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Are Arsenal doing the right thing with their money? by SS

Everybody knows that the club rarely spend money so they end up making a profit during a transfer window, but is this tight spending the reason there is no success at the club anymore?

Financial fair play rules have been introduced by UEFA which should stop clubs from spending a lot more money than they earn in a season. The biggest offenders of this rule are clubs such as Chelsea and Manchester City who have spent over £150 Million in past transfer windows. .......Read the full article here

Possibly the best thing about the Arsenal attack this season is the versatility and number of options available to Arsene Wenger. With Giroud, Podolski, Walcott and Gervinho there is a mix of pace, power, trickery, shooting, aerial ability and wing play. Perhaps the one thing the Gunners attack is really lacking is clinical finishing, and that may be why Arsenal have been keeping a close watch on the natural goalscorer who is currently joint top scorere in the Champions League this season. .......Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger has called on the big name players at Arsenal to show their class against Tottenham, and prove that Arsenal have much more strength across the team than their North London rivals. Most of the talk in the media in the build up to the game has been about Gareth Bale, which is not that surprising given the scoring run he is on, but Wenger has gently reminded people that football is not all about individuals. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal fans knew they were seeing something special when Jack Wilshere returned from a loan spell at Bolton Wanderers. He played 49 games for the Gunners in that breakthrough season of 2010/2011, including an awesome display against Barcelona in the Champions league. However, 17 months out of the game with injury, coupled with an immense burden of expectation would normally have a serious eeffect on a young player’s form.

Wilshere’s increasingly dominant performances and his outstanding display for England against Brazil have proved that this will not happen to our Jack, so what makes him so special? The famous inventor Thomas Edison coined the phrase `Genius in one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration`, and Bacary Sagna has revealed that Wilshere has an unbelievable work ethic for a young player. .......Read the full article here

Theo Walcott is on the verge of greatness by NS

I’m sure a few of you Arsenal fans have read the headline and are picking yourselves off the floor. I can understand that. Really. Theo, since arriving as a schoolboy from Southampton has hardly lived up to our expectations until this season. He has shown flashes. We all remember that run against Liverpool in the Champions League and I thought he had arrived then. I was wrong. We all were.

His final ball frustrated us all beyond belief. His finishing was erratic and he drove us all up the wall. Some players take time to develop. Remember a guy called Zinedine Zidane? Sure you do. One of the greatest players of all time. Do you remember him in Euro ’96, when he was 24? .......Read the full article here

We may never find out if Arsenal made an offer of £30 million to the Serie A club, Napoli, for the transfer of their Uruguayan hit man Edinson Cavani, but if we did they have turned us down. it is not surprising realyy, and was only ever going to be an opening bid. Cavani is one of the most sought after strikers in world football and has a contract with Napoli until 2016, so it would take more than £30 million to persuade them to sell. .......Read the full article here

The last time Stewart Robson had something positive to say about Arsenal was, nobody knows, because it was before records began. The former player seems to have a chip on his shoulder the size of the Emirates stadium, because he is never slow to comment about news coming from Arsenal and he is relentlessly negative.

The Talksport presenter has now offered his words of wisdom about the Theo Walcott contract situation and, surprise surprise, he thinks that Arsenal and Arsene Wenger has got it wrong. Most Arsenal fans are pleased about the news that Walcott is about to sign a new contract worth about £90,000 a week, but Robson thinks Theo has had Arsenal on and is about to stop playing well and scoring. .......Read the full article here

Wilfried Zaha is an Arsenal fan, and will soon be an Arsenal player, apparently. There are rumours that an agreement has been made between Arsenal, Crystal Palace and Zaha about his transfer to the Gunners in January, but nothing has been confirmed yet.

Palace rejected a bid of around £8 million from Manchester United, according to the Mail. With Alex Ferguson stepping up his pursuit of Christiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid, United are unlikely to pursue the matter further, leaving just Tottenham challenging Arsenal for the 20-year old. Given that he supports Arsenal and that he wants to play in the Champions league, there is no way he is going to choose Spurs over us. .......Read the full article here

I am sure we have all thought about what we would do if we won the lottery or the football pools, and that is the sort of situation that Arsenal football club find themselves in after signing one of the best sponsorship deals in football. The Gunners will continue to have the Emirates airline on the front of the strip for five more years, and will receive £30 million a year for it. Arsene Wenger will be rubbing his hands with glee, thinking about how to spend the money, assuming that it does find it’s way into the Frenchman’s war chest. .......Read the full article here

The hype surrounding the young Crystal Palace player, Wilfried Zaha, is reaching epic proportions. Arsenal fans out there should just sit back, relax and watch the circus, because there is more chance of Nicklas Bendtner beating Ronaldo and Messi to the Ballon D’Or than there is of Arsenal signing Zaha in January.

I like the kid, he is a very good player and should have a bright future ahead of him. He is, however, only 20-years old, has not played 100 league games in the second tier of English football yet, and has just been given his first international cap in a friendly, as an 83rd minute substitute. Oh, and Palace are talking about £20 million. .......Read the full article here

I know, it sounds ridiculous. Arsenal would not pay €70 million for anybody, nevermind a young striker who cannot get into the Real Madrid team, but the amount of the clause does not necessarily mean that Real Madrid would not accept any less for their 20-year old striker, Alvaro Morata.

The Mirror broke the story yesterday, and Spanish newspaper AS reports today about the clause in the contract. Morata a signed a new deal with the Spanish champions in the summer which lasts until 2015, and the buy out clause is a precaution in case the player becomes hot property. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal have been linked incessantly with a move for the young Crystal Palce player, Wilfried Zaha, in recent weeks. Palace chairman is making all the right noises but I think they are resigned to losing the youngster, they just want to make sure that they get the maximum amount of compensation possible.

The new manager of Palace, Ian Holloway, has been raving about Zaha, despite only being in charge of him for two minutes. If you are trying not to sell a player, you don’t go around telling everyone how good he is. Managers will often say that a player has still got alot to learn, or is a work in progress, but there are stories in the papers today comparing Zaha with Messi and Ronaldo. That is a sales pitch if ever I heard one. .......Read the full article here