From today, the reports that the revenue generated by the sale of flats in the Highbury stadium development will not be available to Arsene Wenger for transfers, has been presented as if it means Wenger's transfer fund is limited. Touchline Football's headline for example is "No cash for Wenger in January", even the Telegraph go so far as to say that this news will not please Thierry Henry. Eh? Surely no-one has ever imagined that the Highbury development has ever been anything but part of the new stadium scheme? Of course the sale of the old stadium will go towards the building of the new one rather than into the transfer kitty. How this reflects on the well-established decent size of such kitty is beyond me. Managing director Keith Edelman, the very man who announced the flat sale and explained where the money's going (when it eventually rolls in which won't be for a few years anyway), has made it very clear, again, that there are funds available. And Wenger has made it very clear, again, that he will spend when he finds an available player of the right quality, and qualities.

"It's alright playing in a fantastic stadium", says Edelman.

Yes, it is.

My favourite recent misattribution has been all the headlines screaming that Wenger admitted he'd made a mistake in selling Patrick Vieira. Read the actual articles and it's clear that what he actually said was that he understands that other people might see it as a mistake, but that he doesn't.

And then there are the headlines saying that Arsenal were "in for" three Tottenham players. No, Arsenal had some interest in three such unfortunates before they were Tottenham players, and there's nothing new there surely? The Michael Carrick story, for instance, was very public at the time. It's widely believed that Arsenal thought about buying him when we thought Patrick Vieira was leaving 14 months ago, but decided against it when Paddy stayed. In a fit of despair, Carrick then opted to join Tottenham, and was soon making it clear that he'd have preferred Arsenal, poor lad. Jermaine Defoe and Paul Robinson are the others. They're good, but not necessarily that good. They may have preferred to go to Tottenham, who knows, but I've seen nothing to convince me that Arsenal failed to sign any of the 3, so much as decided against it.