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.