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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

The ex-Arsenal midfielder Aleksander Hleb has had a very unhappy time since he left the Emirates. He was desperate to join Barcelona 18 months ago and basically forced Arsene Wenger to make a deal with the Spanish giants.

But he couldn’t play his way into the team that eventually won the Champions League, making just eight starts, and Pep Guardiola decided to let him move back to his original club, Stuttgart, on loan last summer.

But now even that move has turned sour, and the Stuttgart manager Christian Gross has complained about Hleb’s contribution to the team when he is on the pitch. Read the full article here

The ex-Arsenal midfielder Aleksander Hleb forced Arsene Wenger to sell him the year before last, but after arriving at Barcelona he failed to force his way into the team that won the Champions League.

Hleb became more and more disillusioned as the season went on, and in the end Pep Guardiola agreed to let him move to Stuttgart on loan after failing to find a suitable buyer, in the hope that the German giants would make a bid for him at the end of this season. Read the full article here

The papers this week have all been full of the the news that Arsenal are preparing a massive offer worth over £5m to secure the services of Cesc Fabregas for the future, but, according to the Spanish paper Sport, he has already decided to refuse the £125,000 a week offer in favour of moving back to his home town of Barcelona.

The Spanish international has continually pledged his support to Arsenal in the face of intense pressure from Barcelona, but he has always maintained that he wants to stay and win trophies at Arsenal. This likelihood seems to have slipped away in the last few weeks, and Sport reports that he is now fed up of waiting and believes he has more chance of winning some trophies with Barcelona. Read the full article here

The Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas has thrown some fuel on the fire by stating in public how much he loves Barcelona, and he definitely intends to live in the city again, although he threw in ….when he retires!

The rumour mill never stops on saying that Barcelona intend to poach Fabregas from Arsenal in the summer, and they have made no secret that they will bid up to £40m for the Spanish international, so his words will only encourage them when they finally make their move.

“Barcelona is the best city in the world to live in and the quality of life is great. I know it very well.” Read the full article here

According to reports this morning, the European Champions Barcelona are also intending to swipe Emmanuel Eboue from Arsenal this summer, as well as the Gunners captain Cesc Fabregas.

According to The Sun, Eboue is one of the few stars at the Emirates not to have signed a new contract this season, which means that he is free now to talk to foreign clubs regarding a Bosman move in the summer.

It was thought that Eboue would have left Arsenal last summer after he was criticized by most Arsenal supporters but he fought his way back into their good books, and it seems that he has also impressed other clubs as well. Read the full article here

I am sorry about the headline, but this is the best article i have seen for ages and i want you all to read it, and it is based on the ridiculous headlines created by papers like the Star or the Daily Mail. It is absolutely brilliant!

Tony Attwod from Untold Arsenal (one of the best Arsenal blogs around, okay maybe he is THE best) wrote this specifically as a post for 11Gunners.com, and it is so good i just had to promote it on here. And i love him for it! Read the full article here

The Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas thinks that this week is very important to Arsenal’s season. They desperately need to beat the League leaders Chelsea next Sunday if they are going to seriously challenge for the title this year.

“The Chelsea game is vital. We have to win, and we will be ready for it.

“Chelsea are a great team, one of the best in Europe, are very strong and have been playing together for a long time. Read the full article here

The media is not just happy with spreading transfer rumours about the Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas moving to Barcelona, they have now put Real Madrid in the frame as well!

The Daily Star reports: REAL Madrid and Barcelona are ready to spark a £60m bidding war for Cesc Fabregas.

The Spanish giants have both made the Arsenal skipper their No.1 target for next season and are ready to go toe to toe.

They go on to say that, although Barcelona are desperate to get Fabregas to return to the club he started at, Real Madrid are just as desperate for it NOT to happen, and the only way they can ensure that is by outbidding their traditional rivals. Read the full article here

It has been a longstanding rumour that the Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was keen to bring Yaya Toure to the Emirates to join his brother, but now that Kolo has left to join Man City, it seems that Wenger wants his brother to replace him!

Yaya’s agent has discounted any chance of joining up with Kolo at Man City as he was not happy with the way he was approached by the new big spenders, and also said that although Arsene Wenger wanted him now, Arsenal could not afford to take him to North London. Read the full article here