@Sam – news coming to me this morning is that Cesc will be out until the Man United game. Ouch, that’s longer than anticipated…

Just read Cesc won’t be back till end of Jan. Hope it’s not true!

@Yemi, it’s when you post a link, it needs to be moderated!

yer i saw the peice on sky sports and it says he is going to atletico ! to be honest he plays in the fabregas position and fabregas plays there then after him ramsey plays there because he is miles ahead of merida! if we cant give him football i suppose he has to go and he is allready 19 so i cant see him turning into a world clas player over the next year or 2 because he wont get the chances to play! if weneger was desperate to keep him i think he would of been able to so wenegr maybe doesnt see him becoming the next fabregas! obviously rather of had him at the club but you cant have them all AY !!

Just what I’ve been hearing. He’d leave at the end of the season though, not now…

@dev: my previous comment has been awaiting moderation for over 2hours now, whats up with that?

@debs: where did u get the merida news? i tot the boss said only wilshere may leave (on loan) this window?

Apparently Merida’s signed a 5-year contract with Atletico Madrid. Any truth?

apparently diaby wants to fill that song void !!! We’ll have to wait and see

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/diaby-i-ll-talk-to-wenger-about-song-role

We have started again this transfer window trying to know who we’ll buy or not…. I think we should leave that job to arsene cos we would just be raising a lot of dust and hope at the end nothing might come out of it… Remember we all wanted the boss to sign a DM and that song will not be good enuff but he has proved us all wrong, so my take on this one is “arsene knows best” i think the improvement of diaby is another classic example, we also tought gibbs was to young to stand in for clichy when he first made his appearance !!!

it would be one of diaby-senderos-eastmond to fill that void. and since we are already short in midfield, i think the boss will go for senderos cos of his height and leave diaby to go forward and maybe eastmond later on.
On signings, we need an impact signing in CF. I think le boss will buy a striker and nothing more

@jeffvip – true – he is not exactly the biggest but he is one of those annoying players who snaps at your heels, so it’s aggression over physical…?