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Jul 17, 2007

The easiest route to the backpage of The Sun

Well, a quick answer to my earlier post. "No". It was just another rumor which brought to light the seriousness with which The Sun reports transfer news.
Apparently some fans of Boca Juniors posted on several Arsenal forums that Arsenal have a bid on table for Palacio and so on. The rumor didn't take much time to spread and it ended up on the back page of The Sun. And just after 24 hours or so, the creators of this rumor came out and acknowledged that it is a rumor.
Anyways, well done mate, thats a load of traffic and what more, you made it into Sun and Daily Mail and many blogs.
Meanwhile Gunnerblog is trying to make it into tomorrow's paper. I won't bet against him.

Elsewhere, we have Arsene Wenger explaining the delay in the appointment of Director of Football.
"I wanted to do it before the end of the season when I started buying and selling,But then I thought that now is the worst time because I have no time to tell someone how I want to do things. I did not want to unsettle the team before the end of the transfer market. So at the moment I work with Ken Friar and it is working well for us."
So maybe we'll have someone after the end of transfer window.

He also gave hints that the new signings Sagna and Da Silva will feature in the Emirates Cup.
"There was no World Cup or European Championships this summer so most of the players have had a longer rest and I will select the team for the Emirates Cup matches from everybody who has returned training. That means that it will be the first time our new signings would have played at Emirates Stadium for Arsenal, and the sides we field will be very strong".
I can't wait to see them play for Arsenal and the Emirates Cup will give a good hint about what they're all about.

A lot of people expect Dudu to score a lot of goals this season. But Wenger has tried ease off some pressure off him by asking the fans not to compare Dudu with Henry. Wenger claims that Dudu is a completely different player and more of a team player.

Laterz..