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Arsenal have been making attempts to sign a lot of better players in Europe, I mean these players will cost the club 20+ mil and Wengers said he'll do it. These smoke screens can work in the clubs favour by forcing it through etc. etc.

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Right this one (Arteta) is being confirmed by credible sources at Arsenal not just media horsepoo. I'm annoyed, Arsenal better be have something else lined up!

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One for you Den?

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Well thank you kindly Devil.

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Yossi Benayoun rumoured to be off to Arsenal according to Twitter.

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Yeah, I read that, it was best so far :D

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from bbc
750: Er, bad news for Everton fans. BBC sports news correspondent Dan Roan says Arsenal and Everton are now talking over a possible deal for Mikel Arteta. And BBC Sport's David Ornstein tells me that Arteta is now the only player the Gunners are pursuing before the window shut. How do you feel about that, Gunners fans?

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Benayoun apparently on his way to Arsenal.

The board are an bunch of incompetent [mod edit]. The club needs David Dein so bad!!!

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Sorry Boss deadline day :(

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Yes sources close to the club say this deal is 50/50 at the moment for Cahill.



Rumours that Daniel Sturridge is about to have a medical at Liverpool.

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Arsenal will put a bid in soon. Cahill wants an Arsenal move.

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Doubt it. Transfer fee too large and we now have 5/6 center backs, three of whom are 'first team'.

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But Arsenal will not pay the £15 million that Bolton want.





BREAKING NEWS is that Arteta deal is off.

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Did you just see Payton on SkySportsNews? Arsenals transfer nets are set further out at sea and he's saying us Arsenal fans would be happy with Arteta and Benayoun when we've been linked to moves for M'Vila, Gotez, Vargas etc. etc. Do one Payton!!! A message needs to be sent to the board even at this late stage. Has this AST guy forgotten the promise of change then ended up seeing Fabregas and Nasri leave, just about getting into the CL, the 3 premier league results!

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Not in for Arteta apparently. Withdrawn Interest in order to get Benayoun on loan. Pathetic. It's not Payton's fault - it's the boards.

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There all smoke screens in my opinion, Arsenal were linked to top quality yesterday... Wengers been travelling.

Payton shouldn't be saying us Arsenal fans would be happy with Arteta its simple. Its his thoughts and a few twitter nutters that are desperate. The bar at Arsenal is high, these don't come any where near it plus Arsene said he'll only sign top quality.. top quality were mentioned yesterday.. today, well from the media hype its been disappointing.

Judging by Paytons comments on SSN... it pretty much sums up why us fans have been mugged. If thats the sort of pressure AST puts Arsenal under then there might as well not be a supporters trust.. completely useless!

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Well it looks like Newcastle are trying to gazump Fulham for Bryan Ruiz.

Jermaine Jenas off to Villa in loan move.

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Arteta deal falls through because he wants £90k a week :LOL:

Arsenal should be completing the signings of the targets we were linked to yesterday.

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If you leave it to the last moment then this is what you get as clubs need to be signing players earlier in the summer.

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Don't see it happening. Why haven't they closed it already, there isn't long left and there are no mentions of anyone else.

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Spuds have made an offer for Kaka, hope they get him he's like a rich man's Darren Anderton these days...

Arteta deal back on

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Rumours that Jim White has exploded.

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:LOL:

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Going from Nasri and Fabregas to Benayoun and Arteta is a massive step back for Arsenal. It will be interesting to see if they can make the top 4 this season.

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It pains me as an arsenal supporter to say 5th place if lucky shadow

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Well Wilshere will hopefully make the step up. Pleased we have strengthened our defence and Arteta is decent. Certainly not the same as Nasri and Fabregas, worse, but then how can you replace Fabregas? I think we have more depth up front and at the back. We have a different sort of midfield.

Spurs didn't get Bolton, Bolton STILL wanted £15 million. They played their cards wrong there.

Bendtner to Sunderland on loan.

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Looks like Raul Mereiles could be off to Chelsea.. news of him having sumbitted a transfer request coming out about half an hour ago so it could be a done deal.

David N'Gog to Bolton... he's a good lad, should do well for them.

and welcome back Craig Bellamy :D should never have sold him

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Meireles to Chelsea is a strange one, wasn't Villas Boas happy to get rid of him at Porto?

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It's a done deal. Looks like a bit of a panic buy after not getting Modric.

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Arteta is a very good player, however, I'd 8 - 2 be an Arsenal fan at the moment :D

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Does indeed, been rumblings of this for the past few weeks. There was talk of a wage increase clause in his contract that the new management were reluctant to honour so it's probably a good deal for all parties.

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Is there any confirmation of where Crouch has ended up? Still at Spurs?

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Confirmed at Stoke.

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Confirmed by whom, I thought the deal fell through so they signed Bedneter.

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Bendtners gone to Sunderland

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Has he, must have read it wrong :dunce:

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Confirmed, supposedly

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,,11668_7141455,00.html

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Anyone think a shocker will creep out the woodwork ?

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Well l am shocked that Raul Mereiles hands in a transfer request and then 10 minutes later has signed for Chelsea.:shocked::shocked:::shocked:

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Intersting idea, planning for the future

http://themondaysupplement.co.uk/hea...-arsenal-move/

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Well l am watching England and their new kit looks like a lot of leaky biro's on the pitch.

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lol..good description

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England one up in Bulgaria through Gary Cahill now he is probably worth £5 million more.


England two up through a great headed goal by Rooney.

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Man city could use him :D

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Well the drinks are on Colin:beer::beer::beer::beer: as Rooney puts England 3-0 up.

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Agreed, that kit is awful.:rolleyes:

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Good win by England 3-0.

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Don't bottle it Wales!!

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Holland 11-0 San Marino FT

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I hated that 25 minute goalless spell at the end of the first half...

4 goals to v. Persie, 2 for Sneijder and Huntelaar, and Heijtinga and Kuijt grab one each. Wijnaldum scores the 11th in the 90th minute after coming on as a sub in the 86th minute on his international debut. Sweet :)

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Nice result for us - dropping a goal is standard but a win is a win :)

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Does that mean Wales may go back above Antigua in the next world rankings list.:D

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ra...ank=207&page=3

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Speaking of world rankings? How the hell did England sneak back in to the top ten, and why are they fourth? :confused:

Incidentally: Holland v San Marino was Fifa ranking #1 (somehow Spain lost the #1 spot by losing a friendly, go figure...) against the lowest ranked nation (203/203).

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They've been in the top 10 for a few years now, they undeservedly went up to 4th in the same way Holland undeservedly went to 1st, because of the cancelled friendly and countries above them losing/drawing a game.

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I know Antigua, where is Wales?

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I think that the Dutch team has more rights to be in the top 2 then England in the top 5 judging by past world cups or European cups ;)

oh before you mention 96 yeah okay.....but when was the last time that england got into the quarters or even semi's of a world or European cup?

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I didn't say they don't deserve to be in the top two, i said they didn't deserve to be 1st. I'd like to see anyone argue that they are a better side than Spain at the moment ;)

I think England deserve to be in the top ten but certainly not 4th.

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I agree with everything you've said.

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Does this warrant top.

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While happy with England's result one thing did leave a sour taste in my mouth and that was the racist chanting aimed at some of England's player's by sections of the crowd and lets hope UEFA crack down hard on them but l would not hold my breath with the authorities as this has been done many times before and their response is usually a pitiful fine and not much else.


Bulgaria's Lothar Matthäus apologises for racist abuse of England players

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...ndfootballteam

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Going on the amount of coverage the press is giving the Wales match I think the papers are asking the same thing.

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If I was to pick two teams to watch in a football match, Holland vs Spain would probably be it.

Hmm..maybe brazil, wait..Argentina..Uruguay...ok...let's have a world cup to decide :D

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http://www.skysports.com/story/0,,11670_7145495,00.html
squads for league games

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Naw, he only nailed him 4/5ths from the top .:rolleyes:

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Don't think the keeper was expecting this...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14777284.stm

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Well what a wonderful quick bit of skill and vision to score that goal.

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Arsenal confident of landing Hazard in January window.

http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/footbal...young-park-row

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Even if that is true Man City will just blow us out the water in January.

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thanks for the link...it made me notice this one :D

http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/oddball...friendly-match

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Or this one. Best own goal ever...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU6iq0zk3tE

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What a lucky man.:drool::drool::drool:

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Bad news for Arsenal and that is Jack Wilshire is out for 2 months with his ankle injury.

http://www.sportinglife.com/football...medium=twitter

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:mad:

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Arsenals business plan..
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/J...l=arsenal&sc=0

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England one up against Wales with first decent move of the game with Downing the provider and Young the goalscorer.

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oh dear :LOL:

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To be perfectly honest Wales have acquited themselves very well and should have levelled up as England have been quite poor at times.


Final result England 1 Wales 0

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I no longer get excited when England play. I just see a bunch of morons whos managed by someone who shouldn't even be manager. In fact I've ditched Internationals all together.

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I firmly believe that Wales should be very happy at tonight's scoreline, England gave another poor performance.

I only watched the game, just to see how they have performed over recent months, Get rid of the manager and bring in someone English. We have to blood new players, why didn't Defoe play. Bloody pathetic.

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l have never been enamoured with Capello as manager as we should have a Englishman as international manager of England.

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The sports journalists hate it when Wales play England because it means they have no choice but to mention the Welsh national team on the back page headlines.

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Your country fully deserved a draw tonight and l think the future is bright with some of your young talent coming through.

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I actually had Wales down for a 2 - 1 win, All l want to see is England get a damn good hiding, sack the manager, and bring in a whole new team, with an English Manager, Capello doesn't even speak English properly, so how can he communciate with the team.

The FA need the head examined.

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How can you bring in a whole new team? :erm:

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Wales have a national team?

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There was talk of 'Arry Rednapp, but as a Spurs fan I'm torn, club or country.

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As an Arsenal fan I'd welcome him as England manager.

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As an Arsenal and England fan I wouldn't.

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Who else is there?

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Fortunately I watched a decent England team at the Rose Bowl,:cool:

flicked to the footy between overs until halfway through the second half then gave up on it.:rolleyes:

Jim.

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Well sort of, they are placed just below Hati and just above Liechtenstein in the rankings, England didn't even have to bother turning up to win.

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Seriously, do reporters not even do the basic checking of facts these days?




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What do you think of this story?
Nedum Onuoha's mother was emailing Gary Cook and Brian Marwood in one of the emails she mentioned she was ravaged with cancer. An email was then sent from Gary Cook's account to Brian Marwood but it also cc'ed Nedum Onuoha's mother. The email said

Gary Cook now claims his email was hacked and whoever hacked it sent the email.

In my opinion he screwed up and has now made it worse by lying about it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...ity-garry-cook

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Bring in a new team, change the manager, bring in new players and get rid of the deadwood, that always gets picked.

We have to keep produce new players all the time, and not the crap that Capello keeps putting out, We had him criticising Carroll, why, if he is not playing how can he score goals. so far we don't have a prolific goalscorers.

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I would welcome an English manager but we will see

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what...like Spain?

I agree the performance was poor and Capello should not be in charge but bring in a new team? Hart, Smalling, Cahill, Young, Johnson, Carroll (ok only for 5 mins), all did not feature in last summer debacle so interested to know who you propose would be better (and please not that Aaron Lennon is 10x better than Wayne Rooney argument again )

Although convincing Aaron Ramsey he was English a few years ago would have been a good start

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You can't buy new players, I am not sure where we can bring new ones in. Simply fact, the players England produce are not expectational. Unless you aware of some hidden talents as yet unearthed then it's a nonsense to suggest we can bring 'new' ones in.

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They probably got the information from twitter and just reported it as fact, it surely couldn't have been that difficult to find out he didn't even have a son. The weird thing though is that it took at least four or five days for Malbranque to come out and deny the rumours. He also hasn't said why he has quit St. Etienne after only signing a contract with them a month ago.

He's one of the most moronic people in football, i hope city stick with him ;)

I'll never forget that little speech he gave before we knocked them out of the carling cup a couple of years ago.

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explains why his family are in Oregon

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Bye Garry Cook

Club Statement

Chief Executive Officer Garry Cook has offered his resignation, which has been accepted with regret by the Board.

http://www.mcfc.co.uk/News/Club-news...ub-statement-2

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Good riddance to somebody who everytime he opened his mouth put his foot in it.

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Looks like his email wasn't hacked after all

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Well Arsenal, Chelsea and Man city are leading at half time and my team Liverpool is losing at Stoke.



Well Aguero scores again and at the moment he seems to be the signing of the season.



And now Aguero has got his hat trick.

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pathetic performance against Swansea... nothings changed.

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Wins for Arsenal, Chelsea and Man City and a loss for Liverpool but listening to it l still cannot believe they have lost this match against Stoke.

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Another easy win for Man Utd against Bolton winning 5-0 away from home with Rooney scoring a hat trick.

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Only 5, disgusting ;)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...m/14773055.stm