Let me just start by making this crystal clear: in yesterday’s transfer rumor column, I was attempting to prove that the Arshavin quotes were FALSE, made-up, junk, a “load of bollocks” as you say in England.

It doesn’t surprise me that any noobs who showed up as a result of the headline don’t understand my writing style or sense of humor but there were a lot of people who have been reading my blog for quite some time who clearly missed the point. In that case, my bad. I was not trying to rip Arshavin, I was rather trying to prove that quotes attributed to Andrei Arshavin were false.

I also found it strange that people needed a link to the source. Maybe it’s because I read so many different papers and blogs that I assumed everyone already knew that the quotes I printed yesterday were from People.co.uk. I mean, don’t you people read Arseblog? If not the most popular arsenal blog in the world, then how about Gunnerblog? That’s where I first read the quote.

You wanna know something even funnier? I might have been wrong in my defense and the quotes might have been true. Arseblog reported today that he’s heard from a source who said that the People has an actual tape recording of Arshavin saying the quotes they published yesterday. Not only that, but as I pointed out yesterday we should be looking for a statement on the dot com denying the quotes and none has been forthcoming, yet. It still might happen today in the Blackburn post-match interview, but the silence on the matter is a bit strange.

But here’s the real point; I find it nigh impossible that the first place some of you went for this story is my blog. If true then it’s a hell of a compliment, if not, which I greatly suspect, then it’s just another example of Gooners and their manufactured, sanctimonious outrage. And as a friend of mine once said “save me the sanctimony.”

It’s been quite the strange week over here at 7amkickoff, what with the Stoke City xenophobes vomiting up a tableau of racism and homophobia on the site, followed by me taking a day off, only to come back and have the piss taken out of me by a bunch of Gooners for an article that I thought was clearly in defense of the little Russian.

I know, “you have a season ticket” and “Wenger never spends” and “I’m the worst blogger to ever blog a blog… blog.” I also know that “everyone’s allowed their opinion” and that “you pay the highest ticket prices in the history of mankind” and that “means you have a right to determine the future of the club” and that “you just checked Football Manager 2010 and we should sell the entire first team, all 30 players, and buy a real team which includes Dutch wonder Klaas Jan Huntelaar.”

And I agree, everyone is allowed their opinion. This blog is mine and in my opinion Arsenal is the greatest club the world has ever seen. I even laugh when I watch a Blackburn match and their fans are singing that song, what a pathetic joke. Or Chelsea fans? Yeah, the greatest club that a billion dollars ever assembled in order to win the club same number of trophies that Arsene Wenger, alone, has won for Arsenal. Or Liverpool, yeah, good luck with mid-table mediocrity next year. Arsene Wenger hasn’t built Arsenal into one of the greatest clubs in England, we were pretty darned great before him, if maybe suffering a bit with our place at the top due to some recent turmoil right before he arrived.

But since his arrival, Wenger has modernized the club, built an amazing training facility which is producing some of the finest English talent the League has ever seen (even Jamie Redknapp is effusive with praise for Jack Wilshere), has kept Arsenal in the Champions League for 13 years straight, and has recently managed to do so on a shoestring budget in order to build a state-of-the-art 60,000 seat arena which will allow Arsenal to compete with the Barcelona’s, Ream Madrid’s, Man U’s, and others on nearly equal footing for generations to come. No, we don’t get a trophy for fiscal prudence but nor do we get a Liverpool Raspberry for fiscal stupidity. Just look at the hundreds of millions that Man City spent and the best they can hope for is a 4th place finish. Now tell me that Arsenal hasn’t improved this season.

Let me leave you with this little mental exercise: what will you do if Wenger goes into next season with Chamakh as Arsenal’s only acquisition?

Wenger said “trust me” today over transfers and I do. I don’t just look at one season but the whole history of Wenger transfers and with just a few exceptions, he’s been solid: for every Jeffers, there’s two Vermaelens.

In the trust category, he’s said that one or two will go out, that we need to shore up defense and that we WILL sign someone before June 11th. In the distrust category,  he also said that Fabianski just needs consistency, that the midfield is good enough, and that if Gallas leaves then we will buy a defender.

I have seen this before with Arsene, talk about transfers and bring in just one player when the consensus is that we need more than just one. Yes, it could be that Wenger is just deflecting, so he could get a keeper or a guy like Gary Cahill on the cheap and under everyone’s noses. I pray that’s the case, because I don’t know how we’ll make it an entire season with Djourou and Vermaelen as our only center backs or how we’ll stay in the Champions League with Fabianski as our number one.

But what exactly will you do if the club turns up in August and Wenger’s doing the “likeanewsigning” thing and introducing all these young players plus Chamakh?

Me? I think I’ll be angry if we don’t buy a keeper and I would rate our chances of winning the title very low. But, then what? So I’m angry? Am I going to go out and get Dial Square scarfs and protest the club? Maybe. Am I going to call for the end of the Wenger Era? Doubtful.

But what happens if the board says no way, and Wenger gets five more years and it’s another five years of the same beautiful football, no trophies, youth players come in, senior players leave, Arsenal build their property portfolio… you know the same as the last five? Then what?

I’ll probably be a lot more cynical but I know where I will be. Do you?