Apologies fellow gunners for the lack of blog coverage over the last few matches of the season, but such has been the disappointment over the way our season fizzled out – I haven’t felt up to it.

Losing Campbell, Pires and Bergkamp has massively damaged the squad and speculation over summer transfers is not looking positive. As expected we have the usual ‘Henry sensationally about to leave Gunners’ crap that is published in the press based on nothing more than speculation, even though he has openly expressed his intention to stay with us at least until the end of his contract. However, far more worryingly there is little talk over any major signings, in fact quite to the contrary all our transfer talk so far have been regarding players on the way out, Baptista on his way back to Real Madrid (seemingly without the return of Reyes) and Aliadiere off to Boro.

So far we have bought keeper Lukasz Fabianski who looks pretty smart and may well be a long term replacement for the ageing madman that is Jens, but with our lack of definitive strikers due to injuries, it does seem somewhat of a backwards step to be releasing two strikers?

It’s far too early into the summer transfer window to panic, but as the wait goes on, I can’t help but start to get a little nervous…

Maybe the situation is down to a lack of potential spending money? Is the current board capable of giving Arsene the funds he needs? The board doesn’t look set to make any immediate change after Dein’s shock departure and with regards to Kroenke, he has not made any intentions clear, and until he does - publicly, there is no reason why us Arsenal supporters should feel anything but sceptical with regards to his intentions.

Arsene and David Dein have both invested hugely into Arsenal's future with the purchase of players and the Emirates Stadium, this with interest predominantly in our club, rather than their pockets. So, with speculation mounting on Dein’s imminent return this could get interesting…

Overall, I’m sure you would all agree reaching the Carling Cup finals with the team that got us there was a brilliant achievement, but other than that without Thierry and Robin we never really challenged elsewhere and surely with their return, things can only get better.