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For the last couple of seasons Arsenal have started off very sluggishly and have had to spend the second half of the campaign playing catchup to retain their position as a Top Four club. Arsene Wenger believes that this is because of the seemingly endless cycle of selling our best players and then having to help their replacements settle into the squad.

But Wenger is certain that this summer will be different, and he doesn’t envisage Arsenal having to fight off any suitors for any of the biggest established players this time around. He said: “It is a very important thing because, last year and the year before the summers were very difficult because of the Fàbregas case, and last year the Van Persie case. And the Nasri case the year before,” .......Read the full article here

Arsenal could possibly make the most of the uncertainty and confusion at Manchester City to beat the oil rich club to one of the transfer targets we have in common. The Bosnian midfielder Miralem Pjanich has been linked Tottenham as well, but if the Gunners can continue the fantastic recent run and grab six points off Wigan and Newcastle, we will have the lure of Champions League football and will be a much more attractive proposition to potential signings. .......Read the full article here

It’s been hard for Arsenal fans in the last few years watching our ex-players leaving the Emirates in search of trophies (or money!). It was nice to see Nasri’s face yesterday after yesterday’s Cup Final defeat, but he did win a Premiership medal last season, even if it was just by the skin of his teeth….

We all cannot ignore the fact that Van Persie has just won the Premiership in his first year away from Arsenal and Fabregas of course has won a La Liga title in Spain, Clichy joined Nasri at City, and our old friend Emmanuel Adebayor won the Cops Del Rey with Real Madrid, but now I have just heard that bloody Nicklas Bendtner has won a Serie A winners medal while on loan at Juventus! .......Read the full article here

A Transfer Window to Forget? Fingers Crossed… by DG

In recent years, the summer transfer window has often been a frustrating and disappointing time for Arsenal fans. While the rest of the top four worry about who might be coming in, Arsenal are far more concerned about who might be leaving. Transfers in have, at times, almost been seen as a bonus, while the terrible inevitability of big name losses continue to frustrate. In recent years, patient Gooners have had to accept the losses of players like Adebayor, Toure, Nasri, Fabregas, Clichy, Song and Van Persie. It seemed like every time the transfer window rolled around, the latest star player was already being courted by a shiny new potential suitor. Such has been life as an Arsenal fan. .......Read the full article here

You would not normally hold out much hope on the FA overturning a decision, but Arsenal have decided to appeal against the red card shown to Olivier Giroud against Fulham on Saturday. We will find out the result tomorrow, but there are reasons to hope that the decision will be overturned or, failing that, his ban will be for just one game rather than the three that is standard for violent conduct. .......Read the full article here

Are Some Things Fixable- Would you Have Nasri Back? By DS

Manchester City’s surrender of their championship has been with so much of a whimper that there are rumours of a massive squad overall in the summer. With Roberto Mancini admitting he could ‘punch’ Samir Nasri at times this season it is safe to say the Frenchman could be one of those unsure about his long-term future. .......Read the full article here

The ex-Arsenal midfielder Samir Nasri has thrown Arsenal fans into confusion as most of us believed that Arsene Wenger was totally in charge of transfer dealings at the club. The French international has revealed that Wenger didn’t expect him to leave after the captain Cesc Fabregas was returned to Barcelona, but Silent Stan forced the sale upon him.

“Cesc or me were supposed to leave.” Nasri said. “Arsene told me that if Cesc would leave, I would stay. But Kroenke wanted the money.

“Arsene Wenger is the greatest coach I have worked with. He made me the player I am. I’m very grateful. .......Read the full article here

I know that some Arsenal fans have found it hard to be too angry with the former Gunner Robin van Persie. After eight years without a trophy they could understand that he wanted to move to Manchester United to win some silverware. The Dutchman has previously professed his love for Arsenal. the fans and Arsene Wenger as he tried to restrict the bad feeling of Gooners towards him.

That all seems to have gone out of the window now, and he is behaving more like Samir Nasri and Ashley Cole did, disparaging his former club and appearing to forget any loyalty he might have had. He also seems to have conveniently forgotten that it was Arsene Wenger who turned him into a world class player and stuck with him through his many injury problems. .......Read the full article here

The manager and the captain have half-heartedly warned against complacency when Arsenal arrive in Munich tomorrow, but the general feeling in the Bayern Munich camp seems to be that the job is done and they just need to turn up at the Allianz Arena to progress to the Champions League quarter-finals.

To be honest, most Arsenal fans are not very optimistic. The news that Jack Wilshere is not fit to play has drained whatever sneaking hope that most of us had, but should we really be so fatalistic? I have been feeling reasonably positive today, more in hope than expectation, because this is football and anything can happen. I would prefer it if the German team approach the game as if they are already through, because that is the recipe for an upset, as we have found to our cost before. .......Read the full article here

One of the strangest stories involving Arsenal during the January transfer window was the one in which the manager of the Dutch club AZ Alkmaar was almost pimping out his young midfield star Adam Maher to the Gunners. Nothing came of the possible move at the time, but maybe his words stuck in the mind of somebody at Arsenal because we are now being linked with the 19-year old again.

“I think Arsenal is a perfect club for him,” Gertjan Verbeek declared in January.

“With Arsene Wenger, who worked with young talents like him before. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal have released details of the club’s finances for the six months up to November, and they make very healthy reading. It is abundantly clear that the business section of the Gunners is going great guns, but just as clear that the football side needs to catch up. The struggle to finish in the top four this season, along with the disappointing exits from the cup competition show the stark need for serious investment in the squad, and the chairman has promised that Arsene Wenger will no longer have to get by on a pittance. .......Read the full article here

The Man City manager Roberto Mancini has had a very indepth interview in the Guardian ahead of this weekends massive game against Chelsea, and he has been very forthright and honest. In fact he quite clearly has criticized some of his players.

One of those was our very good friend Samir Nasri, who forced Arsenal to sell him to Manchester City a couple of years ago. Mancini said: “I think Samir has fantastic qualities. With his quality, he should always play well. Every game he could be the difference. A player of this quality could be one of the best players in Europe. But it’s not happening. .......Read the full article here