Morning all,

hope you're fine and dandy this Sunday morning. Some bits and pieces to get through and there's a lot of chaff amongst the wheat today.

The Mail is reporting Newcastle have made a bid for Philippe Senderos but the whole article is so utterly rubbish I'm not linking to it. They suggest that the boss is unhappy that when the alleged bid arrived the club didn't reject it out of hand, entirely overlooking the fact that it is always the boss who decides who comes and goes.

Throw in a quick line about Usmanov, Dein and Fat & Orange and you know where it's all come from. Maybe Newcastle have made a bid for Senderos but I'd be surprised if we sold.

Frank McLintock echoes the thoughts of many Arsenal fans when he says he believes Arsenal need to 'buy big' to win things again. He says:

I believe Arsene needs another two or three players and one of them should be experienced and proven. It might be time to speculate to accumulate if the big prizes are to come to Arsenal.

So what he's saying is he needs to buy one big name player. While most of us would agree that the squad needs to be strengthened I think the purchases don't have to be big names. It's been said before but Sagna/Eduardo quality coming in would be perfect, it doesn't have to be a superstar. Obviously though the experience side of things is important and even someone like Nasri has played 150+ games for Marseille so even at 21 he's no rookie.

Speaking of Nasri he's confirmed he's going to play on the wing, saying:

I had a chat with Arsene Wenger and I’m going to play on a wing because that is where their playmakers are, splitting with the full backs.

So Nasri's going to play on the left hand side, I reckon. It'll be interesting to see if he and Clichy can form the kind of partnership that Pires and Cunt (Cashely) did. Not to heap any pressure on Nasri but it's clear we've never replaced Pires properly. Rosicky has never been consistently fit enough, Hleb turned out to be a cunt so there's a big chance here for the young man. It used to be we were a team weighted to the left hand side - Pires, Cunt (Cashley), Henry all flourishing down there. Now we play a bit too narrow so hopefully Nasri on the left and Walcott (hopefully) on the right will give us greater width for the season ahead.

The People links us with a £5m move for Swiss international Goekhan Inler.

Hleb has been talking to the Sport newspaper in Barcelona. Some random quotes:

Adebayor - He's a very good player. It would be great if he could join us but I don't know anything about this.

Cesc - He's my best friend at Arsenal. It would be marvellous to play with him at Barcelona. I know he's really keen to come back because he grew up here but at the moment he's at Arsenal and an important part of the team.

Dear Hleb,

shut your poxy Belarussian mouth, you scabby, scarecrow looking cunthound.

yours,

arseblogger

Seriously, what a cunt. There are ways of answering questions, even loaded questions, which would make the whole thing a non-story. Hleb is intelligent enough to do that but chooses not to so he can go and fuck himself. He complains that London to was too big. 'Dehumanizing', he said. He hoped to find something more like Belarussia in Barcelona. Good grief.

And I'm only going to mention the Cesc to Real Madrid stories just to call them a big load of bollocks. They can go fuck off as well.

Right so, that's about your lot. Have a good Sunday, more tomorrow.

It's another very quiet morning.

There really isn't much going on at all. It's most dull. At least next week we'll get some more football so people can complain that our kids haven't won the Champions League as the senior players work on their fitness for the coming season.

Should we discuss the ludicrous claims on ANR that Arsene needs to raise £24m every summer from player sales? Only if you think discussing claims that the world is run by lizard men from Mars who have three penises and shoot fully grown baby hippos out of their arses is a good idea. I mean, it's just so fucking stupid it's untrue.

You really would have to wonder why anybody would write something that was so obviously wrong. Scaremongering? Propaganda? That anybody might suggest the club has based their strategy for the new stadium on money raised by player sales, and that banks would be ok with it, is absurd.

There's no question that we have been cutting our cloth a little bit in recent seasons. The big earners have left, often for big transfer fees, but it's hard to argue that most of those players left at the right time for us. When their star had begun to fade a little. And yes, we've replaced most of them with younger players but when you look at Arsene's record in the transfer market he's always been a bit of a spendthrift. Even before the new stadium people praised his ability to build teams for an incredibly low net spend. So it's not a new policy in that regard.

ANR's claim that Arsenal's silence on the News of the World quote attributed to Arsene must mean it's true doesn't bear much scrutiny either. We know that Arsenal very rarely make any comment with regards to transfers or finances and it flies in the face of what Arsene said officially, not in quotes in a Sunday paper which sound fabricated. And if it were true why would we have spent £13m on Nasri, £5m on Ramsey when only recouping £12m for Hleb? It's all a load of bollocks but the sad thing is I suspect a lot of fans believe it's true and it's going to be one of those self-perpetuating myths that newspapers will run with over and over again.

Some more reaction to this on Arsenal Truth.

Gilberto says Arsenal need to win something this season. I don't think there's any fan who would disagree with that. Let's not forget how close we came last season and the season before in the Carling Cup so the chances have been there. You just wonder about a team the longer it goes without winning something but I think we've got a group of young players hungry for success. We'll be there or thereabouts again, I'm sure.

Gael Clichy calls Armand Traore an 'amazing player'. I have to say I haven't seen enough yet to convince me he's ready for first team football with us but there's always one or two who seem to make a big step-up from one season to the next, perhaps he might be one. Where he's going to play though is another question. If Clichy continues to progress then he's going to find his chances very limited.

The Sun links us with a move for 17 year old Crystal Palace forward Victor Moses. Apparently we're offering £1m but Palace feel he commands a greater fee than that.

With no further news about Adebayor's dream transfer elsewhere, anywhere, Goonerholic looks back on a man who won over Arsenal fans after circumstances even more difficult than the ones Greedy faces.

And that's really about it. Sorry there's no Arsecast today. This is due to 'technical issues' which are 'beyond my control'. Apologies. It'll be back next week.

More tomorrow.