So what's going on? Well hey guess what this evening Kieran Gibbs has picked up the now mandatory injury playing in the England U21 qualifier away to Lithuania. We await further news, but who thought, when we lined up for the season with three left-footed left-backs, that where left-backs were concerned, we were a touch over-subscribed?

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As you know, we complain about injuries, even though a lot of other clubs (Liverpool, Chelsea) have plenty of injury problems of their own. But we now have fully eleven players injured, and crying doesn't help, so why not have a little fun with it?

Our 11 players could be configured into a lineup:

Fabianski

Traore-Djourou-Clichy

Denilson

Walcott-Wilshere-Diaby-Vela

Bendtner-van Persie

An unconventional formation, sure.

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By 1970's GoonerJust when we thought it couldn't get any worse it has. First it was Bendtner out with a groin problem then van Persie with his ankle and now it's Gibbs that's got injured while on international duty. Add to these Denilson, Clichy, Diaby, Vela, Wilshere,Djourou, Fabiansky and Walcott and you can make another very useful first 11! Click to continue reading...

This happened a couple of days ago, but, you know...(shrugs). 15 Arsenal players have been called up for duty over the international break. The entire list can be found here.

Of the 15, only 5 Diaby, Gallas, and Sagna for France, Arshavin for Russia, and Song for Cameroon are playing in meaningful senior international matches, as all of their nations are trying to qualify for the World Cup.

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Wenger has centre back on his radar.

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Apparently on his way into the Emirates is Torino's Italy Under-21 defender Angelo Ogbonna. "I know exactly what I want and I am not closing the door on anything," he says.

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Carling Cup tomorrow, with a home matchup against Liverpool.

As I've said previously, I feel a little conflicted about the competition. Do I want to win? Yes, of course. But I have mixed feelings about how we treat the competition. Because, to be clear, Arsene Wenger does not really care about winning the Carling Cup.

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Young England international very much on Wenger's wishlist.

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Manchester City are ready to offer Micah Richards an improved five-year contract even though the England international still has three years left on his current deal.

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International Week 0-0 Excitement

Interminable, isn't it? Though it's not like our players are all sitting at home twiddling on their Wiis we've got 20 away on international duty. Am I being a cynic to suggest that the chances of all 20 of those players coming back uninjured is practically nil?

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Wenger tracking impressive youngster.

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Neven Subotic: The ‘New Vidic' Tracked by Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs & Man City

The Premier League big boys are reportedly monitoring the form of Serbian 6 ft 4 centre-half Neven Subotic despite the player recently signing a new long-term contract with his club Borussia Dortmund.

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Well, the game kicks off in half an hour, I need to get a shift on.

Blackburn and their vile manager are visiting the Grove this afternoon and after United slipped up yesterday we need to take advantage and close the points gap, especially with Liverpool and Chelsea playing each other. This season is certainly shaping up to be an interesting one, teams lower down the table believe they can beat any of the top 4 teams this season and we have had a fair few suprises in a short amount of time.

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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes Philippe Senderos is not "starting again" with the Gunners after spending some time on loan with A.C. Milan.

Speaking ahead of tonight's game which will see the Swiss International making his debut for Arsenal, the Frenchman said:

I don't believe he is starting his career with us again because we know how good he is but it is a new start let's say.

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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes Philippe Senderos is not "starting again" with the Gunners after spending some time on loan with A.C. Milan.

Speaking ahead of tonight's game which will see the Swiss International making his debut for Arsenal, the Frenchman said:

I don't believe he is starting his career with us again because we know how good he is but it is a new start let's say.

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Who: Arsenal (9th) Vs Wigan Athletic (11th)
What: Barclays Premier League, Round 5 for Arsenal, Round 6 for Wigan.
Where: Emirates Stadium, Ashburton Grove, London N5, England.
The Gunners are back in London, after visiting Manchester twice, and Belgium once in their past 3 matches. Click to continue reading...

Happy Friday one and all, hope you're well. A fair amount to get through and we'll start with the early team news ahead of tomorrow's game against Wigan.

The most likely returninantor is Robin van Persie who will shake off his knee problem while Andrei Arshavin has a 10% chance according to the boss.

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It is with little fanfare that our Champions League campaign kicks off this season, which is somewhat misguided since tonight's match is perhaps the toughest in the group.

And as Standard Liege's first foray into the competition, everyone connected with the club players and fans alike will be up for this one like no other.

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Pre-match posts are almost pointless given that we all kind of expect to beat Liege tonight, we know very little about our opposition, and the overriding feeling is that things are still a bit low in the Arsenal camp following consequtive defeats in Manchester.Objectively, the team news is not good. Almunia, RVP, Denilson, Arshavin, Nasri, Walcott, Fabianski, Djourou, Vela are all out. Click to continue reading...

If you didn't like that pun I apologize. I thought it was pretty good. Then again, puns tend to annoy a lot of people. Why? I don't know. It's not like it is the lowest form of humour. That would be sarcasm. "Yeah, right!" (said Samuel Johnson)
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I'm not going to bother starting with apologies today, you know how things are at the minute, but hopefully after my show on Wednesday things will settle down and normal LadyArse service will be resumed. I'm ignoring the fact that it has just dawned on me that our Champions League match is also on Wednesday.

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Last week I was away for four days and the timing for my trip was spot on as of course the Arsenal were not in action because of World Cup Qualifiers and friendlies. But, I can't say I didn't miss anything as there was plenty going on and below I will try to provide my thoughts on all the news on our beloved Arsenal.

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Not good. Djourou underwent surgery and won't be back until March at the earliest. And we're one step closer to having to watch Silvestre play. Ugh.

The injury was the one picked up on international duty last month, reminding us of why we hate internationals. Other than that, there don't appear to be any other injuries to report.

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I don't see why they should occur so soon in the season, the players had one round of stupid internationals just before the season started and now there are more.

The only things that ever comes out of them are injuries. Proof: Djourou was sent home from his Swiss training camp in the last international break and now has to undergo surgery on his knee.

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On 22 September Arsenal host West Bromwich Albion in the Carling Cup.� This competition has been used by Wenger as breeding ground for youngsters and for fringe first team players to make a claim for a first team start.

Despite treating the competition with some disdain, Arsenal have reached the final once and the semi-final on three other occasions.

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I feel disappointed and somewhat annoyed of how Arsene Wenger seems it liable to sell two main players this transfer window and bring in one (Thomas Vermaelen) as a like for like replacement. If Arsenal want to challenge for all trophies this season we needed a better squad, and without a doubt needed another CB.

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Manchester United

Last Season: 1st, 28-6-4 (90 points, +44 goal differential)

Recent Form: WLW

Home Form (last season): 16-2-1

Last Meeting: Manchester United 0-Arsenal 0 (5/16/09)

Well, here we are, one of the biggest fixtures of the season.

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What the hell has gone wrong with Phillipe Senderos?.. Once he was going to be a future Arsenal captain, the next Tony Adams. Now no one wants to entertain the man.
I like the guy, he is a very good defender he just lacks a bit of pace. But so does John Terry. So why is John Terry so good and Phillipe Senderos so bad?

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Morning, today's the day we find out about Cesc's injury with Arsene Wenger already admitting the captain is unlikely to play against Celtic tomorrow night.

The Mail is reporting that he's going to be out for three weeks, which would see him miss the United game, but we'll have to just wait and see.

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The Premiership season has only just started but the excitement is everywhere. The teams are still getting used to new players but some of them have already shown enough potential to be tipped for greatness. While the title race is set to be very interesting with Chelsea and Liverpool looking to take advantage of United's troubles, the top 4 race is already looking to be much closer than ever.

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Hello everybody. How's your Friday going? First home match of the year is tomorrow, and we're playing Portsmouth, who are shite. In face, they're probably going to get relegated. I've put some money on Arsenal to win -2 goals, so we pretty much need to win by three for me to get paid. I'd very much appreciate it if you could pull that off Arsenal. Click to continue reading...

If there was an ideal start to a new season for Gooners around the world, this certainly was it.� With Samir Nasri, Theo Walcott, Tomas Rosicky (again), Johann Djourou and Abou Diaby on the injury list, it looked like Arsenal were to start this year's campaign with substantial injuries, though having Cesc Fabregas, Andrei Arshavin and Robin van Persie on the team sheet can hardly be called less than full-strength.

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Very short of time this morning so I'll be very brief suffice to say I'm over-excited today. The talking is over, the excessive analysis of strengths and weaknesses is done, and the usual wild media predictions have been made (and guess what half of them are tipping Liverpool for the title, as they do every year).

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I don't know you, but I feel empty without football, without the Arsenal. At least, that's how I felt after the last kick of the ball in the match against Stoke City two months or so ago. In a way, I wanted the new season to come quickly, not only to have our beloved game of football back, but also to put behind last season, a very disappointing one.

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BBC SPORT | Football | Premier League | Man Utd v Birmingham

Man Utd have defensive problems despite Wes Brown's recovery from a thigh problem, with Jonny Evans doubtful and Nemanja Vidic and Rafael ruled out.
Ben Foster (knee) or Tomasz Kuszczak will deputise for Edwin van der Sar, while Nani (shoulder) could feature after playing for Portugal in midweek.

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Arsene Wenger's objective view when his players were subject of controversial incidents has been doubted in a number of occasions. Yesterday, the Frenchman admitted that he was not always sincere when providing his opinion on such episodes.

The Frenchman said:

At times I saw it, and I said I didn't to protect the player.

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Right, its this time again. Last time I reviewed the squad was the day after the transfer window shut last season, this time I am doing it slightly earlier in the hope that we buy a couple of players.

Right...this is the 2009 Arsenal squad review by The Goon Blog.

Goalkeepers: Almunia, Fabianski, Mannone.

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Last season for our opening league game of the season against West Bromwich Wobbleyou we played Almunia Sagna, Gallas, Djourou, Clichy Walcott (Toure), Eboue, Denilson, Nasri Adebayor, Bendtner (Van Persie) From that line up we have now lost Toure, Adebayor and Nasri (for the moment) We have gained Cesc (late returning from summer matches) Eduardo (injured) Arshavin (not yet signed) Vermalen (not yet signed) Song [. Click to continue reading...