More January Transfers

After numerous reports linking Arsenal with two Spanish players today, Fans FC go one better and add another player into the mix.

"Three European stars are being lined up for a January move to the Emirates Stadium and they will cost a combined fee in excess of £33million." roars the headline. As well as Antonio Puerta and Jesus Navas of Sevilla, they then link us with Livorno keeper Marco Amelia, with the club president Aldo Spinelli trying to talk up the value of his player:

"The player has also received an interesting offer from a Premiership club to join them in June, but I will not confirm if it's Liverpool. It may be an even more important outfit.

"I've heard the valuation of £7 million, but that is the wrong price.

"We are talking about a real champion without a shadow of a doubt. He is one of the best in the world and £7 million would not be enough to sign him."

So, just to recap, we have now we have been linked with:
Julian Esteban
Ahmed Apimah Barusso
Antonio Puerta
Jesus Navas
Marco Amelia

It seems some sites just publish articles such as these to get noticed on NewsNow, or some other aggregator - up go their hits and so they can command more advert fees. Sigh.

After the weekend, the more likely activity for Arsenal in January is the departure of Jeremie Aliadiere. With both Henry & Van Persie unavailable for the Bolton game, he still couldn't even make the bench. As soon as we went a goal behind I looked at the team/bench and wondered where the goals were going to come from. We looked short of options, with no out & out striker on the bench. Surely we didn't need two defenders on the bench? Hleb & Baptista both look occasional goalscorers at best.

Of course it's easy to be wise after the event, but we have to give ourselves some hope of scoring goals, and the options we had at our disposal on Saturday looked limited. If Aliadiere can't make the bench with two of our forwards out, he might as well go in January.