Archive for the ‘Arsenal News’ Category

There has been a lot of Arsenal transfer gossip in the last couple of weeks, but the Argentina striker Mauro Zarate has never been mentioned in any of them.
Zarate was on loan at Birmingham a couple of seasons ago, but they couldn’t afford the full transfer fee and he was snapped up by Lazio.
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Arsene Wenger believes that this years Premiership will be the closest ever, and thinks that if Arsenal can score the same amount of points in the second half of the season as they did in the first, they will still be very very close to the top.
Man Utd won the title two years ago with [...]

The Arsenal legend Patrick Vieira has played his last game for Inter Milan, and is nearly certain to be rejoining his old boss Roberto Mancini at Manchester City.
Jose Mourinho saw Vieira play the whole 90 minutes against Chievo before the Portugese manager gave Vieira a special mention in his post-match comments.
Mourinho said: “I should give [...]

We have a new piece of Arsenal transfer gossip this evening from the Times.
They are saying that Arsene Wenger is considering a move for the 6ft 8 inch Ivory Coast striker Lacina Traoré, who is currently playing for CFR Cluj in Romania.
Traore is only 19 years old, but his size and strength has already gained [...]

As I said in my earlier post, it would seem to me that Arsene Wenger is looking increasingly unlikely to buy any more reinforcements for Arsenal this month, but there is still some transfer gossip from other quarters, mostly concerning the West Ham striker Carlton Cole.
This rumour apparently originated in the Sun, who say that [...]

Arsene Wenger has admitted that Arsenal are going to definitely need a striker IF Nicklas Bendtner is going to be ruled out for another couple of months, which seems a strange thing to say when the player himself has said that he expects to be able to play against Bolton in two weeks time!
“If Bendtner [...]

Arsene Wenger doesn’t seem very confident about buying anyone at the moment, despite believing that it is important to get in early during the transfer window. From his nonchalant tone of voice it would seem that Arsenal are not really tracking anyone!
“Ideally because of the number of games you have in January, you want to [...]

Arsene Wenger believes that the Croatian striker Eduardo will end up as an integral part of the Arsenal team again this season, and thinks that he is returning to his previous form.
“He has done much more than I expected from him at the start of the season,” said Wenger.
“If we keep him injury free [...]

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There is not much good news in the papers this morning regarding Arsenal players and targets, and the first story has only confirmed my worst fears.
While Arsene Wenger has been getting all the youngsters in his squad to sign extended contracts this season, the talented Spanish midfielder Fran Merida has resisted all the offers put [...]

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger may be getting a late Christmas present as the news has broken that the Danish striker Nicklas Bendtner is close to returning to the training ground.
It was originally believed he would be back around now, but Wenger had inferred that Bendtner’s comeback was being delayed, but the player himself now believes [...]