So is it totally true that the meja made up all this Draxler mumbo-jumbo and we never

[arse-nick (avid-analogue-addict)]

have made enquiries about him, or have had reps over in Germany trying to thrash out a deal?

[redgunamo]

until we didn't get him and Wenger admitted later that we had, in fact, been after him.

Diplomacy, you see.

[Peter]

His assertion that draxler will be staying there indicates that he knows this and he would only know that if we had asked about him.

The rest....the negotiating team etc is all just media horsehit probably. Doesnt matter anyway. There were never sny official sources other than outright denials so nobody should have been getting their hopes up.

Far more worried about the need to bring a midfielder in. I am worried that this may mean that ramsey is out for the season and jack for a good little while. We really cant afford that with the february and march we have coming up.

Over to ozil and cazorla to start sprinkling some magic over the big games.