So, the club that has the player that is being accused of a terrible crime has issued an anonymized statement that the player in question will not be suspended pending charges.

This is the correct decision to make in a functioning society.

Let’s see where it goes.

The Arsenal squad heading to America is literally every player we could lay out hands on.

We took 5 keepers.

Every player we want to sell.

Every player we want to loan.

It’s like a little summer holiday adventure.

Thomas Partey is in the mixer.

Everyone is fit or nearing fitness.

The start of the season should have a very, very competitive starting 11.

Lisandro Martinez, who is totally rubbish by the way, is going to United.

The left-backs in the conversation seem to be Zinchenko, Grimaldo, and the Shaktar kid Ajax wants to replace Martinez (Matyvienko).

I have no idea where we’re going to go here.

If we get Paqueta, that might mean we need to go for  a cheaper left-back. Or, it could mean we might need to spend bigger on a Premier-League-proven player like Zinchenko.

Matyvienko is interesting because he is a left-back that can play centrally. We liked that swiss-army knife on the right, why not the left?

Whatever the decision, we need the pace to kick up. What is going on? Has Edu relapsed on the ol’ BBQ front? Has he run out of blue shirts? Have we run out of money?

What is quite interesting is the papers this morning got it totally wrong on who was on the plane to Arsenal, it seems like Arteta has the club on lockdown these days.

Fabrizio Romano commented that Edu likes to work in silence on players.

As I’ve said a few times this season, details of transfers mostly come from the selling clubs, or agents agitating for a bidding war on wages.

Spurs fans don’t want to admit it, but Daniel Levey is most certainly planting the fees he’s getting fro players to make him looking like a top business administrator.

Stevey B for £28M? Do me a favor. Ajax buy cheap and sell high. No way they are putting big money into a player that has lost half his value. Spurs bought the player for £28m in a distressed January market. The total fee might reach £28m if he scores 100 goals, wins 3 World Cups, and breaks into theatre… but there is no way that sort of money is going to ever reach Ajax.

Selling clubs leak the stories to placate their fans and make sure the headlines are positive around them.

Arsenal know how the use the big journos and they are more than capable of doing a deal in silence if the selling party keeps quiet.

So maybe we don’t need to be that panicked.

The big worry on the silence is there’s next to no news on who is exiting.

‘LUCAS TORREIRA AGREES TERMS’ means nothing to me… unless there’s a fee. But again, amusing that Arsenal can’t get a fee for Torreira or a German international keeper, but Spurs can get £25m for Harry Winks. PLEASE.

Let’s hope GOOD biz picks ups this week.

In OTHER news.

Liverpool were absolutely TANKED by a United side that pressed.

Darwin Nunez looked AWFUL.

Never read too much into preseason unless you do well imo.

It’s quite interesting that the two best clubs in England have gone through a bit of a refurb.

City have lost Fernandinho, Jesus, Sterling and maybe Zinchenko.

Liverpool have lost Sane.

The gap is still large, but maybe there’s some hope they won’t be as strong?

Who knows.

This season, however you cut it, is going to be really exciting.

Right, short one today, the Arsenal team is in Baltimore and I didn’t fancy it.

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