Morning all. Throughout January Soccerlens is going to be bringing you a daily round-up of the morning's various goings-on. Be it juicy morsels of spurious transfer gossip or real, actual bona fide news, rest assured, we'll have it covered.

Here's this morning's batch.

Mexes-matosis.

It is now even more urgent that Arsenal get a new centre-back this month now that it has been revealed that Thomas Vermaelen requires surgery on his achilles problem, but has Arsene Wenger actually made any moves to try and get anyone in? The most touted names to move to the Emirates at the beginning of [.

The British media are going crazy with the prospect of David Beckham returning to the Premier League, even if it is just for a twelve week loan period. But nobody seems to be asking whether the LA Galaxy should let Beckham go out on loan again.

In the last two January transfer windows, Beckham had signed with AC Milan to keep himself fit, and also keep himself in the frame for England.

It's been a while since I dreamt about Arsenal. Last night I was playing an indoor training match with some of the players. I say some because I'm pretty sure Zoolander wasn't an Arsenal player (he's rubbish, btw). Anyway, at one point I had the ball out on the touchline, Jack Wilshere came over to tackle me and I nutmegged him.

One current transfer rumour is highly disturbing: Matthew Upson is one of the defensive options open to Arsene Wenger.

A few years ago Upson was a decent defender, maintaining his affiliation to Arsenal through a plethora of injuries throughout his career. The question I have to ask is if Upson wasn't good enough for us back in 2003 when he was actually a decent defender what makes Arsene think that he is good enough for us now when he is clearly over the hill?

First off, I'd like to apologize for the lack of posts in the last week. The Wigan match left a bad taste and watching Bolton York City was impossible in the states. We couldn't even get highlights until nearly three days later. Right, back to regular programming:

Bolton travel to Stoke this weekend for their second match against the Potters this season.

According to reports in the Belgian press Thomas Vermaelen is to undergo surgery on Tuesday for his achilles problem.

Apparently a small tendon close to the achilles is causing the problem but he hopes this will cure it and he'll be back by March. Optimistic but let's hope he's right.

Thanks for Andrew from Sport.

Arsenal's best center back will undergo surgery this week on his achilles problem that has kept him out of a lot of football this season. Vermaelen is a massive part of Arsene's defending plans and his loss has been significant as the defence have shipped their fair share of goals this season, exposing Premier League [.

Former Arsenal manager George Graham believes the Gunners should focus on power when they decide who to sign for the defensive department this month. With Thomas Vermaelen to undergo surgery this week to fix his Achilles ...

By Chris Wright

Arsenal have decided that the Achilles tweak that was supposed to keep Belgian defender Thomas Vermaelen out for, and I quote, 'a couple of weeks' back in late September will now require surgery with the procedure almost definitely set to push back the centre-back's return date by a further six weeks.

Theo van Nasregas celebrates with Eboue

With an emphatic win over West Ham and ManUtd drawing with the Spuds, it turned out to be a decent weekend for the Arsenal. We are 2 points off of ManUtd, who have a game in hand over us, and Man City, who have played a game more than us. The best part of it all is seeing our team play the wonderful football we know they are capable of producing.

Morning all,

we'll start with confirmation of the news you already knew that Thomas Vermaelen is to undergo surgery for his ongoing achilles problem. Except it's not surgery. It's a 'procedure'.

'A surgical procedure?', I hear you ask. Yes, yes it is, but it's not 'surgery surgery'. There'll be no opening of his chest, cracking of his breast-plate and tinkering with his heart.

GRONINGEN, Netherlands Eredivisie high-flyers FC Groningen had to come from behind to get past SC Genemuiden and book their place in the quarter-finals of the KNVB Beker. Florencio Cornelia gave the third-tier side a shock lead midway through the first half but Groningen showed their class by turning the game on its head before [.

20 year old Italian international Davide Santon is considered by many to be one of the hottest prospects in Italian football but his chances of getting first team football at the San Siro are severely hampered by the fact that veterans Christian Chivu and Maicon have something of a monopoly over their respective sides of the back four which has left much speculation that the talented youngster will be on his way and the player's agent has stated in the past that a move to the Premier League would interest his client.