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Wilshere and Emmanuel Frimpong are all close while Andre Santos has been catching up on some match fitness as he prepares to step in for the unfortunate Kieran Gibbs. Santos apart, I don't see any of the others starting just yet, not just because of their own lack of sharpness but because the players in their places are doing a very good job of it. I am very interested to see what happens with

Bacary Sagna's comments to French press may not be as accidental as we imagine. Inter Milan are now being linked with him and it wouldn't surprise me or indeed be anything new if Arsene decided that it was time to cash in on a player who had suffered two leg breaks in a short space of time at his age. This is not to say that I would like Sagna sold, it just wouldn't 

Arsene felt it necessary to turn straight to Sagna then we could be in the position where we change 50% of our back four in one fell swoop. I am not sure how good that would be for the understanding that has developed since pre season, but funnily enough if I asked at the end of last season as to what I expected our back four to be then I probably would have gone