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The 17-year-old Standard Liege defender Eliaquim Mangala is extremely flattered to have been linked with Arsenal.

The youngster scored his first goal for Liege in the opening Champions League match against Arsenal, and he was widely considered to be the best player in the Liege team.

Mangala said: “I am thrilled to be linked to Arsenal,”

“They are on one of the biggest teams in the world, so when you’re linked with them it is very good.

“But I liked Standard, so let’s wait and see what happens in the future.” .......Read the full article here

I know you are all going to find this hard to believe, but it is being reported that Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has got his eye on a young French defender!

The 17 year-old Eliaquim Mangala had only played eleven games for the Standard Liege first-team when they faced Arsenal in the Champions League tie two weeks ago, but he scored the first goal (his first for Liege), and was generally recognised as the best player on the pitch for the Belgian champions. .......Read the full article here

The Czech international midfielder Thomas Rosicky was really happy that he managed to start his first game for Arsenal in 20 months, but says that the team started the night extremely badly and they must improve from that performance if they are to do well this season.

“I’d hardly touched the ball and after five minutes it was 2-0 for them, so it wasn’t easy,” said Rosický, “but I think we all know we’re capable of turning these games around and we did that tonight.” .......Read the full article here

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says his team were “caught cold” in the first five minutes of the game against Standard Liege, but praised his team for putting in the effort to come back against a very motivated opponent.

He told Sky Sports: “It was hard work because we got a big blow from the start, we were 2-0 down.

“They started sharper maybe, they caught us cold. We were a bit slow at the start and they took advantage of it. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal will be pleased to see the expected return of Theo Walcott to the squad, and Rosicky has finally had a little game time in the disastrous match against Man City yesterday although Arsene Wenger insists that the Czech international will not be rushed back into playing 90 minutes.

The bad news is that the Gunners will be without Andrey Arshavin, and probably Eduardo, as FIFA are extremely unlikely to accept Arsenal’s appeal against his two game ban. .......Read the full article here