Arsenal Make Two Top Notch Signings as Bendtner and Denilson Get Contract Extensions
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Arsenal Make Fresh Move for £6m Matuidi
by Alan Smith's Forehead on August 25th, 2009 5 comments
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The Three Arsenal Boys Who This Week Became Men
by Alan Smith's Forehead on August 19th, 2009 5 comments
Tagged Under: Alexander Song, arsenal fc, arsene wenger, Celtic FC, denilson, everton fc, Nicklas Bendtner, Patrick Vieira
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Everton 1-6 Arsenal – Match Ratings and Analysis
by Alan Smith's Forehead on August 15th, 2009 8 comments
Tagged Under: Alexander Song, Arsenal FC, arsene wenger, cesc fabregas, David Moyes, denilson, eduardo, Everton FC, Thomas Vermaelen, tim cahill, tim howard, william gallas
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Arsenal Will Offer Vieira Huge Deal to Encourage Dream Return
by Alan Smith's Forehead on July 30th, 2009 16 comments
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Arsenal Expected to Sign £15m Brazilian Midfielder
by Steven Constable on June 25th, 2009 19 comments
Tagged Under: Alberto Gilardino, Alexander Song, Arsenal FC, arsene wenger, cesc fabregas, denilson, Felipe Melo, Fiorentina
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‘Arsenal will win the league this season’ claims La Liga star
by stresster on October 21st, 2008 17 commentsWhile many (Cesc Fabregas included) have bemoaned Arsenal’s over-reliance on youth this season, stating that experienced players should have been drafted into the squad, there’s one particular person who feels that some of Arsene Wenger’s colts are starting to blossom and bear fruit. Indeed, this former Highbury favourite goes as far as to state that the Gunners will clinch the Premier League title this season, conveniently forgetting there are three other teams that stand in their way. [Read the rest of this entry »]
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Arsenal manager: ‘Diarra panicked by joining Portsmouth’
by stresster on May 23rd, 2008 5 commentsMany people were surprised when Lassana Diarra’s frustration got the better of him in January, causing the midfielder to leave Arsenal and sign for Portsmouth where he was almost certainly guaranteed first-team football. Despite the best efforts of Harry Redknapp to massage the Frenchman’s ego at every available turn, it appears as though the player will be moving on again in the summer, although Arsene Wenger claims he only left the Emirates in a fit of panic and might have been a touch hasty to do so. Sporting Life reveals all:
“I came to the conclusion that Diarra could not cope with the fact that he was behind the other players here in midfield,” said the Gunners boss.
“I thought the best option was to let him go because I already had Denilson, [Abou] Diaby and Gilberto all trying to get into the team as well. It was a congestion.
“I bought Diarra in the summer because I thought Flamini might leave at the end of the season and if he was able to be patient, he would get his chance.
“It turned out he wasn’t capable of that. With Euro 2008 in mind, he panicked.
“I did explain when he joined that he might have to be patient, and he acknowledged it, but he couldn’t cope with the situation, and also did not want to go on loan anywhere either.”
Therefore, all those people who said Wenger made a mistake by not keeping hold of Diarra can now realise that the Arsenal manager was pretty much powerless when it came to keeping the diminutive midfielder. It’s interesting that Le Boss expected Flamini to shove off in the summer – do you think he’s regretting the release of Diarra considering his performances for Pompey in 2008?
Tagged Under: Arsenal FC, denilson, diarra, Emirates, flamini, Gilberto, gunners, Portsmouth FC, redknapp, wenger
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Hughes’ comments do the trick, but Arsenal’s ‘Black Arts’ prove magical
by Skis on December 19th, 2007 10 commentsFrom The Terraces publishes UNEDITED submissions we receive from you, the readers. It’s your chance to show us how this football blogging is done right, or to embarrass yourself and your ancestors. Simply write to: editor[at]caughtoffside[dot]com.This time, Skis gives us his views on the Blackburn-Arsenal love-in.
Well done Mr Hughes, your pre-match ramblings had the desired effect on that most idiotic of referees, Mike “Mr Burns” Riley, with the man in black allowing a number of poor Blackburn challenges to go unpunished. We then had the Blackburn opener that was so blatantly offside that only a blind man or an utter moron could miss it when standing directly in line with it – I’m assuming all linesmen must be fully sighted, so we either had a moronic ‘assistant’, or one who didn’t want to rock the Hughes boat at all. Denilson’s red card was a red card in all fairness, or a second booking at least, but even this tackle came about in light of some major provocation from the Rovers thugs in the build up – they tried to wipe out the youngster Barazite three times before Denilson took his own retribution.
But no matter, as what we saw last night from an Arsenal squad with an average age of 19¾ was absolutely astonishing. The opening 20 minutes or so was some of the best football I’ve seen in a long time, and certainly the best this season, from ANY side. One and two touch football slicing the Rovers midfield and defence open with all the incisiveness of a surgeon’s scalpel through tender flesh, the Blackburn players really were chasing shadows. And to come back again from the adversity of conceding an offside goal and then going down to 10 men on the stroke of the end of normal time showed exactly what this current breed of Arsenal youngsters are all about. The spirit throughout the club, seemingly from top to bottom, is absolutely spot on, with everybody working hard for one another. Even the allegedly wantaway Diarra gave a performance that was nothing short of sensational, and the previously ridiculed Alex Song was the best player on the pitch, marshalling the defence and providing a real attacking threat as well.
Seeing Hughes’ face contort with rage as his side were torn apart must’ve been a joy to behold for Arsenal fans up and down the country, yet he still failed to show any humility after the match, claiming that this fledgling Arsenal side had been formed using “more money than he could even dream of.” Other than the ‘old man’ of the side, the 24 year old Eduardo, none of this Arsenal side cost much more than a kids’ t-shirt from Primark. But the Crozilian showed exactly why Arsene coveted him so much with two sublime finishes out of the very top drawer, caressing the ball past Friedel instead of attempting to bust the net like a lot of English strikers would. Fantastic stuff, and he will only get better.
If Arsene can somehow keep this group of ultra-talented individuals happy, then the future is very, very bright for the Arsenal…..and the future starts here.
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Denilson’s challenge exposes Wenger hypocrisy?
by Dexter on December 19th, 2007 37 commentsSo picture the scene, it’s the Carling Cup quarter final between Blackburn Rovers and Arsenal and both managers have been busily fighting a bitter proxy war through the press with Mark Hughes claiming that Wenger uses the ‘dark arts’ and Arsene portraying his team as innocent and skillful damsels in distress who need protecting from such lumbering Lancastrian louts.
On 90 minutes though, all these pre-conceptions were thrown out when Arsenal’s Denilson was sent off for a tackle straight out of the Blackburn ‘up-and-at-em’ copybook. The young Brazilian left referee Mike Riley no choice but to give him his marching orders after a rancid two footed challenge on David Dunn which then led to a massive melee. The Guardian reports that this is
“the 70th dismissal of the Frenchman’s imperious Arsenal reign”
A little bit of the French pot calling the Welsh kettle black?
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