Football: Arsenal Transfer Rumors
Now that Arsenal's season is all but lost without any silverware, the only thing to look forward to for the next couple of months it the transfer rumors that are linked with Arsenal. 
Recently there has been some transfer rumors linking Alexander Hleb to Inter Milan. Alexander Hleb still has 2 years left in his contract and Arsene Wenger doesn't want to sell him. Wenger says, he will report Inter Milan to Fifa about how they approached Alex Hleb.
Mathieu Flamini might leave Arsenal as his contract is up this summer and he still hasn't signed a new deal with Arsenal. He is currently linked with a move to AC Milan. I think that is a very bad move on his part. He won't be as good as he is at Arsenal as it is the style of play and the players around him that makes him what he is at Arsenal. Well he has until this Monday at the most to sign a new contract with Arsenal.
The most recent rumors in the transfer market that are linked with Arsenal is Barcelona and Francesc Fabregas. It is rediculous. Arsene Wenger will never sell Fabregas, well not in the near future.Barcelona are planning an audacious £30m bid for Arsenal's Spanish midfielder Cesc Fabregas. The Catalan club may offer Samuel Eto'o, Deco, Eidur Gudjohnsen or former Gunner Thierry Henry in a part-exchange deal. (Daily Star)
That is a bit flattering but that is not going to happen. Fabregas is an integral part of Arsenal and Wenger won't sell the teams engine.
Another player that is linked to Arsenal but this time, coming to Arsenal is David Villa. I would like nothing more than to see David Villa at Arsenal next season but Real Madrid has reportedly made an offer to Valencia worth £24m. Tottenham has also shown interest in David Villa but the player has come out and said he won't play for the spuds. The most likely team he would join in England is Arsenal if Wenger can cough up some cash for him.Tottenham look set to miss out on Valencia striker David Villa as Real Madrid have made a £24m bid for the Spain international.
Lets see what happens. Arsenal Wenger Plz bring David Villa to Arsenal next season, we need a striker of his capacity.
Football: Arsenal lost their first game
Last week, Arsenal lost their first match this season in the Barklays Premier League. The match was played against Middlesbrough. This was an away match but Arsenal have been playing well away from home too but in this match most of the vital first team players were injured. Middlesbrough managed to score an early goal thanks to the eagerness of Manual Almunia to come out of his post and making Kolo Toure to foul him as a consequence. A penalty was awarded and Steward Downing scored from it. Middlesbrough were ahead in just 4 minites of the start.
Arsenal didn't perform well at all and they looked a bid jaded because of the busy schedule before Christmas and also don't forget, Francesc Fabregas, Matheu Flamini, Robin Van Persie and Alexander Hleb were not even on the bench because of the injuries. Middlesbrough were two goals ahead in the seventy fourth minute thanks to the goal of Tuncay Sanli. This has to be Arsenal's worst performance this season till today. Arsenal managed to score a consolation goal in injury time. That was the best move Arsenal made in the whole match. A great one touch passing move from the left led to Tomas Rosicky scoring a consolation goal. You can read Middlesbrough 2-1 Arsenal match report here.
Football: UEFA Champion's league wednusday's match
Liverpool has to win all their remaining games qualify to the UEFA champion's league knock our round. Liverpool got one step closer to qualify for the UEFA Champion's league knock out round after beating FC Porto. Still Liverpool aren't out of the jam yet, they still could be thrown out the competition in the league stage. If Liverpool want their destiny in their own hands, they need to win the last match of the UEFA Champion's League group stage.
Liverpool won 4-1 against FC Porto. Liverpool's star striker, Fernando Torres was the most influential player in the pitch and he started the the scoring for liverpool. He could have got a hat-trick but still two goals in a Champion's League match is no joke.
Looking at other Champion's League matches, Chelsea won against Rosenborg by 4 goals to nil. The Scottish team Celtic played against Shakhtar Donetsk. The result at the final whistle of the match was Celtic 2-1 Shakhtar Donetsk.All the top teams have secured their place in the knock out round accept Liverpool and Lyon.
Football: UEFA Champion's league Tuesday's match
The UEFA Champion's league group stage match is almost over and some teams have already qualified to go to the knockout round. Arsenal have already qualified for the UEFA champion's league knock out round before they played Sevilla yesterday. Lyon had to play Barcelona and they needed some points from that match as they haven't yet qualified. Lyon might still slip up in their last match. Manchester United played Sporting Lisbon and they looked like they would loose the match if you had looked at the half time scoreline.
Sporting Lisbon were leading with one goal against Manchester United but the lead didn't last long as the very influential Carlos Tevez scored the equalising goal by deflecting in Christiano Ronaldo's long ranged shot. Then in the last minutes of the match, Christiano Ronaldo scored the winning goal for Manchester United. Manchester United are through to the UEFA champion's league knock out round. 
Arsenal were already guaranteed a place in the knock out round before Arsenal played Sevilla. Arsenal had already beat Sevilla by three goals to nil when Arsenal played them at the emirates Stadium. Arsene Wenger made some changes to his team and played some young players. Arsenal took the lead with the help of Eduardo Silva, the new arsene wenger signing who scored a good goal in the twelfth minute. But they failed to win it as Sevilla scored three more goals to win it 2-1 at the end.
Other full time results are as follows:
Group E
Lyon 2-2 Barcelona
VfB Stuttgart 3-2 Rangers
Group F
Dynamo Kiev 1-4 Roma
Man Utd 2-1 Sporting
Group G
CSKA Moscow 0-1 PSV
Inter Milan 2-0 Fenerbahce
Group H
Sevilla 3-1 Arsenal
Steaua Bucharest 1-1 Slavia Prague
UEFA Champion's League: First round of group stage matches concludes
A great start to the UEFA champion's league group stage first round. Not all the clubs got the desired result. Chelsea were the big losers as they lost a game where they should have secured all three points. Rosenborg are not a great site compared to chelsea. Liverpool also had a poor result but they were down to ten men after Jermaine Pennant was shown his second yellow card. Well if you consider that, Liverpool would be happy to get one point away from home with just ten men.
The team I support, Arsenal got a great start to their UEFA Champion's League campaign beating Sevilla 3-0 comfortably. Arsenal are the form team right now and the spirit that Arsenal are showing this season is just great. I hope this form continues to the end of the season. Well maybe thats just too much positive thinking. All teams have a bad patch at one point or another in the whole season.
Barcelona vs Lyon was another match to watch and it didn't disappoint at all. A very positive display by Barcelona. Lyon didn't show much and the whole game was dominated by Barcelona. Barcelona score three goals with no reply by Lyon. First goal Lyon conceded was an own goal but other two were not. The third and final goal of the match was scored by Thierry Henry. Manchester United played against Sporting Lisbon and won 1-0. So a good result for all the top teams on the second day of the champion's league group stage match.
Football : Thierry Henry exits Arsenal
After a long and prosperous career with Arsenal, Thierry Henry, Arsenal's hit man who struck fear into opponents heart will no longer play in the English Premier League. After a very disappointing season in 2006/2007 with Arsenal, Thierry Henry has decided to leave Arsenal and sign a four year deal with Barcelona.Arsenal met Barcelona in the 2006 UEFA Champion's League finals and lost. After that, there was some speculation of Thierry Henry leaving for Barcelona but he decided to sign a four year contract with Arsenal and end his career at the Emirates Stadium. 
But that was not to happen because of some situation regarding the club. But I think that was only an excuse to leave Arsenal as Thierry Henry want to win the Champion's League before he retires and there is not a lot of hope of Arsenal wining the UEFA Champion's League any time soon.
This season , Thierry Henry was injured most of the time and only played about 20 game the whole season. This was due to a jam packed 2005/2006 season. Thierry Henry played a lot of games that season and reached the Champion's League final stage but lost. And just a couple of weeks later he played in the 2006 World Cup and again reached the World Cup final and lot to Italy. 
Arsenal agreed a free of £16.1 million for the transfer of Arsenal's captain and the record breaking goal scorer, Thierry Henry which I think is a bad deal for Arsenal. Even Daren Bent costs £17 million, how come Arsenal sold Thierry Henry for just a mere 16 million.
I am a huge Arsenal fan and I would have love to see Thierry Henry finish his career at Arsenal like Denis Bergkamp but as we all know , Henry has transferred to Barcelona. Arsenal is in a state of panic, well the Arsenal fans are. There is only one year left in Arsene Wenger's contract and that has increased the tensions. Wenger said that he will only thing about the contract after it ends and the press are saying that he will follow Thierry Henry's lead and leave Arsenal. That would be a huge, I mean massive blow to all Arsenal. A lot bigger than Thierry Henry leaving. I just hope that Arsene Wenger extends his contract. If Arsene Wenger leaves next season, Arsenal will be in a real state of turmoil then. Wenger won't be leaving this season for sure as he has always honored his contract and he still has a year left in the contract. We will not know what Arsene Wenger's decision will be until the end of next season.
UEFA Champion's League Highlight : Manchester United vs AC Milan first leg
Manchester United and AC Milan played the first leg of the UEFA Champion's League at Old Trafford ( Manchester United's home ground). It was a great display of individual skills by both teams but especially from AC Milan's attacking player, Kaka. The match ended Manchester United 3-2 AC Milan . Both teams has some advantage going into the next leg at the San Siro ( AC Milan's home ground). AC Milan had two vital away goals even though they lost this match and Manchester United were leading AC Milan by one goal. Well watch the video I embedded below to watch the highlights of the UEFA Champion's League Semi-final first leg between Manchester United and AC Milan.
Highlights: Liverpool 3-0 PSV Eindhoven
This was a great result for Liverpool.You can't ask more .Three away goals is a huge advantage for Liverpool.PSV Eindhoven were lucky not to conceed any more goals.PSV are as good as knocked out of this competition unless they can pull out a miracle like Gerrard usually does.I don't think that will happen.First goal was struck by who else but Steven Gerrard.He opened the scoring for Liverpool at about 27th minute of the match.The second goal was a howler by Jon Arne Risse .And the game was capped up by a goal from Peter Crouch.If you missed the match, you can watch the Liverpool vs PSV Eindhoven highlights below.
.Liverpool might be peaking at the right time .They also managed to beat Arsenal last week end.The score for that game was Arsenal 1-4 Liverpool.
King Thierry Henry
Thierry Henry is the finest striker today and has been for a good number of years.
He plays for Arsenal football club and he has broken all the goalscoring record set by the legends at Arsenal.He is unfortunate not to get fifa player of the year for a number of years now.He has been the best striker in the world for the last six years and he deserves a fifa award.He has got the EPL player of the year award for the past four years straight so why don't fifa pick him as the world's best player?I hope Thierry Henry gets a FIFA player of the year award before he retires.
Here is some brief description on how he came to be at Arsenal.Thierry Henry came from Monaco to Arsenal for a very low transfer price.But he proved to be a diamond in the rough as Arsene Wenger moulded him to the striker he is now.Before he was ar Monaco ,Thierry Henry played for Juventus for a brief period of time.
He is my favorite player.
The great Arsenal and king Henry
I have another blog related to football specially Arsenal football club.I have been watching them play for about 5 6 years now.The first thing that made me look at Arsenal was the goals Thierry Henry scored which I watch on football highlights on tv.The way he scored the goals just pulled me closer and closer to football.Before that I did not watch much football.Thierry Henry was not like any other striker ,he was very calculating and a great finisher.After watching his goals on tv ,I started watching him play.Suddenly I was introduced to the magnificent style of play that Arsenal used.It was so flowing and mesmerizing to my eyes.When I started watching football ,all the talk was about Manchester United but I was just drawn to Arsenal as if a moth to the flames.After that happened ,I have never missed a match they played .And this year they are playing even better football that they did in the past years.I do not plan on missing any match they play till the day I die.
Ronaldinho's tricks
Man I could not believe my eyes when I watched this video .I was socked because it is just so amazing .I can't even imagine how he did that.Ronaldinho is a genius and there is no two ways about it.He must have practiced a lot lot lot ...
Well if you have not seen it do not worry I have search and embedded that video for you to enjoy and get shocked.This video is about 3 minutes long and it will take long time to load if you have a dial up internet connection.Do not even bother if you have a dialup because the load time will surely frustrate you.
Well what did you think?were you socked as I was? Are you as shell shocked as I was?
