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Santos unhappy with Arsenal return! by Ash

Rarely does there seem to be mutual feelings at the club between players and the fans, but the Arsenal left back Andre Santos has stated his disappointment in having to return to Arsenal. Surely this means he will be gone this summer no matter what because I firmly believe the club wanted to sell him before hand, but they will definitely look to let him go after hearing that he no longer wants to stay at the club. .......Read the full article here

A lot of Arsenal fans are already well aware of the opinions of the former Gunner Stewart Robson, because he airs them often enough. The sometime presenter rarely has anything positive to say about Arsenal, and especially about our French manager, and this time is no different.

After calling for Arsene Wenger to spend money for the last few years, Robson has now told Talksport that the prof should not be allowed to spend the big transfer war chest, because he will waste it. The ever optimistic Robson pointed out some of Wenger’s signings that have flopped and feels that this means any future ones will too. .......Read the full article here

A deal for Clement Grenier seems very much done between Arsenal and Lyon and Arsenal fans are really happy about this as people have watched him play a little bit and done some research on him since he was linked with a move to the club. Grenier is a two-footed attacking midfielder who Wenger has likened to Samir Nasri, but he still has a long way to go to realise his potential.

I think expecting good things of him is a mistake because I expected good things of many players who were amazing for their old clubs but when they played for Arsenal they were terrible. Two examples of this are Gervinho and Andre Santos. .......Read the full article here

I can just hear it now, Arsenal do not need to sign nay more strikers, because Gervinho has decided to stay. While he’s at it, Arsene Wenger could also say that getting Andre Santos and Nicklas Bendtner back from their loan spells will be like signing two new players. Oh, and Abou Diaby might be fir sometime around Christmas, so we will manage until then and have a good end to the season, narrowly beating Tottenham into fourth place. .......Read the full article here

It’s a Win-Win scenario for Arsenal by AH

Although some people may slate the club for letting the deadwood players go for stupidly small sums of money, a lot of people will correctly recognise that although it hasn’t added much to our transfer chest, it does free up a lot of space elsewhere.

Now in this article, I’m addressing how much the club could realistically make if we were to sell all the players that have been touted for a move this summer. Of course some of them will stay because they won’t be able to find a club, and some of them just genuinely won’t be sold because they are still wanted, like Vermaelen. I’ll look to address a player’s value and how much wages they will open up and obviously each player that goes frees up a squad place. .......Read the full article here

One of the big problems for Arsenal in recent years has been the number of players drawing nice, big salaries from the club and offering nothing on the pitch. Arsene Wenger and the club officials obviously don’t plan for this to happen, but it is a serious drain on the expenses, while at the same time driving your average Gooner up the wall and through the roof.

Things are looking a bit better for the Gunners recently, however, as the number of players in that situation at the club has been falling, often by loaning them out. It’s not an ideal situation, but at least they are not draining the resources of Arsenal so much. They may also earn themselves a permanent move or at least sharpen up their skills when playing for another team. .......Read the full article here

Barca willing to sell Fabregas? by AH

Reports over the last few weeks now have suggested that Arsene Wenger is interested in re-signing former captain Cesc Fabregas from Barcelona. This is because Fabregas is reportedly unhappy about his lack of playing time and now Barcelona are reportedly willing to sell. .......Read the full article here

How much the deadwood will free up space by AH

It’s a pretty well-known fact that in order for Arsenal to improve then we need to ship out some of the ‘deadwood’ and replace it with talent that can seriously build on our team and make it a strong competitor. If I’m honest I really don’t think we are that far off a great team, we have the buildings of it already at the club, we just need to go out this summer and buy, in my opinion 3, maybe 4 top quality players. .......Read the full article here

The last few weeks and months have been full of transfer rumours about players that Arsenal are apparently going to be signing which got me thinking about who is going to leave the club to make room for new players.

Lukasz Fabianski
The Polish keeper has been missing from the team since his fellow countryman Wojciech Szczesny took the gloves nearly two and a half years ago. He has made the odd appearance but it looks like there will be no use for him if the reports linking Arsenal with a new keeper are true. .......Read the full article here

It has been a fair few years since Arsenal had a significant number of Brazilian players in the squad, the last time we had a decent contingent of Brazilians was in the days of Gilberto Silva and Edu. When those two players were in the team, we were extremely successful but that wasn’t because of them – it was to do with the team as a whole. .......Read the full article here

However much fans groups try, or Wenger calls for respect, there will be no doubting the feeling of many Arsenal fans about Robin van Persie when Manchester United come to the Emirates on Sunday. The Arsemal players, however, need to try to ignore what is going on in the stands and not get caught up in the emotion.

On the pitch, the Gunners have a massive job to do, and the Dutch striker is a key player for Alex Ferguson’s team.There is no doubt that our former captain will be desperate to score, but the Arsenal players must approach it like any other tough game that we need to get points off. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal’s famous list of “deadwood” players seems to get bigger every year, but for some reason we can never get anyone to actually buy them off us and we have to struggle to send them out on loan every year. But we still do have some talented players out there that have a chance of coming back and becoming first team players of the future.

Let’s lok first at the experienced players that are on loan:

Andre Santos (Gremio) – No-one wants him back at Arsenal but can you believe he played the full 90 minutes in Brazil’s 4-0 win over Bolivia last weekend! .......Read the full article here