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Are any Arsenal players good enough to interest another big club? by FD

All the transfer talk at the moment is about the potential players Arsenal are looking to bring in over the summer. It seems as though there’s hardly a prospect we haven’t been linked with. That’s all well and good – it’s refreshing to be considered as one of the poachers for a change, rather than having to play our usual game-keeping role. But while it would be welcome to have a close season free from worry over losing a star player, it makes me wonder whether we actually have any players good enough to interest other big clubs. .......Read the full article here

There was a great deal of concern among Arsenal fans at the start of the season, and it was perfectly undertandable after losing Robin van Persie to Manchester United. The Dutch striker had scored 37 goals in the previous season and that is a big hole to fill. However, those fears have been allayed somewhat over the course of the season, with Theo Walcott scoring on Saturday bringing up the club’s milestone of 100 and his own personal one of 20 goals this season. .......Read the full article here

It appears that Arsene Wenger is looking to La Liga in Spain again for new additions to the Arsenal squad this summer. You can hardly blame him, because his two most recent signings, Santi Cazorla and Nacho Monreal, have both been from the Spanish league and they have both fitted in very well at the Emirates.

Arsenal were strongly linked with one front man from Atletico Madrid last summer and in January, but this time it is not Adrian Lopez who has been linked with the Gunners, or Radamel Falcao, but the player who has been challenging his place this season, Diego Costa. .......Read the full article here

It was not too long ago that a lot of Arsenal fans thought that the inclusion of Aaron Ramsey in the Gunners starting line up was a bizarre form of torture inflicted on us by Arsene Wenger for some reason. It was also a clear sign, for some, that Arsenal were not going to win the game and was further proof of the French manager’s decline into senility.

Well the calls for Wenger to leave the club have largely disappeared and Ramsey has kept working hard and getting back to his best. That consistency and improvement have led to the young Welshman being voted as the Player of the Month by Arsenal fans on the official website. .......Read the full article here

Wigan star set for Arsenal by SS

Arsenal are apparently preparing an early summer bid for Wigan midfielder James McCarthy. The young midfielder has been in good form this season and continued to grow as a player as he has done since his arrival at Wigan.

He was the subject of bids from many top English clubs when he was younger but he chose to move to Wigan in the hope that he wouldn’t be left in the reserves until his early 20′s. He made the right choice to move to Wigan because he has had plenty of game time in the last few seasons and has been an architect of Wigan’s famous end of season survivals. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal have got one more game to go without the big front man Olivier Giroud. The French international will be available to play in the last game of the season against Newcastle United at St. James’ Park, or whatever the hell it is called these days. It is as inevitable as death and taxes that Giroud will come straight back into the starting line up, because we have seen how much the Gunners have become set up to playing off him. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal may have gone into this game thinking that their north London rivals had dropped points and left the way clear for a top four finish, because the spuds’ game kicked off half an hour late. Maddeningly, though, Gareth Bale rescued his average team again with a late winner out of nothing. Whether the Arsenal players knew this or not is unclear, but we started with purpose and got ahead straight away.

In these vital end of season games, there can be a lot of nerves, so Arsene Wenger will have impressed the need to start well. They certainly did that. Not only did we score a quick goal, the strike by Theo Walcott was the quickest in the Premier League this season. .......Read the full article here

The Gunners midfielder Santi Cazorla has been an excellent acquisition for Arsenal this season, and has been arguably our most consistent performer, not to mention the crucial goals he has scored when called upon.

The Spaniard himself thinks that the inconsistency in the first half of the season is the reason we are so far behind Manchester United in the Premiership, but is convinced that next season Arsenal will hit the ground running. He said: “What I have taken from this year is that as a team we were not very consistent for half of the season, which cost us in terms of reaching the higher positions in the league,” .......Read the full article here

Three stars who’ve shone for Arsenal this season by FD

With all the talk of transfers and who’s likely to be joining the club this summer, it’s worth just reflecting on the players who’ve contributed the most to Arsenal’s current season. Of course, the next few matches will ultimately decide whether we can salvage some degree of success from another trophy-less campaign, but regardless of where we finish in the league, I believe there are a few players who can hold their heads high and be satisfied with how they’ve performed. .......Read the full article here

Santi Cazorla was talking just the other day about Arsenal and the inconsistent first half of the season. The Spanish international believes a lot of it was due to the fact that the team were gelling together with a new system, players coming back from injury, three new players and two of the stalwarts gone.

This may well be the case, but Cazorla himself started like a train and looked as if he had been pulling the strings at the heart of the Gunners midfield for years. For me, he has been an absolutely brilliant signing by Arsene Wenger and should get the Player of the Season award. He has explained why he feels he settled at the Emirates so quickly and easily. .......Read the full article here

Earlier in the season, when Arsenal were negotiating with Theo Walcott and his representatives about a new contract, we kept hearing that it was not about money, although he did manage to get a nice wage increase. Arsene Wenger and Walcott both said that some of the talk was about the England international’s desire to play as a centre forward.

It seemed for a while as if Wenger was putting Walcott on trial to see if he could do it, and he responded well, scoring plenty of goals and earning himself the deal he wanted. I can’t remember him playing through the middle since. .......Read the full article here

Cazorla Out Wide? A Guest Post by Josh Brooks

A tactic the boss seems to be using increasingly over recent weeks is playing Santi Cazorla wide left. When Cazorla first signed for Arsenal I didn’t expect him to play through the middle as often as he did during the first half of the season. Although I do realise that we had limited alternatives, Cazorla came with a reputation of a wide player who liked to drift inside, not as the central attacking midfielder that we have seen for the majority of the season. .......Read the full article here