It's now or never for Arsenal Football Club. Â Stan Kroenke has been mopping up small
shareholdings over the last couple of weeks to raise his share in the club to 29.8%. He is a
fraction below the mandatory bid figure of 29.9%.
It was rumoured that he bought 100 shares from Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood; this is the
same man who famously said, "We do not need his sort at this club.
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Arsenal face Liverpool tonight in the Carling Cup, a competition that Wenger has religiously
used to give reserves, youth players and first team squad players a run-out. Â We have had some
success over the years, reaching one final and three semi-finals, so the policy has its merits. Â I
would like Wenger to take the competition a little more seriously and start to use more experienced
players the closer got to the final.
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In whose hands is the future of Arsenal? Â This is the question we have all been asking. Â
Almunia was the number one, but a mystery "chest" infection which has taken a long time to clear up
ahs given the third choice keeper Mannone a chance, Fabianski is back from injury and should
feature tonight against Liverpool.
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Tuesday night was a special night for Arsenal, not only because we took one more step towards
the knock-out stage of the Champions League, but Samir Nasri played for Arsenal reserves away to
Wolves.
Samir suffered a broken leg in pre-season before he was able to kick a ball, with Rosicky
fitness unsure and Walcott suffering an injury; it was a severe blow to Arsenal fans.
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Arsenal fans love scapegoats, rightly or wrongly. Â Invariably these have been players on the
fringe who the fans can't wait to have a go at, from Perry Groves, Ray Parlour and last season
Emanuel Eboue.  Towards the end of last season and for this season the bête noire of the fans has
been Abou Diaby.
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During the summer Arsenal made one purchase, Thomas Vermaelen. Â A relatively unknown defender
from Ajax, who according to most "experts", was too short to make it in the Premier League. Â Many
Arsenal fans were rightly concerned that instead of a burly centre half in the mould of Hangeland,
instead of a speedy defender we acquired someone who is as fast as Senderos and we let Toure
leave.
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What have we done to deserve so many injuries? Is there a curse at The Emirates? Since moving
to the Emirates we have lost too many players for too long, Henry and van Persie ins season one,
Rosicky and Eduardo in our second year and last year's injury list would have been too many to fit
into either ER or Casualty.
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Arsenal has launched an App for the iPhone. The App costs £2.99 and provides the Arsenal fans
with the latest news from the club, a match report appeared within 45 minutes of the end of the
Birmingham City game. You will also find the usual fixtures, tables, player information, but also
included are match highlights.
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Yesterday's game gave Arsenal fans and the world an indication of what Arshavin and Rosicky
playing in tandem can do.
Both players are skilful, have plenty of tricks, great vision, an array of passing, are always
on the move and can shoot. It is a luxury to have one player like that, but to be fortunate to
have two is amazing.
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Arsenal announced their financial results for the year ending 31 May 2009 and the news is great
on all fronts.
Revenue from football activities is up £18million due to our extended runs in both the FA Cup
and the Champions League. When people say qualification to the knock-out stage of the Champions
League is worth £20million that is not far off the mark.
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Slowly, slowly Wenger is recovering his players. Rosicky came back and has played some football
for us with no set-backs. Carlos Vela appeared and scored mid-week, so this give Arsene more
choices up-front. Wenger has announced that both Walcott and Arshavin are back and though both
may not play this week-end, the squad is looking stronger every week.
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Arsenal fans have been crying out for a defensive midfielder ever since Vieira left this despite
the fact that Vieira was not a defensive midfielder in the mould of Makelele. What Arsenal fans
have really been looking for is a player to protect the defence and to dominate the midfield.
This season Wenger has realised that to give the defence the protection they need, we need to
change formation, and we need to play 4-1-2-3.
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The Carling Cup game against West Brom the long awaited season debut of Carlos Vela. Vela was
injured whilst away with Mexico missing most of the pre-season. Wenger obviously though that
Carlos was not 100% and waited until midway through the second half before allowing the Mexican
striker to make his season's bow in front of an admiring audience at the Emirates.
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The last time Arsenal faced Wigan Athletic the game will go down as the nadir for Eboue. He
had a nightmare of a game and was booed by his own fans, to cap it all Wenger was forced to
withdraw Eboue to save him from further torture. The Ivorian left the field in tears and was
consoled by his team-mates.
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The media has been castigating Arsene Wenger since he came to England over the lack of English
players that have come through the Arsenal ranks during his spell at Arsenal.
In fact during this period both Ashley Cole and Kieran Gibbs have played regularly for Arsenal,
in the same period there have been players coming through the ranks at Liverpool, Tottenham or
Chelsea and Manchester United have Wes Brown to show for their great English academy.
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