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It is being reported this morning that the Celtic manager Tony Mowbray has set his sights on signing the young Arsenal striker Jay Simpson this summer.

Celtic are having problems scoring goals this season, and Mowbray, who had Simpson at West Brom last season, believes the 21 year-old could be an instant success in the SPL.

Mowbray has had Simpson watched while he is on loan at Queens Park Rangers, and thinks that Arsene Wenger will let him go on the cheap as he doesn’t look like breaking into the Gunners first team any time in the near future. Read the full article here

It has been reported recently that the Serie A giants Roma are very keen to take William Gallas to Italy next season, to be reunited with his old manager from his Chelsea days, Claudio Ranieri, who has openly admitted that he wants Gallas to join the club. He said on Monday: “Gallas is a player who has achieved so much in his career.

“I signed him when I was in charge at Chelsea and he has done well both for them and Arsenal. He is a top-level player and all top players are welcome at Roma.” Read the full article here

The Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen is totally convinced that Arsenal can go on and win the Champions League, even if they are drawn against Chelsea or Man Utd. He thinks that the Gunners will prove everyone wrong who predicted that Arsenal couldn’t win a trophy this season, and expects them to win two!

“It’s possible that we can play Manchester United in the Quarter-Finals but it’s just a different game,” Vermaelen said. Read the full article here

The Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas may not have been fit enough to help his team-mates in last night’s easy win over Porto, but he was quite confident that they were going to win.

In an interview on Spanish TV before the game, he re-iterated how happy he was at Arsenal, and how much he wanted the Gunners to beat Real Madrid in the Champions League Final, which this year will be played at the Bernabeau.

“I want to play in the Champions League Final in Madrid and against Real. That would be the maximum for me as an Arsenal player. Read the full article here

Last week against Burnley the Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner missed “chance after chance” (Wenger’s words), but the French manager was always certain that his much-maligned hitman would stay confident and find his scoring boots again.

Wenger said: “I told you how football can change for a player in three days. It goes quickly up and quickly down. And it shows you as well that he has not lost the confidence that he came back tonight with good focus and with the same belief. It is one of his strengths. His confidence level remains relatively stable.” Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger was extremely pleased with the massive 5-0 win over Porto last night, but thinks that his Arsenal team need to continue to improve to get past all the great teams still left in the competition.

He said: “First of all, we are happy to be in the last eight. If you look back at the last five years, I think we were in the last eight a few times. It’s never easy to be in the top eight in Europe. The negative side of that is you only have good teams now. Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger has already said that he will be playing Sol Campbell alongside Thomas Vermaelen in this evenings game against Porto, but the Arsenal boss is aware that he cannot expect the 35 year-old to play twice a week at the top level.

He says that he will have to rotate Sol with Mikael Silvestre in the coming weeks while Gallas recovers, although he is not too happy about playing two left-footed players together. Read the full article here

There are very many stories appearing linking Arsenal with yet another striker, despite the near certainty of Marouane Chamakh arriving from Bordeaux in the summer.

This time at least it is a very promising young starlet from Palermo, called Abel Hernandez, who has scored four goals in 16 appearances for the Serie A side. That may not sound like a lot, but they have all been from the substitutes bench, and he has actually only played the equivalent of four games. For a 19 year-old that is pretty good going at such a level. Read the full article here

The Egyptian striker Mohammed Zidan, who scored Egypt’s only goal against England last week, has revealed that Arsenal have been watching him play lately.

Zidan is currently playing for Borussia Dortmund in the Bundseliga, but, according to his father, he has a clause in his contract which allows him to talk to any big clubs that come in for him.

Zidan, 28, said yesterday: “My agent spoke to me after the game and told me about Arsenal’s interest.

“He asked me to try to impress them, and become the first Egyptian to play for the Gunners.” Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger last night revealed that William Gallas will miss tonights game for Arsenal against Porto, and probably at least another month after that.

He was thought to be close to recovery from his calf injury, but when pushed in training this weekend, he is now back to square one.

Wenger said: “We were a little impatient with Gallas and we pushed him and he wanted to get on as well, which is why maybe it has happened.

“But there is no obvious sign as to why it keeps coming back. Read the full article here