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It has been reported recently that the Serie A giants Roma are very keen to take William Gallas to Italy next season, to be reunited with his old manager from his Chelsea days, Claudio Ranieri, who has openly admitted that he wants Gallas to join the club. He said on Monday: “Gallas is a player who has achieved so much in his career.

“I signed him when I was in charge at Chelsea and he has done well both for them and Arsenal. He is a top-level player and all top players are welcome at Roma.” Read the full article here

Arsenal prepare to face Porto in the must-win Champions League match tomorrow night, and although their captain Cesc Fabregas is a doubtful starter, Arsene Wenger has a larger than usual squad to choose from.
Alex Song missed this weekends game against Burnley through suspension, but as it only applies to domestic games, he will be fit and fresh for tomorrow.

Sol Campbell was also “unfit” on Saturday, but Wenger has confirmed that he will be ready to play tomorrow as William Gallas is still suffering from his lower back injury. Read the full article here

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

I know it has become the fashion to criticize Arsene Wenger for not putting his hands in his pocket, but I feel it is time to highlight a potential disaster at the Emirates next season. The Arsenal manager came close to buying Chris Smalling in January, and perhaps looking back he may wish that he had acted faster, and possibly offered a more realistic figure, for the promising young defender, as he may now be forced to buy any defender that comes available this summer. Read the full article here

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is looking at his lack of defenders before facing a Chelsea team that is flying at the top of the Premiership, and it looks like he will have a couple of rookies holding the fort.

Kieran Gibbs was diagnosed with a broken metatarsal yesterday to put him on the treatment table alongside Gael Clichy and William Gallas.

Gallas has started every game up until now, but his clash of heads with Andrei Arshavin during the game against Standard Liege has left him with a seriously swollen eye and he is now an unlikely starter in the top-of-the-table clash. Read the full article here

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger saw William Gallas and Andrei Arshavin injure each other when jumping for a cross from Cesc Fabregas last night, and he feared the worst, but after analyzing the injuries he has concluded they should both be okay to face Chelsea on Sunday.

But poor Kieran Gibbs is definitely out for at least three months after he suffered a broken metatarsal last night.

It was feared last week that had suffered the same problem, but now scans have confirmed it as a certainty.

“Gibbs has a big hole in his leg,” Wenger said after the game. Read the full article here

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has announced that contract negotiations have begun with three more players.

Thomas Rosicky is out of contract this summer and would be free to talk to other clubs in January if he can’t come to an agreement with Arsenal, and with him now returning to full fitness, Wenger is confident that they can come to a new arrangement.

William Gallas is also on his last year, but his superb form this season alongside new-boy Thomas Vermaelen has convinced Wenger that he wants Gallas to stay on for another season at the Emirates. Read the full article here

The Arsenal legend Thierry Henry says his France team-mates must forget about all the media build-up, and the reported “insult” scandal at the end of the first leg in Ireland.

He expects Ireland to play with their usual heart and soul, but doesn’t expect any serious “revenge” tactics from the Irish.

“As I said on English television, I do not expect anything,” Henry said yesterday.

“They are a team that will play, as they usually do, to their abilities and aggressively in the proper sense.”

“The hardest thing will be to finish the job,” Read the full article here

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is very happy with the amount of goals being scored by the team, in fact they are the highest scorers in the Premiership, but they also have conceded quite a lot for the famous Arsenal defence, 13 goals leaked in the first 10 games is not the normal average for an attack on the Premiership title, but Wenger is not overly worried as long as the team keeps scoring.

“We can score goals and open teams up, which is a good basis to have confidence,” he said. “It also makes you keen to work on the defensive side of your game. That is a concern, but I do not think it is a problem. Read the full article here

The ex-Arsenal legeng Patrick Vieira is not very happy with the France manager Raymond Domenech after he was left out of the French squad for next weeks crucial World Cup Play-offs against the Republic of Ireland. Not very happy at all!

“There is no one on my level in France at the moment,” he moaned.

“I could come off as being arrogant, but I am sure of it.”

Vieira is being similarly ignored by Jose Mourinho at Inter Milan, having made just nine appearances for the club this season, but Vieira still thinks that he should be first choice for the France team. Read the full article here