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Arsenal's array of youngsters was on display on Saturday. There were three absentees, Carlos Vela,
Fran Merida and Kierran Gibbs. The question on every Arsenal fan's lips is which ones will make
next season. These are the ones I think will make the grade next season. Carlos Vela The young
Mexican striker has been earmarked by [.
The long awaited arrival of Amaury Bischoff has been officially confirmed by Arsenal. Amaury,
played for Werder Bremen last season, but did not sing a new contract. The delay in the
signing was because Werder Bremen were seeking compensation from Arsenal as they had
"trained" the youngster. The French-born Portugal Under-21 international, 21, was a
youngster with [.
Last season Wenger shocked everyone at Arsenal in appointing William Gallas as club captain,
especially as Gilberto and Kolo Toure had deputised for Thierry Henry. Some, cynics no doubt,
thought this was move by Wenger to stop Gallas complaining. Once
the season, it be came obvious to everyone that Gallas was the corret choice as captain.
Newspapers have little to do these days, ,neither to websites, so the best way of filling the pages
up is by creating stories and then joining these stories up to create more stories. The end
result, a load of rubbish. Juventus announced 10 days ago, having bought Poulsen from Sevilla that
they are not in the [.
Every club has a whipping boy and in the case of Arsenal it is Philippe Senderos. Whilst the Swiss
international can perform admirably over a period of games, the fans know he is one mistake from
becoming a permanent liability. He has constantly struggled against big centre forwards, and at the
end of last season [.
Arsenal are one of the favorite teams from which to draw drawing FF players. Arsene Wenger doesnt
rotate the squad too frequently and generally persists with a favoured starting line-up, so you can
get a clear idea of which players should expect big minutes. They are also a very attacking team,
most of which seems to go through Adebayor.
Young Arsenal striker Nacer Barazite has agreed to join Derby County on a one month loan
deal. If things go well the spell could be extended to a season long
spell. Barazite did not travel to Austria with the first team squad, which was an
indication that Arsene believed that his immediate future lay away from [.
It has been a long time coming, but tonight Theo Walcott has shown the world what his is capable of
doing. Scoring three goals and make run after run. This following a great display
against Andorra has put Wlacott ahead of Beckham and Bentley in the pecking order fro the right
wing role. What must [.
After two and a half seasons at the Emirates, Arsenal are still playing to sell-out crowds, this
despite our inability to compete for the title and our descent into scrappy football. Why is
this? Is it that people want to see the mercurial skills of Fabregas, the goal scoring of van
Persie or tricks of [.
Arsenal met a typically stubborn and well organised Juventus side at the Emirates yesterday and
despite suffering an undeserved defeat, showed a great deal of promise with a very solid
performance from some very talented young Arsenal players. Of note there were four englishmen in
the starting eleven, something that will provide some ammunition for use against our rather
xenophobic press.
Morning all. Yesterday we beat Real Madrid 1-0 through a beautiful penalty from Adebayor. I don't
care how much you hate him, he makes our team better. If you boo him then go to hell. I don't boo
Arsenal players, even Eboue, so piss off for booing our 30 goal scorer. He isn't perfect by any
means but who is in today's footballing world?
After a summer of postulating, mostly on the part of his agent, after a summer of rumours, links
and frustration, Adebayor has put pen to paper and signed a new improved contract. At no
point did Adebayor ask to leave, instead he re-iterated his desire to stay at Arsenal, only to be
told by his [..
Arsenal's casualty list is not only long, but there is no indication as to when it will be reduced.
Mikael Silvestre joined us carrying an injury and still looks no closer to even being included in
the first team squad. This player spent most of last season out injured, so whilst his
experience is welcomed, it [.
The season started with fear and trepidation as to who will replace Flamini. We had two
candidates, Diaby and Denilson. One was injury prone, the other was prone to erratic
form. Arsenal fans held their breath as it was left to Denilson to fill the void. Undoubtedly
Denislon had tremendous ability and potential, but as so [.
On paper a home game against Premiership newbies Hull City should an easy three points. But life
isn't paper and the reality is that Hull will not come to the Emirates and lay down.
They have a manager in Phil Brown who is basically a Sam Allardyce clone. He will have seen the
problems that Bolton caused us under Fat Sam and will try to replicate them.
There are stories circulating that Tomas Rosicky will miss the whole of this season with a
hamstring injury that will never go away. The Czech international was injured in January
2008 against Newcastle. It was to begin with an innocuous injury, but as time went on the
club was silent on his return.
What is it with recently departed Arsenal players? New Panathanaikos signing Gilberto believes
former club Arsenal have a long, hard road ahead if they are to win a trophy this season. The
Brazilian midfielder left the Gunners after six successful years with the club - winning two FA
Cups and one league title - in search of [.
Middlesbrough have announced that they have agreed a fee with Arsenal for Justin Hoyte, believed to
be £3M. Hoyte spent the 2005-06 season in the north east with Sunderland, he had a good
season the following season, but failed to make an impact last season. With the arrival of
Bacary Sagna, Hoyte became third choice [.
With Justin Hoyte leaving to join Middlesbrough, Arsenal's ranks will be increased this week with
the return from China of Cameroon International Alexandre Song. Song's Cameroon were knocked out of
the Olympics at the quarter-final stage by Brazil. With this early exit so ends the dreams of
Song to come back with a gold medal.
Wrong. But these are the games that we must win to sustain a title challenge.
This wont be easy today. It's a London derby and Fulham will be right up for this. Arsenal will
need to focus completely and in all honesty every game from now to the end of the season should be
like a cup final for Arsenal.
There is no doubt that Emmanuel Eboue isn't the most popular of Arsenal players amongst
Gooners.
He doesn't endear himself to the Gooner faithful with his sometimes infuriating antics. The
play-acting and diving has to stop before he can begin to build bridges with the Arsenal crowd.
However, speak to members of the Arsenal squad and they absolutely love the bloke and say that he
is great for team morale.
Arsenal's International stars were in action for their respective countries tonight and it was the
World Cup Qualifiers that became the main talking point of the week. Here at Gooner Talk, we look
to bring you the latest updates and results on how the Arsenal players are doing for their
countries with a brief summary of [.
Blackburn 0-4 Arsenal
Is there a better way to warm up for an arduous trip to the Ukraine than to thump Blackburn
4-0?
It's funny, because you could argue 4-0 was generous to Arsenal; the last two goals were classic
late game-killers and Blackburn caused our defence a fair amount of problems all day.
By 1970's Gooner I was critical of the performance at Kiev last Wednesday and some of the Arsenal
Analysis readers were hostile to my thoughts. My objection was mainly due to the choice of tactics
and formation for that game which meant that two of the most influential Arsenal players (Fabregas
and Van Persie) were shifted to positions on the pitch which were not most suited for them.
I'm still recovering from that. Tip of the cap to the coach and players of Hull City - they
played an outstanding game, whereas the high paid players of Arsenal looked liked they didn't care
Geovanni's goal was sublime, but he was given too much time and too much space. William Gallas is
once again facing a hail of criticism for his shoddy defending and leadership.
The long awaited return of Eduardo is just around the corner. The club has said that the
Brazilian born Croat will be back in contention within three weeks. This is great news for
the club and its supporters as Eduardo started to show last season that he is a clinical finisher
and despite such a [.
Following the Carling Cup exit at Burnley, everyone has gone quiet on the youth at Arsenal. This is
typical of the media, one defeat does not mean that they are no good, in fact, if you look at the
match, the second goal was a slip by Silvestre and Bendtner, no longer considered a youngster [...]
With the departures of Lehman and Gilberto, Arsenal's Invincibles have been disbanded, leaving only
Kolo Toure from that famous team. In 2003/04, Arsenal achieved something no other team in
the modern era has managed to do, they went a whole season unbeaten. Who would have though
that when Manchester United were awarded a penalty and van Nislelroy [.
Arsenal have today confirmed that Francis Coquelin has joined the club. Coquelin has
been training with Arsenal all summer, the young 17 year old French midfielder joins
from Stade Lavallois, no transfer fee has been reported. Coquelin refused to sign
a professional contract with his team Laval, he was a free agent.
After a summer of postulating, mainly on the part of his agent, Adebayor is back training with
Arsenal in Austria. Last season saw the Togolese
striker score 30 goals for Arsenal, a feat that neither the player nor his manager could have
envisaged at the start of the season.
Arsenal's new signing Samir Nasri has told L'Equipe that the main reason he joined Arsenal
was because of Arsene Wenger. Arsene Wenger has nutured many talents in his time at Arsenal,
those that have stayed loyal to the maanger like Henry and Vieirra have reaped the benefits, those
who were anxious to move on like Anelka [.
A few topics.
Firstly, the empty seats at the Grove. It's a mockery that the club continue to claim that these
matches are 'sell-outs' when any idiot can look up and see that shedloads of the seats in the
stadium remain empty. The problem is, as many have already stated, that these seats are sold seats
that haven't been occupied.
Reading are interested in taking Kieran Gibbs on a season long loan. Such a move would be
very beneficial for Gibbs who will get valuable first team experience at Reading playing at either
left-back or on the left side of midfield. "It is important we get the right person in. Gibbs
is the sort of player [.
Arsenal and UD Salamanca have both announced that Arsenal's Norwegian centre-half Harvard Nordveit
has joined the Spanish outfit on a season long loan. Harvard joined last summer
from FK Haugesund for £2M, and was soon and made reserve team captain. Nordveit had an
injury ravaged season last year.
Eboue has turned into a figure of ridicule at Arsenal, he has fallen from grace in a dramatic
fashion. He has lost his rightback position to Sagna, laboured at right wing last season, and
now is threatening to make the central midfield position his own. Wenger has a mild form of
myopia when it comes [.
With just one game into the new Premier League campaign, International friendlies already become
the main talking point of the week with several Arsenal players starring for their respective
countries. Here at Gooner Talk, we look to bring you the latest updates and results on how the
Arsenal players are doing for their countries with a [.
There's a host of Arsenal players to keep your eyes on today. While Aaron Ramsey didn't get on
the pitch for Wales, backup keeper Lukasz Fabianski got the start in goal for Poland with Artur
Boruc suspended? Or out of action. Regardless, they'll be much more later on today/tomorrow. Here's
to a great (and boring) day of internationals, plus hoping for no injuries.
Arsenal's International stars were in action for their respective countries tonight and it was the
World Cup Qualifiers that became the main talking point of the evening. Here at Gooner Talk, we
look to bring you the latest updates and results on how the Arsenal players are doing for their
countries with a brief summary of [.
Year after year the media talks of Arsenal's weak defence, a defence they say that cannot handle
aerial threats, a defence that does not like playing against big centre forwards. Is this
true or is it one more myth that needs to be blown up for its fabrication. The media has
never forgiven Wenger for dismantling the [.
Johan Djourou became the latest player to quietly extend his stay at Arsenal, following on from
Clichy, Sagna and Adebayor. Djourou, people forget is young and in most clubs would not have
got anywhere near a first team place. He has three experienced players in front of him from
whom he can learn a lot [.
