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Good hi to everyone. I have been on a break from twitter and ja606 for a week. Part of that was due to being more drunk than anyone has ever been for 3 days then coming back to find out we'd done less than no business, and partly because i don't want to use twitter again until we sign someone.

There's a lot of back and forth between the 'AKB' and the 'WOB' which are frankly stupid and flippant terms that either 'side' use to devalue the other's argument (people have opinions, stop crying).

Let's sum up what is happening:

We have signed no one to improve our first team or our squad.
Rivals have strengthened.
Our players have called for Wenger to spend
The board have called for Wenger to spend

These are the facts. I'm not going into the stupid area of speculating over Wenger's apparent unwillingness to spend because frankly none of us have a fackin clue.

What is factual though is we have a Champions League qualifier coming up very soon. It may come as a shock to some of you that the season begins BEFORE the end of the transfer window, and these games are not mere friendlies.

You would think, given our horrendous starts to the last two seasons. that Wenger would want to ensure we are well prepared and that our new signings are integrated into the team.

Every point counts, as the last two seasons have shown and it is irresponsible to neglect improving the team in time for the start of the new season.

A rebuttal to this is that selling teams are asking for ridiculous amounts of money for their top players. A few things on this:

-We have mugged clubs off(City mainly) for our players, and made them pay ridiculous amounts
-You have to pay over the odds for top class players, especially from 'rivals'
-We have been very public about our new financial power

This is mainly related to the whole Suarez/Higuain saga where very high prices have been an issue.

Away from this, there cannot really be much of an excuse to have not strengthened the team elsewhere.

A ha! I hear you say. But we're waiting to see what happens with the Cesc situation before we spend more money!

Ok, so if Cesc is in any way a possibility....why not just bid for him for what he's worth? No one knows for sure what our buy back clause actually involves but one interesting theory i read is that we have to match the accepted bid in order to have first refusal on him. If that's the case. then for the love of God, why are we waiting for other teams to bid?

The minimum we require is a midfielder who can dominate games physically , a creative midfield/wide player and a world class striker.

Luis Gustavo is seemingly available. We have absolutely no excuse not to go all out to get him and at a reported £15m? Fackin bargain.

One problem solved.

Creative midfielder? Right, fine, wait for Cesc. I'm willing to accept that. But at least have backup options in the pipeline.

Striker - Pay up for Suarez. There are no more options out there that are of the world class standard we require. He's banned for the first 6 league matches, but spending £50m to guarantee we qualify for the CL stops us losing a potentially similar amount from failure to get to the group stages.

I don't know what is going on and i'm certainly not as angry as a lot of people seem to be, but there is definitely something not right at Arsenal at the moment. We are barely even linked to any players any more and Wenger seems to be convincing himself that the team the scraped 4th, minus some squad players, is sufficient to start the new season.

Once again, regardless of whether we sign players in the last few days of the window, if we fail to sign a top quality player before the CL qualifiers, it will only serve as proof that said signings were dependent on us qualifying for the CL.

I wrote this in stages, so if one part doesn't follow another, please feel free to jump out a ground floor window.

Good bye.