Proper season is up and running

So September is here, with crisp air, falling leaves, school and transfer deadline.

This blog will now enter a hiatus until the next Silly Season, coming up around Christmas, I should guess. My blood pressure is still high after my ISP decided Transfer Deadline Day was the perfect time to fail me miserably. So I can need the break.

The transfer rumours are updated up until 31 August, and the lists will be there to see. For the next transfer window I expect to make brand new pages for the brand new rumours which the papers and websites use to attract an audience.

Yet again, these media have throughout the Silly Season passed rumours and unsubstantiated reports as “facts” and “news”.

All in all, 162 players have been linked with signing for Arsenal. Four of them have signed: Marouane Chamakh, Laurent Koscielny and Sébastien Squillaci for the first team squad, Kyle Ebecilio for the youth team – albeit the official confirmation never appeared.

There have been considerably more traffic on the way out of the club. Eight players have left outright, while eight have been loaned out for the season or for a few months. However, 35 Arsenal players in total have been linked with moving away on loan or permanently…

Rumours of the summer: Mark Schwarzer in, Cesc Fábregas out. Neither happened. Let that be a lesson for us all.