STOP-WATCH FOR ARSÉNE

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A few days back I was surfing the net and came across this site name www.sincearsenallastwonatrophy.co.uk. First I thought it was some fake site trying to attract visitors only to open it and see a giant stop watch counting 8 years, 1 month 9 Days, 21 hours, 49 minutes and 3 seconds. Even down to the second?

Arsenals transfer activity so far this summer has left little room for excitement for fans. July is around the corner, meaning Arsene Wenger and company will have two months to complete the necessary deals to strengthen the squad. With Higuain almost all but confirmed an arsenal player.   

Arsenal's need for a true defensive midfielder is obvious, especially with the oft-injured Abou Diaby struggling again in 2012/13, Mikel Arteta aging, and question marks over Francis Coquelin and Emmanuel Frimpong. In truth, Wenger should take the ruthless route and rid himself of Diaby, as he needs to do with others.

There are good options for Arsenal in the defensive midfield department, with Real Sociedad’s Asier Illarramendi likely to join the emirate boys next season.

In the dead-weight department, Sebastian Squillaci, Denilson and Andrei Arshavin have already parted ways with the club, but a handful remain. Those include Marouane Chamakh, Park Chu Young and Andre Santos

Along with those players, the futures of Gervinho and  Lukas Podolski  seemingly up in the air. All those players have been linked with moves away from the club. Johan Djourou already on loan to Hamburg it still remains to be seen how the club will deal with the others.

The likes of Chamakh and Santos won't be missed, but Wenger will be scrambling for replacements should Gervinho or Podolski go searching for greener pastures.

If the Higuain rumours are true, then Arsenal can be forgiven for seemingly playing the waiting game. It does render them subject to a more disastrous transfer folly, though, which is failing to pull the trigger.

Should that deal continue for another week, or longer, Arsenal will have less time to complete other incoming transfers. Then there's also the dead weight and possible departures to consider.

That may result in a similar situation to the Gunners transfer situation at the beginning of the 2011/12 season. The Gunners may have more money in hand this time around, but that won't necessarily play in their favour.

The Gunners may get a big signing by the end of next week, but that's still not enough to get excited about.

There will still be plenty for Arsenal to sort out before the transfer period ends in order to really change the status quo.

Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United are all welcoming new managers next season and its only normal for new management to invest in new players. This will only make arsenal's hunt for players a bit more difficult given Arséne Wengers record of penny-pinching spending.