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Ahead of this weekends game against Burnley, Arsene Wenger has admitted there are mixed fortunes on the injury front.

It looks like a simple game on paper, given Burnley’s away form this season, but Wenger would prefer to have his best players available to keep Arsenal’s title push on track.

The good news is that Andrei Arshavin should have been rested enough by now, and is practically certain to be in the squad, and (maybe not such good news for some Arsenal fans), Denilson will also be back in contention. Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger is extremely happy that his captain Cesc Fabregas is ready to return to the Arsenal team to face Bolton tomorrow, and the French manager has also said that Gael Clichy will be rejoining the team.

“Cesc is back in the squad for Sunday and Gael is back as well. He will be minimum on the bench.” said Wenger.

“It’s good to have him. With Gael we were uncertain for a while how long he would be out whereas Cesc we knew was short-term.”

But the ever-injured Theo Walcott is not ready to make yet another comeback, but Wener expects him back soon. (Yeah right!) Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger saw the Arsenal midfielder Denilson fall down clutching his side close to the end of the game against Everton on Saturday, and rather than worrying about whether he had suffered a broken rib, he was annoyed that the Brazilian didn’t grab the ball on his way down and give away a free kick!

Denilson has recently returned from a back injury just in time to replace Alex Song, who is away at the African Nations Cup, but his performance showed that he is not really close to match fitness. Read the full article here

After the FA Cup win over West Ham, the Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger defended his need to give some first team players a rest, but he also admitted that there were even more injuries to take into consideration.

He was asked if he may have to carry on playing his reserves in the following rounds of the FA Cup, considering that Stoke are Arsenal’s next opponents.

He replied: “It depends how many players return from injury. Today Andrey Arshavin, Denilson, Cesc Fabregas and Theo Walcott were out and then there are players at the back who are out. Arshavin should be available for Wednesday but today he had a foot problem. Read the full article here

Arsenal visit bottom-of-the-table Portsmouth tomorrow night with the usual extended injury list. Arsene Wenger is sweating on the results of the scan on Cesc Fabregas’ hamstring today to find out how bad his injury is, but it seems that Denilson has agitated his back again and will be missing for another few weeks.

Kieran Gibbs is not expected back for another couple of months after his ankle surgery, and Djourou is going to miss most of the season, along with Robin Van Persie. Emmanuel Eboue has already left to join the Ivory Coast squad. Read the full article here

The Arsenal midfielder Alexandre Song should be joining his Cameroon team-mates today in preparation for the African Nations Cup in Angola, but he has been given permission to stay with his club until January 4th.

This means that Song will be available to play against Portsmouth tomorrow, and in the FA Cup third-round match against West Ham next Sunday.

This is good news for Arsene Wenger as he is coming to terms with being without his captain Cesc Fabregas for those two matches, at least. More will be known when he gets the scan results later today. Read the full article here

The Arsenal midfielder is angry that people were saying it was “Men against Boys” when Chelsea destroyed Arsenal at the Emirates, and says that Chelsea’s men were simply a far better team than Arsenal’s men.

Denilson, 21, said: “Chelsea played well and I give credit to them. But I don’t believe that it was a football match with men against boys.

“We played in that match as 11 men against 11 men. The only problem was that Chelsea scored two goals in five minutes before half time.

“We kept the ball as well as they did. They succeeded because, when when they had their opportunities they took them. Read the full article here

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is relieved that Robin Van Persie and Kieran Gibbs will not be out of the team for as long as was first feared, and he can now take heart that there will be at least four players returning from injury for this weekends game against Sunderland.

Fabianski, Denilson, Traore and Carlos Vela are available, and it looks like Vela, Gibbs, Walcott, Wilshere and maybe Diaby will all be ready by the following weekend for the big game against Chelsea.

“Theo Walcott is short for the weekend and so is Jack Wilshere. he said. Read the full article here

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is very happy that Sami Nasri has recovered enough to rejoin the team, but insists he will be used in an attacking role rather than replace Song as the holding midfield general when the African Nations Cup comes along.

Wenger seems confident that Denilson will be back from injury to do Song’s job.

“No, he is not Song’s replacement,” said Wenger. “I do not say that he could not, Samir is very tactically astute, but he is attracted forwards. He loves the offensive game. Read the full article here

The Arsenal midfielder Abou Diaby scored again in Arsenal’s 4-1 win over AZ Alkmaar in the Champions League, but with Denilson and Walcott expected to return to the squad in the next couple of weeks, does that mean Diaby will be resigned to the bench yet again?

Arsene Wenger said today: “From last night we did not lose anybody,” Wenger told Arsenal TV Online.

“But I don’t think anyone will be back. It seems a bit short for Carlos Vela and Armand Traore.

“Denilson will be back in training during the second week of the international break. Theo Walcott one week later.” Read the full article here