Arsene's wicked sense of humour?

Afternoon all


The furore over Arsene's appeared lack of failure to sign a goalkeeper continues. My advice? Get over it! We can't go back now, and Almunia is part of our squad. 


Speaking of our squad, I can't believe we are getting stick for including no English players in our initial squad. The main reason for that is we simply don't have to! Now, I don't really understand all this squad regulations mumbo jumbo, but our squad breaks down something like this;


First-Team Squad:
Manuel Almunia
Andrey Arshavin
Marouane Chamakh
Abou Diaby
Emmanuel Eboue
Lukasz Fabianski
Laurent Koscielny
Samir Nasri
Tomas Rosicky
Bacary Sagna
Thomas Vermaelen
Robin van Persie
Sebastien Squillaci



Home Grown:
Nicklas Bendtner
Gael Clichy
Denilson
Johan Djourou
Vito Mannone
Alexandre Song
Cesc Fabregas



Quite an impressive squad thus far. Now Wenger has criticised the rulings, and maybe that's why he's decided on adding about 200 players, a real signal of ''put that in your pipe and smoke it'' aimed in the direction of the FA. The under 21's are as follows;


Benik Afobe, Chuks Aneke, Martin Angha, Zak Ansah, Nacer Barazite, Kyle Bartley, Samir Bihmoutine, Daniel Boateng, Pedro Botelho, George Brislen-Hall, Alban Bunjaku, James Campbell, Reice Charles-Cook, Francis Coquelin, Thomas Cruise, Roarie Deacon, Craig Eastmond, Kyle Ebecilio, Jamie Edge, Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, Cedric Evina, Luke Freeman, Emmanuel Frimpong, Samuel Galindo, Kieran Gibbs, Ben Glasgow, Sead Hajrovic, Conor Henderson, Gavin Hoyte, Henri Lansbury, Damian Martinez, Sean McDermott, Jernade Meade, Ignasi Miquel, Jeffrey Monakana, Elton Monteiro, Rhys Murphy, Havard Nordtveit, Oguzhan Ozyakup, Aaron Ramsey, Mark Randall, Josh Rees, Philip Roberts, James Shea, Steven Smith, Gilles Sunu, Wojciech Szczesny, Armand Traore, Carlos Vela, Theo Walcott, Sanchez Watt,  Callum Webb, Jack Wilshere, Jordan Wynter, Nico Yennaris

So that's 55 players to call upon! Moving on, I'm sick of all this squad business!

Good news now, regarding the er, squad. Samir Nasri is ahead of schedule in his recovery from knee surgery. Our squad is really starting to look the part now, providing the keep the nucleus (Almunia, Vermaelen, Squillaci, Song, Cesc, and RvP) fit and healthy.

Nasri taking on Mascherano

The Mirror reports that the Bolton game could mark Samir's return, but for me, too soon and far too unnecessary especially considering the likes of Fabregas, Rosicky and Wilshere are available to us.

Well that's a wrap for today folks, thanks for reading!