There appears to be a split amongst Gooners at the moment that an Olympic gymnast would be very
proud of.
So when I pose the question; is Tomas Rosicky worth a new contract at Arsenal? I expect many
differences of opinion.
In the past Tomas has frustrated me. Not because I think he is a bad player but because during his
time at the club he has spent at least 78% of it in the physio room.
Make no mistake about it, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has created a buzz amongst Gooners that is only
comparable with Charlie Sheen mangled on Tigerblood.
The boy has burst onto the scene in explosive fashion since making his first league start for
Arsenal against Manchester United last month.
I haven't given up on Arsenal making the top four because I can't.
Despite Arsenal appearing to want to make it as difficult as possible to get there, something
inside me makes it hard for me to believe we won't make it. And that something inside me is
certainly not wind.
Perhaps its the season when we needed a Lasagna to make it happen gives me belief.
The abuse I've seen thrown at Aaron Ramsey lately has been a sick joke.
Some of it has even bordered on things I wouldn't even wish on my worst enemy.
I couldn't believe my eyes at some of the stuff I've seen. I mean death threats?! Over a game of
football?! Come on behave yourself.
On a serious, and I mean se-ri-ous level, I have no idea how Wayne Rooney could have been voted
into the FIFA World XI over Robin van Persie.
Apparently over 50,000 professional footballers from across the world submitted their votes for the
World XI team. And somehow, Rooney was voted in.
Twitter (Follow me on @_Wrighty7) and the interweb is buzzing like a bumble bee today that Chelsea
man Salomon Kalou could be on the move to Arsenal.
Now I believe this is the sort of deal that will be like Marmite to Gooners. Some will like it, and
some will hate it.
I happen to think that Kalou would be a very good signing for the club.
Being realistic the FA Cup is the last throw of the dice for Arsenal to win silverware this
season.
We have as much chance of winning the league as Frank Lampard trying Diet Coke, are out of the pint
of Carling Cup and the way Barcelona are playing UEFA may as well hand them the Champions League
trophy now.
As we know the transfer window is open and that means its silly season time again.
Arsenal will be linked with every Tom, Dick and Harry from the Tombs of the Nobles to Outer 'order'
Mongolia.
Some of the rumours will make you laugh, others you can take more seriously.
Lukas Podolski is a player that Arsene Wenger is supposedly looking at.
When I look at the league table I get a shudder down my spine.
Of course S*urs sitting higher than us in the league table contributes to that shudder massively,
but what really causes that horrible feeling is that we sit outside the Champions League
places.
Now don't get me wrong, the thought of that lot finishing above us is indeed truly horrific.
Maybe I am clutching at straws here. Or maybe I have completely lost the plot in more ways than
one.
But I am really hoping that Marouane Chamakh will come back to Arsenal, after the African Cup of
Nations, a completely rejuvenated player.
Fingers crossed, hopefully he might even come back as Lukas Podolski.
Yoann Gourcuff has been linked with a move to Arsenal for a long, long time.
Since the summer this 'rumour' has grown bigger than Gervinho's forehead and won't go away despite
Arsene Wenger denying it will happen.
Wenger's reason for not bringing in Gourcuff is that Jack Wilshere and Abou Diaby will be back from
injury soon and there will be a lot of players in the midfield area.
The more and more I see Mikel Arteta play in an Arsenal shirt, the louder I laugh at the fact some
people out there called him a 'panic-buy'.
When he signed for us I was over the moon.
I loved watching him play when he was at Everton, and I love him even more now he wears the shirt
of Arsenal.
Since Ju Young Park arrived from Monaco in August he has made less than a handful of appearances
for Arsenal.
Now I understand there is always going to be a period of 'transition' for a player coming in from a
different country, but at times I wonder whether Park is actually real or a figment of my
imagination.
I know many people reading the headline of this article will probably think that I have gone
completely crackers.
Damn, a little part of me even thinks so too.
But there is another part of me, deep down, that truly believes that Fernando Torres would flourish
at Arsenal, under Arsene Wenger.
For a long long time I have said that I would love Arsene Wenger to play Thomas Vermaelen at
left-back.
In fact, when blowing the candles out on my (ahem) 18th birthday cake last year I wished that the
Belgian would become a regular there.
I have always felt that Arsenal would be so much more solid at the back with him playing there.