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The Emirates cup will be back at Arsenal this summer after missing last year because of the London Olympics. It will be played at the start of August and, along with Arsenal, will feature Napoli from Serie A, FC Porto of the Primeira Liga in Portugal and Galatasaray from the Super Liga in Turkey.

These are all good teams and will provide a useful test for the Gunners. It should be a great couple of days for the fans and will help to get the players match fit for the coming season. It is a season which the Gunners are under severe pressure to mark with a trophy. .......Read the full article here

Yes, Arsenal SHOULD Give Wigan a Guard of Honour by FD

So the newly crowned FA Cup winners arrive at the Emirates tomorrow in a last-ditch bid to maintain their Premiership status for another season. Nobody can doubt they deserved to win that match at Wembley against a disappointing Man City side. But expecting players who’ve just won a major trophy for the first time in their lives to raise their game for an even more important clash just a few days later, is underestimating the emotional impact, let alone the physical one, that famous victory would have had on the team. .......Read the full article here

The current football season has been excruciating at times for Arsenal fans and it is showing no signs of getting easier. Despite the excellent run of form recently, with six wins from the last eight Premier League games, the Gunners still have the threat of finishing outside the top four looming large.

With ten man Chelsea coming from behind to win yesterday at Aston Villa, it is now down to Tottenham and Arsenal to fight it out over the remaining Champions League place. There is plenty to worry about for Arsenal fans, as a Spurs win at Stoke City today will leave us needing to beat Wigan at the Emirates on Tuesday and they will be flying high after their shock victory over Manchester City yesterday. .......Read the full article here

After last night’s game, Arsenal have got a reprieve and are now masters of their own destiny. Two wins from the last two games against Wigan Athletic and Newcastle United will ensure a top four finish and continue the incredible run of qualifying for the Champions League under Arsene Wenger. As the Gunners are just two points behind Chelsea in third place and they have two hard games against Aston Villa and Everton, as well as the Europa League final against Benfica in between them, there is still a chance for Arsenal to snatch third place. .......Read the full article here

There has been a lot of talk this week, and at various times throughout the season, about Arsene Wenger and whether he should stay in charge of Arsenal. The talk this week was started when it was reported that he may be heading to the Qatari owned Paris Saint-Germain. The super rich leaders of the French league seem to be connected with just about every big transfer rumour, so we should not be surprised, but Wenger and officials at Arsenal have made clear that it will not happen, at least not this year. .......Read the full article here

Santi Cazorla has been one of Arsenal’s most consistent players this season, but the Spanish international knows that the team as a whole has not been nearly consistent enough this season. The talented midfielder attributes that to the team getting used to each other early in the season and is sure we will do a lot better next time.

The Gunners are actually top of the form table for the last six games, with four wins and two draws, while over the last 10 games we are joint top with Manchester United. That has propelled us up the Premier League table into strong contention for a top four finish and suggests to Cazorla that Arsenal will put up a much better challenge for honours next season. .......Read the full article here

It is all about finishing in the top four for Arsenal, and it is likely to be a nail biting few weeks. Both Tottenham and Chelsea have a game in hand on the Gunners, but they do have to play each other. Chelsea are one point behind us while Tottenham are two, so it really could not be tighter.

It is simple to say that Arsenal will qualify for the Champions League if we win our remaining four games, but that will not be easy. On paper our fixtures are not too bad, after Manchester United we have three teams currently in the bottom five. QPR are down, 10 points off safety with four games left means they could be relegated this weekend. .......Read the full article here

When Gervinho returned from the African Cup of Nations in early February, many Arsenal fans expected to see him back in the side for the Gunners fairly soon. After scoring four goals for the Ivory Coasy while away, and impressing with his all-round performances, it seemed the perfect time to give him another chance with the Gunners.

However, after an uninspiring showing in the FA cup exit to Blackburn Rovers in mid February, the Ivorian did not play again until Wenger brought him on as a substitute in the second leg against Bayern Munich four weeks later. The extra time off certainly appears to have helped though, and Wenger believes that the African trips have hindered his progress as a Gunner. The boss has clearly been working hard on improving his forward’s end product and has maybe found the key to making him the player we all want to see. .......Read the full article here

I know that some Arsenal fans have found it hard to be too angry with the former Gunner Robin van Persie. After eight years without a trophy they could understand that he wanted to move to Manchester United to win some silverware. The Dutchman has previously professed his love for Arsenal. the fans and Arsene Wenger as he tried to restrict the bad feeling of Gooners towards him.

That all seems to have gone out of the window now, and he is behaving more like Samir Nasri and Ashley Cole did, disparaging his former club and appearing to forget any loyalty he might have had. He also seems to have conveniently forgotten that it was Arsene Wenger who turned him into a world class player and stuck with him through his many injury problems. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal triumph 2-0 in Munich but miss out on potential Champions League glory. by Adam Kemp

After Arsenal’s worst performance on the season against Tottenham it took every ounce of me not to sensationalise the defeat by criticising the team. I was confident that the players would reflect on this defeat and finally awaken to the harsh reality facing the club. This group of players has demonstrated that they have the capability to beat anyone, whilst equally they could lose to anyone. Bayern Munich and Bradford are sufficient testament to this belief. All the critics including myself were writing Arsenal off before last night’s game stating that the best they could hope for was a draw. Prior to the match all the talk was about how Arsenal will be able to cope with the power and efficiency of the German’s play. The performance last night was top class and for the first time in a while, I can honestly praise the team for performing well on the big occasion. .......Read the full article here

George Graham had a decent stint himself as manager of Arsenal. In nearly nine years in charge of the Gunners, he won two titles and four cups. He was sacked by the club after the `bung` scandal when he took nearly half a million to facilitate the transfers of John Jensen and Pal Lydersen.

Graham thinks he would also have been sacked if he had been in charge of a trophyless spell like the one Arsene Wenger is currently enduring. Graham did not really have a go at the Frenchman, when he was speaking to Talksport, but he believes that standards have slipped considerably sine Wenger’s earlier glory years. .......Read the full article here

Mikel Arteta has been a mainstay of Arsenal’s midfield for the last two seasons, but is angry that the team keeps losing easy games and now have a fight on their hands to try and end up in the Champions League next year, which Arteta thinks is “unacceptable” for a club of Arsenal’s stature.

He thinks that, especially if Arsenal fail to make the Top Four, the Board simply must use some of their massive profits to improve the Gunners squad for an assault on the title next season.

“With 10 games to go and to be 24 points behind, it’s an impossible catch and that, for me, is unacceptable,” said Arteta. .......Read the full article here