At todays press conference Arsene Wenger faced a barrage of questions over the delay in announcement over the Sebastian Squillaci deal, he confirmed that the defender has signed for us:

‘he’s a good player, at the right price and is a good signing for us.’

via MirrorFootball’s John Cross, (@johncrossmirror)

Squillaci is currently in Spain sorting out his personal situation ready to re-locate to London. He will not be available for the game against Blackburn on Saturday lunchtime.

Instead Laurent Koscienly is set to start again alongside Thomas Vermaelen as the manager confirmed that he will return to the squad for the game and “will feature”. Denilson will also return to the squad.

Arsene Wenger also confirmed that he is looking at bringing in one more player – though in-keeping with his usual style, didn’t give any specifics away.

At last we can concentrate on the weekends football without the Squillaci situation dominating the press and with the good news on the injury front with Denilson returning, the squad just keeps getting stronger and stronger.

I feel we need one more signing, and that it will happen but it wouldn’t surprise me if it went down to deadline day which is always manic. Of course, it does seem like it is going to be Mark Schwarzer that is going to be brought in. However, his comments were not the most encouraging you are ever likely to read:

“I do not rule it out, but at the moment I say I am not in a position to sign anybody. At the moment, it is all dead.”

I guess we will just have to sit tight and see what happens – one goalkeeper signing and I think we are very strong title contenders, but that has been the story of the last few seasons.

I have real faith in this team now. Lets hope we get that signing though.