team and part of a trio that could have fired us to glory last year, Hleb, Cesc and Rosicky. They were the core of our attacking play and now we have none on the pitch, its obvious how much we miss them and it shows that Wenger realises with the Arshavin persuit.

Now, im going to get castrated for this as i do with many of my views that make perfectly good sense.

First of all i said that Eboue didn’t deserve his boo’ing. Then i said if Toure wanted out, we should let him go. Now that situation is over and done with but now i have a few words for some so called fans that think it is right to jeer their own players.

Who the hell do you think you are, ok, you pay your ticket money but if you dont like what you see sell your season ticket or your match ticket, im sure you could fetch hundreds for it outside the ground. First it was Eboue, now its Bendtner. He cocked up a few passes and then got ironic cheers when he completed one, why not chant his name? Get his adrenalin going and lift the lad, he is shot of confidence and so are all the Arsenal players that are shit scared of putting a foot wrong and getting some bonehead fans on their backs.

Why don’t we get behind the struggling players?

Im going to say this now, i really do not like some sections of the Arsenal fanbase and its mainly fans that have joined the club since the ‘glory days’, i have stated that we really need to win a trophy, not for bragging rights, but in my opinion for the development of these youngsters.

Niklas Bendtner has talent, Alex Song has talent, Denilson has talent Eboue has talent, they would not be at the club if they didn’t.

Bendtner has won us games in the past and he has won us two games this season, the Kiev game at home and the Bolton game, he also won us the North London derby last season. A game that is coming again soon and i think we are in real danger of losing but i will save that for another day.

Eboue has been part of a defence that has set a Champions League record and he runs his backside off for the clubm be puts up with god knows what stick from fans and sometimes he does take part in some pretty unsavoury events that i do not approve of but there is a player like that at every football club and if you can’t see that then sorry sir, you are a hypocryte.

Ive already written about my regard for Denilson as he is one of my players to watch out for in 2009.

I’m sorry if you are one of the truly loyal fans that sticks with this side through and through and had to read that, but sadly i will no longer take this rediculous barrage of critisicm some players from our football club. For gods sake its supposed to be supported. If you want fan power go to Newcastle.

I love this club and i won’t have so called fans ruining its reputation. If Arsenal were a conference side i would support it and i might actually be able to afford a season ticket!

Anyhow, chat in the comments.

victoria concordia crescit.