Dear Friends URGENT!!! PLEASE CIRCULATE to your friends, family and contacts.

In the coming days, DO NOT open any message with an attachment called: Arsenal sign Schwarzer, regardless of who sent it to you. It is a virus that opens an Olympics torch which destroy many sectors of your hard drive. Send this message to all of your contacts.... It is better to receive this e-mail 25 times than to receive the virus and open it.

If you receive a message called Arsenal sign Schwarzer even if sent by a friend, DO NOT OPEN!!, and shut down your machine immediately. It is the worst virus announced by CNN AND LA TIMES.

This new virus has been classified by Microsoft as the virus most destructive ever. There is no repair yet for this kind of virus. This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the hard disk and in the end it will make your computer like an Arsenal goalkeeper: It won't save anything!!!!

And now that this public service announcement is over perhaps we can just get on with enjoying this Interlull. 

What's interesting to me is that Arsenal appears to have the highest number of psychic, soothsaying fans in all the world. So many people are talking in absolutes about our goalkeeping situation. No new keeper will cost us any chance of silverware. We will fail. We will, most certainly, get to the end of the season screaming the Wilhelm scream at every moment. Maybe we will but also maybe we won't. Will the ones who say we will turn around and say 'I didn't tell you so' if, by some miracle, we win something or it's not just the goalkeeper's fault that we didn't.

I think we've certainly made life more difficult for ourselves, not least because the lack of new keeper has sparked a reaction from fans the likes of which I can't really remember happening before. People are either for the manager or agin' him, lines are drawn in the sand, insults thrown and at the end of the day the fact we all support the same team is overlooked.

Folk are accused of being Sp*rs fans for their opinions simply because the person they're 'chatting' with doesn't agree. It's kind of sad, really, that all of us who have the same love for the club, the same ambitions and hopes, end up squabbling like Kramer and Kramer over who gets mini Kramer in a custody battle. That means one of us has to be Meryl Streep. Think about that for a minute.

I know the internet, generally speaking, is not the place for reason, logic or calm considered debate but some of the shit I've read in the last 48 hours has been ludicrous. I have no idea why he didn't sign a goalkeeper, I know for a fact he didn't do it out of personal spite to some random guy on Twitter, despite what the random guy believes.

I know Almunia is not SuperKeeper© but then who is? At least he doesn't wear a stupid helmet. And whatever you think of him, declaring that you're going to spend the season abusing him because that'll show the manager what 'real fans' think is so dense I'm going to call Bob Geldof so he can arrange a load of pop stars to play a gig at Wembley so we can get the money together to buy you the biggest window in the world which you can sit there and lick all day long.

The line running through all our bottoms right now is that Manuel Almunia is our number 1 and will be until January at least. There's not a thing any of us - apart from Lukasz Fabianski [insert Wilhelm Scream here] - can do about it. We have to accept it and move on. Which is exactly what I'm doing now.

Arsenal yesterday submitted their 25 man squad to the Premier League. The 25 man squad has either 20 men in it or 76 men, depending on what you read. The 20 senior players are:

Manuel Almunia, Andrey Arshavin, Nicklas Bendtner, Marouane Chamakh, Gael Clichy, Denilson, Vassiriki Abou Diaby, Johan Djourou, Emmanuel Eboue, Lukasz Fabianski, Cesc Fabregas, Laurent Koscielny, Vito Mannone, Samir Nasri, Tomas Rosicky, Bacary Sagna, Alex Song, Robin Van Persie, Thomas Vermaelen, Sebastien Squillaci. 

You can include as many U21 players as you like in the list which is why you don't see names like Theo Walcott, Jack Wilshere, Kieran Gibbs, Aaron Ramsey, Wojscez©® and others. The manager was very publicly opposed to the new rules, I like to think we've deliberately submitted a 76 man squad just to make that point again. Funny.

PFA Chief Gordon Taylor has criticised the new rules saying they don't go far enough. He wants to introduce rules which say a certain number of 'home grown' players must play in each match. It's sad that this is still the mindset - where the PFA is advocating rules which see players picked not on merit, not because of their quality as a player, but their squad status. How anyone thinks that's going to make English football better is beyond me, but then the dinosaurs that have so much influence on the game hardly surprise anyone when they come out with rubbish like that.

Good news regarding Samir Nasri - he's making a good recovery from his knee surgery. Whether he's back in contention for the Bolton game remains to be seen.

So as the keeper stuff dies down, hopefully, and the internationals kick in I think things will get a bit quiet in the next few days. It's time to start lighting candles and hoping our players come back unscathed. Or if they're in any way scathed it's minor.

Till tomorrow.

It's easy to know where the focus of this morning's blog is going to be. The lack of a new goalkeeper at the club.

Firstly, let me state for the record, I am disappointed. I thought it was vital that we bring in a new keeper this summer and I can't quite understand why we didn't. I don't think we'll ever know because Arsene is not going to tell us. He's going to talk about the 'four great keepers' he's got at the club right now and how they're all going to challenge for the number 1 spot etc etc.

It was clear last season that it was a position that was troublesome and I believed the only way to solve the problem was with the chequebook. As the summer went on and time went by it looked as if all our eggs were in one Australian basket, and so it seems. Leaving it so late meant any complications to the deal could prove very costly. In the past we've played a dangerous game with transfers, letting things go to the final day of the window in order to drive the best bargain.

From the outside (and I stress that because none of us know exactly what went on behind the scenes) it looks as if that's what happened. Fulham's inability to find a replacement and the injury to Stockdale, which will keep him out for a couple of months, meant it was almost impossible for it go through. I'm also told that the price tag Fulham put on the player, even before that, was ludicrously prohibitive. How can you deal with people who slap an eight figure fee on a 37 year old (and I don't mean £199,999.99p)? Work it out.

The bottom line is that if we had really wanted Schwarzer we should have done it much earlier. I know it was complicated due to the fact Hodgson was leaving for Liverpool and they had to find a new manager. And then when they found a new manager it was a big fucking cunt but still. 

Then you step back from it a bit and you think - Mark Schwarzer. A journeyman and a good professional but a player who has never attracted interest from a big side until now. Middlesbrough and Fulham for most of his career. At the start of the summer most of us would have thought that was a rather unsatisfactory answer to the goalkeeping question, by yesterday people were utterly distraught we didn't get him. I think that says a lot. 

Was he the solution to Arsenal's goalkeeping problems or just a stop-gap? How many times have we heard this summer about how he could come in and do a job without getting in the way of Wojscez©® from whom big things are expected? At 37 years of age he was always going to be a temporary fix. I will fully accept that he's far better than Fabianski but his improvement over Almunia is based more on the fact that he's not Almunia rather than on his goalkeeping abilities. We needed a change for the sake of change as much as anything. 

And I am disappointed, as I said, but not quite as angry as some people seem to be. I think Almunia had a terrible season last time around. There were reasons for it though. He had personal issues, the least of which was the death of a relative, which undoubtedly affected his game. And we know any player can get themselves into a run of bad form. However, I don't buy into this nonsense about him being one of the two worst keepers in the league. He's clearly not the best, not by a long way, but he's some distance off being the worst. As for him being the worst Arsenal keeper anyone has ever seen there are plenty who have watched Arsenal down the years who would beg to differ.

I think the goalkeeping problem - with regard to Almunia - has been overplayed and I think Schwarzer was overhyped as the potential solution. People wonder why we didn't just throw £4m at Fulham to get it done as if £2m is some trifling amount of money. I think even £2m for a player of his standing and his age was pushing the limit of his value. Why would you pay double that when it is just a small upgrade on what you've already got?

So I'm disappointed that we didn't sign a goalkeeper but not hugely disappointed that we didn't sign Mark Schwarzer. Had we been in for a better goalkeeper and failed to get him due to carelessness/parsimony etc then I think I'd be a lot more unhappy this morning.

My main worry is not Manuel Almunia. People wonder about his confidence and how he must feel knowing the club wanted to replace him. Personally I think it could act as a motivating factor. He knows he's got another chance and if he continues to play well then he will maintain his place in the team. I agree the whole thing might have been handled better but let's remember this - it wasn't Arsenal who were talking publicly about Schwarzer. It was Fulham. Arsene Wenger quite pointedly said nothing but 'I want to focus on the keepers I have', it was Fulham who went public then accused us of unsettling their player. Weirdos.

My real worry is Lukasz Fabianski. An injury to Almunia and it's the Pole between the sticks again and that scares the life out of me. People talk about a signing pushing Fabianski further from the team but from what I can gather had we made a signing it would have been Manuel who made way. It was Almunia for whom vague offers came this summer. Nobody, quite understandably, made any enquiries about Fabianski. 

So even if we'd signed Schwarzer we'd be in a situation where Fabianski is a broken finger or a dodgy groin away from a run in the team. And that is what worries most of all about the Arsenal goalkeeping situation. At the moment we have four keepers. Lower division clubs have until the end of next week to finalise their squads and get players in on loan. It's quite conceivable that Wojscez©® could go out on loan again for the season. Certainly he or Mannone will go. If it's the Italian then I have some hope that the younger Pole will challenge Fabianski strongly for the number 2 position. Otherwise I fear it's Lukasz again.

And with the best will in the world he is to goalkeeping what the Keystone Cops were to copping. A slapstick Polish Basil Fawlty with an unparalleled record in high profile, comedy mistakes almost every time he gets a game for us. That is my goalkeeping worry.

I can't claim to come close to understanding the manager over this one. I wouldn't even try. I can fully understand people's ire and fingers will undoubtedly be pointed, in a very pointy way, at him every time anything approaching a goalkeeping mistake is made. But the same manager who hasn't bought a keeper is the same manager who bought Chamakh and Koscielny, who people seem to approve of, the same manager who is overseeing Theo Walcott's upsurge in form, the same manager who assured the future of Cesc at the club and who brought his team to Blackburn and won last weekend. A little give and take is required.

Like it or not, and I know many don't, we have what we have right now. I read some pretty angry stuff around the place yesterday which, as I said, I understand. I don't understand anyone wanting us to fail however. I don't understand anyone who wants this team to do badly or for players to play badly just so they can say I told you so.

What I'm hoping for is that Almunia, instilled with the confidence of knowing he's number 1 and with a resolute determination to hold on to that position, plays more like the Manuel Almunia from the couple of seasons before last. A fine shot stopper, a good pelanty saver and a generally decent keeper even if he's never going to be the most commanding. Yes, he was capable of the odd mistake but then so is every goalkeeper. It might actually be interesting to run some kind of keeper fuck-up watch throughout the season.

We might also find that an Arsenal team that is better defensively might lead to better goalkeeping. And above all else I hope he stays injury free because it's what lies beneath that worries me most of all.

Bonus reading. Vital Arsenal - Goonerholic 

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There were a couple of deals involving Arsenal yesterday, Nacer Barazite has joined Vitesse Arnhem on loan while Armand Traore shows just how far Italian football has sunk by joining Juventus. The idea of a club like Juventus scrabbling around for our third choice left back, who just turned down Benfica, is rather odd. Then again I hate Juventus, the LB7 stealing twats, so har har. Good luck to both of them. 

As I said there's still the potential for further departures to Championship/Football League clubs until the end of next week I think, so it wouldn't be a surprise to see a couple more fly the nest.

In other news, as the Interlull takes hold, Theo Walcott spoke after England training yesterday and discussed his critics, being left out of the World Cup and what he's doing to make himself a better player. An interesting read.

Tomas Rosicky says he wants to play more and admits he should be chipping in with a few more goals. I, for one, would like to see both those things happen.

And that's about that. Have at it, George Wood fans.

It was late August 2006 when we moved back to Dublin from Barcelona (it was my Dublin DNA as my good pal ... erm ... Not Xavi used to say).

At that point Arsenal were still faced with the Ashley Cole situation. Would he go to Chelsea? Would he not? What sort of deal would we get with them if we did? There was also the Jose Antonio Reyes situation. Poor Jose had been tricked by nasty DJs, scowled at once too often by Thierry Henry and was hen-pecked at home by Mama Hen and Girlfriend Hen who complained to him all day long about living in England.

"Is too much raining, Jose", they might have said had they chosen to complain to him in comedy English.

That year the transfer window shut at 12 midnight. At that stage I was a person with a life so I did what any normal person does and went out and got hopelessly drunk. The next morning I awoke to face a teenage shoe crisis and the news that we had been busy as bees. We had done a deal with Chelsea which saw them get Cole and we got Gallas and £5m. We also sent Reyes on loan to Real Madrid and got the mythical beast himself as part of the deal and on top of all that we signed a 19 year old Brazilian called Denilson who nobody had ever heard of.

What a transfer window. Three players in - Gallas, Baptista, Denilson. And if that isn't proof enough that the transfer deadline day is a big load of old bollocks then I don't know what is. So, just in case it was all tied in to my drunknness I will be staying entirely sober today.

I don't expect much to be happening with regard Arsenal. A few youngsters out on loan, probably, and perhaps the arrival of Schwarzer. That deal might have been complicated yesterday by the decision of Shay Given to stay at Man City and pick up his enormous, recently increased, paycheque fight for his place. If Fulham can find an alternative to Given then it's likely we'll get Schwarzer but the injury to Stockdale and everything else means this is far from a dead cert.

The Sun says that we've increased our bid for the Australian to £4m, which I doubt, to be honest. We know that Arsene is never, ever willing to pay much more than what he thinks a player is worth. I just can't see him paying that amount of money for 37 year old player. We'll have to wait and see if a deal can be done today, Schwarzer is apparently 'hopeful' and has been up all night practicing the answers to a medical.

"No, it doesn't hurt when I do that, but I do feel like a pair of curtains".

"Pull yourself together man".

And thankfully I'm here all week. I'm sure there are people who will spend today glued to Sky Sports News anxiously awaiting news on any potential deal. I'm sure there are even streams of it so you can see Bobby Two Phones and that Scotch twat cream themselves over some striker from Plymouth securing a loan deal to Stevenage Borough. If not Iraq Goals is missing a trick, let me tell you. And I'm sure the Arsenal blogosphere will be absolutely bogged down with new posts based entirely on the Twitterings of journalists with little or no credit given to the source - oh yeah, NewsNow is your friend today.

The window closes at 6pm so there's no late into the night nonsense with this one. If we can get Schwarzer in, a few youngsters out and we manage to deport Fabianski or donate his body to science I think we can call this summer's transfer business a success.

What's not a success is Robin van Persie's ankle. He was examined by Dutch doctors yesterday - you know, the same ones who said he'd be out for 4-5 weeks and then it turned out his ankle ligaments had been shredded like incriminating documents, meaning a spell of 5-6 months out. They say 'up to 4 weeks' this time but I'll wait until we get an official statement from Arsenal on the state of his injury. If the past can teach us anything though it's that Robin is probably utterly bollixed and if he were a racehorse they'd have stroked his head gently before putting a bullet in it from close range.

Back to transfer business and while there's reported interest from Birmingham in Armand Traore it looks as if he might well be off to Juventus. Traore turned down definite interest from Benfica last week after they couldn't agree personal terms which is a bit sad really. He's on the kind of money at Arsenal that makes him think he's a better player than he actually is. Good luck to him wherever he ends up.

And speaking of Birmingham that's going to be the new home of Alexander Hleb. I'm sure after finding London such a horrible place to live he's going to love the quiet, gentile and picturesque surroundings of Birmingham.

And something just reaching me here at Arseblog Sports News, Sebastian Frey has been spotted in a taxi on the way to Arsenal's training ground. He was overheard muttering 'Sign me, Arsene. Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please ...'

More when we get it. Which will be tomorrow. 

Welcome to a brand new week and welcome to the first Interlull of the new season.

There's the small distraction of the transfer window to keep us vaguely interested for the next 36 hours or so. It closes tomorrow evening at 6pm. Sky Sports News will be sending reporters to stand outside training grounds, stadiums, club toilets and anywhere else they think they might find a scoop.

Arsenal interest in the window centres around Mark Schwarzer. Will he? Won't he? I loved East Lower's line on Twitter - Must be weird being Mark Schwarzer. Term has started but you're still not 100% sure which school you'll be at.

Fulham don't want to sell even though he doesn't want to play for them and the deal may be more complicated now due to a possible injury to his stand-in. That said, they always said his move to Arsenal was dependent on them getting in a replacement. There's talk of Shay Given going there on loan which I'm sure will have some people wondering why we don't go for the Irishman but there's no way City would loan or sell him to us.

If Schwarzer is to come it would mean we'd really have be thinking of shifting one of the existing keepers out, probably on loan. It could one of the youngsters, Mannone or Wojscez©®, but personally I'd like to see Fabianski go. Almunia would be a solid number 2 (no jokes please).

There might also be a few deals involving fringe players. Armand Traore is interesting West Ham and, somewhat bizarrely, Juventus, while the likes of Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, Henri Lansbury and a couple of others could  go out loan. There's interest from Blackburn (boo), Leeds and Swansea for Lansbury while talk of a return to Doncaster for JET.

The manager has made his intentions as clear as mud on the official site saying:

It is dead at the moment but maybe not finished. At the moment I would say, as it is today, it is finished.

The thing is, the today he was referring to was yesterday. Or possibly the day before. So today's today might be an entirely different today than the today he was talking about. I think, should we manage to sign Schwarzer, this will have been a pretty good transfer window for us. Two defenders, a striker and a goalkeeper would certainly show that the issues we've all been so concerned about have been addressed. 

Of course it remains to be seen just how successful the new boys are going to be but the two we've seen so far have looked promising. Squillaci will be in contention for the next league game - Bolton at home on Sept 11th - and if the Aussie arrives then he's likely to play in that game too. Let's wait and see what happens. I wouldn't put it past Mark Hughes to make life as difficult as it can possibly be, so let's hope City are willing to let the 'very unhappy' Given go Cottaging.

For more on the transfer window I'll be on Twitter 24 hours a day with inside information, reliable sources, up to date gossip, rumour and fact that my team of monkeys with typewriters will be churning out. I think I need to fine tune them though:

shcwarzer having medical fail now eeeeh eeeeeeh eeeeeh aaaaahhhh

I'm a stickler for correct spelling and grammar, dontcha know.

Moving on to matters football and Arsene has spoken about Cesc and his performance on Saturday. He says:

I don't think he is the type to give anything less than his best, just because he didn't get a move. He may have wanted to join Barcelona but he loves Arsenal as well, and that's why he made his decision. There is a trust and confidence on both sides. He has given enough to the club and the club has given a lot to him in return.

It is inevitable that every time he doesn't play as well as we know he can people will magically become psychic and state will great confidence that his mind is elsewhere. As I said yesterday it was his first start of the season and he's nowhere near as sharp as he normally is. If the Barcelona thing didn't happen this summer we'd be talking about him getting fit properly after a long summer at the World Cup. I have no doubts over his commitment. Every time he pulls on an Arsenal shirt he'll go out to do his best for the team, the way he's done since he made his debut as a 16 year old.

As I don't have any psychic powers whatsoever and am unable to read minds I will refrain from speculating about what's going on inside his head.

And speaking of speculation there was a lot of that flying around regarding the arrest of Jack Wilshere. The facts as I can gather are he was arrested, then bailed, with regard to an late night 'fracas'. And that's about as much as any of us know about it. Until there more facts then I think it would be unwise, and unseemly, to comment.

And for a Monday morning that'll have to do. More tomorrow as the transfer window enters its final mind-numbing, tedious, hyped up load of bollocks exciting few hours.

A fine away win yesterday will go some way to backing up the manager's claim that this team is more mature and better able to cope with the threat of teams like Blackburn. It was a little nervy towards the end but I thought Arsenal's second half performance was intelligent and disciplined and that made the difference.

In the first half we gave away four free kicks which allowed Paul Robinson to hump the ball into our box from just inside the Blackburn half. I don't care who you are and how good you are at the back, when it's being lumped like that towards big men like Samba and Nelsen then it's difficult to defend. And early on we struggled a little bit. Nelsen had a header cleared off the line by Cesc Fabregas and Samba headed just over - both chances came from corners.

Add Pedersen's long throw into the mix and it was an aerial onslaught, just as we expected. In the second half, however, Robinson had just one free kick, in the 49th minute and Koscielny won it in the air. It seemed we were happy to let them have it in the centre of midfield, pressing them but not giving away silly fouls. They tried to spread it wide and for the most part their passing was poor so their big threat was limited to a few throw ins. Late on they threw Samba on up front and his most meaningful contribution was to throw himself to the ground, screaming for a penalty which the referee rightly ignored.

It was a good response from Arsenal to what had been a much more open first half. Their early chances had us on the back foot a bit but we opened the scoring with a lovely goal. Song played it from the centre of midfield to Arshavin who rolled it to van Persie. His through ball with the outside of his left foot was perfect for the onrushing Theo Walcott who took it on and buried it in the far corner. It just shows you what a bit of confidence can do for a player, last season that would probably have ended up in the stand. In Burnley.

What's ironic is that Blackburn's goal came about when they put together their best move of the match. Samba played it to El Hadj Diouf down our right, he was too quick and strong for Koscielny and he crossed for his namesake, Marvin Diouf, to tap home the equaliser. Double-Diouf, what did I say? It was shoddy defending from Arsenal really. Sagna, who otherwise had a really good game, was caught too high up the pitch, Koscielny should have done to Diouf what Lauren did to Ronaldo, and Clichy showed why doubts remain about him as he had no awareness of the arriving striker.

We lost Robin van Persie to an ankle injury after about half an hour, he was replaced by Chamakh. Five minutes into the second half we had the lead. Sagna made a brilliant run down the right hand side, he squared it for Cesc whose first time shot hit Theo's arse, Andrei Arshavin was on hand to drive home the rebound. 

After that Arsenal controlled the game. Blackburn had one chance I can remember when Dunn shot straight at Almunia. Other than that the keeper was untroubled. That's not to say we created a lot either. Arshavin had a half chance after his goal but he fired it well over, Theo stuck one not far over the bar and that was about that until Jack Wilshere had a chance to seal the game in the final few moments, unfortunately for him he slipped when striking the ball. 

In the end though I think we merited the three points. The game did not plumb the depths like others against Blackburn, there was only yellow card as far as I can remember and not a bad challenge in the game. Afterwards Arsene said:

In the first half we were a bit too nervous dealing with Blackburn's game. In the second half I felt we were calmer, put the ball on the ground well and controlled the game much better.

Some other thoughts - I don't for one second buy into the stuff about Cesc looking like he wanted to be somewhere else. Typical and hysterical nonsense started by media outlets who crave the attention and look to generate their own headlines, regardless of the truth. Arsenal fans shouldn't fall for it. I thought he looked committed yesterday and played quite well, however it was his first start of the season, he's clearly lacking a little bit of match fitness and his touch isn't quite there yet. It'll come and I think if we'd had a 100% fit Cesc we'd have won that game by a couple of goals yesterday.

Robin van Persie just cannot catch a break. He injured his ankle in a routine challenge, Arsene Wenger hopes it'll just be a couple of weeks - and a handy couple of weeks too due to the Interlull which is now upon us - but you worry if he's ever going to stay fit at all. That said, when you have a replacement like Chamakh it's easier to cope with. I thought the Moroccan was fantastic yesterday, particularly in the second half. He held it up well, looked stronger and more confident on the ball, and was a big part of Arsenal's controlled second half performance.

So, it's a very good three points. Going into the Interlull on the back of this result keeps confidence high. Going to a place like Blackburn and laying to rest some of the ghosts of last season this early is a good thing.

A word as well for Blackburn's fans who are a pack of pig-ignorant gleet-hounds. Quite apart from singing that reprehensible song about Arsene they are hypocrites of the highest order. They love to talk up their reputation and their physical 'style' of football yet the moment one of their players is so much as tackled they're screaming and moaning like a pack of hysterical piglets. 'Same old Arsenal always cheating' when we're awarded a free kick. If you can work out how a foul by one of their players is us cheating then you're a better man than I am.

And as for their manager, just the sight of him with his gaping maw, chewing great wads of gum, is enough to turn your stomach. He complained that Arsene Wenger isn't the kind of manager to share a drink after the game. The last section of this Ian Holloway article just proves that he'll share a drink with you if you're not an enormous, wind-up merchant, egomaniac Walrus looking cunt. Something for Fat Sam to dwell on, if he has the self-awareness to do that.

And speaking of enormous cunts, Tony Pulis's comments are hilarious. Apparently he's rather put out by Arsene's suggestion that fouling a goalkeeper with no intention of playing the ball is more suited to rugby rather than association football. Talk of him suing Arsene or Arsenal is quite fantastic, it just shows what a deluded moron he is. I would love to see him try.

There's nothing new on the transfer front, Arsene said on Sky yesterday that 'at the moment' everything is dead for us, but that doesn't mean things can't be revived ... which would make any new signing some kind of zombie, right?

Mark Hughes says Schwarzer has made it clear he wants to join us but no deal will happen unless they can get a replacement. I'm sure things will be going on behind the scenes over the next couple of days and I'd be 99% sure that we'll have a new, flesh eating keeper on our books before the window closes.

Right then, time for the Sunday papers and Match of the Day. Have a good one folks.