Training is back.

As I'm sure you've all seen, the photos of Arsenal's first training session of pre-season are up on the dot com. There isn't much to say about this really. It gave us our first opportunity to see new signing Vermaelen in action, even though said 'action' is just a still of him running, and pulling some weights. Interestingly it appears that Vermaelen has the number 30 something on his shirt (it looks to be either 30 or 31). Even more interesting is the fact that Senderos doesn't have any number on the front of his shirt. Then again I don't know how meaningful these numbers are as Arshavin seems to be wearing number 28, as opposed to last season's number 23. And Lansbury is number 56, whereas as last year he sported the number 42. Surely a player touted to have a bright future, who is meant to be working his way up the team, won't be relegated 14 numbers. So this just shows these numbers may not mean much, if anything. On a positive note, it's good to see Eduardo and Rosicky back in training.

In other news, Dennis Lachter appears to have forgotten that he was dismissed as Arshavin's agent about a month ago and has told Barcelona to bid for Arshavin. Let me join the cue in wishing Lachter to shut the hell up. Lorik Cana was interviewed a while back and he stated that, although he wanted to leave Marseille, he wanted to wait until they had found a replacement. Word on the southern french street is that they have signed Stephane M'Bia, and thus Cana is available for only £6.5 million. I'm not sure how reliable this is, but wouldn't that be a bargain and three quarters?

Lastly Arseblog interviewed Ivan Gazidis yesterday, who did a very good job in recognising that the fans view on the club is important and all that.

Right I'm off. I'm still praying to the transfer gods that something interesting happens. I'm beginning to think it won't.
'Til later Gooners.