Wenger's Chelsea summary & transfer rumours already.

Evening Gooners, two areas to cover today,

Firstly the official stuff. Arsenal send out official communication from time to time including Arsene Wenger's weekly view of the world. I was interested to see how he would approach the Chelsea result after publicly being very honest about our performance against West Brom. He must have been knocked for 6 by it as he started with

"I think we demonstrated on Saturday that you can play well and lose the match"

I'm pretty sure we played Sunday but the point was valid. He went on to say

"The Chelsea game should have been over within a minute - we had the first two chances and we missed that header from six yards"

"we missed too many chances at that level and in the final third you need to be more clinical offensively and defensively. We had a great team performance and great energy. But we have to be more clinical to win titles - we can't lose a game like that"

I was surprised to read that last statement. Wenger has always been very protective of his squad and that sounded very negative. Could Wenger finally be losing patience with his players? I have a feeling that he is using the pressure from fans  and the board to bring home trophies to put a bit more pressure on the players to deliver. If this is the case we will finally see how mentally strong our guys are and it may be the extra push everyone needs to bring some success back to our great club.

Arsene did then sound a bit more familiar with

"I was not angry with my team. I felt sorry for them because they had an outstanding attitude and an outstanding display"

He also payed tribute to Jack Wilshere and Abou Diaby and rightly so, both players were superb.

Now for part two. We are exactly 88 days away from the start of the transfer window and already we are being linked with a number of players.

Mark Schwarzer has again come out seemingly determined to force a move in January. I;m sorry but I said this in the summer and I'll say it again now, Schwarzer is not better than the keepers we already have in our squad. I would honestly be surprised if we brought in a keeper in January, as long as we don't have a string of howlers from both Almunia and Fabianski then Wenger will stick with what we have.

A new pair of players linked with us are the Lukaku brothers. Romelu and Jordan both play for Anderlecht  with Romelu Lukaku being the latest teenager to be called one of the most exciting youngsters in European football. Now I can't comment either way on the ability of these guys but surely, October 5th is too early to be considering such things. Arsene Wenger rarely lets his targets become common knowledge (Arshavin and Nasri excluded) so I can only assume this is a move by the brother's agent or Anderlecht themselves to remind other clubs that they have competition for the players so better prepare bigger bids.

I'm still hurting from the weekend so will leave it there today, but would like to add one more thing. To
all those fans who have reappeared calling for Arsene Wenger to be sacked, ask yourself two questions. Why would you sack the most successful manager in our history? and Who would you replace him with? No other manager will get more from these players, or understand what this clubs needs, so with due respect, sit down and shut up!!!!

Until tomorrow,
Goonerfish.