OK, I know I said I wouldn't be talking about all the latest transfer gossip, but it is International week and frankly, these enforced breaks are so irritating.
And anyway, this isn't the Sun variety of transfer gossip (i.e. totally made up and never likely to happen in a million years). It's two stories catching my eye at the same time: Nicklas Bendtner saying that he'll move if he doesn't get a game for the first team, and the story that Mathieu Flamini is our very own Genaro Gattuso.
Now, nobody wants another Winston Bogarde on their hands, and it's a good thing that Bendtner is chafing at the bit to get on and show us his stuff. But I do start to worry a bit, because I like Bendtner a lot and I'd hate to see an impatient or immature temperament get in the way of his development.
He only has to look at Flamini's situation to see the right way and the wrong way of going about it. He handed in a transfer request last season when his ultimatum to be played in his favoured midfield position was ignored. Thankfully good sense (and I assume a quiet word in the ear at the right time from Le Directeur) prevailed, and now look at the results.
At the moment, Ade and RVP are the league's leading goalscorers, so no matter how good he thinks he is, he must realise he won't just waltz into the first team.