Saturday Morning Round Up @ Spurs eye Barca defenders, Chelsea striker loving life, Pompey turn to United legend

Portsmouth want former Manchester United striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as their new manager.

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Koscielny is starting to prove his critics wrong

Laurent Koscielny put in a man of the match performance against Marseille on Wednesday to help Arsenal leapfrog their French rivals to the top of the group. It was a performance of the highest quality from the Frenchman who is slowly but steadily endearing himself to the Arsenal faithful.

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Flop or not: Francis Jeffers...

Francis Jeffers, an incredible talent, or was it just that he was young in-form and English and brought media attention to him that led to a big money move to Highbury?

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How do you solve a problem like a right-back?

I swear Arsenal get a ridiculous amount of injuries to key players – as seen in the recent North London derby – with reliable right-back Bacary Sagna suffering a broken leg which will supposedly keep him out for around three months.

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Are Arsenal becoming a one man team?

As I watched Arsenal produce a dominant second half display against Sunderland, there were clear signs of improvement in a team that has had a horrific start to the season.

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Feel Sorry for Chamakh – and Arshavin and Eboue and Bendtner (!) and Denilson (!!)

We again read that Arsenal will offload the underperforming Marouane Chamakh in the next transfer window. 

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How can Arsenal's season be deemed successful?

In over the seven years I’ve been an Arsenal fan, there has never been such a grim situation surrounding Wenger and his boys. I thought there would never be a sadder moment than Thierry Henry’s departure to Barcelona, but I was clearly wrong. Arsenal have played their poorest football in over 15 years this season and there is a general sense of fear creeping into the minds of Arsenal fans about the current state of affairs at the club.

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Friday evening round up @ Chelsea linked to £30m striker, Wenger ponders Drogba move, Italians interested in Cahill

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has denied claims by club legend Dennis Bergkamp that captain Robin van Persie is best served playing behind the striker.

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Finance in football – Why Arsenal are still top of the league

The week of internationals has given me the time to clear my head, forget about the Spurs match and closely analyse Arsenal Football Club.

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Arsene Wenger’s five greatest managerial rivals

Arsene Wenger completed 15 years as manager of Arsenal a fortnight ago. And, in those 15 years, he has had several interesting battles with various managers. While very few of those have been on personal fronts, he fought with fellow managers over trophies, tactics, refereeing and approach to football. So let us take a look at what I consider his greatest five rivals. 

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2011 Arsenal’s Dismay

I must agree ....  too much time, these days, is spent apportioning blaming.  But it is indeed frustrating when the club's affairs are so opaque that we - the die for the cause supporters - are unclear who is responsible for what!

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Can Spurs really be London's best in 2012?

Tottenham defender Younes Kaboul believes that the club can challenge both Arsenal and Chelsea as London's best team this year.

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Arsenal's missing youth in the youth policy

Ever since we started investing seriously in our youth academy, there has always been an excitement about our young graduates becoming the ‘next big thing’ in Arsenal’s first-team. While the likes of Wilshere, Ramsey, Szczsney and Frimpong have become valuable members of the squad, the one who is conspicuously missing from that list is Henri Lansbury.

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Five things Wenger got right this summer

This summer was arguably Arsene Wenger's most challenging at the helm of Arsenal football club. Key players left, and the doubts continued to grow over whether the Frenchman can produce a winning formula in his ongoing experiment. But despite all the events of the past few months, he continues to be regarded as one of the very finest managers in world football. So what exactly did Arsene get right this summer?

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Ten of the best: Robin Van Persie’s finest century strikes.

So he has done, after signing for Arsenal back in 2004, Robin Van Persie’s brace against Bolton at the weekend helped him earn his 99^th and 100^th goals for the club. Whilst the striker has spent a lot of his tenure in North London on the injury table, Van Persie’s goals over the last few years have been like gold dust to the Gunners especially last year. And being Dutch means that there have been some crackers along the way.

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