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The Wigan striker Hugo Rodallega has told the Sun that Arsenal have made an offer to Wigan for his services. The big, strong Colombian international had already said in April that he felt ready to join a top Premiership club, and the Wigan chairman Dave Whelan agreed that he wouldn’t stand in his way if a big club came in for him.

Rodallega said today: “‘I don’t know if I’ll stay at Wigan but I do know Arsenal have made an offer for me.” .......Read the full article here

The Arsenal legend Ray Parlour was gutted that his old team threw away their chance of the Premiership title in a crazy ten minutes at the end of yesterday’s game against Wigan, and thinks that Wenger simply has to spend some money this summer…starting with a new goalkeeper.

“It was a bad mistake from Fabianski,” Parlour said. “He looked nervous all day and I think the Porto game really affected him.

“I’m sure this summer he will look at the goalkeeper position. Do they need to improve that position or can they work with what they’ve got? Only he can decide but from the outside it looks like they need a new goalkeeper. .......Read the full article here

Wigan staged an unbelievable comeback against Arsenal this afternoon after being 2-0 down with just ten minutes to go, but somehow the Gunners contrived to rule themselves out of the nip-and-tuck title race.

There were shades of an Arsenal Carling Cup side in the line-up, with young Craig Eastmond replacing Alex Song in midfield. Mikael Silvestre played alongside Sol Campbell in what must be the oldest centre-back pairing in the Premiership, and Lukasz Fabianski replaced Manuel Almunia in goal (Does anyone know why exactly?)

But the fact remains that Arsenal were bang back in the title race after 80 minutes, and ten minutes later their dreams were in ruins. .......Read the full article here

Okay perhaps Arsene Wenger didn’t actually say those words, but his demeanor and attitude spoke a thousand words.

Arsenal had the chance to put themselves right back in the title race with three points, but instead he saw his team throw away three points in the last ten minutes of the game against Wigan.

What he actually said was: “I believe that we were not focused and were not disciplined and we got caught. We were a bit unlucky as well but overall, in football you have to keep focused for 90 minutes or you risk or a bit much, especially against a team who has nothing to lose and fights not to go down. They will not give up and in the end we were punished.” .......Read the full article here

It wouldn’t be Sunday without there being a few bits of Arsenal transfer news in the papers, and it seems every week there is another report about Marouane Chamakh. This time the Mail has categorically stated that the Bordeaux hitman has signed a four year deal with the Gunners worth £12m. I wish Arsenal would make an official announcement on this one, because all this endless speculation is becoming a bit tedious now! .......Read the full article here

Crystal Palace are suffering from big financial problems lately and have come close to being put into administration this season, so their chairman Simon Jordan is willing to let Arsenal have the England U19 star Victor Moses at a cut-price £1m this January.

Today’s Daily Star says that Arsene Wenger tried to buy Moses in the summer, but Jordan was holding out for a massive £5m for the winger, which Wenger refused to pay as he is unprove at Premiership level. .......Read the full article here

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger may have seen his team win 4-0 yesterday, but he is still unhappy that Alex Song has got booked while Wigan players were committing what he called “tactical fouls” on a regular basis but not getting cautioned.

It seems to have annoyed him so much that he intends to make a complaint to the FA to get them to look at the situation. He said: “Song today, he made one spectacular foul and got booked for it,” .......Read the full article here

Nobody had heard of Vito Mannone two weeks ago, and now it seems like he is going to be a regular in the Arsenal side, but where did he come from?

He was another one of the youngsters that Arsene Wenger’s foreign scouts found in Italy in 2005, when he was 17 years of age, and before Mannone could legally (in Italy) sign professional papers with his club Atalanta, Arsene Wenger snapped him up and brought him to England.

Arsenal had to pay Atalanta £350,000 in compensation, which seems very cheap for such a promising youngster, considering that the compensation set for Fran Merida was £3.5m, but i’m sure Wenger didn’t complain! .......Read the full article here

The Arsenal injury list has been reduced slightly with the news that Robin Van Persie will be available to play again tomorrow, but that is the only good news really.

Theo Walcott’s back problem doesn’t seem to be healing, despite Wenger saying last week that it was just Walcott’s fitness that was keeping him out of the squad.

Andrey Arshavin is hopefully back in the very near future, but there is no chance for tomorrow.

“We have Robin van Persie available compared to the game on Wednesday night,” Wenger said. “He is the only player coming back. .......Read the full article here