LadyArse Gossip

Alisher Usmanov, Arsenal’s second largest shareholder rarely gives interviews Here’s one he gave to CNBC recently where he says that Arsene Wenger is one of the best coaches in the world and speaks about the support that Wenger did not get over the past five years: Thanks to @DarrenArsenal1 for the link to this.

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Arsenal’s chief commercial officer Tom Fox has been speaking in Dubai about how Arsenal are working to make Arsenal fans around the world feel like they belong to the club, what it means to be an Arsenal support and where supporters get their sense of pride. Thanks to @Makks for the heads up on this [...]

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As Arsenal fans get ready to see if they get Barcelona or not in tomorrow’s Champions League draw, Arsene Wenger has been speaking in his Eurosport column about how he is looking forward to the draw. He said We at Arsenal do not have easy qualifying behind us, although it was to be expected. It [...]

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Just as the Times reported that Arsenal had opened official talks with the aim of bringing Klaas-Jan Huntelaar to the Emirates in January it seems as if there might be something to the rumours which surfaced last night hinting that the player was getting ready to sign a new deal with the German club. Despite [...]

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Ex-players, is there anything more infuriating than having to listen to players who have left talking about how it hurts them to see Arsenal struggling like they are at present? Do they ever stop to think for a minute that if they hadn’t left the club might not be struggling? No, I don’t suppose that [...]

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The Times [£] are today reporting that Arsenal have opened formal talks with Schalke over the signing of Dutch forward Klaas ‘I hate van Persie’ Jan Huntelaar who is running down his contract with the German club and does not seem to have any interest in renewing his deal. According to the paper Huntelaar is [...]

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The Patient English Pretty much all of the media are today reporting that Arsenal are set to announce new deals for their main English players (plus Ramsey who I know is Welsh but that would have ruined my headline) with a core of six players being tied to new deals. The six are Jack Wilshere, [...]

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It has been announced that the chairmen of 17 Premier League clubs, including Arsenal (perhaps not surprisingly), have agreed to a break even policy in principle. The motion, which has not been clarified as yet, will see clubs restricted when it comes to the amount of money that wealthy owners can put into the club [...]

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The Daily Mail are today running a story which claims that Arsene Wenger wants Dani Alves to replace Bacary Sagna in a story that contains no sources (apart from the Spanish paper AS from where they got the story) and absolutely no information which could back up their claims. Pretty standard fare really from the [...]

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Ajax must be pretty sick of hearing about North London with both Thomas Vermaelen and Jan Vertonghen heading that way and now Toby Alderweireld has said that he wouldn’t mind moving to either Arsenal or Spurs himself. Alderweireld, 23, has been linked with a move to a number of top European clubs, told Sky Sports [...]

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After Gervinho, Aaron Ramsey is, unfortunately, the player that many Arsenal fans love to hate at the minute.  No room is given by some for the horrendous leg break he suffered at an incredibly young age nor the fact that he had to deal with the tragic suicide of his mentor and father-figure Gary Speed [...]

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Zambianfootball is claiming that midfielder Stopilla Sunzu, who currently plays for Congolese side TP Mazembe, has been excused from the next Zambian friendly against Tanzania on December 22nd as he is set to head to Arsenal this week. The 23 year old, who they claim is currently waiting for his UK visa to come through, [...]

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Arsenal’s Boxing Day clash against West Ham is now in very real jeopardy of being postponed after it was confirmed that a tube strike will go ahead. Union members of Aslef voted 9-1 in favour of taking industrial action. Arsenal’s fixture on Boxing Day had to be postponed last season due to the same reason [...]

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There have been a lot of rumours around lately that Juventus were considering cancelling Bendtner’s loan in January or that the player was considering asking to have it cancelled due to lack of playing time, none of which were helped when it was revealed that the Arsenal man would miss the next three months after [...]

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