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Last week against Burnley the Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner missed “chance after chance” (Wenger’s words), but the French manager was always certain that his much-maligned hitman would stay confident and find his scoring boots again.

Wenger said: “I told you how football can change for a player in three days. It goes quickly up and quickly down. And it shows you as well that he has not lost the confidence that he came back tonight with good focus and with the same belief. It is one of his strengths. His confidence level remains relatively stable.” Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger was extremely pleased with the massive 5-0 win over Porto last night, but thinks that his Arsenal team need to continue to improve to get past all the great teams still left in the competition.

He said: “First of all, we are happy to be in the last eight. If you look back at the last five years, I think we were in the last eight a few times. It’s never easy to be in the top eight in Europe. The negative side of that is you only have good teams now. Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger last night revealed that William Gallas will miss tonights game for Arsenal against Porto, and probably at least another month after that.

He was thought to be close to recovery from his calf injury, but when pushed in training this weekend, he is now back to square one.

Wenger said: “We were a little impatient with Gallas and we pushed him and he wanted to get on as well, which is why maybe it has happened.

“But there is no obvious sign as to why it keeps coming back. Read the full article here

I know the transfer window is still a few months away, but there seems to be a few snippets of Arsenal transfer news around, so I thought it was worth a post.

Obviously you can’t discuss discuss transfer rumours without bringing up Marouane Chamakh, and it seems that it not such a done and dusted deal as everyone thought it was. The latest news is still that talks are going well, but there is nothing signed yet. Perhaps Chamakh is using the extra £10,000 offered by Liverpool as a little leverage to up Arsenal’s offer? Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger was very pleased with Asenal’s win over Burnley, considering the amount of chances that were missed by his team, and especially Nicklas Bendtner.

He said: “I believe at the surface he (Bendtner) looks like ‘okay, I missed the chances’, but underneath he is really disappointed. Everybody has a different way to show his emotions, and he hides well, but he cares. Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger believes that his Arsenal team are in the perfect position to go on and win the Premiership, but even though Burnley have gained just one point on their travels all season, he doesn’t want his team to relax and think that they are just going to have an easy game. In fact he wants them to think the opposite!

“The experience we have from this year is that there are no easy games,” he said. “What looks sometimes easy before the game becomes very difficult during the game. I believe the key to our success now is being capable of focusing during every single game and penetrating ourselves with the idea that this could be a very tricky game. Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger says that it is very difficult to prove that Ryan Shawcross intended to injure Aaron Ramsey, but he is absolutely certain that Abou Diaby’s injury against Sunderland a few years ago was “100% intentional”, and he considered taking legal action against Dan Smith and Sunderland as punishment.

“There’s a grey area in the game over intent or not intent,” the Arsenal manager said. “You can never prove it.

“There are a few tackles where you can say that the player should be suspended for as long as the guy is injured. But then you have to prove intent and you go into a difficult area. Read the full article here

The Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger was extremely upset about Aaron Ramsey’s broken leg against Stoke last week, and although he loves the commitment that English players show in the Premier League, he doesn’t think that that should translate into broken legs for the opposition.

After the game, in the heat of the moment, Wenger said: “None of my players have broken anyone’s leg,”

“I try to coach my players to be committed, sometimes I feel nearly guilty to do that because when Aaron went for the ball like he did and that happens it is not an easy situation. Read the full article here

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger tried very hard to buy the Fiorentina midfielder Felipe Melo during the summer, but in the end Juventus won the race for the Brazilian hardman. The Italian giants have had a disastrous year in Serie A and Melo has not been very popular with the fans, which could mean that Melo could move on again this coming summer.

Wenger admitted that he is still very interested in bringing him to the Emirates: “We were interested in Melo during the summer.” he said. Read the full article here

The Arsenal defender Gael Clichy has admitted that he made a few individual mistakes which had contributed to some of the teams recent defeats, and he says that once these errors are ironed out Arsenal will be an even harder team to beat.

Clichy was lambasted by the TV pundit Alan Hansen, and has been heavily criticized by Arsenal fans as well in the last few weeks, but he doesn’t think it has affected him.

He said: “The criticism didn’t hurt but, of course, if people question your ability, you have to ask yourself the question. Read the full article here