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Arsenal will be trying their best to give Julio Cesar a thoroughly miserable time today. The 33-year old Brazilian keeper has been one of the rare plus points for the relegated team this season, often keeping them in matches with great reflex saves and his command of his penalty area.

Harry Redknapp is well aware that Premier League teams will be looking at some of his better players and knows that some of them will not be keen on trying to fight their way out of the championship. Although 33 is not particulary old for a keeper, Cesar may not want to waste a season in the lower tier, especially if he has a chance to join a big club. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal should defeat relegated QPR comfortably today as they aim to secure third place and a Champions league spot. QPR on the other hand will be reeling from the relegation they confirmed last weekend against Reading.

Harry Redknapp has already confirmed that he will stay with the club in the Championship next season and chairman Tony Fernandes has stated that promotion back to the top is not guaranteed in one or even two seasons. The club have a lot of highly paid players who simply do not care about the club, Jose Bosingwa for example who I am sure will be on a plane back to a mid table club in Portugal next month. .......Read the full article here

Lukasz Fabianski has been an Arsenal player long enough to know all about the bitter rivalry between the Gunners and Tottenham Hotspur. The fact that the spuds have been pushing for a top four finish and Champions League football recently, while Arsene Wenger has been struggling to keep Arsenal there with very little money, has made this all the more tasty recently.

Arsenal travel to relegated QPR tomorrow knowing that another three points will be a massive step towards being part of the European elite again. QPR have been awful this season and a lot of the players seem to be there just for the money. Fabianski is concerned, however, that the Tottenham connection will try to ensure that they do everything they can to help the mod down the road. .......Read the full article here

I can’t fault the amount of goals that Olivier Giroud has scored for Arsenal this season, but he doesn’t seem to have the urgency of a top-class attacker. I especially get exasperated with his post-miss performances; the blowing of cheeks; the holding his head in his hands; his banging of fists on the ground. Meanwhile the opposing defence is taking the ball up the other end of the pitch. Why doesn’t he just get up and get on with the game?

Anyway thats my rant over, but as far as I am concerned Wenger should definitely be in the market for another Number 9 this summer, and I think that the bargain of the window could be Loic Remy from QPR when they get relegated. .......Read the full article here

There were reports back in January that Arsenal were considering hijacking the transfer of the French striker Loic Remy from Marseille to QPR. Harry Redknapp was splashing the cash in a desperate attempt to halt his team’s slide out of the Premier League and into the Championship. Although Remy has scored three goals in his five games, his presence does not look like it will be enough.

There is a clause in Remy’s contract that he can leave QPR for around £4 million if they are relegated, and the Daily Express reports that Arsenal are in pole position to take advantage. He was offered around £70,000 a week by QPR and that, along with the fee or around £8 million would have put Wenger off in January because he was not guaranteed to adapt quickly to the English Premier League. .......Read the full article here

We do not know if Arsenal tried to sign Etienne Capoue from Toulouse in January, but he could have been the player Arsene Wenger was referring to when he said that a club had rejected a late transfer window offer for one of the Arsenal targets. Toulouse had sold Sissoko to Newcastle, and would have been left very light in midfield if they had also sold Capoue.

QPR definitely tried to sign the French international, but were knocked back on deadline day. Harry Redknapp has vowed to try again in the summer, as long as he manages to keep the club in the Premier League. It is believed in France that Capoue is ready to move, and he is ambitious. Toulouse are comfortably mid table in the French Ligue 1, so the 24-year old will definitely not have the lure of European competition to make him want to stay. .......Read the full article here

It sometimes seems as if Arsenal do the scouting for all of the other teams in the Premier league, because once stories hit the papers about some player that Arsenal have been watching, then the likes of Tottenham are usually being linked with them. It is common knowledge that Arsenal are looking to bring in a strong and defensively minded midfielder in January because of the recurring injury problems of Abou Diaby. Two of the players who have been watched closely by Arsene Wenger are now being targetted by old saggy face himself, Harry Redknapp. .......Read the full article here

If Arsenal are serious about signing the West Ham midfielder Mohamed Diame as a permanent or temporary replacement for the injury prone Abou Diaby, then Arsene Wenger might need to act sooner rather than later, as the new QPR manager Harry Redknapp has identified the 25-year old Senegal international as the man to help him avoid relegation from the Premier league.

The Mirror reports that Redknapp is ready to activate the release clause in the dynamic midfielder’s contract when the January transfer window opens in just over a week. QPR can easily afford Diame and will be able to offer him a good wage, but Arsenal would surely make a more attractive proposition. .......Read the full article here

Football manager sackings are like buses in the Premier league this season, with two coming along at the same time this week. Arsenal could benefit, if the so called new manager syndrome kicks in for Chelsea and QPR this weekend. The bookies must have made a killing on Chelsea being the first club to sack their manager, as the early season favoutites were Liverpool, Southampton and Reading. .......Read the full article here

Every time Arsenal face Tottenham, we have stories hitting the press from their players or back room staff, claiming that Arsenal’s time is up and the Spuds are about to become a top three or four club. Yesterday it was the motormouth, William Gallas, and today the assistant manager Steffen Freund is putting his case forward.

Freund believes that Tottenham are getting closer and closer to Arsenal and that this could be the year they take the Champions League position of us. Arsene Wenger is probably glad of this every year, because he can use it as an incentive to the Arsenal players.

“We are very close to Arsenal now. .......Read the full article here

Former Spurs boss says Theo is the one to replace van Persie by AM

Harry Redknapp has said that Theo Walcott should settle his differences with the club and sign a news contract. He believes that Walcott has it in him become a ‘big fish’ at Arsenal. Here is what the former Tottenham boss said – “I gave Theo his debut as a kid at Southampton. I’ve watched him develop at Arsenal under Arsene Wenger but there is so much more to come from him.”

He also advised Theo “to sort out the little differences in his contract with the club and then sign it.” .......Read the full article here

The ex-Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp is still pronouncing that Spurs will finish above Arsenal, despite his departure from White Hart Lane this summer. Redknapp threw away a massive lead over Arsenal at the end of last season and ultimately lost out on a place in the Champions League, but he still thinks Arsene Wenger’s team will struggle again in the Premier League this time around.

Redknapp was asked for his predictions on the coming season and he said: “I suppose City will be favourites and then Man Utd, Chelsea and Tottenham again,”

“Arsenal will be in for a tough season this year if they lose Van Persie, I think they’ve got it all to do and Tottenham could finish above them this year. .......Read the full article here