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The fear is any good performances from the likes of Cesc, Van Persie, Walcott, Vela etc will attract the same ol same ol to come sniffing around next summer offering the world

We all knew right from November 2001, on the night that it was announced that the 60,000-seater Emirates Stadium at Ashburton Grove would indeed become a reality, that transfer cash on players, world class players, would be hard to come by

People will point out to our "excuses" of claiming that "next year" is our year. However, next year is very much a possibility to behold since we did not end up 21 points behind United

My guess would be that Adebayor is very happy at Arsenal and wants to stay but his agent is helping him try and get the best deal possible which is obviously fair enough and it is what you do when it comes to negotiations.

Overmars, Petit, Vieira, Bergkamp and Henry have all departed and we wondered how they would be replaced but that is the thing, you do not replace an individual you restructure the team to make a competitive team capable to challenging for the top prizes

Why do we need to keep on looking to other clubs players when we've got a brilliant youth squad, filled with talented young English players. Secondly, our first team is the best on it's day, in the world

Cesc on the other hand showed what being a winner is all about, he never shirked any responsibility he came on and got himself on the ball as quickly as possible

I rate Peter Crouch as a footballer, and the preverbal good feet for a big man springs to mind but in my eyes he is not an Arsenal player and I do not imagine Arsene wanting a player who cannot get in behind a back four and run the channels as Adebayor does.

Lets put aside the prospect of media speculation for a minute and try to put things into perspective. Could this be 'The ultimate ploy'

According to various tabloid we are after the diamond Guiza (sorry, that was poor) from Real Mallorca to replace Emmanuel Adebayor. No quotes or anything substantial