I would like us to get Arshavin but it’s a long way from a done deal, so it’s gravy if it happens but I won’t sweat it if it doesn’t.

“It’s not incorrect to speak about the transfer, but even if you are interested in a player and he’s not signed or hasn’t come here, it’s like putting people in front of a big table and saying dinner is not for you,” he said at Friday’s pre-match press conference. “If I say now how great a player is and do not bring him here, people will think that is stupid.

“There are a lot of managers who talk openly about players they would like. [The press] contribute highly to that. I am under pressure to talk about players that maybe I am not capable of buying.”

You don’t want end up really hungry standing in front of that table only to realise that dinner is not for you mate!

Well that’s pretty much what I was hoping for over and done then. Maybe in the Summer…

I don’t care if it’s arshavin we get, or another player, as long as it is a player….preferably a good one XD

“I can not confirm or deny anything” lol well that’s pretty much what I expected him to say to be honest. Time will tell.

Yes I voted for Senna I think he is a tremendous player. I wish we could sign him

Arsène Wenger has remained tight-lipped amid rumours he is closing in on Andrei Arshavin.

The English newspapers have been linking the Russian playmaker with a move to Arsenal throughout this week. But at his press conference on Friday, Wenger let nothing slip.

“The situation from Arsenal’s perspective is to keep everything quiet and secret and not to talk too much,” he said.

“I think tactically the selling club is always more interested to get things public than the buying club. I cannot confirm or deny anything.”

Speculation has been pouring through the transfer window even before it opened on New Year’s Day. However, despite a couple of big-money moves, Wenger believes most of the rumours have been hot air.

“It’s like every January,” he said. “In December everybody becomes absolutely agitated and thinks on January 1 players will move from everywhere.

“At the moment we are seeing what we see every year, a very quiet transfer market.

“There is not a lot of money. If you look at the financial situation of the English clubs you will understand very quickly why most of them are quiet.”

well we are definitely in for him,,, but of course the fat lady has not sung,,, so just more waiting and seeing. Hope it doesn’t drag on and on before we find out either way but let’s face it these things often do,,,

I just added Marcos Senna’s UEFA team of 2008 and he voted for himself you gotta love that. It’s honest! He said he had too… so that he could be sure of getting 1 vote as it was tough being up against Xavi but he need not worry because I was sitting next to Rose when she voted and she voted for Senna. I confess I voted for Xavi

“We do not want to talk too much about who we want to buy,” Wenger told Arsenal TV online.

“At the moment I cannot give you any good news but in this job no news is good news. Nothing has fallen through. We are on alert in the transfer market.”

He also hinted that he was also in the market for a defensive midfielder to bolster his injury-hit squad.

“That is also a priority,” he said.

“We are not in the big league. We are a little short because we wanted a player like (Tomas) Rosicky to play 80% of games and he has not played at all.

“We want to spend money but as everyone knows, and as the the chairman has said, we have money available but we have limited resources, and you want to spend it in the best way possible.”

The Frenchman also quashed rumours that Kolo Touré, who recently retracted a transfer request, could leave the Emirates and was adamant that nobody will leave the club this month.

“That (Touré story) is finished. We will not sell any players this month.”