Here we ago again folks. Yet more Rice talk, as Ornstein confirmed last night we’ve bid £100million plus £5million in add ons for Declan Rice and whilst the talk this morning is that West Ham still aren’t happy, I’m starting to get pretty bored of talking about this, to be honest.

So I think today I’ll keep that chatter short. I’ve given my thoughts, I’ve talked about City and what their plans might be and if they bid again today you’d expect West Ham to probably accept it because the payment terms will no doubt be better.

Whatever.

We either get him or we don’t, but I just want to talk about other things now, as Havertz is due to be announced today and there was even a leaked video of him doing his first interview in an Arsenal shirt. I suspect the club will announce that today at some stage. Then we’ll dive back in to some Havertz chat and what he said on the official site tomorrow.

Speaking of the official site, I saw that the club are offering up the opportunity to pay up front for match day programmes for the upcoming season. You can pay £119 for the lot if you’re based in the UK and if you count 19 Premier League games, three Champions League games and then maybe a few cups to make 25 matches, it works out at £4.76.

That’s not too bad given the price is now £4 per programme when you’re at the game, but I don’t think I’ll be partaking in the bulk purchase of the programmes. I’m a sporadic purchaser of programmes when I go to the games; I used to buy them all of the time up until I got my season ticket, but in the last few years I’ve scaled back a bit because I wasn’t properly reading them all. But I also used to buy them as a memento of me being at the game, a hard copy memory of a football match, but I am fortunate enough to go to the vast bulk of the football matches at The Arsenal these days, so I don’t feel like I need a memento of a game.

For the games that I do miss, I don’t think I want a programme to remind me of the match, so whilst it’s a good move from the club I think I’ll give it a pass.

There we go, managed to fill some online space NOT talking that much about transfers and specifically that lad from the East London team! But I’ll pause for today and be back tomorrow with more musings on anything that might get announced today.