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The Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger thinks that moneybags Man City will be involved in the race for the Premiership title, but Arsenal will also be at the top because they have the “belief”.

Roberto Mancini’s team have once again showed their intent by being on course to spend more than £100m in the transfer window again, while the Gunners investment so far has come out at a total of 4m euros, but Wenger has said that the Arsenal investment comes in other forms. “I am very confident we’ll do better than last season,” he said last week. “We know in England that the Premier League is the biggest league in the world and everybody invests a lot of money. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal have been strongly linked with a move for either Joe Hart or Shay Given in the last few weeks, and the reports have said that neither of them would be willing to spend the next season on the bench. Well now Shay Given has admitted that it is a fact!

Hart has ambitions to be Englands regular Number One, and he won’t be able to claim that position if he spends all year on the bench, and Shay Given is just too good (and too far long in the tooth) to spend his twilight years on the bench. The latest rumours have said that Arsene Wenger wants Given to come to Arsenal on loan for a year while he waits for Wojneich Szczesny to gain experience, and after hearing Given’s thoughts it seems that it could be a very likey scenario. .......Read the full article here

The wonderful and ever-loved ex-Arsenal icon Emmanuel Adebayor has finally caught on that MoneyBags Man City have decided to swap the agressive, over-rated and over-emotional idiot for, well, a younger agressive, over-rated and over-emotional idiot lol!

Mario Balotelli is expected to arrive at City in the very near future, and with Adebayor, Tevez, Robinho, Bellamy and Santa Cruz all fighting over the main striker role next season (and don’t forget the possible arrival of Eden Dzeko as well), the Togolese madman has finally realised that he is surplus to requirements at the Eastlands. .......Read the full article here

Manchester City have signalled their intent to challenge for the Premiership title next season by buying another cutch of top-class players to add to their already star-studded squad. Today it has been announced that they have brought their spending this summer to £77m with the acquisition of the Serbian international defender Aleksandar Kolarov for £17m.

He joins the already arrived trio of David Silva, Jerome Boateng and Yaya Toure. As a result even the official Arsenal bookie, Paddy Power, has installed City as 5/1 third favourites to win the Premiership behind Chelsea and Man Utd. Arsenal are now priced at 7/1. .......Read the full article here

The Chelsea midfielder Joe Cole finally made his first appearance for England at the World Cup in yesterdays 1-0 victory over Slovenia, but he is still hogging the transfer headlines back at home.

After Man Utd’s announcement yesterday that they are definitely not in the market for Cole, the betting on his next club was suspended in uproar.

But today both Skybet and William Hill have made a new market, and unsurprisingly they have both installed Arsenal as the 8/13 favourites to be Cole’s club on the first day of next season. .......Read the full article here

Theo Walcott is still hoping that he can do enough against Fulham tomorrow to convince Fabio Capello to take him to South Africa. Competition for Walcott’s wing position has been hotting up lately, with Aaron Lennon, Shaun Wright-Phillips, James Milner and even the young Adam Johnson all stamping claims on being in the starting line-up for England.

Wright-Phillips has fallen out of favour at Man City since Roberto Mancini and Adam Johnson both arrived, but is still hopeful of staying in Capello’s team after some good performances for his country. But it is unlikely he will be returning to the Eastlands next season, whether he goes to South Africa or not. Could he end up competing with Walcott at club level as well as on the international stage? .......Read the full article here

The Arsenal reserve goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski has been given his chance in the Gunners first team due to another “mystery wrist injury” sustained by Manuel Almunia, and is determined to use this time to show the Arsenal fans that he is capable of becoming the first choice keeper at the Emirates.

He is proud of the fact that he didn’t let in a goal against Man City, and is hoping that this is the beginning of a good run between the sticks.

“It was good to finally keep a clean sheet against Man City, that was my first this season. .......Read the full article here

Robin Van Persie was made captain for his first start for the Gunners in five months, but he didn’t get many chances to score in a very scrappy game. It was recorded that there was six shots on target but it didn’t look like there were even that many!

The best highlight would be the standing ovation given by Arsenal fans to Patrick Vieira when he was substituted, which immediately switched to boos as his replacement was the reviled Emmanuel Adeayor. .......Read the full article here

The 0-0 draw between Arsenal and Man City was the first bore-draw of the season involving Arsenal, who are normally a hi-octane attacking side, and Arsene Wenger admitted that it was most unusual.

He said: “It was an afternoon I am not used to because we created very few chances and Man City didn’t create anything. They were highly focussed on defending well. They didn’t give us any space and we could not find the opener. For as long as we couldn’t do that it was a locked game basically. There were very few chances. It was two teams who played well defensively, had very good discipline but created very few chances.” .......Read the full article here

The Man City defender Kolo Toure today admitted that his personal relationship with his defensive partner William Gallas was the reason that he had to leave Arsenal last summer.

He revealed that the things were so bad that one of them had to leave for the good of the team.

“I was at Arsenal for seven years and everything was fantastic,” he said. “But the last two years were difficult.

“I had a few problems with a few people there and wasn’t feeling happy. I was looking for somewhere else and a new challenge. .......Read the full article here

Manchester City travel to the Emirates in an attempt to win their first away game at Arsenal for 35 years, and are expected to have four ex-Gunners in the squad. Vieira, Toure and Sylvinho will be welcomed back but Emmanuel Adebayor is likely to get a roasting from the Arsenal fans after his antics in the return match earlier this season.

Man City are also expecting Micah Richards to return to the strongest squad to visit Arsenal in generations. .......Read the full article here

Emmanuel Adebayor was severely heckled by the small band of travelling Arsenal fans when they visited Man City earlier in the season, and their old striker became so wound up that he ended up getting a two match ban for his troubles.

But now he is back at the Emirates, he can expect an even more agressive reception from a whole stadium full of hostile antagonists.

Will he be able to handle it this time? Kolo Toure, who also left for Man City at the same time, says that he has told Adebayor to try and remain calm this time. .......Read the full article here