MikeC

Have a feeling Ibe is going to get more game time this season. Which is good, because he is going to be ace.

Drogba back to Chelsea apparently...more reason to hate them.

All this talk of fanny has made me get my cock out.

Arsenal have loads of tricky Attacking Midfielders anyway, they can't play them all at once. Anyway, isn't Cazorla supposed to be heading back to Spain? If so, consider Sanchez a small upgrade on him. We can't buy another Suarez because there isn't one...like someone else said earlier, we have to be looking for the next big thing. Like Markovic. So we're doing the right kind of business I reckon. Just get Shaqiri goddamnit.

Good opening negotiating positions.

Gutted if they get him. I truly reckon Brendan could turn him into another £50m+ player.

Still dreaming of Shaqiri

That's exactly what we need more of.

What's the latest on Shaqiri? Are we still in for him? For some reason I want him more than anyone else. He's perfect for us...not too pricey, stuttered after his move to a big club, still young and buckets of potential. Come on Ian, make it happens.

The speed that everything is happening, it does feel a bit like it's been engineered.

Which player?

Can he appeal? Answer: The decision is not yet final and binding. An appeal can be lodged by the player or the Uruguay FA. "The appeal does not have a suspensive effect except with regard to orders to pay a sum of money." So an appeal would not allow Suárez to play in the Round of 16.

Luis Suarez: nine-match ban This is just coming in from Uruguayan journalists. More imminently: Salió el fallo: 9 partidos de suspensión a Luis Suárez. FIFA aún no lo hizo oficial — Daniel Rosa (@danirro) June 26, 2014

I am confident that Jordan Ibe will be our Chamberlain

I think Suso has done enough on his loan to warrant a place in the squad ahead of Luis Alberto...so I'd send Luis Alberto somewhere for a year, and Suso gets the bench and maybe the Carling Cups games to stake a claim.

OK fair enough, although I think a lot of the defensive issues are down to the way we set up, so we mitigate them by getting better players (which Moreno is). I agree we need another centre half though. Also given the way we play I think any DM we sign would be playing a bit part, so Can would be the right sort of signing there for me.

We'd have a new left back, a new DM, and quality on the bench. Aside from maybe another centre half, what other problems are there to address?

Inspired signing, especially if Aspas does leave and it effectively costs us nothing. I hope we wrap up a few of our other targets soon too...if the world cup starts and we have already signed Lambert, Lallana, Moreno and this Emre Can fella I will be buzzing.

If you swapped Bony for someone else (Konoplyanka) I'd be not unhappy with that. Would still feel like we'd missed a trick though.

Joke Hole. This is all by the by anyway, we're not going to buy Yaya are we. Aren't his wages north of £200k p/w. We want the next Yaya. Lallaya.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/feb/27/ashley-cole-chelsea-air-rifle

Maybe Moses coming in will allow Coutinho to go central in a lot of games

I really want to believe, but after Mhiktaryan and Costa both looking more solid than this link and not materialising, I do not. This transfer window has violated me.

Read somewhere that he is also talking to two unnamed clubs as well ... one Spanish and one English.

I think this could be the year.