So quite an interesting day in terms of CB gossip:

Mertesacker has described Arsenal as an “attractive” option and in my opinion although injury prone would be just the defender we need. With | Djourou as back up and playing some champions league games this could be the tonic for success - not overplaying him and having a colossal 6 ft 6 inch centre back to partner Vermaelen with plenty of experience. In my opinion should Wenger offer he would jump to join.

Secondly The Sun says Gary Cahill would cost us £14 should we want him – quite reasonable for a good young English CB and he would do just as Mertesacker would.

To finalise Simon Kjaers club have opened speculation by saying by announcing: “Of course the World Cup can emphasise a player, but Kjaer will only leave Palermo if a team pays his buy-out clause.” The buy out clause is £10 million – not a lot for a top class 21 year old CB.

I think all of these rumours are plausible so lets wait till the 1st of June and find out….I’m confident it will be one of these three players though.