Deal or no deal?

Tonight i've been sitting online on Eurosport website to see what's going down transfers wise for Arsenal.

West Ham have signed Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano. United, Chelsea and Arsenal were after these guys too! Ah well.

We have however, gotten rid of homesicker Reyes. Glad to see the back of him, biggest waste of £22mil (or whatever it was) ever. And he actually seemed like a decent player at times, his first goal against Chelski for example was a corker. but i really hope he follows the trend of all the other Arsenal players who have left to 'better their careers'. Like Manu Petit and Marc Overmars who both left for Barca and never achieved the same success at Arsenal. Vieira anyone? Yea, we knocked them out of the Champions League last season, and now the club's in complete disgrace over this match fixing thingy. Then there was Anelka, who went from Arsenal to Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain, Liverpool, Manchester City, Fenerbahçe, to Bolton Wanderers. Anyway, in return we've got Julio 'the Beast' Baptista. Let's compare. When Gary Neville hits Reyes with a cruncher Reyes cries and tells the press. When Baptista gets tackled by Gary Neville, Baptista will eat Gary Neville. Good deal if you ask me.

"I eat players like Gary Neville for dinner..." Julio Baptista

There's still just over 2 hours for us to get rid of problem child #2, Ashley Cole. Hopefully he goes, although it's looking less and less likely. Ah well, it's better having only 1 player that doesn't want to play rather than 2.

So that's it then. So far this season we've lost Pires, Bergkamp, Reyes, with Larsson, Bendtner, Lupoli and Gilbert all out on loan. We've got in Rosicky, Baptista. I fear for this season i really do, the youngsters coming through don't really have the experience i feel to do much this season but we'll see.

Update 10:01pm - Pascal Cygan is away to Villareal. He's pish, but who's gonna play in his place? We're so so slack for cover in midfield and defence. Screwed. Need something BIG to happen in next two hours, apart from Cole going for £30m. Argh!