Interlull Injuries & Cynical Moments

• The Boss has been talking to the press ahead of the game vs Sunderland. Thomas Vermaelen misses out tomorrow as does Kieran Gibbs but there is a late, important fitness test on Laurent Koscielny today after he suffered a calf strain on International duty midweek. Koscielny missing out means we'll have to dip into our never-ending pot of central defenders, and by that I mean Sebastian Squillaci and Ignasi Miquel.

• I've never been one of those who properly kick off when it comes to Squillaci, he's been a competant defender in the past and although he's never been great for Arsenal, I've never seen him drop rickets like the others.

• Matt Spiro interviewed Bacary Sagna midweek and he doesn't seem a happy chappy, one thinks Wenger has come to the same conclusion he did with Ljungberg on when to flog him, the two leg breaks and subsquent knee complaints seem to have slowed him down quite considerably. Also today we see stories of Stevan Jovetic. Def interest but story being released now close to ST renewals? Hmm.