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Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain was clearly intending to pour cold water omn the suggestion that he might be heading off to join our Premier League rivals when he posted a picture on social media along with the simple yet clear message «Gunners» alongside it.

Most of the papers and sports websites have focused on his comments about the Gunners not being able to beat our big Premier League rivals when it comes to spending power and his suggestions that the club's youth policy combined with an ultra careful and disciplined transfer policy will continue to be the Arsenal way.

Not exact matches

The Arsenal fans» fondness for Fabregas was sorely tested last summer though, when he chose to sign for a Premier League rival in Chelsea, especially as their manager Jose Mourinho had a long running feud with the manager he supposedly had so much respect for.

There were 55 players on that shortlist so it may not sound all that impressive that three of them were Arsenal stars, but that number does look better when you compare it with our Premier League rivals, especially when you consider how much more money the likes of Manchester United and Man City have been throwing around to build their squads.

Yes — Wenger simply sells our best players to rival clubs, even when he has the opportunity to buy them back, allowing said rival clubs to win the premier league.

We have all but ruled ourselves out of the title race following our dismal display at Stamford Bridge this weekend which allowed our rivals to move to 12 points clear of us, and we (for now) have to concentrate on building our own form to assure ourselves of Champions League football, and should the Blues begin to drop points, we must be within touching distance of them when push comes to shove.

Last season, Spurs famously came third in a two - horse race for the Premier League title, when capitulating under the pressure of being Leicester's last remaining rivals, and it was our care - free winning form which led us to leapfrog our noisy neighbours.

In fact, it shows that nobody can match the Gunners when it comes to scoring options this season, as we have seen more of our players hitting the back of the net than any of our Premier League rivals, as well as the really big guns around Europe.

He has no reason to want to offer the Frenchman any help and in fact the pair have clashed plenty of times in the past, most notably when Pulis was in charge of our Premier League rivals Stoke City.

Wenger does not usually act in the January transfer window, despite other rival Premier League managers taking full advantage of it, as shown last season when Mourinho brought in defensive midfielder Nemanja Matic from Benfica.

The blatant truth is that we will always rely on our rivals to drop points, Simply because we're not good enough to fight our own battles to win the league on our own and the sad part is even when they do drop points, we never seem to capitalise on it....

As the report notes, it comes at a time when Walker is expected to seal his # 50m move to Manchester City, after Tottenham's Premier League rivals finally agreed to match their hefty valuation of the England international.

How can Wenger then claim we are competing for the same trophy when he gave our then rivals the best possible chance of winning the league?

These two communities had long been local baseball rivals, but such rivalries grow most intense in the 12 - year - old year, that final magical season of Little League for boys, when they are young enough to be considered children yet old enough to play the sport at a highly athletic level.

That is a chance we are going to have to take I think but it could also be gopod for Arsenal in the long term because it means that City will not be a rival for Guardiola if he plans to move to the Premier League from Bayern Munich when his current contract expires next summer, which many in football expect.

Arsenal have been plagued by injury problems a lot more than our Premier League rivals in recent years and there is a strong argument that our bad luck on this front has cost the Gunners at least one title win, so we are always concerned about one or more of our stars picking up a knock, especially when they head off on international duty.

Chelsea manager Antonio Conte remained quiet when asked about the controversial decision that happened in the Blues» penalty shoot - out loss to rivals Arsenal, with the Italian wanting his Blues squad to be «focused» ahead of the new Premier League season, as reported by BBC.

If you were looking for a sign of whether all the confidence among us Arsenal fans and the nice things (for a change) said about us in the football media at the minute are an accurate depiction of where the current crop of Gunners stands when compared to our main rivals for the Premier League, including the dreaded Jose Mourinho and his expensively assembled Chelsea team, then you should be encouraged by the words of Arsene Wenger.

Arsenal certainly seem to play better when faced with the different pressure of chasing or getting ourselves out of a bad situation and hopefully our Premier League rivals will also struggle to cope with the role of being favourites and having everything to lose.

It's only delusion when United believe they are «title rivals» with city or when the ever effusive Pochettino arrogantly says Tottenham's «ambition» is the league or champions league and not in the domestic cups (man hasn't won a pin but at Wembley a beggar surely has a choice).

The Gunners don't have a good recent record in the league against their fierce rivals, but they can take confidence from the 1 - 0 win when the two teams met at Wembley in the Community Shield clash last month.

But as they graduate to Super AMOLED level during the winter campaign when Jack Wilshere and Danny Welbeck would have been back and 1 or 2 top quality additions are added to the team by the Boss, the Gunners will totally become unstoppable by any of their title rivals as they cruise home with the Premier League title in May next year.

Their title credentials will be tested at Saturday lunchtime when they travel to Stamford Bridge to face an out - of - form Chelsea side as manager Arsene Wenger looks to record his first ever league victory over his arch rival Jose Mourinho.

We may have beaten them in the Community Shield, when Wenger finally got the better of his fierce rival Jose Mourinho, but we have not won one of the last nine Premier League meetings and that needs to change.

Arsenal can go second in the Premier League table, which would be good for the Gunners of course, because yesterday was one of those strange days when nothing went as planned or as the form guide would lead us to believe, with every single one of our main rivals for the title dropping points, or those who played anyway.

When the Foxes start to lose their grip on the Premier League, you may see a similar post from me, but I don't actually believe they are going to fold like a cheap tent, unlike our North - London rivals.

I really hate when Arsenal fans join our rivals to take shots at the fact that we sold our best players in d past, do nt you get it, we had to do so, so as to be at the very comfortable position we are now, looking back wenger did a remarkable job by keeping the team in the champions league while building a stadium, just ask spurds n chelsea y they so desperately want to upgrade their stadium now.

Whether it was because we lost one of the best players in the side to a Premier League or European rival or because we failed with a transfer bid or perhaps ended up signing an over the hill Swedish midfielder with a bad back when we badly needed a striker, there have been some stinkers.

The English League Cup may be third on the list of domestic competitions in terms of how it's viewed by the elite of the Premier League, but when the giants of the English football pyramid meet up, it's always a good time, especially when you get to watch rivals like Chelsea and Arsenal go head - to - head like they will in the semifinals starting Wednesday.

It was bad enough when the likes of Cesc Fabregas signed for clubs like Barcelona who were not in direct competition with the Gunners, but losing Ashley Cole to Chelsea, Nasri to Man City or perhaps worst of all Robin van Persie was not only painful for the fans because it strengthened a rival while weakening us, thereby making any chance of us winning the Premier League or other domestic trophy smaller.

After last season when Arsenal spent much longer at the top of the Premier League table than any of our big rivals, only faltering in the second half of the season as the injury list ground us down, expectations were naturally high going into this campaign.

Alli had one of the nights of his short career so far this week when he netted a brace to help Tottenham beat Real Madrid 3 - 1 in the Champions League, and will be seen as an important figure for Spurs if they are to overcome old rivals Arsenal.

Let be pragmatic — This is team was good to win the league this year, not because it doesn't have weaknesses but its because our usual direct rivals are struggling and we should have taken advantage like they did when we were struggling to pay the stadium.

A native of Watford, Smith grew up idolizing Arsenal striker Ian Wright while playing for the local boys» team, but when rival parents discovered that the spiky - haired lad scoring all those goals was really a lass, they had her removed from the league.

It does not help our nerves when our Premier League rivals are starting to throw their money around like it is going out of fashion but Le Prof seemed very relaxed as he spoke about it after arriving with the Arsenal squad in Singapore, as reported by Arsenal.com.

No major trophy for 13 years and counting Last time we even saw a QF in the CL was a whopping 7 years ago We almost never challenge for a major trophy Wenger couldn't even get close to winning the league even when all rivals finish below him Wenger keeps picking a weak starting XI, especially for really tough games Wenger loves keeping rubbish players at Arsenal for as long as possible

Man Utd will hope to keep the pressure on rivals Man City at the top of the Premier League table when they take on Huddersfield Town on Saturday.

An incredible end to an incredible Premier League season saw Arsenal make it 21 years in a row that we have finished above our north London rivals Tottenham in the league table and it has sparked wild celebrations and widespread gloating from the Gunners faithful, but when the dust settles will the latest St. Totteringham's day really have any impact on Arsenal and our future aLeague season saw Arsenal make it 21 years in a row that we have finished above our north London rivals Tottenham in the league table and it has sparked wild celebrations and widespread gloating from the Gunners faithful, but when the dust settles will the latest St. Totteringham's day really have any impact on Arsenal and our future aleague table and it has sparked wild celebrations and widespread gloating from the Gunners faithful, but when the dust settles will the latest St. Totteringham's day really have any impact on Arsenal and our future at all?

And when you look at the rest of the Premier League clubs, our main rivals Man City also have seven players out while Man United and Liverpool have more.

There's no denying that the Argentine tactician has done a great job, developing a culture, style of play and bringing youth players through when not being able to compete financially with their Premier League rivals.

It's easy to suggest we're successful when you compare us to Spurs, but when you put the focus on the BEST teams in our league (you know, our supposed rivals) our «success» just doesn't hold up.

There's a pretty big difference between swapping shirts with a player in a Champions League tie and swapping shirts with a former captain of your side, especially when they've just transferred to a rival in quite controversial circumstances.

It was just a couple of years ago when Arsenal spent a lot more time at the top of the Premier League table than any of our rivals but we seemed to crumble when the business end of things began.

Elneny said last week or so that Arsenal can still win the league, it was a stupid thing to say esp then when we go on and lose to our top four rival in a must win game.

Yes I know that it might be a little bit petty and small minded for Arsenal fans to take some pleasure from the suffering of others, but Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain is a former player who showed our club no love or respect when forcing his transfer to our Premier League rivals Liverpool during the summer transfer window, so that makes him fair game in my book.

When they played video messages from players around the league congratulating Brind» Amour, there was mostly polite applause and some booing for rivals.

Despite being quite pleased with the summer transfer window just gone from an Arsenal point of view, even though we are yet to see how the two late signings Lucas Perez and Shkodran Mustafi do in the English Premier League, I was disappointed earlier in the summer when the Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic who was available on a free transfer ended up signing for our EPL rivals Manchester United rather than the Gunners.

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We have been in this position before, of course, like two seasons ago when the Gunners were well beaten at home by Bayern Munich after going out of the FA cup to lower league Blackburn before losing to our north London rivals Tottenham.

And our defence last season was one of the main reasons why the Gunners managed to spend a lot more time on top of the Premier League table than any of our rivals, although we were not there when it mattered.