What's going on at Arsenal?!

So Wenger is cutting it fine, for a man who prides himself on being prepared for the future, everything (or nothing) is all too late this season!

Half our players are either on the brink of being sold or injured, including two of our best, Fabregas and Nasri and the other half are having to pick up the slack (the slack we normally have when most are fit and playing). With only one first team player signed and the season has already started, the situation continues to look bleak.

The excuse, 'we haven't found the right players yet', I can't see how that can be. The number one priority over the season had to have been to get the right players and weeks and weeks of searching can't just amount to nothing. This suggests that there are underlying reasons to all this, maybe there isn't the money, maybe Wenger doesn't want to change his personnel, either way its getting a bit suspicious.

With both Fabregas and Nasri both poised to go this weekend, it was always going to be difficult keeping them. I don't doubt that Wenger has done everything in his power to keep them and I admire his morals, one of which is don't keep a player who isn't happy. Now with the season fast approaching and Wenger still wrestling over the prices of two of our talismanic players, I believed that he had stalled these late deals so that they could play against Newcastle yesterday. He hadn't as they didn't play. This is more disappointing as these players weren't sold or injured and yes ok, mentally they would have been effective but I believe their ability and love for this club would have still provided them with enough firepower to put in a performance. Instead we didn't even have players like Eboue, Bendtner, Almunia or Denilson, none of which I am the greatest fan of but at least they would have given us good enough support to overpower Newcastle.

The result, a lacklustre performance in a 0-0 draw with Newcastle who are also in a huge player crisis. This should have been 3 easy points if we want to seriously contend for the league this year but we bareley had any real chances despite the huge possession domination which just indicates that we haven't moved on and improved at all since last season.

With around 58million coming in for Fabregas and Nasri, the fact that Eboue, Bendtner and Almunia were not included which should be more cash, Wenger won't be short of money. The club has already promised that all the money raised from Fabregas is going to be available for transfers which is good news but with Champions league qualifiers against Udinese and Premiership games against Chelsea and Man United fast approaching, there is no time and we cannot field the same strength team against these clubs as we will be destroyed. No Champions league would be a disaster in itself but defeats against the two best clubs in the league too would already ruin the season before it has barely started. Wenger excuse of not yet finding the right players again worries me as it suggests that now he is going to have to panic buy players he doesn't really want. :(