A brief statement on Arsenal's website updates RVP's status. He will be traveling back to London this week and resuming his care with the Arsenal medical staff at London Colney.

They also confirm the 6 week convalescence period.

Elsewhere in the Arsenal blog world:

Arseblog mentions, the silver lining is the pretty straightforward series of fixtures till Xmas other than Chelsea and Liverpool (both clubs have their injury woes too).

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I like Cudicini I do. I knows he's not only a spud but an ex-chav as well but I've always liked him. I thought he was a great keeper, admired the way he handled things after he was shit on at Chelsea, and how could you not appreciate his gift to Henry at Highbury?
Being on a somewhat different planet for over a week now I've had a relative abscence of news in my life and what I have seen has arrived by way of Arsenal-related blogs.

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The first North London derby of the season takes place this Saturday and Arsenal fans and players will be desperate to put the agony of last year's 4-4 draw behind them.

Tickets, as you would expect, are like gold dust but Arseblog, in association with Emirates Airline, has not one, not two, but three pairs of Club Level tickets up for grabs exclusively to Arseblog readers.

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Hullo there, happy Friday to you. This week appears to have gone by a bit quicker than I had thought it would. Or than I thought it was going when I stopped to think about it. Which is good.

A few bits and pieces around so we'll crack on. England U21 boss Stuart Pearce has played down reports that Arsene Wenger and him had a massive falling out over Theo Walcott.

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Arsenalinsider.com brings you in advance the Wikio rankings for this month, known as the most influential blogs in the UK blogosphere.

We are delighted to come straight into the listing at no 32 and thrilled to see so many Arsenal blogs in the list.

As always, our mission is to provide you up-to-date views, news, analysis, exclusive interviews, videos and more on our beloved club and this leap in the Wikio rankings show how much you appreciate our efforts.

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The Gunning Hawk brings you in advance the Wikio rankings for this month, known as the most influential blogs in the UK blogosphere. Having made the rankings in January 2009 in position 105, it was a rollercoaster of ups and downs as we went from 50th to 33rd and then down to 57th last month.

But, we are delighted to now be in position 24 and thrilled to see so many Arsenal blogs in the list.

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According to Arseblog's sources, Swiss centre back Philippe Senderos has completed a move to Everton. The news isn't surprising though. Just days ago, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger recently sold Kolo Toure to Manchester City citing 'too many centre halfs' as the main reason for letting him go. Click to continue reading...

Afternoon all. I though I'd jump in for a few thoughts after today's 2-1 win against Atletico Madrid in the first game of the Emirates Cup. It's certainly nice to bag a win in the club's first preseason match at home, and there were a few encouraging signs. A few takeaways to toss out there:

• Rosicky played 45 minutes and looked solid in doing so.

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So long and thanks for the fish!

I'm told that Philippe Senderos has signed for Everton, done deal (and I know he's at the stadium today).

I think it's a shame he's going and his departure means we probably need another defender now. Best of luck to Philippe at his new club.

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Having a doomsday prophet like Alisher Usmanov who believes that only he can save Arsenal becomes a drag after a while.

He does not get that his money is unwelcome and so are his suggestions through a surrogate that David Dein was never adequately replaced. As Arseblog correctly points out Usmanov offered a rights issue; very different from direct funding.

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Another excellent piece of journalism by perhaps the best blogger out there at present as Arseblog delves deeper into the boardroom kerfuffle at the Emirates.

It looks like the gloves are coming off and the relationships between our biggest shareholders are going to be increasingly tested over the next little while.

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The infamous Michael Owen brochure has already provided much fun this summer. First there was the brochure itself, which was undeniably hilarious. The fact that Owen actually secured a move to a Big Four team does nothing to diminish that hilarity. Then came the spoofs. In yesterday's Daily Dose we linked to Arseblog's very nicely [. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal fans have been losing patience with Emmauel Adebayor for a while. The temporal Togo striker who is the subject of interest from AC Milan, has long since infuriated Gooners by his lack of enthusiasm for making his talent be put to good use on the pitch.
So the guys at 'Arseblog' have come up with their own 'Michael Owen style' brochure for Adebayor, to try and attract some interest for the striker. Click to continue reading...

Arseblog does its best to shift Ade Emmanuel Adebayor is following in the footsteps of Michael Owen and his ultimately successful advertising brochure with his own promotional leaflet. The tongue-in-cheek document has been produced by Arseblog. You can click here to view the other pages.

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Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis revealed it's time for this Arsenal side to start and deliver, as fighting for fourth place and not winning trophies is not enough.

Speaking in an interview with the Arseblog website, he said:

Fundamentally we believe in the squad that Arsene has been developing.

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It was back to training today for the players, or at least most of them, as pre-season began in earnest ahead of our first warm up match against Barnet in eleven days time. You can take a look at photos here, and while we shouldn't read too much into the first day back, they do raise a few points:

• Rumours that Vermaelen is short are wide of the mark.

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The Guardian looks at Owen's potential to be the 'next Solskjaer'.

Manchester United News shows Kiko smoking.

Arseblog reveals Adebayor's 'Michael Owen style' brochure.

Soccerlens looks at the possibility of JT joining City.

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'Arsenal sign Ajax stopper', screamed the Sport.co.uk headline on NewsNow yesterday evening.

Taking a leaf from the book of the BBC and Sky Sports they claimed to 'understand' that we'd sign the Belgian (cheers all!) defender Thomas Vermaelen for £10m in the next 48 hours. Then to add extra credence to the story they threw in some quotes from Tony Adams about how he wasn't tall enough.

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The Gunning Hawk brings you in advance the Wikio rankings for this month, known as the most influential blogs in the UK blogosphere. Having made the rankings in January in position 105 and 50th last month, we are delighted to now be in position 33 and thrilled to see so many Arsenal blogs in the list.

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Arsenal's players and coaches are a little over 24 hours away from the biggest game in their young careers and yet, it's the business end of the club that's receiving all of the press.

As I reported on Saturday, Stan Kroenke is now the largest, no wait, the mostest shareholder having purchased some 4,000 shares from the Carr family and pushing his total up to just over 28%.

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Last week Theo Walcott was appearing at the Nike North London 5s (which were almost as skillful as the Arseblog 5s, I'm told), and Arseblog managed to get a few minutes with the man himself.

The questions posed to him were provided by helpful Arsebloggers, some much less helpful than others, I should point out.

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*boilk boilk boilky boilk boilk Mcboilkity boilk boilk boilk*

Having returned from London last night I can now safely say that if I see another beer ever again it'll be too soon. Well, ever might be too strong. Certainly until Wednesday.

What a fantastic weekend though. The Arseblog 5-a-side tournament took place on Saturday afternoon and the Green team, captained by yours truly, fought off the jet-leg, the hangovers and the fact we were playing away from home, to triumph over the reigning champions the Whites, as well as the Blues, the Reds and the Piss Drinking Yellows.

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Right, so. A little earlier today, but I have a very busy morning organising people, arranging things, and being places, so it's going to be a very quick one today.
Firstly, I would like to publish a minor correction: yesterday's game is in fact today, as you will probably know. I don't know why I thought it was yesterday, but there it is. Click to continue reading...

Now that I've gotten my Chelsea hatred off my chest I can focus in on some squad news.

First, a huge blow as Bacary Sanga has been officially ruled out of tomorrow's match. I held off reporting this until I could have it confirmed as I don't want to instill panic, but now that the Dot.

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Standing out in the blog-world is not easy but, as in most walks of life, true quality will always shine through. So I thought it would be a good idea to get two of the best soccer blogs around, EPL TALK and Arseblog, together for a little chat. Arseblog was started in February 2002 and [...] Click to continue reading...

The Guardian's soft-spoken Scot, and chief football correspondent, Kevin McCarra, after siting that Arsenal's most expensive signing was Sylvain Wiltord for around £11m, eight years ago, described Arsene Wenger as having a magnificent arrogance for trying to compete for top honors on a shoe-string budget. Click to continue reading...

In political parlance he is a flip flopper. The fans at the Emirates let him have it when he showed up to play Juve. The only thing that can get Ade back in favour would be to keep a low profile and repeat a 30 goal scoring season. In the end if that leads to meaningful silverware, then all can and will be forgiven.

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Not too long ago a prominent Arsenal blogger said about Hleb's move to Barcelona:

As for Barcelona there has hardly been a word about him in the Spanish press for ages and given the money Barcelona have already spent this summer I'd say there's no chance of him going there now.

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It's been a few days, apologies for that but at the same time there has been very little going on. First, the Samir Nasri saga - a claim was placed on Nasri's website, indicating that a deal was done, but has subsequently been replaced by an apology from the site administrator. Both Arseblog and Gunnerblog indicate that their sources suggest [. Click to continue reading...

When you type the words "soccer blogs" into Google, the search engine returns a listing of 2.9 million pages indexed. Rather than wade through the massive amount of blogs, here are the top 5 blogs based on the number of subscribers to their Feedburner RSS feeds: ArseBlog, 2,991 subscribers Soccerlens, 1,565 EPL Talk, 466 Soccer Shout, 312 Throughball, 171 Sadly, Throughball. Click to continue reading...