Jack buys new car to cheer him up !

 Jack Wilshere, who has his leg in plaster due to injury, has bought a new car worth more than 50,000 pounds to relieve his boredom.

The England star has replaced his Range Rover Sport 2.6 HST 4x4 with the Autobiography Edition – and called in legendary car pimper Yianni Charalambous to kit it out.

"Jack has bought the car to cheer himself up because he's fed up with his ankle injury," the Sun quoted a source as saying.

"He's been going mad at home with nothing to do and spent loads of time checking out new cars online ahead of his operation," the source added.

But with his leg in plaster, he won't be able to drive it for six months. But who cares . I would be just satisfied sitting for hours at length just admiring the beauty of the car . 


The match is about to begin in another couple of hours. Wonder if Jack will be at the stadium tonight .

Arsenal vs Olympiakos : Team news .

Diaby , Wilshere and Vermaelan are long term injured players and thus are out of the match . Added to that list are Walcott (Knee ) , Kocielny (Ankle) , Benayoun and Djourou (hamstring) and Gervinho (thigh) are all out . I am thinking that Kocielny and Gervinho are actually fit to play but Wenger is just not going to take the risk of aggravating the injury as they have the big derby weekend . So the final starting 11 should look something like this :

Szczesney
Sagna
Mertesacker
Song
Gibbs
Arteta
Frimpong
Ramsey
Arshavin
Chamakh/Rosicky
Robin van Persie.

Subs :
Fabianski
Santos
Jenkinson
Miquel
Myaichi
Alex Chamberlain
Coquelin

I really want Chamakh to start and Arsenal play a 4-4-2 formation . Its been really long and I think the last time Arsenal played that formation was when Bergkamp and Henry were up front. These two can really support each other and form a formidabble partnership .

All the best Gunners !

Arsenal news round up

Arsenal.com have reported that Jack Wilshere has successfully undergone an ankle operation and will undergo rehab for 4 months. So that means he is going to be out of action till atleast New year . That is definitely not good news for us . Wishing him a speedy recovery .

All media (esp Daily mail ) are reporting that Van Persie wants to leave Arsenal . As an Arsenal fan for the past decade I can assure you that its not going to happen . I know Arsenal and its players too well to say who will leave and who wont . Van Persie loves this club and I cannot seeing him leave without atleast 2 Premier league trophies and definitely not until Arsenal have a replacement ready .

And also we understand that Walcotts injury is not as serious as feared and could make an early return on Wednesday .

And finally $amir Na$ri has used twitter to congratulate our captain on scoring 100 goals , a feat he could never achieve with how much ever money he has got ! He also wished Jack a speedy recovery . (Oh how I wish Jack could soon wish him the same) .

Thats all for today . Will be back with team news and formation for Wednesdays game tomorrow !

Arsenal news round up .

• Walcott injury is just minor. Might even feature against Olympiakos during mid-week.
• Robin van Persie is proud of the achievement .
• Arsenal ladies beat Birmingham 4-1 to lift the continental cup

Thats it for today . Looking ahead for the CL match and of course the derby on sunday . Keep checking my blog for team news for wednesdays game .

Cheers !

Arsenal fans make #RVP100 to trend in twitter

In the wake of Robin van Persie's 100th goal for Arsenal , the fans went crazy and started tweeting about him with a hashtag #RVP100 . Now that hash tag is trending worldwide in Twitter . It was an amazing response from the Arsenal fans on congratulating the Dutch master on his 100th goal . I am glad that I too was responsible for #RVP100 to trend.

Heres wishing RVP all the very best for his next 100 goals . Love you captain fantastic !

History repeats itself !

The master and the apprentice !

Van Persie - 100

Robin van Persie has scored his 100th goal for Arsenal . Captain fantastic . Van Persie scored 2 goals against Bolton the 2nd being his 100th . Amazing achievement .

Wilshere Out for another 3 months

Isnt that great ? Just when we thought things were going up our team decides to drop another bombshell. I now have serious doubts about our clubs medical staff. I think we need to start investing more on that department as well. Day by day they are becoming more like our defence against Blackburn. Ok so I read the Jack is out till christmas and is supposed to undergo surgery on monday . Well atleast we thought we had Benayoun for cover until I found out he too is injured and will miss the next week. The injuries have robbed us of atleast two premier league titles in the last 4 seasons. When will we ever have another full strength squad. And when was the last time all our first team players were available without injuries or suspensions ? I think we have to go a long long way back for that. So the question is "If we had our full strength team at our disposal week in and week out would we win the Premier league ? " My answer is Yes we will cruise to the finish.

Anyways , wishing Jack a speedy recovery from his surgery and come back for the CL knock out stages to knock Barca out of the tournament !

Looking ahead for the game today evening ... Cheers ... !

Arsenal vs Bolton Wanderers : Team news

Arsenal are heading into this weeks match against Bolton at an all time low. 3 defeats in the opening 5 fixtures is not something anyone would have predicted. That being said we had to dig out a hard fought victory over lowly Shrewsbury during the Carling cup midweek match.

Before going into the team news we hear that Jack Wilshere could make a shocking early return to competitive football by mid-october itself. That bit of news will sure rejuvenate any Arsenal fan. We need him . Period.

Team news :
Thomas Rosicky ( Knee) , Jack Wilshere , Thomas Vermaelan , Abou Diaby (ankle) , Seb Squilacci (calf) are out injured. No more suspensions as well. So the probable line up for the weekends game will be as follows :

Szczesney
Sagna
Mertesacker
Koscielny
Santos
Song
Arteta
Ramsey
Gervinho
Arshavin
Van Persie

Subs :
Frimpong
Walcott
Benayoun
Chamakh
Gibbs/Park
Djourou
Fabianski

I would actually prefer Park starting rather than Arshavin . Gervinho and Park can be substituted for Walcott and Arshavin later on in the game as they are known to make immediate impacts.

Hopefully Arsenal will begin to turn things around . The process will be slow. But I am sure Wenger knows what he is doing .

In Arsene we trust !

Borussia Dortmund Vs Arsenal : Team news

Arsenal are still without Wilshere and Vermaelan. They also miss Ramsey and Rosicky through injury .
So the probable line up is as follows

Arsenal : (4-3-3)

Szczesney
Sagna
Koscielny
Mertesacker
Santos
Arteta
Song
Benayoun
Walcott
van Persie
Gervinho

Subs :
Fabianski
Frimpong
Arshavin
Park
Gibbs
Chamakh
Djorou


Looking forward for tonight . Go Arsenal ...

Todays Arsenal news round up.

• Aaron Ramsey is injured and is not in the 18 member squad that is travelling to Germany ahead of the teams first Champions league game against Borussia Dortmund
• The 18 member squad can be viewed here.
• GK Szczesney believes the club can easily finish in the top four .
• Tomas Rosicky will also miss out on the CL opener and a chance to face his former club after his knee injury persists

Tomorrow is the match against Borussia Dortmund . For Indian fans the match is being telecast in Ten action + and the coverage starts at 11 30 IST .
Match can also be streamed live at P2PLive.

Todays Arsenal news round up .

• Per Mertesacker is confident that Arsenal can beat Dortmund on tuesdays Champions league opener . 
• Captain van Persie is pleased with all the new signings Arsenal made in the last two days of the transfer window
• And Jack Wilshere shows off his tattoo on twitter. You can see the image here.

Cheers ! 

Player ratings : Arsenal vs Swansea

Szezesney - 8/10 for a clean sheet and a world class save. Made a mistake during one of the corners of Swansea but thank god the opponent struck high and handsome.

Sagna - 8/10 . Another solid performance from the trusty defender . Made the useful runs down the wings and useful tackles as well.

Mertesacker - 9/10 . An impressive debut for the tall German international. Made quite a few brilliant tackles without being booked .

Koscielny - 9/10. Strong performance from the Kozzer . In the absence of Vermaelan he marshalled the defence perfectly.

Gibbs - 8/10. An able replacement for Clichy . Delivered some good balls to the box and made brilliant runs and assisted the midfielders as well. Will be interesting once Santos is match fit .

Walcott - 6/10. Though he may have unknowingly set up the goal that Arshavin scored he had a poor game. Expecting much more from Walcott at this point of his career .

Ramsey - 6/10 . Like Walcott he had another mediocore game. Sometimes he doesnt know when to pass the pass and where to pass the ball .

Arteta - 9/10. Another debutant. Another impressive performance . Made a lot of contact with the ball and made good passes. Blended in with the team with ease . It looked like he had been playing with this team for a long time. Hopping for more better things from him this season.

Frimpong - 8/10. Had a typical Frimpong game. A good strong midfield performance . Songs starting place looks so much in danger with this youngster putting in good performances.

Arshavin - 10/10 . A brilliant game from the little Russian . Scored the winning goal and looked full of confidencce. Looks like our Russian champion is back to form. Can only mean great things for Arsenal FC .

van Persie - 7/10. An off day but nevertheless played his part. He missed two chances and hit the post once. But he is capable of doing much more than that

Overall it was a good performace from Arsenal. Not great , just good. Good enough to get the 3 points they so badly wanted. Things can only get better with Gervinho and Song coming in for the next game. Wilshere and Vermaelan will be out for atleast one month.

Now to look forward to Tuesday night . Dortmund , here we come ...

Picture : Eboue vs Vermaelan

Taken during a pre-season game some 3 seasons back .Arsenal vs Ajax . It was Eboue who discovered TV5's talent . Maybe he has gone to Galatasaray as a scout .

Todays Arsenal news round up.

• Park is still waiting for his visa , stuck in Paris. Wenger is confident he will make it in time to tomorrows match .
• Arsenals season starts now , according to Theo Walcott and manager Wenger
• Per Mertesacker is confident with the current Arsenal squad and believes they can challenge fot the title.He says that the deadline signings made the squad complete
• Rennes confirms M-villa bid from Arsenal was turned down on deadline day. Arsenal hope to secure his signing next summer after the midfielder told he will definitely leave at the end of the season .

Tomorrows the big day where the "NEW" Arsenal meets Swansea as the EPL is back .

Park Chu Young's First Interview As An Arsenal Player

Mertesackers first interview with Arsenal

No panic buys.

Arsene Wenger has rubbished reports that all his deadline day signings were out of panic.
This is what he had to say "Some of the transfers were linked with players going out like Santos and Park because I knew Bendtner and Traore would go out.

Some of the other players were linked with the fact we have Wilshere out for a long time like Diaby. I knew as well that Vermaelen would have surgery the week before Manchester United so we needed to buy a centre-back.
"The midfield was a bit short because we now go into a time where we have the Champions League and the Carling Cup and we need a big squad.We were not close to signing anybody else. We had other targets but I was never close. Five transfers in the last four days, I must tell you we were busy enough.
I worked very hard after our last game to get the players in because I had to focus on something that was different.
I feel it has given the team a lift because everybody knew we were a bit short of quality and number-wise with the number of players we have lost at the beginning of the season.
Other players have left us too and we were too short to compete on all fronts."

Meanwhile , he also confirmed that Park who is stuck in Paris will get his visa in time and will feature in tomorrows match.

Hope Arsenal thrashes Swansea tomorrow .

Arsenal Vs Swansea : Team news

Injured : Wilshere , Diaby , Vermaelan , Squillaci , Rosicky
Suspended : Gervinho , Jenkinson , Song

Probable line up : (4-5-1)
Szczesney
Sagna
Mertesacker
Koscielny
Gibbs
Walcott
Arteta
Frimpong
Ramsey
Arshavin
van Persie

Subs :
Fabianski
Park
Santos
Benayoun
Alex Chamberlain


Arsenal new signings Mertesacker and Arteta will be making their debuts while Santos who has not played for a while will be benched along with Benayoun and Park. All three are expected to make their debut from the bench on saturday against Swansea. Arsenal may play with a 4-5-1 formation or go along with a tradtional 4-4-2 with Arshavin playing just behind van Persie.

All the best to the "NEW" Arsenal .

Cheers !

Todays Arsenal news round up .

• Alex Chamberlain hopeful of England call up after two impressive performances in the U-21
• Bendtner arrives at Sunderland high on confidence. Says that number "52" is just a random number.
• Arsenal take spanish woman to court since the woman has named her hat shop as "Arsenale"
• And Mertesacker shows his admiration for Tony Adams in his interview with Arsenal.com

To all fellow Gooners from India , I just learnt that the Arsenal vs Swansea match will not be a live telecast on Espn Star. So here is a link to follow the match (and other matches) live :
Click here to see live streaming matches .
If you know any other live streaming site please feel free to share.

Cheers !

Arteta's interview with Arsenal !

I was just going through my blog stats and the post named "First interview with Arteta" has the maximum page views. So here is the actual interview for all those who actually thought that my post contained the video.

Arsenal.com breaks records .

The official Arsenal FC website has had a whopping 70,044,502 visitors with more than 6 million of those visiting in August of 2011 alone. Now we all know that out of the 6 million atleast 60% of that would have visited the site on Aug 31 17:00 to 23:00 checking for new signings. I myself would have visited the page atleasr 100 times per hour for the last 5 hours of the transfer window. Thats how desperate I , along with our fellow gooners were for new signings.

Cheers !

Yossi Benayoun skills

A short youtube compilation of our new signing Benayoun's skills and goals . I was impressed with his performances at Liverpool and always been a fan of him even when he scored those two crucial goals at Anfield against us in that epic 4-4 match .

All the best to Benayoun ...

Cheers !

Todays Arsenal news round up.

• Center back Thomas Vermaelan ruled out of action for atleast 4-6 weeks.
• Frimpong chooses Ghana over England.
• Theo Walcott wants to play as striker for England and Arsenal.
• Englan manager Fabio Capello blames Arsenal for Wilshere injury.
• And finally Arsenal FC submitted their 22 man squad for the premier league earlier today.

Hoping for the speedy recovery of Vermaelan and Wilshere . 

Update on Vermaelan

Arsenal.com have announced on their site that Thoman Vermaelan will be back to training in 4-6 weeks . Meanwhile Thoman Vermaelan himself has just tweeted the following : "Yesterday i had a small procedure to take out my plantaris tendon. Just to prevent it becomes a big problem. Back training in 4 weeks."

Hoping for a speedy recovery !

Now Vermaelan out for two months

Arsenal have been hit by another devastating injury blow after key defender Thomas Vermaelen underwent further surgery on a troublesome ankle injury last night.

The Belgian stopper spent the majority of last season on the sidelines after having surgery on his left ankle, and it seems the problem has once again flared up. Vermaelen received a knock during the Champions League tie with Udinese and subsequently missed the 8-2 defeat to Man Utd but it was hoped it was only a minor setback and he would return after the international break.

However, reports say he had surgery in Stockholm last night and is now facing 2 months out. It must be said at this point these are un-confirmed reports but evidence is gathering pace by the minute and it does seems as though there is substance in these stories.

This news will put added pressure on summer signing Per Mertesacker to hit the ground running and settle quickly in to life in the premier league.

Arsene Wenger will be cursing his bad luck after Jack Wilshere was also ruled out for 2-3 months with an ankle injury last week.

Todays Arsenal news round up .

• Cesc : " I would be nobody without Arsene Wenger".
• Uefa rejects Wengers appeal against his ban .
• Losing Nasri and Cesc was "catostrophic" admits Arshavin.
• And finally all those who were waiting to see Mikael Arteta in his new Arsenal jersey , the pictures were released in the official site today.

First interview with Arteta

New signing Mikael Arteta will be having his first interview in Arsenal colours. Fans who need to ask him anything can tweet their question to @arsenal.com .

Here is the link : http://twitter.com/#!/Arsenal

Waiting for interesting questions from fans and more interesting answers from him.

Cheers !

Walcott's delight

Theo Walcott is delighted with the signings Arsenal made on deadline day.

"I have never seen Arsenal do that in all the years I have been there." said Walcott.
"A lot of teams leave it until last minute so it was interesting to see. We got rid of two great players but we've brought a few in and I look forward to seeing them on Wednesday.
"New faces tend to get everyone bubbling. We all have to lift our spirits and hopefully those new signings will do the job.
"They've had so much experience. Arteta in particular is a fantastic player. He can definitely spot a pass and I am looking forward to playing with him."

Although the Gunners chief felt he had enough quality in his side to ride out the disturbance created by Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri leaving for Barcelona and Manchester City respectively, the old Trafford result suggested otherwise.

"I'm not worried about the future at Arsenal at all," said Walcott.
However, he did concede the visitors' dressing room was a depressing place to be at Old Trafford, as the Gunners tried to analyse their worst defeat since the 19th century.
"It was completely dead afterwards," Walcott revealed. "It is hard to recover from that result and it could hurt a lot of players. But you can't do anything about it. You can't sulk.
There are younger players you have to help out. We had Alex Chamberlain making his debut in that game. Carl Jenkinson got sent off.
"Arsenal are a big club. You have to be able to react to those sort of moments.
"There's no point sitting and sulking about what you could have done better. The better team won on the day. A lot of people dropped their heads as soon as that fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth goals went in.
"I wouldn't say we gave up. We tried our best. But Manchester United were very strong and scored some great goals.
"Maybe the organisation wasn't quite there either. We are just going to have to catch up in our results."

Barcelona claim they got Cesc on the cheap .

Barcelona vice-president Josep Maria Bartomeu believes that Arsenal were correct in their initial valuation of Cesc Fabregas at €60m (£53m), having seen the midfielder's impact at the Nou Camp.

Barcelona signed Arsenal's captain last month after weeks of negotiation, in a deal worth £35m. The Arsenal manager, Arsène Wenger, said that it was a "reduced fee", and Bartomeu agrees that the midfielder was worth more.

Bartomeu told Catalan newspaper Sport that Fabregas's performances so far have justified the initial Arsenal price tag. "After seeing the work he's done since his arrival it is true that Cesc meets the €60m valuation Arsenal initially demanded," he said.

"The kid is demonstrating a high level and quality in three weeks of training. The transfer was very good. In a market that is so open Cesc is worth a lot of money. It was complicated to close the deal. The negotiations were very hard."

Fabregas joined for a basic fee of €29m (£25.6m), with a £4m pay-off waived by Fabregas, as well as £4.4m of further add-ons contingent on Barcelona winning more trophies. There is also a 50 per cent sell-on clause, should the Spanish club offload him in the future, and a buy-back option for Arsenal. Barcelona have also given up any claims to youngsters Jon Miquel Toral and Hector Bellerin, who left them to join Arsenal in the summer. Soon after the deal was reached, Wenger said that the club sold Fabregas for a "reduced fee", and that an auction for him would have brought more money in.

"If he was on the market to any club we would have got more money but we did want to get a decent fee," said Wenger last month. "That's what I'm paid for. You cannot say because you want to get the deal done as quickly as possible: 'Just take him and give us what you want'. You have to fight for your rights. If Cesc is for sale and you can make an auction between Real Madrid, Chelsea, Man City, you will certainly get more money but he just wanted to go to Barcelona."

Wilshere is out for 3 months

Jack Wilshere will be out of action for at least another two months due to an ankle injury, the England international said on Sunday.
"I can confirm I will be out for around 2-3 months. I am working hard in the gym to stay fit and I am gutted but I will be back stronger," Wilshere wrote on Twitter.
The 19-year-old sustained the injury during Arsenal's pre-season tour and missed the first three Premier League matches of the season from which the London club gathered only one point.
Arsenal sold midfielders Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri before the end of the last transfer window and, although they signed Mikel Arteta and Yossi Benayoun, Wilshere's prolonged absence is another serious blow for beleaguered manager Arsene Wenger.

Later he tweeted this " Hear a lot of people giving our Medical team stick? I can assure I am in very safe hands and we have top class physio's and masseurs! #AFC " .

Hoping for the best .

Arsenal players on twitter .

Robin van Persie : http://twitter.com/#!/Persie_Official
Jack Wilshere : http://twitter.com/#!/JackWilshere
Thomas Vermaelan : http://twitter.com/#!/T_Vermaelen05
Bacary Sagna : http://twitter.com/#!/Sagnaofficial
Per Mertesacker : http://twitter.com/#!/mertesacker29
Yossi Benayoun : http://twitter.com/#!/YossiBenayoun15
Andres Santos : http://twitter.com/#!/Andre_Santos27
Emmanuel Frimpong : http://twitter.com/#!/EmmanuelF4
Ben Glasgow : http://twitter.com/#!/BLGlasgow
Szczesney : http://twitter.com/#!/13Szczesny13
Conor Henderson : http://twitter.com/#!/Henderson_91
Gavin Hoyte : http://twitter.com/#!/gh_28
Craig Eastmond : http://twitter.com/#!/craigleastmond
Johan Djourou : http://twitter.com/#!/JohanDjourou

Arsenal : http://twitter.com/#!/Arsenal
Denilson : http://twitter.com/#!/_denilson15
Fabregas :  http://twitter.com/#!/cesc4official

Arsenal Vs Swansea

Venue : Emirates Stadium
Date : 10th September 2011

Team Line ups will be announced soon !

The moves that will resseruct Arsenal's season !

What a difference 80 hrs can make. We were beaten , we were down and we looked lost. Enter Wenger and Gazidis . They each grabbed a basket and entered the transfer market. They bought players of experience and quality and yet they did not exceed the budget. Believe it or not. Arsenal FC bought 5 new players in the last two days of the transfer market. 

Mikel Arteta

Signed in the last few hours of the window for £10million, on a 4 year deal – only after forcing through the move himself. He will wear the number 8 shirt, vacated by
Nasri
$asri, and will fill the void left by Cesc Fabregas. If he can stay fit, he could arguably be the star signing of the window. According to Opta stats “Only five players have created more chances per 90 mins in the Premier League since 06/07 than Mikel Arteta.” These players are / were Lampard, Nani, Malouda, Giggs and Fabregas – Fabregas, statistical the best with 3.5 chances per 90minutes. If he can keep these figures up and educate Ramsey and Fabregas, its been a very good deal indeed. You also have to bear in mind, he played in an Everton team which had far less of the ball than Arsenal. It’s also slightly funny he looks very similar to Fabregas in my view!

Yossi Benayoun

Signed on a one year loan from Chelsea. We had the option to buy him out right for £2million but refused, due to his injury record. He’s 31, so represents a very old head for Wenger to bring into the team, yet this doesn’t take away from his quality. He plays the same role that Arteta will and as neither player can play every game he will fill the role when need be. Both arguably could play in the same team, if we use the system with 1 defensive midfielder instead of two.

Per Mertesacker 

Per Mertesacker joined Arsenal  on a long term deal from Werder Bremen for a fee believed to be in the region of around £8million. He brings some much needed experience to the Arsenal back-line, and lets hope he can build a solid partnership with Thomas Vermaelen.
On his arrival yesterday Mertesacker said, “I had a great time at Werder, and owe them a lot, but the move to London is a wish come true. The English Premier League has for me always represented an interesting challenge.”

Andres Santos 

The 28-year-old international joins the Gunners from Super Lig champions Fenerbahce, for whom he has played since 2009. Santos supplanted Roberto Carlos as the team’s first-choice left-back in his first season in Turkey and went on to make 52 league appearances, scoring 10 times.

Sao Paulo born Santos’ career also includes a campaign with Brazilian giants Corinthians and a three-year spell with Figueirense, from where he took in loans with Flamengo and Atletico Miniero

Upon completing his move, Santos said: "I am delighted to have signed for Arsenal. It was one of my dreams to play for a major European football club and I have accomplished this. I am very happy to be part of this team. All the Brazilians who came to this club spoke wonders about it and I am delighted to be part of the Arsenal family."



Chu  Young Park 

The 26-year-old South Korea captain scored 25 times in 91 appearances for the French club during three seasons in Ligue 1.


Chu Young Park said: "I am very honoured and I feel very happy to be at Arsenal. It is a dream to be here and I am really proud to be an Arsenal player. Now I just want to show how good I am and prove myself.

"In my opinion this is a great club, now I have to show what I can do on the pitch. I will do my best, I will never give up, I will show heart, I will give everything and I hope [the fans] will support me."

The deal is subject to the completion of formal registration processes.

Chu Young Park will wear the No 9 shirt at Arsenal. The striker prefers to be known as 'Ju' and will therefore have J. Y. Park as his shirt name.