Firstly everyone’s favourite Arsenal midfielder (Denilson, not Cesc) has rubbished talk of wanting to leave because of our lack of trophies, instead clarifying that he wanted to try a different league. He wants to find a good European club and if not he wants to go back to Brazil for six months. I don’t

Good afternoon all,

The weather in London is wonderful at the moment, sun shine beating down all over the place. I just wish someone had told me this earlier as I wouldn’t have worn jeans and a long sleeve top. Maybe I need to take some responsibility and check out the forecast before hand. I bloody need to show some more mental strength and organisation in my life.

As will be the case for the most part, there isn’t a great deal of news to talk about and most of the ‘news’ will consist of what journo’s tell us, I will get to that in a second or two.

Firstly everyone’s favourite Arsenal midfielder (Denilson, not Cesc) has rubbished talk of wanting to leave because of our lack of trophies, instead clarifying that he wanted to try a different league. He wants to find a good European club and if not he wants to go back to Brazil for six months. I don’t know what that means exactly. If he cannot find a suitable club will we loan him to Brazil?

If both clubs have decided to go their separate ways then I do not see how a loan move would benefit Arsenal, unless of course he can produce performances on par with Lionel Messi, thus pushing up his transfer fee.

I don’t understand his quotes about having his best season, surely that has to be a translation problem or something because it would be very difficult to have your best season when you have only started six Premier League games. Unless in those games you managed to score five and assist a further six in each of those games, unless I missed something, he hadn’t.

I really hope he manages to get a good move and then manages to produce his best football. I like watching Denilson when he is playing well and full of confidence. It has been a little while since we have seen that but a few performances instantly come back to me. Coming on at Goodison Park he was very good. He, along with Jack totally ran the show at White Hart Lane in the Carling Cup. The way we kept the ball that day was wonderful to watch and Denilson’s movement and ball retention was a joy to watch.

Stick him in a decent Spanish team and I think opinions of him will slowly change from ‘Denilson you are shite’ to ‘Clearly he wasn’t suited to the Premier League’

The Cesc Fabregas stories have been revving up in the background with reports that Barcelona have agreed long contracts with a few of their targets before agreeing with the clubs. One of those supposed targets was finalised today. Mexican Alexis Sanchez has moved to Barcelona from Udinese for £23m with Jeffren going in the opposite direction.

So I guess our stance will continue. Put up or shut up! But as we all know, Barcelona will never shut up, it remains to be seen, whether they put up or not.

The Daily Star have come up with the Jermaine Defoe to Arsenal stories. I always feel somewhat suspect when only one paper runs with a story and that paper is a red top. While we are here and real news is somewhat difficult to come by, I am gonna run with it.

Defoe at Arsenal? Well I have two palms open in front of me, one with positives and the other negatives and one hand is lower than the other, can you guess which one?

Firstly, it would be nice to have a player who lives for goals. He is a player who has Premier League experience and would be a good impact striker off the bench if we needed goals and could possibly allow Arsene to revert back to 4-4-2 when the need arises.

On the other hand, he couldn’t get into the Tottenham team last year, is a selfish player who doesn’t really work for the team and would possibly take away from the players around him.

Which hand do you think is raised higher?

Another name mentioned recently is that of West Brom forward Peter Odemwingie I suspect that it is further nonsense talk but he has had a good season and gave us a bit of a run around at the Emirates this season. He also pressed the triangle button on Almunia at the Hawthorns. Someone with that sort of influence may well be a good acquisition as a squad member. The benefit of that type of player is that he can function in both wide and central areas which is very important in our system. It is part of the reason why Bendtner has not been able to shine and also why I think it would be a problem for Defoe.

Oh yeah, there was some Arsenal news that i had forgotten to mention and that was Robin Van Persie denying recent comments having a go at Chelsea players. I wonder if his words were said off the record. Anyway, it is exactly what we all think so whether he said so or not is almost irrelevant.

Anyhoo, that is that for today.

Enjoy the sunshine.