Arsenal striker Robin Van Persie has written off his sides chances of silverware next season by insisting that the Gunners have failed to learn from their past mistakes.

Arsene Wenger's men were serious title contenders for much of the season and reached the Carling Cup final at Wembley, however, after an atypical collapse to the season, the Gunners ended the season potless thus failing to end their six year trophy drought.

P TIMES PG J V E D GM GS SG 1 Brighton & Hove Albion 13 5 4 1 0 10 4 6 2 Southampton 12 5 4 0 1 12 6 6 3 Derby County 12 5 4 0 1 8 3 5 4 Middlesbrough 11 5 3 2 0 10 5 5 5 West Ham United 10 5 3 1 1 11 4 7 6 Crystal Palace 10 5 3 1 1 7 4 3 7 Cardiff City 8 5 2 2 1 7 6 1 8 Blackpool 8 5 2 2 1 6 5 1 9 Peterborough United 7 5 2 1 2 12 8 4 10 Leicester City 7 5 2 1 2 7 8 -1 11 Millwall 6 5 1 3 1 6 5 1 12 Portsmouth 6 5 1 3 1 4 4 0 13 Hull City 6 5 2 0 3 3 6 -3 14 Ipswich Town 6 5 2 0 3 8 14 -6 15 Burnley 5 4 1 2 1 5 6 -1 16 Barnsley 5 5 1 2 2 3 5 -2 17 Bristol City 5 5 1 2 2 4 8 -4 18 Nottingham Forest 5 5 1 2 2 4 8 -4 19 Leeds United 4 5 1 1 3 8 9 -1 20 Reading 4 5 1 1 3 5 6 -1 21 Birmingham City 4 4 1 1 2 5 7 -2 22 Watford 3 5 0 3 2 4 9 -5 23 Coventry City 2 5 0 2 3 2 5 -3 24 Doncaster Rovers 1 5 0 1 4 2 8 -6

Sunday, Sunday, the red tops are full of more rumours and transfer stories, so much contradiction it makes you want to scream.

The People are reporting that Samir Nasri is not after £110K a week as previously reported but a staggering £160K a week. Well Samir if this is the case then it will be thanks for the memories but good-bye.

The Glazer family, the American owners of Manchester United FC, have held talks with several investment banks on a scheme to list the English Premier League champions on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Bankers have reportedly advised that the listing could value the club at £1.7 billion ($2.6 billion), more than double what the Glazers paid for the club in 2005.

The Glazer family, the American owners of Manchester United FC, have held talks with several investment banks on a scheme to list the English Premier League champions on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Bankers have reportedly advised that the listing could value the club at £1.7 billion ($2.6 billion), more than double what the Glazers paid for the club in 2005.

Fulham vs Liverpool 2011 Monday, 9 May 2011- 9/5/11- Craven Cottage, London Final score:- Fulham vs Liverpool 2-5 ( Dembele, Sidwell/ Maxi Rodriguez*3, Dirk Kuyt, Luis Suarez) Weeks after beating Birmingham City 5-0, Liverpool again score five goals, this time at Craven Cottage against Fulham. Maxi Rodriguez, who got a hat trick vs Birmingham, again [.

While an English Premier League club during the 2010/11 season, Birmingham City FC got their first major trophy in 48 years when it beat Arsenal to win the Carling Cup. However, poor league results saw the team relegated to the English Football League Championship on the last day of the season. As the Brummies look for [.

P TIMES PG J V E D GM GS SG 1 Brighton & Hove Albion 16 6 5 1 0 11 4 7 2 Southampton 15 6 5 0 1 15 8 7 3 Middlesbrough 14 6 4 2 0 12 5 7 4 West Ham United 13 6 4 1 1 15 7 8 5 Derby County 12 6 4 0 2 8 4 4 6 Cardiff City 11 6 3 2 1 9 6 3 7 Blackpool 11 6 3 2 1 8 5 3 8 Crystal Palace 10 6 3 1 2 9 7 2 9 Hull City 9 6 3 0 3 4 6 -2 10 Leicester City 8 6 2 2 2 8 9 -1 11 Peterborough United 7 6 2 1 3 12 9 3 12 Birmingham City 7 5 2 1 2 8 7 1 13 Leeds United 7 6 2 1 3 11 11 0 14 Portsmouth 6 6 1 3 2 7 8 -1 15 Millwall 6 6 1 3 2 6 8 -2 16 Barnsley 6 6 1 3 2 4 6 -2 17 Watford 6 6 1 3 2 6 9 -3 18 Ipswich Town 6 6 2 0 4 8 16 -8 19 Coventry City 5 6 1 2 3 3 5 -2 20 Burnley 5 5 1 2 2 5 8 -3 21 Nottingham Forest 5 6 1 2 3 6 11 -5 22 Bristol City 5 6 1 2 3 4 9 -5 23 Reading 4 6 1 1 4 5 8 -3 24 Doncaster Rovers 1 6 0 1 5 2 10 -8

Breaking this weekend was the surprising news that 2010 MLS MVP candidate Edson Buddle was poised to make his long-discussed move overseas. What made it surprising was that the move was not to Birmingham City, which is where he had long been rumored to go, but to FC Ingolstadt, a Bundesliga 2 club that is currently in danger of being relegated to the third German soccer division.

This is the second in InTheStands' Transfermation series exploring the potential summer ahead for all Premiership clubs involved....this addition: Aston Villa

Where they stand:

Well, well, well, if I was an Aston Villa fan I would be sceptical – looking down the barrel at another mid-table finish.

Liverpool is to offer both Sotirios Kyrgiakos and David Ngog to Bolton Wanderers in exchange for their defender Gary Cahill - according to Footybunker.
The Merseyside club value Ngog at £4.5m, which Bolton boss Owen Coyle is reluctant to pay outright, but the swap deal could prove more enticing.

Morning all. Throughout January Soccerlens are going to be bringing you a daily round-up of the morning's various goings-on. Be it juicy morsels of spurious transfer gossip or real, actual bona fide news, rest assured, we'll have it covered.

Here's this morning's batch.

Dzeko deal reaches terminal velocity.

When Mark Hughes walked out on the Fulham manager's job the popular narrative still holds that he did so the full expectation of being offered the managerial position at Aston Villa it was, as has become abundantly clear since, as massive miscalculation. There were noises at the time that Villa called off talks with Hughes over the way that his departure from Craven Cottage was handled.

Like a Hammer to the groin West Ham forward Victor Obinna saw red during last night's Carling Leg semi-final first-leg victory over Birmingham City. The Nigerian petulantly flicked his foot up behind him to give Sebastian Larsson a swift kick to the crown jewels. Fortunately for the loanee, his side went on to win the [.

It's been the busiest January transfer window I can remember testimony to our lack of activity in the summer and position in the table at the turn of the year so I thought it worth putting a summary together on a day that will inevitably be dominated by Fernando Torres rumours and counter-rumours.

Liverpool vs Birmingham 2011 Anfield, Liverpool- 23/4/11 Final score:- Liverpool vs Birmingham 5-0 ( Maxi Rodriguez*3, Dirk Kuyt, Joe Cole) Midfielder Maxi Rodriguez nets a hat trick as Liverpool crush Birmingham City 5-0 in the league. Goals also for Dirk Kuyt and Joe Cole as Liverpool dominate the Blues at Anfield.

Liverpool vs Birmingham 2011 Anfield, Liverpool- 23/4/11 Final score:- Liverpool vs Birmingham 5-0 ( Maxi Rodriguez*3, Dirk Kuyt, Joe Cole) Midfielder Maxi Rodriguez nets a hat trick as Liverpool crush Birmingham City 5-0 in the league. Goals also for Dirk Kuyt and Joe Cole as Liverpool dominate the Blues at Anfield.

We enter the transfer window with two of our players entering the last 12 months of their contracts, Samir Nasri and Gael Clichy.

Arsenal fans are fretting over what is to become of Nasri. The media has gone mad on linking him to Manchester United, even to the extent that they will offer us £8M for the playmaker.

Arsene Wenger has already moved to replace Cesc Fabregas with Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder Jadson coming to Arsenal, according to reports. We are on the verge of losing Cesc to Barcelona in a deal worth up to £36million, and it seems AW has wasted no time in trying to secure a replacement.

Hot Prospects: 13 English young players to watch in 2012 is a post from: Just Football

Who says there's a dearth of English talent coming through at youth level? After disappointment for England's youngsters at international level in 2011 here are 13 youngsters tipped for great things in 2012 and beyond courtesy of Aidan R, editor of England Football Blog.

By AVI CREDITOR

After a rather quiet offseason in terms of player moves, the New York Red Bulls are reportedly close to making a big splash in the transfer market.

According to reports out of the Netherlands, the club has a two-year offer on the table to Ajax midfielder and Finland international Teemu Tainio (pictured above, left), who has fallen out of favor at the club and can be had on a free transfer.

Arsenal centre forward Robin Van Persie has produced a string of consistent and impressive goal scoring displays this season, something which have been previously been missing from his game.

When the Dutchman arrived from Feyenoord in a £2.75 million move he was originally a left sided midfielder.

Swedish International Sebastian Larsson has snubbed former club Arsenal to re-unite with Steve Bruce who brought him to Birmingham 2006. Larsson will move to Sunderland on a free transfer following his contract expiration with relegated Birmingham City.

View Sunderland 2011-12 Shirt here!

The January 2011 transfer window is about to open. Will Premier League clubs be spending money this time around? In January 2009 Premier League teams spent a record £178 MILLION in that transfer window. Last January spending was much lower with the vast majority of moves on the final day of the January transfer window being loan deals as clubs did not have the capital to invest in new players.

Carling Cup calamity A goalkeeper would usually know he is at fault if he was beaten by a cleanly struck Carlton Cole effort, given his form this season. When a scuffed Cole strike beats you, you know something has gone horribly wrong. Birmingham City keeper Ben Foster picked a horrible time to play a game [.

Botswana vs Sweden International Friendly- January 19, 2011 Cape Town, South Africa- 17.00 South African time KO Sweden did not make it to the 2010 World Cup, but they will be playing a friendly against Botswana in Cape Town. Nice opportunity for Sweden coach Erik Hamren to test out a few things against Botswana.

Winning the Premier League was worth more than £15million to Manchester United while West Ham earned a mere £756,000.

The payout that teams get is determined by where they finish in the league. An the difference of a place or two can be worth millions of pounds. Newcastle for example finished 12th the Premier League and received a little over £6.

Winning the Premier League was worth more than £15million to Manchester United while West Ham earned a mere £756,000.

The payout that teams get is determined by where they finish in the league. An the difference of a place or two can be worth millions of pounds. Newcastle for example finished 12th the Premier League and received a little over £6.

The Birmingham City board have slammed the decision of walkaway coach Alex McLeish to leave the club with a potential move to city rivals Aston Villa firmly on the cards.

Birmingham City were rocked by Sunday's news that coach Alex McLeish had decided to call time as Blues boss with McLeish's resignation coming via email while Birmingham's acting Chairman Peter Pannu was on business in Amsterdam.

As you may be aware I have spent the last week or so creating word maps out of 2010/2011 match reports for all of the clubs in the Premier League. I thought I'd use this data in order to create a team of the season. The rules are simple, the players with the most mentions during the 2010/2011 season in BBC match reports are included in the first XI.

Nicklas Bendtner had a somewhat frustrating year in the Red n' White of The Gunners' strip, but also had some good moments in the 10-11 season. Things started gloomy for the Big Dane having been carrying a groin injury from the previous season and playing on painkillers NB went to the World Cup and the injury got worse from there he finally made his Arsenal injury comeback 3 months into the season coming on a late sub against Birmingham City @ Emirates.

As a follow up to my previous blogpost related to the different nationalities represented in the Premier League I thought it might be interesting to slice the data slightly differently. This time I'm going to look at player nationality by club. The data in this article relates to the nationality of players who started matches in the Premier League last season (2010/2011).

As a follow up to my previous blogpost related to the different nationalities represented in the Premier League I thought it might be interesting to slice the data slightly differently. This time I'm going to look at player nationality by club. The data in this article relates to the nationality of players who started matches in the Premier League last season (2010/2011).

Clint Dempsey and Fulham kickoff their 2011 EPL campaign with Aston Villa. (Getty Images)

By: Geoff Reid

Editor's note: This is a new addition to WVHooligan, starting this week. Each week, Geoff Reid will preview the upcoming EPL games and give you his prediction to each.

With Robbie Keane on his way to LA Galaxy THFC1882′s Rob Handworker takes a look back on the strikers Spurs career.

On signing him for Tottenham from Leeds Utd in 2002, our manager the God Glenn Hoddle said that Keane was ideally suited to Tottenham and could make White Hart Lane his "spiritual home" for years to come.

Manchester United's kept their spot at the top of the league, no matter how many times Gary Neville tried to give it away. Macnehster City's even on points after their win over Blackpool, while Arsenal was convincing at a St. Andrews' Stadium that's often inhospitable to visitors.

On this edition of the EPL Talk podcast, myself, Laurence McKenna and Jesse Chula (filling in for the infirm Kartik Krishnaiyer) and talk about the weekend that was in our favorite football league.

Arsene Wenger has talked a lot about tackling. Invariably the discussion gets hijacked by clueless hacks and pundits who convert that into an Arsenal V Rest of the League debate and take pride in highlighting one or two poor tackles by Arsenal players.

According to a number of morons who have the privilege of influencing public opinion, Arsenal are just as bad as any other team when it comes to tackling.

The English Premier League takes a weekend off as English football shifts its focus to the FA Cup, the third round of which happens this weekend. We start today's show, the second half of a discussion we had on Wednesday, by looking toward this weekend, specifically Liverpool's trip to Manchester United, though that quickly descended into discussion of Liverpool and how important Sunday's result will be to Roy Hodgson's job and the club.

Yesterday's Premier League match between Manchester City and Birmingham City was full of head hurties and bum bruises, resulting in a 2-all tie. Vincent, honey, are you trying to tell us something? Image: Shaun Botterill/Getty Images Europe.

The Champions League has been kind to two of our four English stalwarts this week with both Tottenham and Arsenal picking up victories to take into their respective second legs. Being a Spurs fan, Tuesday's win was a delight to witness and I am proud I have been around to witness Tottenham's debut Champions League season.