So far the January Transfer Window has been open for a whopping three weeks and as far as I can tell we’ve only signed Tommy Smith on Loan from Ipswich and extended John Bostock’s loan for a measly week. This is not the hugely exciting transfer window that I was hoping for, so Andy Scott has helped me out by bringing in Peterborough United midfielder Toumani Diagouraga on loan for a month, with a view to a loan til the end of the season.

A teammate of top Bees striker Steve Kabba at Watford, Toumani played for Swindon, Rotherham and Hereford on loan before joining the latter on a permanent deal. He then joined Peterborough after Hereford’s relegation to League Two last summer, and has made 22 starts for them in the Championship and League Cup. Not too shabby.

As we’ve brought a new central midfielder in, we must be doing one of four things:

• Dropping Kevin O’Connor
• Dropping Marcus Bean
• Playing more central midfielders, going back to the 4-5-1 which we employed against Leeds and MK Dons to decent effect
• Putting Diagouraga in goal because he’s quite tall and, let’s be honest, he’ll probably be better than Lewis Price.

The last option probably isn’t that likely. Anyway, I believe that Toumani is supposed to be more of a holding midfielder, and if Scott thinks the same then that might mean O’Connor’s place is more at risk. Maybe.

Just as one difficultly pronounced player has joined the Bees, it seems that another is on his way out, or rather isn’t staying any longer.  The chances of us extending Wojciech Szczesny’s loan spell at Griffin Park, which were thought to be pretty good as Wojciech himself wanted to stay, seem to have disappeared. This is because Arsenal have been impressed with the young Pole’s performances while with Brentford and now want him back at the Emirates, according to those excellent people over on the GPG. They’re usually right over there, so sadly for us this is probably the case.

Apparently Wojciech has been bumped up to Number 3 in the Arsenal goalkeeper pecking order so is needed to sit around and not quite get into the match squad, but it’s a step in the right direction and he’ll be showing Almunia and co up sooner rather than later I think. It’s a shame, but he was never going to be with us for that much longer; he was just too good I think. Good news for Wojciech though, as he has the talent and now he’s had the chance to prove it in competitive matches.

Anyway, our focus must now turn to getting ourselves a new goalkeeper. Lewis Price had one of his best matches for the Bees against Doncaster, but I don’t think he’s the answer. Ben Hamer seems to be very much number 2 at Reading now, but as all their senior keepers, bar Hamer and Adam Federici, are out on loan I can’t see him coming back to us. Perhaps if Szczesny has gone up from number 4 to number 3 at Arsenal, we can have their new number 4? We, as ever, shall have to wait and see.

In any case, Wojciech will be fondly remembered. And when in years to come he’s pulling off awesome saves for Arsenal on Match of the Day, I will tell anyone who will listen “He used to play like that for Brentford a while ago, you know?”. I’m already looking forward to it.