Not Barcelona this time!

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Inter and Arsenal could be about to enter negotiations for a deal that would see Mario Balotelli swap places with Francesc Fabregas.

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Darren Bent secured a shock win over Arsenal who lacked the dynamism to open up the Black Cats' defence.
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Was this the realisation of the importance of Robin van Persie or were Arsenal just missing a certain amount of cutting edge in the starting line-up?

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So, France made it to the World Cup at the expense of the Republic of Ireland. Expected? Maybe. Still, the way Les Blues made it through is far more than questionable.

For those of you who were hibernating during the past week and somehow don't know how France qualified, Thierry Henry handled the ball 13 minutes into extra time and passed it to William Gallas, who headed the controversial goal allowing France to reach next year's finals with a 2-1 win on aggregate.

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Arsene Wenger had some good news.

"After being assessed by the Arsenal medical staff, the club can confirm that Kieran Gibbs has sustained severe bruising to the bones and soft tissue of his right foot."

There is no fracture of the metatarsal as feared at first. Gibbs injury is short term and he should ready to face the highly anticipated Chelsea showdown.

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Maybe if Thierry Henry was back with Arsenal , he could get himself out of a fix by helping the rest of the Arsenal crew dressing up and having a bit of fun with the kids at Great Ormond Street Hospital! Theo Walcott,Cesc Fabregas,Andrey Arshavin,Bacary Sagna all took part in the Fundraising video and showed the [. Click to continue reading...

Long, long ago, when the world was still new, there was once an Arsenal blog, written by an American. It was updated daily with all the latest news, transfer stories, and thoughts on Arsenal. It was called The ArseNole. And now, The ArseNole is back. That's right, after a shocking absence of over a month, I've made a return to the blogging realm, since there is finally a lot to talk about. Click to continue reading...

Manuel Almunia finds himself down the pecking order And Denilson is a lot shorter than we thought...

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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says he will never make a huge number of signings at any one time because it will affect their style of play.
Wenger insisted that to maintain the quality of Arsenal's game, he simply cannot afford to make too many changes or bring in too many players at once. Click to continue reading...

As clear as night follows day, summer follows spring, and Phil Brown is a self promoting moron, Arsenal will get themselves in an almighty pickle with injuries long before the Christmas break.

The tradition has been continuing for many a long year, and with the news now of another injury to a reserve left back, Arsene Wenger is going to have to shuffle the pack again to get a team out at Sunderland capable of getting a result.

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Arsenal striker Robin Van Persie headed to Serbia earlier this week to get 'special' treatment for the torn ligaments in his ankle.

We didn't actually follow RVP all the way over, but our Eastern European correspondent (Croatian if you must ask) insists that this is exactly how Serbian witchdoctors administer placenta treatments to patients.

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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says Samir Nasri will not replace Alex Song in a defensive midfield role in the New Year.
Song will be lost to the Gunners due to Cameroon's African Nations Cup campaign.
But on Nasri, Wenger told arsenal.com: "No, [he is not a replacement].
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He's at it again.

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Former Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor has stoked the fires ahead of Manchester City's League Cup clash with the Gunners, after insisting he has no regrets over his controversial celebrations against Arsene Wenger's side.

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While the injury to Robin van Persie was disturbing news this past weekend, let's try not to go overboard. Posts on message boards and the like have been raging about how our season is over, etc., etc., etc.... That is hardly the case. Yes, he has been in the form of his life with 8 goals and 7 assists in 15 matches.

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by CARL ELDRIDGEÂ Straight into it this morning my fellow Arsenalistas and news that Robin van Persie wants a Serbian housewife to massage placenta fluid into his injured ankle in bid to return to action for Arsenal within a month, reports the Daily Mail.

The paper says RVP flies to Belgrade today with Arsene Wenger's approval to seek out the services of a mysterious woman who works from home and claims her unorthodox remedy can drastically speed up recovery times.

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Our regular Guest Contributor, Ted Harwood, takes a look at Cesc Fabregas' secret weapon, Alex Song, and his emergence this season as one of the best defensive midfielders in the Premier League. Song's form is directly related to Cesc's performances this season of 10 assists in 10 league matches, just one less than the total that led the league last season, as well as his 9 goals in all competitions. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool set to make hopeful move for Croatian international.

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The news doing the rounds over the weekend involved the reported interest shown by Liverpool in our top notch striker Eduardo and for some reason the miserly sum of £10m was repeatedly mentioned, which is probably only sufficient to purchase one of his legs and not the rest of his body.

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Seriously if he keeps this up Arsene Wenger may well have to consider adapting Thomas Vermaelen into an out and out striker! He he scores the second in a friendly against Hungary.

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There it is. The interlull curse strikes again. Did we really think we would come out of this break unscathed? Every thing was going too well. And now a player who is key to our entire club's fortunes looks set to be out for a while and will definitely miss our upcoming match against Chelsea, and for what?

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So we are just shy of being one-third of the way through the season and we're already at our third (!) interlull. When we return, it will be crunch time with 11 matches in the next 42 days, including Chelsea at home, Liverpool away, the final CL group stage fixtures, and, of course, City away in the Carling Cup quarterfinals.

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Gooners should be forgiven for indulging in optimism. With 36 goals in 11 matches, talk of Arsene Wenger's gun slinging side has done much to impress, and you can sense the Frenchman is a few wins away from making some sort of bold prediction, ala the Invincibles. To be five points from leaders Chelsea with a game in hand, and especially with such a heavily-populated injury list, the Professor must believe his seemingly eternally-young side has the best shot at a domestic title since the Gunners' monumental collapse two years ago.

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At the start of the season, Arsene Wenger's young Gunners were written off as title challengers by many analysts and TV pundits. Some even argued that the new Manchester City powerhouse would take over Arsenal at the top of the table.

It was an easy assumption to make as City made news every day during the transfer window.

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Sickening is how I would describe the Kung Fu kick meted out by Jonny "The Hitman" Evans of Man Utd against Drogba of Chelsea last Sunday. But lets be fair, Man Utd have included Kung Fu in its training ever since Cantona was accused by a Shaolin Master based in Moss side Manchester of having poor technique in his kung fu kick pictured above.

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With Alex Song in inspired form, it begs the question who will replace him when he leaves for the African Cup of Nations in January?

The obvious candidates are Abou Diaby and Denilson. In my opinion, they are not good enough to play every game for Arsenal. They are great squad players, with lots of potential.

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Nicklas Bendtner has claimed his most prestigious award yet after being named the Danish Footballer of the Year for 2009.

The award was presented to the injury-striken front-man in a special programme called Dansk Fodbold Award on the TV2 television network in his homeland.

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As they Gunners continue their great run of form it is worth mentioning those players who are still not hitting the high notes.

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Philippe Senderos

Whilst I think the Big Swiss is not the same defender that was derided when he first hit the scene I still don't think he has much of a future at the club.

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Despite getting off to a start that has gone beyond all expectations, the football pundits continue to dig around for any reason to stick to their idiotic pre-season predictions of Arsenal's impending doom and gloom. The club is 15-2-2 overall having scored 55 goals, 10-0 at home having scored 33 goals at the Emirates.

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Could Wenger do with another striking option?

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A trio of Premiership clubs are potentially lining up a bid for Milan misfit Klass-Jan Huntelaar, according to reports.

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The biggest match of the weekend ended up being a tense but boring affair. It was so bad that in the end, the most eyecatching incident turned out to be off the field as shown by the picture on the left.
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Wenger keeps eye on German youngster who is having a great Bundesliga season.

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Arsenal are planning for life without Cesc Fabregas by lining up a £15 million swoop for Germany playmaker Mesut Ozil.

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A full list of those players affected by the Interlull was posted yesterday on the official site. While we have to accept that the French players and Arshavin have two games due to their play-off duties, it's a bit disappointing to see that Cesc could potentially play for Spain and Robin van Persie twice for Holland in meaningless friendlies.

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You've been talking to Wenger, haven't you? AP Photo/Tom Hevezi Darren Fletcher's been doing a lot of bleating lately, and not just during the Red Devils loss to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. Now the Scottish international is moaning t... Click to continue reading...

Last week, Stan Kroenke increased his stake in the club 29.9% and I'd like to speculate, along with others, on what that will likely mean for the future of the club we all love. Mostly, I'd like to respond to an article by David Tully that was posted on Football FanCast this past week. Sadly, fear-mongering has been a great feature of this struggle for controlling interest in the club initiated by David Dein in the wake of his exit from the club.

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Wenger linked with a move for Wolfsburg attacking midfielder.

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Reports are emanating on the grapevine that Arsene Wenger is very keen on Wolfsburg's impressive playmaker Zvjezdan Misimovic who could apparently be available for as little as £6m although some suggest that the German champions would accept nothing less than a fee in the region of £10m.

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I am Back !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After a long hiatus , I have finally decided to restart my blog. At first, I thought will I be able to find the time to maintain a blog , but then I thought and thought more and said What the Hack !!! :) . Let's give it a try once more. Click to continue reading...

On the heels of third-place Manchester United's loss to Chelsea yesterday, Darren Fletcher made the claim that he had only been called for a foul on Ashley Cole because of comments Arsene Wenger had made in the media two months ago (comments which did not even mention Darren Fletcher's name). We here at the Arsenal Offside found these comments curious, and it seemed like a bizarre and misguided attempt to deflect attention from third-place Manchester United's shortcomings in the match and to try to drag Arsenal into the discussion.

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