My view is this, if we are actually interested in the player which I wouldn’t be too surprised if we were then a potential move would be dependant on the future of one Cesc Fabregas. I also wouldn’t be surprised if the agent, player and current club all know of this and will not talk unless Barcelona pay the

Welcome to another day of limbo, another day that is not a match day and so far not a day where actual official news is jumping out at us, apart from a few player quotes. To keep up my Arsenal fix, I browsed around the Arsenal player to see what I could find, something to tide me over until we announce that Messi is having an Arsenal medical. Or something.

I came across Carl Jenkinson’s second interview on the site, the one where he speaks about his first game for the club and how it felt to himself and his family. I already wrote something similar after his first interview but I did feel a sense of pride for the lad. You can see that it makes a big difference to players who genuinely have the club in their heart and I know Wenger has spoken of this for a while now. It is a reason why he believes growing a team together is beneficial.

Without pointing the finger at other individuals, it seems clear that the history of the club and the love for the badge just isn’t there. We are the latest club that will pay them their wages and give them a platform to perform, this is perfectly normal. You cannot expect every player to fall in love with the club because regardless of what we think or indeed how we feel about Arsenal, to some players we are just a job, a way to make ends meet. Some way, I gotta tell you but that is likely to be the case.

I would love and hope that Arsene can build a foundation of players who want to fight for the club and not just the individual glory. I value this quality and commitment far more valuable than the apparent experience that we miss.

Please don’t get this confused with needing to pack the team with good ol, English grit and passion. Nationality has very little to do with it. I present to you old faces like Patrick Vieira, Dennis Bergkamp and Thierry Henry. They may not have arrived as fully fledged Gooners but over time you could see that the club had merged into their hearts. While not everyone is totally convinced with Chamakh, he has been a fan of our great club for sometime now and is a fighter. He chases, hassles and puts in a shift whenever he gets the chance. It is another reason why I like the signing of Gervinho who has publicly spoken very highly of our club for years now.

I love the idea of us building the future around Szczesny, Jenkinson, Gibbs, Frimpong, Ramsey and Wilshere, perhaps one or two more should they develop sufficiently. It is key that we keep this group together and players we buy externally will follow the players at the club. It was how the likes of Vieira, Bergkamp, Henry, Pires and so on learned. Players like Adams, Keown, Winterburn etc were already at the club and had the red of Arsenal pumping ferociously around their veins and this passed onto the new players, it would be beneficial for us if we had that in our squad.

Meanwhile Theo Walcott has had his say on the quality of our versatile defender.

Walcott said:

“He looks very confident and it is great to see. He is not shy at all which is nice for a new lad coming in, especially at a young age. It’s a bit daunting at first but all the players have helped bed him in and that showed in his game [in Asia]. He is very positive and I enjoyed playing with him.”

So according to Arsenal squad members, Jenkinson was the fittest player in pre season, is confident in himself and is a born and bred Gooner. I am liking the cut of this guys jib, that’s for sure. He may well be an underwhelming signing for some but I bet if he had been sniffing around the Blackburn Rovers squad and then came in for a ‘sending a message’ £16m transfer fee then that perception could well be a little different.

Theo also gave his verdict on Japanese winger Ryo Miyaichi.

Walcott said:

“I don’t like comparing myself to other players, every player is different. He wants to be his own player, he is a confident lad and will hopefully have a good career at Arsenal. He has got a few step-overs more than me, I don’t do any! That is maybe something I could bring into my game.”

I hope that last part was not tongue in cheek from Theo, not necessarily the step overs but the trickery to beat his opponent without having to rely solely on speed. At Theo’s age it could be a little late to develop that side of his game to any real degree. It has been researched that people develop their technique from a far younger age and as far as I know, Walcott did not start getting into the game until he was 10 years old. You can see that someone like Jack Wilshere is a natural footballer, one that probably started kicking a ball at 4 years of age and the ability that we see today was probably already there when he was 15 years of age. Once you have the technique then tactical, discipline, strength and speed can be added afterwards.

I find it very difficult to place Theo’s importance to the team in my head. The fastest player in the squad, that makes the opposition set themselves up in a different way. He is very possibly the best finisher at the club and had a fantastic return of both goals and assists last season yet when the opponents half looks congested Theo often looks invisible. His build up play is also not as good as his attacking team mates, yet he scores goals and gives our passers an outlet.

I am very intrigued to know if Gervinho will be in direct competition with Theo Walcott given the fact that Gervinho played in Theo’s position for the most part last season but it is unlike Arsene to halt the progress of a player who is progressing and improving his contributions to the team. Saturday should be interesting in that respect but it is also quite likely that we will see the team broken up into two parts so it may not tell the full story.

In transfer speculation. Apparently we have had a £10m bid rejected by Everton for Phil Jagielka. Apparently they want double that which is kinda funny in a non funny way. He is 29 years old and I understand why both Everton do not want to sell as they will find it hard to replace him for the money Arsenal have offered and I understand that Arsenal do not want to pay crazy money for a player who will have no resale value and who would likely be part of a rotated list of four center backs.

The Mata stories are resurfacing once again. Mata said that he is happy at Valencia but you never know what will happen in the future. The Valencia coach was also very cagey about the situation.

My view is this, if we are actually interested in the player which I wouldn’t be too surprised if we were then a potential move would be dependant on the future of one Cesc Fabregas. I also wouldn’t be surprised if the agent, player and current club all know of this and will not talk unless Barcelona pay the needed money for us to release our player.

Frank Ribery has also hit the rumour mill but I don’t buy it for so many reasons. Here are a few. Past his best, injury prone, huge wages, congestion of wide attackers and if you want to sell shirts then buying Ribery is just a no no.

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