The Most Important Summer Signing Is........

Whatever moves are made this summer, this is the most important, the trainer Arsene Wenger must be kept at the club. The Board have let him down, and this is impacting on his prestige globally as a trophy man, his rivals Ferguson and Mourinho all bagged league triumphs this year, a rookie trainer Guardiola has won a league title playing football the way Arsene Wenger does, so it comes as no surprise he may want to enter into a deal with the devil to win what he deserves.

We all know that Wenger plays mind games all the time, but to say something of this magnitude on a prestigious TV show indicates there may be some truth in Perez wanting him. For years Wenger has had to convince his players not to leave, this time it must be the board who must convince Wenger to stay, a tough ask indeed. Lets not forget that this season was thrown away by the board by sacking keys cogs in the structure, and just like the team, never replaced them, leaving Wenger having to multi task in recruiting, managing contracts,and coaching. We have seen the results on the pitch this season.

The Board needs to sort it out now, get stability in the boardroom, be it selling up to Uzmanov or most likely Kroenke, or getting rid of both of them, and then to quit playing hard ball with money, what kind of football team gets involved in property gambling and has no reaction to the quality of the squad falling every year? This Board is too concerned with being noble and reaping profits, whilst other boards are concerned with winning trophies. They need to release big money for new players, we are already at the bottom of the class of the 'Top 4', we are clinging onto that spot, we are closer to 5th than 3rd. Now they risk losing their biggest asset, the trainer who ensured Arsenal moved to a new stadium.

Some Pride Kept Intact

A respectable 0-0 against worthy multi Champions Man Utd, but at least the season doesn't end with another hammering or hard defeat. We lined up in a rough 4-5-1, and whilst it gave us a lot of balance and control in midfield, we lacked the objective of the game, an ability to score. It is solutions like this that we must find asap before the season kicks off in 3 months time. Another aspect that i did not get it constantly throwing in crosses when there is no one in the box? Also the picking on Evra was childish, and no club like Arsenal should be involved in such negative actions.

Ratings

Fabianski 6: Good performance, then again United never tested him, good charge out vs Tevez.

Sagna 6: Solid as nails as a defender, needs to show more in his crossing, don't cross if there is no one in the box.

Gibbs 6: Not much work, handled Ronaldo well.

Toure 6: Close to back what we expect from him, got forward as well.

Song 7: Good showing, made tactical fouls as well.

Denilson 7: Doesn't funnel the opposition into blind alleys, but a good micro link man.

Diaby 6: We need to see more, he is not an average player, he can really scale the heights if he pushes himself more.

Fabregas 6: Where has his passing gone?

Nasri 7: We need to find a place for him in central midfield asap, very mobile and can spot the moving pass.

Arshavin 5: Invisible.

Van Persie 6: Up against tough defenders, could not get anything from them.

*Little noises about Adebayor who never travelled after a very revealing interview on BBC Football Focus, his future is in the air.*

At Least We Won't Have To Do This Tomorrow.

Transfers That Will Not Happen.

Some fans really amaze me, a) by how stupid they are and b) how much football do they really watch? This applies not only to the fans, but some well known pundits, many who have worn the Arsenal shirt.

YaYa Toure
Who in their right mind thinks Toure will switch a 98 000 capacity stadium, a team coached by one of the best exponents of the position in the last 20 years for a team that is so much smaller? This is lazy transfer wishing, just because we have his brother Kolo, is this why he is constantly linked? Let us not kid ourselves, YaYa is the holding player because he has Iniesta and Xavi in his positions, it's like Petit who had to play in midfield because he had Blanc-Desailly-Lizarazu in his natural positions. Look at YaYa for the Ivory Coast, he plays with Zokora and is the creative hub of the team, at Monaco he was the same, so why would he play Fabregas' second fiddle when he is just as good in that role? Enough of the YaYa talk, IT WILL NOT HAPPEN.

Giorgio Chiellini
A player who is playing for the most supported team in the world, has ambitions of emulating the achievements of other great defenders, spent an entire season in Serie B just to come to a foreign team when he has his whole career ahead of him? Wake up, this will not happen, the Juventus fans will kill the directors of Juventus, then kill Chiellini then come to London and target our top brass in the board. Enough of the Chiellini talk, IT WILL NOT HAPPEN.

David Villa
He looks like he will move, but why come to Arsenal, when he has Barcelona and Real Madrid both battling to sign him up. Both clubs have bigger stadiums, bigger exposure, bigger finances, and have a better chance of winning trophies every season, something our 5 year drought proves. Forget it, this is a guy who is among the Top 3 strikers in the last 5 years in Spain with Forlan and Eto'o, why pack that up and come to Arsenal? Enough of the Villa talk, IT WILL NOT HAPPEN.

The sooner we realise we cannot attract such players, the quicker we can realise just who we can.