Arsenal face Shrewsbury in Carling Cup

Arsenal have been drawned to face the league two team Shrewsbury town. The teams have only met three times, last in 1991 when Arsenal won 1-0 in the FA cup.

Carling Cup Third-Round draw:
Cardiff City v Leicester City
Wolves v Millwall
Chelsea v Fulham
Aldershot Town or Carlisle United v Rochdale
Arsenal v Shrewsbury Town
Burnley v MK Dons
Leeds United v Manchester United
Brighton v Liverpool
Nottingham Forest v Newcastle United
Manchester City v Birmingham City
Blackburn Rovers v Leyton Orient or Bristol Rovers
Swindon Town or Southampton v Charlton or Preston North End
Everton v West Brom
Crystal Palace or Wigan v Middlesbrough
Aston Villa v Bolton Wanderers
Stoke City v Tottenham Hotspur

Preview: Manchester United - Arsenal

Arsenal continues the Premier League with another tough match. Arsenal will travel to Old Trafford to play Manchester United wanting to get the firsth win in the league this year. After a goalless draw against Newcastle and a terrible 2-0 beat at Emirates to Liverpool Arsene Wenger and his squad are looking for a positive experience in the league.

Arsenal will miss a number of players while Manchester United tried a new and young team against Tottenham, winning impressive 3-0.

If Arsenal goes without scoring this round it will be the firsth season since the 1953/1954 season that happen. And it will be a tough task to score against the ruling Champions. United was the best home team, only one team managed to get points at Old Trafford, namely West Bromwich.

Last year Arsenal won 1-0 with Aaron Ramseys crucial goal. What a bust for the team if they had repeated that result! But on Old Trafford Arsenal lost 2-0.

Probably Arsenal lineup:

Szczesny

Sagna - Vermaelen - Koscielny - Jenkinson

Walcott - Ramsey - Rosicky - Arshavin

Chamakh - Van Persie

Possible substitusions:

Fabianski

Djorou

Traore

Miquel

Bendtner

Oxlade-Chamberlain

Landsbury

Myachi

Park Chu-Young on the way to london to sign for Arsenal!

The Korean Monaco player Park Chu-Young was close to sign for Eden Hazard's Lille, but when he friday visited Lille he got a telephone from Arsene Wenger asking if he would like playing for Arsenal instead. It is now known that he will implement the medical test and sign for Arsenal within 24 hours.

Arsenal, Fulham and Lille have showed interest for the 26 old year striker. Lille thought they had got his contract, but now they neither have any player or any explanation of why he did not join the club.

Park Chu-Young:

Age: 26

Country: South Korean

Club: Monaco

        Matches: 91

        Goals: 25

Height: 183 cm

The blog will follow the signing and convey when the tranfer is official.

Wenger looking after three players to add to the squad

The boss wants to add reinforcments to the squad before the tranfer window shuts

Arsene Wengers has again admitt that the squad is short of players to face the long season ahead. He says that he is working hard to get new signings, but that it is not easy.

Wenger has £ 90 millions to buy players for, most of the money are from the selling of Nasri, Fabregas, Eboue and Clichy.

Here is a list of players linked with Arsenal:

Eden Hazard, Lille: Has been linked to Arsenal the hole summer. Lille means that Hazard is worth twice as much as Nasri. Wenger is disagree and the price Lille wants for the player might set an stoper for the tranfer.

Moussa Sow, Lille: Has go out to the newspaper saying it would be a dream came through to play in the Arsenal shirth. Has been linked, but it is not known that it has been any bid from Arsenal on the striker.

Gary Cahill, Bolton: Arsenal has recently bid on the player, but Bolton rejected the bid with no doubt. They said the bid was far from what they are willing to sell the talented defender for.

Yann M'Vila is believed to maybe join Arsenal

Scott Dann, Birmingham: The most likely signing for Arsenal in defence seems to be the Birmingham player. Arsenal has been in advanced talks to the player and the rumors tells that Arsenal preparing a bid on the player soon.

Phil Jagielka, Everton: Everton is in a finincial crise and they absolutely needs the money. Even though Everton is in economic crises the Everton chairman Bill Kenwright tells the Arsenal supporters the player is not for sale.  

Yann M'Vila, Rennes: The deal with the French player is belived to be a strong possibility. After Nasri left Wenger said that the firsth priority would be to reinforce the midtfield. M'Vila is believed to be Wenger favorite choice.

Jan Vertoghen, Ajax: Arsenal has been following the Belgian defender for a long time now after he started and finished the last season superb. He has self told that he thinks he is ready to take the next step to Premier League.

Injurie news before the Manchester United match

Arsenal did get a couple of players back for injurie to the Udinese match. Here is a new update:

Gervinho and Sogn are still suspended after the firsth match against Newcastle. Thsi will be there last match suspended, so against Norwich both will be back.

Rosicky and Djorou came through the Udinese match well and both will be fit to play the match at Old Trafford.

Vermaelen has a test on Saturday to complete, if the test is positive he will play.

Koscielny had a positive test today, and it seems that he is ready for the match.

Kieran Gibbs is not far away being ready, but he is not.

Bendtner and Squillaci will not be fit to play. Wilshere has seen a specialist today, the result of the test is not know jet, but he will probably be out for two more weeks.

Bolton rejected bid from Arsenal on Gary Cahill

Bolton manager Owen Coyle has confirmed that Bolton has rejected a bid on there defender Gary Cahill. Cahill has only one year lett of his contract with Bolton and manager Coyle has the Hole summer repeted that Cahill can leave the club for the right price. Arsenal is looking to buy new players to add to the squad. It is not longer depending on the money Arsenal has, because after they sold Favregas, Nasri and Clichy Arsenal has a lot of money they can spend. But Arsène Wenger is not one of the managers that likes to spend a lot of money.

Arsenals bid on Cahill is told to be around £ 6 million, but Bolton wants incredible £17 millions for him.

Arsenal in Champions League group with Marseille, Olympiacos FC and Borussia Dortmund!

Arsenal was drawned into group F with Marseille, Olympiacos FC and Borussia Dortmund. The last team in the group is still jet to be drawen.

Arsenal qualified after 3-1 victory on aggregate against Udinese. Arsene Wenger says that the firsth priority was to qualify to Champions League, but now he says that it is no doubt that they will have as goal to win the group and come through to the final rounds.

Marseille was drawen from pot 2, and was a good draw for Arsenal. Marseille finished second place last year in ligue 1. Arsenal should be aware of there striker Loic Remy, he scored impressive 17 goals inn 33 games in the league.

Olympiacos FC won the greech league last year an by that qualified to Champions League.

The last team that was drawen into the group was Borussia Dortmund, the german champions. A team we did not want to draw, but that is not an excuse to not win the group! Dortmund played some fantastic football last season, and prowed that they can play good matches also against tough opponents. For example did they beat Bayer Munich in both matches last year, and impressive 3-1 away against them.

Arsenal representative, club secretary, David Milles said that Arsenal is very satisfied with the group they draw. He also says that they never played Marseille in a tournament, and only one time in the last 15 years played the two other teams.

Champions league draws today

Today will the Champions league draw be drawen. It will be exitating to see who the worlds top clubs will meet in the group stage. The 32 qualified teams have been Divided into four pots based on the few last years Performance in europe. Ond from each pots will be drawen together and anke a group.

The biggest teams are of course in pot 1, but Ac Milan is in pot 2 and Manchester City is in pot 3! So all teams in pot Ine will hope not drawing this team in there groups.

Here Are the four groups:

Pot 1:
Manchester united
Chelsea
Barcelona
Bayer Munich
Real Madrid
Arsenal
Inter
Porto

Pot 2:
Ac Milan
Benfica
Valencia
Villeareal
Olympicos Lyonnais
Shaktar Donetsk
CSKA Moskva
Marseille

Pot3:
Manchester City
Lilles
Ajax
Bayer Leverkusen
Olympiakos
FC Basel
Zenit St.petersburg
Bare borisov

Pot 4:
Borussia Dortmund
Napoli
Dynamo Zagreb
APOEL Nicosia
Trabzonspor
RTC Genk
Viktoria plzen
Otelul galati

Superb win away against Udinese qualifies Arsenal to Champions league!

Also in norwegian!

Udinese 1-2 Arsenal, 1-3 on aggregate

Arsenal has reach the Champions league group stage after a fantastic win away against Udinese where Arsenal showed attacking skills and caracter. After being down 1-0 after a Di Natale goal for Udinese, Arsenal showed great caracter and went out in second half with offensive press. Arsenal had a lot of chances and the goal had to come, and it came. 

Gervinho used his fantastisc pase and tecnique to delivere a perfect hard pass to Robin Van Persie who could not do anything other than score. 

Arsenal was just finished with celebrating the goal before Udinese got a unintelligble penalty. The refere had apparently seen a handboal (that no other on the stadium had seen) on Thomas Vermaelen and a yellow card was given to the arsenal defender. The Udinese star striker Di Natale steppping forward to take the penalty and give Udinese the lead, but so easy was not it. Szczesny showed his incredible range he has by saving the penalty entirely by the post. The penalty save showing that nothing will stop Arsenal for reaching the group stage in Champions league!

After the penalty save Arsenal regane the controll in the match and Sagna delivered a clever pass to Walcott where Theo used his speed to come alone with the keeper and sending the ball on the left side for the keeper and into the goal! A good goal that secured Arsenals place in the Champions league.

The rest of the match Arsenal had totally controll and it was only one team on the pitch. Arsenal where closer to put a third goal than Udinese was to a second. After the match it was a relived Arsene Wenger being interviewed.

"Yes, I am relived. We are also proud of playing a superb match and coming back after being 1-0 down. Of course we wants to play in the best tournament, it is there we belong. Maybe this will bring some new players to the club now, but I can not say any names jet" says Arsene Wenger after the match 

There are no doubt this will save a bit of the season for the gunners. This may even be a result bringing new players to Arsenal. Eden Hazard has told that he will join Arsenal, but only if they qualifies to the Champions League.

Arsene Wenger has been exposed for a massiv press both from the supporters and the press, but this will probably end the discusion about Arsene Wengers position in Arsenal.

Player rankings:

W.Szczesny : 9.0

B.Sagna : 7.0

T.Vermaelen : 7.0

J.Djorou : 7.0

C.Jenkinson : 6.5

E.Frimpong : 5.5

A.Song : 7.0

A.Ramsey : 6.5

T.Walcott : 8.0

R. Van Perise : 8.0

Gervinho: 9.0

Substitutions:

T.Rosicky 6.5

A.Traore *.*

A.Arshavin *.*

Preview: Udinese-Arsenal

Arsenal has a 1-0 victory after the firsth leg on Emirates to rely on. It was a close match, but Theo Walcotts early goal proved to be the difference between the teams. Szczensy had some amazing saves, but also Arsenal had the opportunity to score more goals.

Arsenal need to not let Udinese striker Di Natale get the opportunities to score goals because he has proven that he can score the most spectaculary goals for the italiens.

For arsenal can Gervinho and Song play, while they still banned for Premier League, and should regain there starting positions. Djorou is fit again after beeing injured the last week, same is Traore. Rosicky will face a last fitness test today, and if he pass he will play the match.

Arsene Wenger says the match is important, and that the team will be absolutely motivated to the game. They will do all they can to beat and qualified to the Champions League.

Probable lineups:
Szczesny
Jenkinson - Vermaelen- Djorou - Sagna
Ramsey - Song - Rosicky
Walcott - Van Persie- Gervinho

Possible substitutes:
Fabianski
Frimpong
Chamakh
Traore
Bendtner
Landsbury
Arshavin
Miquel

City and Arsenal agree for tranfer of Samir Nasri

It is not official jet, but it is just the medical test that remains before Samir Nasri is a Manchetser City player. The hole summer has Samir Nasri been linked to City, and now finally the deal seems to be completed.

Wenger wants to buy four star players!

This article is also in norwegian, check the site "on norwegian" to read it on norwegian!

Arsene Wenger is in a really pressed situation after one point in the Premier League after two matches. He has sold Fabregas, Clichy and now maybe Nasri with only one star signing coming in.

Now the rumors tells that Arsene Wenger will buy four star players to add to the squad. The four being Moussa Sow, Phil Jagielka, Eden Hazard and Bastian Schweinsteiger.

Moussa Sow has going out to media begging for Arsenal to give Lille a bid that can release him from the french club and make him to a gunner. It hears so fantastic until you hear rhat he said just the same to Real Madrid, so it will be exiting to watch where the ligue 1 top scorer will end.

Everton has already refused two bid at Phil Jagielka, but Wenger now says that he is willing to improve the bids on the defender.

Eden Hazard are cousin with Tomas Vermaelen, making the tranfer to Arsenal more attractive. I write again what he siad for a copple of days ago: " I really want to join Arsenal, but only if they reach the group stage in Champions League". It means that Arsenal must beat Udinese to get Hazard's contract.

A new, but really interesting, tranfer rumor is that Bayer Munchens star player Bastian Schweinsteiger is in Arsene Wenger thoughts. This is not rumors from very political correct sources, but they do not often come up with totally wrong rumors. Lets wait and see!