Seeing the articles on Arsenal.com tonight, it doesn’t seem like Arsene was in a great mood in today’s press conference. By the looks of things he was harassed by the media about possible transfers and he let them know what was what.

He said that Hleb is not for sale and only Flamini is free to leave at the moment. It also appears that Hleb went for more than an ice cream in Milan. Arsene has found out exactly what happened that night before the game and he says he’s going to report Inter Milan for tapping up Hleb.

I don’t think anyone bought that story about Hleb simply going for a frozen treat, and he’s obviously sat him down and asked him what actually went on. I doubt he’s too happy with Hleb at the moment and if Alex did want to leave he’s not going the right way about it.

Wenger’s stepping in the way and insisting that he has two years left on his contract but I wouldn’t be surprised if he told him to fuck off. I’d feel pretty betrayed if I was the manager right now.

As I mentioned yesterday, Flamini’s April deadline is up. When Wenger set the time frame for Flamini to sign, I thought to myself, if he extents that then he’s being taken for a ride. Well, he’s extended the deadline to Monday. Mental.

“It will be sorted out over the weekend. Will he stay or not? That is down to him but the deadline is Sunday, Monday latest. The deadline moved for negotiation problems. Only he could tell you [whether he will go or not]. For me yes he stays, but does he tell me the complete truth, I don’t know.

To me, that looks slightly promising that he’s staying, but we’ll never know once it’s finally over. My guess is that he’s still weighing up his options. With Milan still unsure whether they will qualify for next season’s Champions League, maybe he’s waiting to see what happens there. If he did move to them and they didn’t manage to qualify then you’d have to think his move was a little unambitious, but we all know it’s about money anyway so maybe Champions League football doesn’t matter to him.

Wenger has reminded us that we must stick to our wage structure. It’s quite annoying that we can’t just spend big and keep our best players like every other big club does but Arsene’s reminded us that we have a £360m debt to manage from the stadium move. Ouch.

Le Boss has also commented on Edelman’s departure saying that it was completely unexpected. He says that they never spoke about the decision and it was completely out of the blue. The two still haven’t spoke about it yet wish seems a little suprising to me. The guy’s been here 8 years but doesn’t decide to tell anyone he’s leaving. I’m a bit suspicious…and worried.

I’m fucking knackered, I’ve just about managed to squeeze this post out of me and now I’m going to bed. I’ll speak to you tomorrow evening to preview the Everton game, until then.