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The importance of Alex Oxlade Chamberlain by KJ

The young Englishman was purchased by Arsenal from Southampton in the summer of 2011 for a fee believed to be in the region of £12million (plus add ons), and burst onto the scene against the likes Manchester City, Manchester United and AC Milan. This season has definitely been a difficult one for Chamberlain who has struggled to get game time but I believe he has an integral role to play during the latter stages of this season. .......Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger raised a few eyebrows with his Arsenal team selection against Reading. The main issues were the decision to leave Lukas Podolski and Carl Jenkinson on the bench, playing Cazorla on the left of the front three and Tomas Rosicky as the central attacking midfielder. With Walcott injured, Gervinho got the nod ahead of Oxlade-Chamberlain. Ramsey replaced the unlucky and injury prone Abou Diaby.

Arsenal settled quickly into their passing rhythm, with Rosicky, Ramsey, Cazorla and Gervinho fluently interchanging positions. There was a great tribute from the Arsenal fans to David `Rocky` Rocastle who died 12 years ago tomorrow. Wenger’s selection paid off minutes later when Gervinho started and finished a move to score his second goal in two games. .......Read the full article here

What happened to Chamberlain? by KJ

The summer of 2011 was pretty hectic as an Arsenal fan and ultimately was an extremely negative experience. We lost not one starter, not two starters but three starters in Clichy, Fabregas and Nasri. It wasn’t helped by the fact that one of our biggest signings that window (before the mayhem on deadline day) was an 18 year old Englishman from league one that cost us more than £10 million.

Fortunately, as the season went on, Wenger was vindicated in his decision to pay such a high price for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. He went on to perform MOTM performances against the likes of Manchester City, Manchester United and even AC Milan. .......Read the full article here

Is about time we get back to supporting Arsene?? by RC

As we reach the end of another tortuous January transfer window with little action, but as ever much hope, I appreciate everyone including myself feels frustrated. It is what it is to be a Gooner. Unfortunately, we live in the shadows of several billionaire bank rolled clubs whose transfer budgets exceed that of small countries! .......Read the full article here

We hear alot about the wage structure at Arsenal and how it stops Arsene Wenger from competing with clubs like Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United when it comes to signing players. The Gunners apparently offered around £150,000 per week to Robin van Persie to get him to stay at the Emirates, but the two Manchester clubs were able to beat that easily.

It may surprise Arsenal fans to hear, then, that Arsenal’s weekly wage bill is about £1 million more than our North London rivals, Tottenham. That is around £50 million a year, which seems an incredible amount for a club that is well known for being financially prudent. .......Read the full article here

Nine goals and seven assists in his 15 games this season would suggest that Arsenal will miss Theo Walcott quite a bit tomorrow when we travel to Birmingham to face Premier League strugglers Aston Villa. When you consider that Walcott did not actually start many of those 15 games, his influence looks even more dramatic.

Of course I don’t want Arsenal to struggle, we need the points badly, but I would like the Arsenal board to realise how important it is to keep Walcott. He is one of our best and most dangerous players and we should not let him go for the sake of a few pounds. More and more money is flowing into the Arsenal coffers, so it is about time that we reviewed the wage structure. A hard fought, lucky win would be perfect. .......Read the full article here

Andrey Arshavin has 75 caps and 17 goals for the national team of Russia, but it does not look as if he will be getting any more in the near future. The Coach of Russia is Fabio Capello, and he has only used Arshavin once since taking over after Euro 2012. Capello has announced his latest 35 man squad for the upcoming friendly against USA and the Arsenal player is not in it.

Arshavin had a mixed time at Euro 2012, starring in the first game but disappointing, along with the rest of the team, as Russia went out by some bizarre system of comparison. His comments after sparked anger in Russia, but he apologized and all seemed to be forgiven. .......Read the full article here

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain was one of the best England players on the pitch yesterday for England. The Arsenal midfielder was always lively and looked the most likely to break down San Marino who often had everybody behind the ball.

The Ox has been impressive in the national side since making his debut in May. Last night was his eighth cap and he finally got the debut goal he was dying for. His dad had played eight games for England and scored on his debut, so there was a little family pressure on him last night. .......Read the full article here

The England manager Roy Hodgson is going to take a leaf out of Arsene Wenger’s book when his team line up at Wembley tonight against international minnows San Marino. Along with using Wenger’s formation, Hodgson will start with two of the Arsenal players who are used to it.

Theo Walcott looks set to start on the right with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain on the left. Wayne Rooney, the England captain for the game, will be asked to play his more deep lying striker role that Santi Cazorla does so well for the Gunners. .......Read the full article here

Just over a year after buying Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain from Southampton, senior figures at Arsenal are ready to give the 19-year old England international a new and improved contract as a reward for his fantastic, form and improvement since coming to the Emirates. The Ox works as hard as his namesake and has got a brilliant attitude.

Due to the exceptional players in the Arsenal midfield this season and the formations used by Arsene Wenger, Ox has not played as much as he might have expected for the Gunners, but he was looking a little tired after a long season and summer. .......Read the full article here

The opening day of this season’s champion’s league group stages was good for Arsenal in a number of ways. The obvious ones are that we took all three points away from home, we didn’t pick up any injuries, we showed that we can win when not playing our best and we got a warning about being complacent without actually getting punished.

The bonuses came from the match between Real Madrid and Manchester City. Manchester City have a massive job on their hands picking themselves up after a terrible night in Europe and getting ready to face the Gunners on Sunday. City have not had a great start to the season and Roberto Mancini has a handful of problems to deal with. .......Read the full article here

I know that Abou Diaby and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain have been two of Arsenal’s best players so far this season, but that is one of the reasons why they should possibly be left out of the starting eleven on Saturday.

Arsene Wenger has said that Diaby is still feeling the pain in his Sartorius muscle around his hip that forced him to miss France’s second World Cup qualifier last night against Belarus. Wenger also said that it didn’t seem like much and that he may be able to play on Saturday against Southampton. The reason he missed the France game in the first place is that the French manager Didier Deschamps played Diaby for the whole 90 minutes when he knew he had taken a knock. .......Read the full article here