JULIO CESAR TO JOIN ARSENAL.

JULIO CESAR TO JOIN ARSENAL.

Arsenal are on the verge of signing experienced Brazilian stopper Cesar when the Confederations Cup ends on Sunday. Talks have already taken place between Cesar's representatives and Arsenal delegation but put on halt due to the keepers international engagement with Brazil.

According to the Daily Mail, it is believed that Cesar (33) can part ways wit the relegated QPR for a fee of £2m and £70,000 per week wages  which Arsenal can pretty afford. Other clubs are also interested like Roma but Cesar wants to stay in London.Despite QPR being relegated, Cesar was an out standing performer in their team.

Cesar in action for relegated Premier league side QPR.

His quality is undoubted by many and would help Arsenal for a couple of years because goalkeepers can have a quite extended careers compared to their out field counterparts. He will be a great addition to our long term number 1 according to me and thats none other than Wojeich Szczesny who is still 22 so he wont be worried that he will stay for long and keep him on the bench.
Szczesny should also use the opportunity to learn from Cesar and improve because we all agree he is not yet a finished article though lack of games may make him rusty and lose his great potential so he should be coming in for the Veteran Cesar once in a while according to how the boss will want to manage him.

Cesar congratulated by teammates after saving Diego Forlan's penalty kick in the on going Confederations Cup.

One problem I have with Cesar is that; he is not that commanding goalkeeper the way you see Petr Cech may be due to the fact that he is naturally small and a little shorter so sometimes you may not rely on him in corners and other set pieces where people crowd in the box but his shot stopping skills are there with the best so the bottom-line is that we need him in the next 3 to 4 years as Szczesny continues his development and later take over from Cesar according to how his talent will be after that time.

Till then,
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ARSENAL SUMMER SO FAR.

STILL TWO MONTHS TO GO DO NOT WORRY GOONERS!!!

Dear Gooners, hope everyone is calm and watching events unfolding.

The season ended as it ended and we finished forth thanks to the late surge from the team after the Bayern Munich away win and a rare move by the boss to drop the captain and  bring in Kosceilny who was a great cog in us clinching the highly coveted 4th place both defensively and offensively as he proved it by scoring the last goal for us which took us there and then deny us conceding.

Kosceilny was massive last season

Finishing in top 4 means we shall be able to play in the Champions league and therefore we can attract top players because all top players playing in the ultimate club competition is their dream. so Arsene has no barrier in purchasing top players and with the 70m pounds talked about as the transfer war chest means we have high chances of getting the top class players we need.

We were linked with Stevan Jovetic from Fiorentina but now the rumour has died and no one knows what is happening apart from Arsenal and Fiorentina officials.
We have managed to offload some of the so-called dead wood like Andrey Arshavin who was reportedly getting 85k per week so that is a positive meaning we can pay that to a player more important to the squad, some have gone on loan but we are supposed to be paying a given percentage of their salaries so that is not a complete positive as we do not expect them to play for Arsenal again like Djourou. A couple of young players from the last season's U-21 team have been told to try their talents else where which is also a positive as the club shall not use them. That is the best we have done so far!

Arshavin leads the exodus as he re-joins Zenit

We have been linked to a couple of other players the more prominent one being Gonzalo Higuain who will be very important to us but nothing conclusive has been achieved with contradicting reports that may be the appointment of Ancelotti at Madrid will sppeed up the transfer as the El Confidencial reported with others saying he may use him so we shall not get him which is 100% bad news.
Another on is Marouane Fellaini who reports say we are about to get but we are not willing to pay the 100k he wants to be paid.
Another one is QPR and Brazil keeper Julio Cesar who the Daily Mail says we are about to sign but be priced out on Ashley Williams  and Marouane Fellaini and other but those are the main ones and if we can secure them then we can compete for any trophy next season if they gel well with the current time.

Higuain: Contradicting reports on him joining Arsenal.

We do not need to worry gooners, we should trust Arsene and the board because they need us to be competitive and know the things are getting tighter and tighter with Liverpool and Spurs strengthening, for sure we shall sign players its just a matter of time, with our moneys accumulating and debts reducing we are in a better position like never before and hope they are quality players.
In my opinion we need a Goal keeper to compete with Szczesny, a Defensive midfielder and a striker to replace Song and Van Persie respectively then we shall be ready to go for whoever is in our way.

Till then Gooners, LOVE YOU ALL
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FELLAINI DESERVES 100K PAY.

ARSENAL SHOULD PAY FELLAINI 100,000 PER WEEK.

Hello gooners as you all hear the news of Marouane Fellaini joining Arsenal, the fact is that we need him and there's no doubt about that, we lost Alex Song and he will be the perfect if not better replacement for the Cameroonian who joined Barcelona last summer, reports say that the club has met or is ready to meet the release clause but now they are stalling on the terms where the player is requesting for 100k per week, at Everton he is reportedly getting 75k per week and then goal.com reported that we made an offer of 70k per week and if such a player is joining a big club and then you give him a pay cut it looks ridiculous.

Mocked up picture of Fellaini in the Arsenal shirt.

Arsenal is a big club which should be paying its stars way way better than the likes of Spurs and Everton or even Newcastle and you all know the changes in modern football. We have Arteta but you can all agree with me that Aterta is not a water carrier despite replacing Alex Song in that role though he played well but Fellaini is better suited for the role and he will be a very important member of the Arsenal squad in giving the team physicality and aerial advantage which Mikel Arteta does not give us.
Mikel is best suited for the advanced role and playing him there should not be the best option because he is a play maker.

Mikel Arteta, the man Arsenal used in the holding role last season

According to reports, the player is willing to join but the club is reluctant to pay for his needs which is disheartening because the club can afford.
If the remaining thing is paying Fellaini the 100k and then he puts pen to paper to play for us for 5 years who is still 25 then the club should go running to tie the guy up and not just be reluctant for other clubs who can spend better than us to come and take the guy, we are lucky that we qualified for the Champions league and can attract some good player but if we had not it would have been disaster.
So the board should use that chance and sign up players very quickly. they go for the Pre-season training and give them time to gel but nowadays if we are still thinking of getting good players on a cheap it is no-longer happening any more.
Thank god we are Arsenal and playing in the Champions league but if we don't organize well we may loose it and I believe Arsene and the board also know that.

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TONY ADAMS DENIED A PLACE ON THE ARSENAL BOARD.

TONY ADAMS DENIED A PLACE ON THE ARSENAL BOARD.

Hi Gooners, hope everyone is well.

As reported in the sun on Sunday our most successful captain was denied a place on the board and was surprised that instead the club appointed Sir Chips Keswick as the chairman.
It seems the Arsenal board which consists of Ivan Garzidis, Lord Harris, Kenny Frair, Stan Kroenke and newly appointed chairman Sir chips Keswick do not want anyone on the board who is so demanding for the club to succeed no matter what the situation at the club is because I believe Tony Adams is that kind of person.

It is amazing that the club has very much tried to snub Tony Adams a man who is Arsenal all through, a man who has a statue outside of the stadium alongside other greats like Herbert Chapman and Thierry Henry plus the newly announced Dennis Bergkamp.
The club appointed Freddie Ljungberg as ambassador who is by no doubt a great man and well deserved to be but such a thing has never happened to Tony Adams aka Mr. Arsenal as often called despite his publicized desire to work with the club.
As he said, he does not want the money but to serve the club and make sure it goes back to its glory days of winning things which a great club like Arsenal is supposed to be doing.


Tony Adams signs off with a double in 2002. Him and Seaman with the PL trophy in 1998.

Some fans do not want him to be the chairman a strong member on the board perhaps because of some of their opinions which I respect but a man of his stature should be serving the club of his life by now at 46, he sat with former chairman Peter Hill-Wood and informed him of his desire to serve the club but seems Mr Hill-Wood just snubbed him and later said in an interview that they have failed to get a young man who is not money oriented to be on the board as a way of injecting in young blood yet Adams had told him before and was never money oriented.

Adams should be on the board by now as he requested, he would help the club in many ways because he knows everything about the club and its the club he loves to be among the best not just sit when the club is slipping to mediocrity and he is not a yes man who will just let everything said by the old guards  on the board pass. He is a football man and on top of that an Arsenal man.
We should start with him if we are to build a dynasty the former players at Bayern have built which everyone admires now.

Its elusive why the club has until now refused to allow him serve the club where he is a legend or they want him to be like Patrick Vieira who went on to serve Man City despite of the fact that he is the man who took over from Adams as Arsenal captain and led the team to the 2003-04 unbeaten Premier League triumph after Adams retirement.

Till then
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ARSENAL RELEASE 14 PLAYERS.

ARSENAL RELEASE 14 PLAYERS IN THE SUMMER.

Dear Gooners all around the world, to be honest I missed you all but good enough I am back now to discuss what we all love most, Arsenal.

As you know we have been having a lot of the so-called dead-wood at the club spending money on them despite giving back to the club less than what they get out of it. The club announced on Wednesday that 3 members of the senoir squad will leave the club when their contracts expire on 30th June.
The 3 I am talking about are: Andrey Arshavin brought in from Zenit after lighting up the Euro 2008 with Russia, Sebastian Squillaci bought from Seville in 2010 as an experienced centre back who would walk in straight away and add quality to the side after making the French squad to the world cup 2010 but all back fired, the only memory I have of him is scoring a header as we went on to beat Stoke city sometime back of all the time he has spent at the club and the last on is 25-year-old Denilson who has spent 2 seasons away from the club but still partly catering for him.

Some of the reasons as to why we have such problem are:

>Such players are being paid quite good money at Arsenal and by the time we find out they are not as useful to the club no big club can buy them and small clubs cant afford their salaries despite their talents belonging there then they prefer to sit back at London Colney till their contracts are done.

>Some of them are panic buys who the manager just gambles with after predicting torrid times ahead for example: Park Ju Young (who has been away at the club) and Andre Santos (who Gremio failed to retain because Arsenal made him expensive and they cant afford him)

>Some just have a deep in form and cant recover due to other players who take up their positions seizing the chance and don't look back but continue to give splendid displays which makes it difficult for them to retain their places because the boss always picks the best performer.
For example; Arshavin his talent is arguably one of the best at the club but he is set to leave for free mainly because he lost his form and could not get it back, the manager always defended him that he is a hard worker but you could see it by yourself and his body language that he was putting in less effort. However, no Gunners faithful will ever forget his 4 splendid strikes at Anfield in 2009.

We should avoid panic buys at the club and cheap buys just for the sake of it, yes every club take gambles but ask your self a question, if Man United can sell O'shea why cant we sell Arshavin or Squillaci who is a French international? Something is just not right.
Remember we still have: Djourou, Chamakh, Park, Santos....

Another lot to leave the club are the 11 (Eleven) youngsters from the under-21s and Reserve side. This is disheartening but it has happened, leading the lot are: Conor Henderson (who alot of youngsters used to say he is the best among them), Jernade Meade (the diminutive left back who made first appearances last season) and Sanchez Watt.
You ask yourself a question; what are the other youngsters at the club thinking? Because it does not matter whether you are a Hale End graduate but its your talent and perhaps hard work to save you from the drop. In football nowadays it is very difficult for young players to break through the first team in a demanding club like Arsenal and others, simply because the club needs to win and the manager can hardly give chance to lads unless you are a special talent like Wilshere, lucky or the manager has seen something in you that he likes, even if the club is compelled to the youth policy like Arsenal it may be derailed a bit.
For example; we used to play young players in the Carling cup now Capital one cup but that luxury is no longer applied now we bring the best team because we want to win any trophy to be there with the best, you can recall the team which lost to Bradford city last season and our teams we used to play in the Carling cup 4 to 5 years ago then you will know what I mean.

All in all I feel for the lads but the club had no option but to release them if they thought they were not going to use them. Now we are going to have a new look U-21 and reserves side and hope we get some lads with Arsenal DNA like Wilshere who can break through the senior team.
Wish all the departed luck in their careers and thank them for giving their best to the club.

Till then. FROM UGANDA WITH AFC LOVE. Follow us on twitter @Ugooners13.