It’s been fairly typical this transfer window. We’ve let young players go on loan. We’re looking desparately land some players but they are holding us to ransom. We say that there won’t be any big purchases because Roman has tightened the purse but still get linked to some big money names. It’s typical.

On the topic of David Luiz, I’ve gone through a cycle of emotion, like it happened to me with many players – Robinho, Aguero, Carlos Tevez, Dani Alves, David Silva, Alex Pato, Neymar, Kaka and the list goes on. Some of them are players that we really pursued and some of them were pursued by the Press on our behalf. Being a gullible football civilian, I fall for the trick, every single time. I keep telling myself that I shouldn’t fall for the tabloid bait but then heart takes over head, hope takes over logic. May be I’m easily excited when it comes to possible Chelsea transfers. I start following the players’ progress and try to interpret every damn thing that happens around them. I let the excitement build up only to find that we didn’t manage to sign them or we were never in it.

With David Luiz, I thought we wouldn’t go for such an expensive defensive option especially because we will get Alex back. We have Bruma and Patrick as well. Once I realised we are chasing David, I was into the civilian cycle – checking his youtube videos, checking the Benfica website, checking our website every hour, searching in twitter, downloading his best pictures, reading every profile of his in the website – I’ve fallen for it, once again.

It’s not over yet, though. Benfica has officially announced that negotiations are going on with Chelsea. Chelsea have managed to obtain a work permit for David Luiz already. I hope what’s delaying the signing is the modern day complexities of joint ownership of the player, image rights, agents and such stuff. At this stage, I was preparing for a welcome post for David Luiz. And then, this continued for a day only to find a rumour that Man City is in. What the heck? Why oh why? I can’t take another heart break. It’s not that I’m desparate for a David Luiz or desparate for even a defender, it’s just that I’m so taken into the belief that David Luiz is a Chelsea player and now I don’t want that to change.

There is also this rumour about Arshavin being tracked by Chelsea. How I’d love that! I like Arshavin and I think he is a fantastic player who doesn’t have the motivation to play for Arsenal anymore. Of late, he’s been poor but I think he is a high-impact player that perfectly fits into Chelsea.

And then, I hear about Chelsea having bid for Torres, again! I don’t quite understand why. With Torres, we would have to play 4-4-2 only. That means we may not need wingers. I’m happy with us playing a 4-4-2 diamond. Carlo knows that formation like the back of his hand. He’s had a lot of success with that. But Torres once again? I’d love have Torres here but the key thing is, are you telling me we have another 40m to spend over and above the 25-30m we are spending on David Luiz. And this is January. And Roman is supposed to have stopped spending big money. Anyway, the Chelsea bid for Torres is official, coming from a Liverpool spokesman.

With 4-4-2, Arshavin can play in the hole. Look at the prospect of Drogba and Torres, supported by Arshavin. Anelka might have to sit out and Malouda would also be impacted as we could play Essien in holding midfield and the central midfield would be Lampard and Ramires. In the hole is Arshavin. It can’t be more perfect than this! We need to start crossing better with Fernando Torres in the box. Do we have good crossers? Oh wait, here I go again!

Now, I don’t want to fall into this trap, I’m not. You can’t take me for a ride. I won’t waste time when it’s just a rumour. I’II will wait for the official announcement on the transfers. Until then, I’ll live on youtube, twitter, official websites of Arsenal, Liverpool, Benfica, official pages of Arshavin, Torres, David Luiz, optastats of these players, career stats of these players from soccernet, archives on these players on BBC football, make changes my Chelsea team in my winning eleven . . . . .