I can't believe I got so many words out of so little

Good day to you all. Last night I had a dream we signed seven new players, three of whom were gorillas wearing football boots.

All three made their debuts on the first day of the new season and we won the game but there was much controversy when one of them went a bit mental and tore off the arm of one of the opposition before sitting in the centre-circle to eat it. The FA fined us £25,000 and warned us as to our future conduct. Then I was in a dungeon somewhere in the jungle and all the Arsenal related stuff stopped there. 

Signing gorillas would be one way to make sure we don't get pushed around by the likes of Blackburn. If Velociraptors didn't have such fliddy arms I'd think about one of them for keeper next season too. Try pushing Rupert the 'raptor, Christopher Samba, he'd eat your face off. Not so brave now, are you, with no face? Bully.

Anyway, the week seems to have fizzled out a bit, which is probably a good thing. As Cesc made his comeback from injury last night, playing for Spain against South Korea, yet another Barcelona loudmouth is having his say. Josep Maria Bartomeu, who is part of the Sandro Rosell (Laporta's arch-enemy) team, says it will be 'so easy' to sign Cesc.

Honestly, these people just don't learn, do they? It's particularly interesting, in as much as these things are ever interesting, because Rossell himself is the one who seemed to play down the deal last week. He was the one who highlighted Barcelona's enormous debt and should he win it would be no surprise to me to see him back away from this. He'd want to have a word with his mate though, he sounds like a cunt.

There's quite a funny story in El Mundo this morning saying Barcelona are after a left back and Gael Clichy is on their list. However, the situation is complicated because of the Cesc thing and they don't want to make us any more angry. As if that's possible.

In transfer news there's speculation we're still after L'Orient defender Laurent Koscielny despite having a bid turned down. I know nothing whatsoever about this player beyond the fact his surname is one of those that is troublesome, it just doesn't seem to stick in my head, requiring copy and paste each time he's mentioned. So for that reason alone I hope we sign someone else.

Apparently David Beckham sent Theo Walcott a text message of support after his omission from England's World Cup squad. 

Feo ur still a gud playa nd u hav talunt nd wil be stronga in futr. u need more tattoos imo. fink bout spider web on neck. cool!!!!!! lol. dvaid ;-))))))

Yaya Toure's agent says he's signed for a Premier League club. Don't get excited though, it's not us. The man who can't stay at any club more than two seasons will be in blue for the next little while before moving on again.

Carlos Vela scored last night for Mexico, with his right foot no less (warning: extremely annoying commentator). I think it's clear, based on that finish alone, that we should be moving heaven and earth to re-sign Vela on a new long term deal.

A couple of interesting other Arsenal blog related linkies now - the 'holic has details of Got, got, got need - a man who has created World Cup portraits for charity and unveils his Robin van Persie (portrait, not a euphemism) today. You know, I've been looking at the name of his site and it's only clicked with me what it means. Genius, I have to say. Go clicking to find out more.

And Andrew Weber, the author of the ArsenalFC blog, has just embarked on a new project where he becomes a homeless man for a year and films it. Football Nomad is his documentary in which he and his brother will travel from country to country, like nomads, if you will, and film stuff about football. Good luck to them and safe travels (and if you're a bar owner anywhere in Europe I'm sure Andrew could do an excellent job for you, like so many of his countryfolk who arrive in this part of the world!).

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And that's that - it's another beautiful day and I suspect this evening would be a good evening to cook meat in the back garden. I know the Arseblog basset hound approves of this idea, we've had high level discussions about this and have come to a satisfactory arrangement - 10% of everything goes to him in our simple and effective tithe system. 

Not the beer though, he doesn't like beer. Although in his youth he was rather partial to the odd bowl of Baileys. Maybe one for old times sake.

Till tomorrow.