Samir Nasri and Mikael Silvestre have been ruled out of Arsenal's Champions League trip to Dynamo Kiev on Wednesday.

Midfielder Nasri suffered an ankle injury on international duty with France and failed a fitness test on Tuesday morning to determine whether he would travel to Ukraine.

Silvestre, who made a shock move to the Emirates from Manchester United in the transfer window, was expected to make his Arsenal debut in the Group G opener but remains sidelined by a thigh injury he picked up in August.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger will be able to call on Emmanuel Eboue and Gael Clichy, however, who have both been declared fit and named in the 18-man squad.

Arsenal squad: Manuel Almunia, Bacary Sagna, Cesc Fabregas, Kolo Toure, William Gallas, Robin van Persie, Carlos Vela, Theo Walcott, Denilson, Aaron Ramset, Alex Song, Jack Wilshere, Johan Djourou, Lukasz Fabianski, Gael Clichy, Emmanuel Adebayor, Nicklas Bendtnar, Emmanuel Eboue

It is done! Theo Walcott is now a Gooner. Arsenal will pay an initial 5 million but could rise to Maximum total of 12 million. More on the Arsenal website

Well lets start with the one most Gooners are keeping an eye on: The potential signing of Theo Walcott.
In truth nothing has really changed since I blogged Arsene Wenger's comments on Friday's press conference. Yes, the usual toss rags decided to quote the deal was done, only to end up looking a bunch of cunts a day or so later.

So, go with the Arsenal fail in Walcott bid story, when in fact what Wenger said WAS (and i quote)...


"It's like when you start a race with 10 other players and you ask me are you hopeful that you will win the race? I will say yes but there are nine others who think the same."


"But from me liking him, him liking the club and the deal being done, there is still a step to go." The deal is hardly done, is it ?


Anyways we watch and wait, clearly Chelski are interested, most likely as a spoiler to the rest of us and so he can sit on the bench and keep Shaun Wright-Phillips company and learn Italian and Spanish from Hernan Crespo. Most likely the hold up on a deal is nothing more than the fact that there is some excellent Duck shooting on the South Coast at the moment and Rupert Lowe won't want to be missing that My guess is by the time he's bagged half the wildlife around Dorset, he'll be ready to conclude the deal. After all, the kids wants to come to us, and he can walk there if he wants.

On the Stadium front its nice to see Managing director Keith in touch with the fans: Edelman talking about how our entry prices are the highest of any club on the planet.

He said: "We will earn significantly more in revenue. Our gate income will probably be the highest in the world. We will have 60,00 fans and higher-priced tickets - and more premium tickets than any other club in the UK
Nice one Keith, that really makes our fucking day mate.