If there was any chance of the Arsenal and England
international midfield star Jack Wilshere shaking off his latest injury problem in time to help the Gunners in the first game of our Premier League campaign then I am sure that Arsene Wenger would have had him in the squad that has gone to Scandinavia for the final two games of pre-season.
It is lucky for the Arsenal fans, Arsene Wenger and especially the Swiss
international midfield star Granit Xhaka that the Gunners were in fine flowing form yesterday, because I can only imagine what the backlash would have been like had Arsenal slipped to another away defeat or even just come back from Goodison Park with only a point.
Once again the England
international midfield star is going to miss the start of a Premier League season, although this time at least it does not appear that he will miss the whole thing as he did last year.
It looks like the Arsenal transfer rumours hitting the football media this week about the Borussia Monchengladbach and Switzerland
international midfield star Granit Xhaka may well have been based on fact rather than the speculative guesswork we see so often during a transfer window.
Whether the Arsenal transfer rumours about the possible sale at the end of the season of the England
international midfield star Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain are true is anyone's guess.
Not necessarily, but that is what the Wales
international midfield star Aaron Ramsey has claimed, according to an Evening Standard report.
It looks like the impatient and increasingly worried ranks of Arsenal fans might not have to wait too much longer before we find out who will be Arsene Wenger's second signing of the summer after the Switzerland
international midfield star Granit Xhaka.
It feels like a very long time since we Arsenal fans were getting excited and optimistic about the summer transfer window to come, with Arsene Wenger setting down an early marker with the big money signing of the Switzerland
international midfield star Granit Xhaka from Borussia Monchengladbach.
Okay the Gunners paid over # 30 million to bring in the Swiss
international midfield star Granit Xhaka from Borussia Monchengladbach and he does look a proper player, but after that we only have a reported # 2 million swoop for the young Bolton centre back Rob Holding and the signing of the unheard of Japanese youngster who is not even allowed to play football in England.
Well Arsenal fans, it now turns out that Arsene Wenger's squad purge which saw quite a few of the Arsenal fringe players leave the Emirates during the summer transfer window could have been even larger, but our England
international midfield star Jack Wilshere turned down the chance to leave Arsenal on transfer deadline day despite being offered a hefty pay packet of around # 90,000 a week according to a report by The Mirror.
Well it might have been a struggle for his national side in general, but at least the Arsenal and Switzerland
international midfield star Granit Xhaka put on a strong performance in his first game of the Euro 2016 tournament and that is good news for the Arsenal fans keen to see what Arsene Wenger has added to the Arsenal squad with his first transfer of the summer.
The Arsenal and England
international midfield star Jack Wilshere will not be having a very happy Christmas.
For weeks and months we have been seeing a lot of Arsenal transfer rumours suggesting that the first deal of the summer for Arsene Wenger could be the capture of the Switzerland
international midfield star Granit Xhaka.
But despite all the rhetoric, our England
international midfield star has had to cope with the frustration of not playing, while the Welshman Ramsey has been one of the main men and right up to the dying minutes of the England v Wales game it was all going right for Rambo.
It would be nice for Arsenal fans if our German
international midfield star was right in what he says about this season's record two legged defeat in the Champions League knockout phase inflicted on us by many of his fellow countrymen.
There were rumours in the football press last week about our England
international midfield star Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain being fed up and frustrated about the lack of contact over a new contract with the club and the latest news is that Arsene Wenger is ready to okay a # 25 million move to Liverpool.
The former Arsenal and England
international midfield star Ray Parlour sounds to me as though he has a lot of sympathy with the frustration that has been boiling over for a large section of Arsenal fans this season, but he also sounds like he thinks we would be wasting our time with the planned protest during the Premier League match against Norwich at the Emirates this weekend.
There are still doubts, apparently, over the fitness of the Arsenal and Germany
international midfield star Mesut Ozil, who has been ill with some bug and has not played for the Gunners since the 5 - 1 drubbing by Bayern Munich in Germany on February 15th.
Arsenal fans have not been too vocal about how much the side was missing the Wales
international midfield star for a lot of the current season, probably because we have not really seen the best from Aaron Ramsey for some time.
Whether or not the on loan Arsenal and England
international midfield star was doing enough to convince Arsene Wenger, or whoever may be the manager of Arsenal at the end of this season, that he deserved to be brought back to the Emirates and given a new contract, we do not know, but we do know that the last thing Jack Wilshere needed was another injury.
When the Arsenal and Egypt
international midfield star Mohamed Elneny headed off to Gabon to meet up with his national team recently for the latest version of the African Cup of Nations, it did not appear to pose too much of a problem for Arsene Wenger.
Once again the Arsenal and Switzerland
international midfield star Granit Xhaka showed the reckless side of his game by launching into a rash, clumsy and fangerous tackle after giving the ball away cheaply and he was punished with yet another red card to make this home game against Burnley a lot tougher than it should have been for the last half an hour.
Unfortunately the Frenchman has revealed on the Arsenal website that our Welsh
international midfield star Aaron Ramsey, who did so well at the Euro 2016 tournament this summer, has not recovered in time from the hamstring injury he picked up in the disappointing defeat at home to Liverpool on the opening day.
The reason for that is the good news reported by The Mirror this week about the imminent return to fitness of our Spanish
international midfield star Santi Cazorla, with Arsene Wenger giving a very positive update on the little magician's road to recovery.
You can not help but feel sorry for the Arsenal and England
international midfield star Jack Wilshere, unless of course you are one of those Tottenham supporting spuds from down the road, or perhaps Jordan Henderson who would probably be the player to miss out if Wilshere had not had to pull out of the latest two England friendly games with a minor injury problem.
A lot of this theory may hinge on how much game time the Arsenal and England
international midfield star Jack Wilshere gets at the upcoming Euro 2016 tournament, and by extension whether the England boss Roy Hodgson decides to play our Jack and our transfer target Jamie Vardy at the same time.
If Arsenal Football club and our record on the return dates of players on the injury list being put back over and over again is to go by, then there is a huge chance that we will not be seeing the Spanish
international midfield star kicking a ball in anger again for the Gunners this season.
Not long ago it appeared that the Arsenal and England
international midfield star would be going on loan to Premier League club AFC Bournemouth, after another EPL club Crystal Palace were previously thought to be winning the race for him.
While it is still very early in the Arsenal career of the Swiss
international midfield star Granit Xhaka, the signs are good so far.
Thierry Henry in the TV studio seemed a touch baffled by Wenger's decision not to start with Xhaka, after the Switzerland
international midfield star was the only big signing of the summer.
It was just a few short years ago when many Arsenal fans, myself included, believed that the Gunners would have gone on to lift the Premier League trophy if it was not for injury problems hitting our squad at just the wrong time, especially the loss of the Wales
international midfield star Aaron Ramsey.
There is a strong feeling that the England
international midfield star Jack Wilshere is going to rescue his Arsenal career and come back to be a first team regular again, as long as this season on loan at AFC Bournemouth sees him play the regular football that all of his injury problems have denied him at his boyhood club, the mighty Arsenal.
From being a massive favourite among Arsenal fans, even when he left the Emirates to return to his boyhood club Barcelona back in 2011, the Spain
international midfield star Cesc Fabregas became persona non grata with Gooners after he came back to the Premier League two years ago to join up with Arsene Wenger's old nemesis Jose Mourinho.
Not exact matches
It was one of the defining moments in the early football career of the Arsenal and England
international midfielder Jack Wilshere, so it would be a fitting time for the unlucky
star to return from his latest injury problem if he could make it back in time for the second leg of our Champions League knockout tie with Barcelona.
According to The Daily
Star, Liverpool were leading the race for Napoli
midfielder Jorginho, but it's claimed that Jose Mourinho has entered the race with United tipped to make a # 50m bid for the Italy
international.
The three Barca boys in question, according to a Metro report, are the Turkey
international Arda Turan, the Spanish
midfielder Denis Suarez and Rafinha, the brother of the Bayern Munich
star Thiago who plays for Spain now while Rafinha chose the country of their birth, Brazil.
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midfielder, according to the Daily
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Despite having Nemanja Matic and Ramires as defensive minded options to partner Fabregas in
midfield, Mourinho seems to want to bring in the experienced German
international who is currently
starring for Joachim Low's side at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
Chelsea
midfielder Eden Hazard believes that Loic Remy can make up for the absence of Diego Costa during the Spanish
international's injury lay - off, reports the Daily
Star.
As we wrote in an earlier post, there is some doubt about whether arsenal will have the Germany
international star Mesut Ozil available for the trip north to face Liverpool at Anfield on Saturday, although the hopes are high that the illness which caused the attacking
midfielder to be sent home from training will not be a long enough issue to stop him playing.
Maybe Arsenal should think about getting a flu jab for our German
international star next season, if he decides to sign a new contract and stay in north London that is, because Mesut Ozil is out of action for the trip to face Liverpool in the Premier League today and it is not the first time that the attacking
midfielder has been unavailable due to illness.
The Arsenal and England
international star Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain may not have had a very good season so far and he still needs to show us a lot more to secure more regular first team football, but after an impressive performance in the centre of
midfield against Sunderland in the FA cup, I reckon he should start against Liverpool at Anfield on Wednesday.
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Strootman is clearly the less «creative» of the pair but the Dutch
international is however perhaps a more rounded
midfield option with the Stadio Olimpico
star capable of getting stuck in whilst also offering a real weapon in the final third.
The Arturo Vidal to Manchester United saga rumbles on, it would seem, with the Daily
Star reporting that the Red Devils are ready to reignite their interest in the Chilean
international midfielder come January by offering playmaker Juan Mata to the Turin giants in a part exchange deal, after the Spaniard was linked with a move to the Old Lady as the burning embers of the summer transfer window were extinguished.
When Roy Hodgson first started using the Arsenal and England
international star Jack Wilshere as his deepest lying
midfielder, a lot of us thought the England boss had lost the plot.
The big news from the current
international break from an Arsenal point of view involves our on - loan
midfield star Jack Wilshere, who has been brought back into the fold by the temporary manager Gareth Southgate after getting some regular game time with his current club AFC Bournemouth.
I am not sure that the Arsenal and France
international striker Olivier Giroud will be thanking his fellow countryman too much for his comments after the win at Sunderland, even though the combative
midfield star was full of praise for Giroud for his attitude as well as his ability.
Because not only have the Gunners made the Southampton and France
international star Morgan Schneiderlin the main transfer target of that central
midfield role, but we have already identified and targeted the player to go for in case the recent rumours suggesting that Man United could hijack our move for Schneiderlin come true.