Just Arsenal News

Arsenal as a club and their supporters have had to put up with a whole year of Barcelona players trying to poach Cesc Fabregas, and their statements have been getting more and more outlandish. Well now I think that every Arsenal fan should become a fully paid-up supporter of Jose Mourinho and Real Madrid, as well as wishing that we get drawn against Barcelona in the Group Stages of the Champions League, as we are now officially at war! .......Read the full article here

Even though Arsene Wenger has totally refused to countenance any discussion of the Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas moving to Barcelona, it hasn’t stopped his international team-mates spouting their mouths off to the press.

Today it is the turn of the Barcelona captain Carlos Puyol, who reckons that Cesc “and his family” are “desperate” to move back to Spain, and specifically Barcelona, and there is nothing that Arsenal can do to stop it happening.

“Cesc is a really nice guy and desperate to become a Barcelona player,” Puyol said today. .......Read the full article here

A report in todays Daily Star is saying that the new Barcelona president Sandro Rosell is taking personal charge of the negotiations with Man City for Zlatan Ibrahimovich, so that he can ring-fence the cash received to pay for Cesc Faregas.

It was revealed yesterday that the Catalan club are looking for a new £125m bank loan, but Rosell is keen to pay for the Arsenal captain without the need for more funding.

A Barcelona ’source’ in the Star was quoted as saying:“The president has decided to sort this deal out himself personally. .......Read the full article here

After the comments from Joe Cole’s agent last week, it looked certain that the Chelsea midfielder would be joining either Arsenal or Tottenham, but suddenly Liverpool are now favourites to sign him.

It looks like Roy Hodgson has been talking to the England man, because there has suddenly been a massive plunge in the betting market on Liverpool to win the race for Cole’s signature.

This morning Cole was 8/11 to join Tottenham, 6/4 to join Arsenal and Liverpool were third favourites at 8/1, but suddenly Sky have taken a massive amount of bets on Cole to join Liverpool, and he is now only 4/5 to be at Anfield next season! .......Read the full article here

Now that the World Cup is approaching the final few games, the mind games from Barcelona have started all over again. Fabregas said the other day that he still loved Arsenal, and may still remain at Arsenal next season, but according to his Spain international team-mate Gerard Pique, Fabregas is saying quite the opposite in the Spain dressing room.

“I have known that Cesc wanted to join Barcelona for many years – but now it is more than about wanting to do it,” Pique said.

“Now it is something he feels he must do. .......Read the full article here

There have been many rumours about Arsene Wenger making a bid for the German playmaker Mesut Ozil, but the player himself is more keen on a move to either Chelsea or Man Utd.

Ozil only has one year left on his contract at Werder Bremen and it looks like he will not be short of offers after his excellent performances at the World Cup, but he believes he will have more chance of winning trophies if he moves to Old Trafford or Stamford Bridge. .......Read the full article here

So how many Arsenal fans can remember how good the Gunners were with Alexsandr Hleb and Matthew Flamini were in the team. Flamini couldn’t be persuaded to sign a new contract as he had been ignored for the previous three years, and Hleb went off in a sulk because the ‘weather wasn’t good enough in London’!

Hleb moved away from London and agreed personal terms with Barca before the two clubs had even discussed a transfer fee, even though Wenger dug his heels in and said that he was definitely not for sale (does all this sound familiar?), so Wenger finally gave in and took £13m off Barcelona. .......Read the full article here

The ongoing saga of the transfer of Cesc Fabregas to Barcelona has taken a new twist today. The Daily Mirror is suggesting that Barcelona are preparing to offer Zlatan Ibrahimovich to Arsenal as part of any deal to take Cesc to the Camp Nou.

With David Villa’s arrival, Ibrahimovich is now thought to be surplus to requirements, despite the club paying a record 69m euros for the striker just last summer.

The Swede has been severely criticized in Spain, but still managed to score 16 goals in just 29 league (including all his first five games!). The year before he was the top scorer in Italy with 25 goals for Inter Milan, so to say the man is over-rated may be a slight exaggeration! .......Read the full article here

The Arsenal legend Martin Keown is convinced that Arsene Wenger will have no choice but to sell his captain Cesc Fabregas to Barcelona, just as he had no choice when Alexsandr Hleb forced the move two summers ago.

Hleb simply refused to return to London at the end of the summer, and waited in Europe until Wenger finally agreed a price with Barcelona. Fabregas may not go to that extent, but Keown firmly believes that Wenger could not keep Fabregas at the Emirates against the midfielder’s wishes. .......Read the full article here

I was just having a little nosey around the web (as you do when you can’t sleep and it’s 5:30 in the morning!) and I came across an article in the official Arsenal website. It was an interview with Arsene Wenger, and he was asked directly about Cesc Fabregas saying that he wanted to return to Barcelona one day.

He replied: “Some people try to be specialists at making players unhappy,”

“But up till now, all of the players who have left have wanted to come back so that means they are not as unhappy as they sometimes look. .......Read the full article here

The Arsenal transfer news in this mornings papers are saying that Arsenal have told Barcelona that they want £50million for their captain Cesc Fabregas.

The Sun claims that this is the Gunners first admission that Fabregas is for sale, and they have been told by a “Barcelona source”: “This is the news the men in charge at Barca wanted.”

“They now see the possibility of Arsenal cracking and are determined to get their man.

“They hope they can get an agreement at around the £35m mark.” .......Read the full article here

According to the Spanish daily Sport, Arsenal have made an approach to Pep Guardiola regarding their Ukrainian center-back Dmytro Chyhrynskyi.

The 23 year-old only made 12 appearances for the Spanish giants last season, but with Wenger desperate to sign some defenders he is hoping that Chyhrynskyi will be very keen to move to a club that will give him the promise of a regular starting spot.

The Sport is under the impression that Wenger has turned his attention to the Ukranian after failing to persuade Yaya Toure to move to the Emirates, as Kolo’s brother is angling for a move to the Double winners Chelsea. .......Read the full article here