Daniel Welbeck INJURY after England Match trouble

Arsenal forward Danny Welbeck has pulled out of the England squad because of a knee injury he suffered in Friday's 4-0 win over Lithuania.
Welbeck sustained the injury in the second half of the victory at Wembley and was replaced in the 77th minute.
The Football Association confirmed on Saturday that Welbeck had been sent back to Arsenal.

The striker will therefore not take part in Tuesday's friendly against Italy in Turin.

The FA also confirmed Raheem Sterling, James Milner and Leighton Baines had been sent back to their clubs.

Liverpool forward Sterling is carrying a toe injury and Manchester City midfielder Milner did not play against Lithuania as he had a knee problem.

Baines has gone back to Everton as Roy Hodgson wants to give Kieran Gibbs his seventh cap in Turin.

The England manager has called up Southampton's Ryan Bertrand as cover for the Arsenal defender.

Hodgson told FA TV: 'We knew we were going to be losing Raheem Sterling who had an injection last night on an on-going injury and hopefully that will help him as we go forward.
'We have a problem with James Milner who had to leave, we decided to let Leighton Baines go home and of course we lost Danny Welbeck who unfortunately picked up a slight knee injury (against Lithuania).
'So those four players won't be with us going forward but it means a chance for the other guys in the squad to show what they can do.
'We are going to bring Ryan Bertrand in because with Leighton Baines gone we are now left with only one recognised left-back which is Kieran Gibbs and we wanted two recognised left-backs for both games.'

Nine players have withdrawn from the squad since it was announced.
Daniel Sturridge, Adam Lallana, Luke Shaw, Fraser Forster and Danny Rose all pulled out through injury last week.
That means Hodgson has just 17 outfield players to choose from for the game against the country that beat England in their World Cup opener in Manaus last June.


Lets hope for the best for our Welbz ! #gunners 

Morgan Schneiderlin is coming for a ARSENAL dream

Southampton midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin has revealed that he's absolutely desperate to play Champions League football next season, rather that watching big matches on the television in midweek.

Schneiderlin has been heavily linked with Arsenal among others over the last 12 months, but despite making it clear he wanted to move on last summer remains a key player in a Saints side that continues to surprise many by battling for European qualification this season.

It looks like Saints will have to finish in the top four against all the odds to keep their French international though, with Schneiderlin insisting he's made the time is right to test himself on Europe's biggest stage.
WENGER WILL READ COMMENTS WITH INTEREST

In an interview with L'Equipe on his future Schneiderlin was asked if his price tag has rocketed in recent times, replying: "It is not for me to set the prices. But it is a reality. In August, I wanted to take a move but the club had lost too many players to agree to sell me.

"Since then I have had discussions with the leaders and I want to play at the highest level: it is important at twenty-five years to finally know the Champions League. Given that, late in the season, Southampton may qualify for the CL and I can stay, who knows. Anyway, I have no desire to be in front of my TV on Tuesday and Wednesday."

So is he coming ?

ARSENAL AND UNITED HAVE TO CONSIDER BID

Schneiderlin's inclusion in the France squad for a marquee friendly against Brazil is an indication of how far the former League One standout has come over the last five years, which is why a desire to play Champions League football is understandable.

The tight race to finish in the top four between now and May could have a massive impact on his long-term future. Arsenal, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur would both surely love to take a player of Schneiderlin's quality this summer, but must get the job done in the Premier League before planning summer transfer activity.

Arsenal in particular could definitely do with a combative, enforcer like Schniederlin who has the ability to both protect the back four and play with confidence higher up the pitch, although United also look short of a similar player to complement Michael Carrick.

Saints are now six points off the top four and despite a superb campaign are likely to just fall short of the top four, which means Schneiderlin is considering his future and its time for potential suitors to do the same.

Arsenal fans, is it finally time for Wenger to sign Schneiderlin this summer? Let us know by having your say in the comment box below!

Mikel Arteta Interview -MY DREAM WAS TO PLAY FOR ARSENAL

This piece first appeared in the Arsenal Magazine in May 2014.
Mikel Arteta looked far calmer than most of an Arsenal persuasion when he stepped up to the spot for his side’s first penalty in the FA Cup semi-final against Wigan.
But his reaction to what followed, an efficient conversion beyond Scott Carson, was telling. Lukasz Fabianski had already saved from Gary Caldwell and it was, crucially, advantage to the Gunners – a fact not lost on the Spaniard, who wheeled away with both arms aloft.
Arsenal’s season had seemed to be on the line, but the prospect of a cup final has shone an altogether more pleasant light on its final weeks after a tricky spring to date.Always honest, impassioned and intelligent, Mikel sat down with the Official Magazine to examine the twists and turns in a typically involving campaign for the men in red and white – and provided an intriguing glimpse of his own future, too.

How have you felt out there on the pitch? You’re 32 now, and are in line to have played over 40 games this season... 
I’ve felt really good throughout the season, but obviously I don’t want to go through games like the Chelsea and Liverpool ones again. That was tough to come to terms with – I’m a very competitive person and when I lose like that my head just blows away. But physically I’ve been fine, I’ve played in the holding role quite a bit and slightly differently when I’ve played along Mathieu. Things have felt okay.

As a senior player, do you feel extra responsibility on your shoulders during tough times? 
Yes, I think you have to try and keep everyone going, to make sure they don’t get downhearted and throw the season away. That was the biggest risk at one point, but we’ve always responded to tough moments in a positive way since I’ve been here and I’m expecting the same reaction between now and the end of the season.

How does your own approach to the game change with age? Do you find it easier to take a step back now? 
The fight to switch off gets harder and harder. I just can’t do it – I have long discussions with my wife every time we have a bad result, and I constantly think about what we can improve, what we did wrong, what happened in the game. I turn it over in my mind a thousand times. It’s because I love the game, love playing football, and along with my family it’s the biggest part of my life. I don’t know how to turn it off. Fortunately my wife only needs to look at me and she knows what I’m thinking!

Looking at where we’re sitting now, and then going right back to the start of your career, would you say that you are where you had hoped and dreamed you’d be when you were 16 or 17? 
When I was younger my dream was always to play for Barcelona. But after that, if you had asked me where I would like to play when I first arrived in the UK, the answer would have been Arsenal – and that’s the truth. The way they played, the team they had, the philosophy of attacking football, they enjoyed playing the way I do and I would have chosen them ahead of any other. Now that I’m here, I feel so proud to be part of this football club. What they’ve done with it, how they’ve managed it and built it up, is unbelievable. We all feel very privileged to be where we are.

But if your career had finished a week ago and we were looking back upon it now, what would your feelings be? 
That I achieved what I wanted to achieve, but with one particular regret – that I haven’t enjoyed it as much as I should have done. And that’s because I always put too much pressure on myself, trying to improve things that are not going well, not just in my own game but other things around the players or the club. I always think that, in five or ten years’ time, I’ll look back and say “Mikel, do you realise you played for Arsenal, you played nice football, you had good coaches, good team-mates, a good life in London?” Maybe I should just enjoy it more, but it’s part of my makeup and it’s what keeps me going.

Thierry Henry once said something similar – that his goal against Leeds two years ago was the first that he’d really been able to savour… 
When you win, you think about the next game straightaway. When you lose, it takes you 48 to 72 hours to digest why it happened, and then you begin thinking about the next game, which is usually just a couple more days away. So I find it difficult to say “I love it” because I’m constantly putting myself under pressure, there’s always a next target or there’s “we won but we didn’t do a certain thing well” nagging away at you. And it’s always like that. But I do know how privileged I am to be in this position. Sometimes I take my kids out onto the Emirates Stadium pitch after a game, and remember that this would have all seemed like a dream when I was as young as them.

We’ve spoken about recent tough times, but what has been the most difficult period of your career so far? 
Probably when I injured my cruciate, in 2009. I was at Everton, and was hitting probably the best form of life. I was so close to getting into the Spain national team, and thought I was going to get a call-up. Then I did my cruciate, my anterior ligament, my meniscus - everything went off. After four and a half months, when I was almost back, I needed more surgery because my meniscus went again, and then I picked up an infection after that, so it went on for 11 months. At some points I was saying “well, I don’t know if I can come back”, because the infection was really bad. But I knew what I had to do.
I went through a lot of pain and many, many hours of rehab - and again, a lot of discussions with my wife, because I was so focused on my recovery that I couldn’t do anything else. Three or four hours after she gave birth to our first baby, I pulled up a treatment table next to her in hospital and had my physio. She wanted to kill me: “You can miss one day!” But my feeling was that no, I couldn’t, it was so important for my knee and I’d lost eight hours already. We laugh about it now, but we had some hard moments back then. I would love to be able to put things more in perspective when they’re not going well, but it’s just the way I approach my job. The positive thing is that, if my boy ends up doing this when he is older, I’m not going to let him be like his dad!

It often seems the case that the most demanding things in life happen at once… 
It’s happened to Theo too, with his new baby. I was talking to him a few weeks back telling him that I’d been through the same thing and that there’ll be some tough moments. You’ll have a baby crying for the whole night and you can’t sleep or rest, but you have to do your rehab at 8am and get to work for 12 hours. But it’s good as well, because it gives you something new, something that is the best thing in the world, to encourage you and motivate you.

It’s little secret that many people see you as management material when you hang up your boots. Is that something you think about? 
My team-mates are always going “What are you going to do Miki? You’re going to be a manager, you should be a manager!” I know what the job means and I know how hard it is, especially when I look at the boss and see how many hours he puts in here. You need to sacrifice your family all over again, which I’ve done since I was 15. But I would love to manage a squad of players and staff – I’ve got it inside me, it’s true, and I want to do it. First of all I want to make the most of my playing career, because I’m 32 and in this game you never know whether you’ll end up carrying on until 34, 35 or 36. After that, I’m certainly going to stay involved in football because I think I’ve got something to add. I would like to prove myself, and prove my ideas about managing and encouraging people to do things in the way I believe is best.

So let’s imagine that you take over Mikel Arteta FC tomorrow: what will the ideas behind it be? 
My philosophy will be clear. I will have everyone 120 per cent committed, that’s the first thing. If not, you don’t play for me. When it’s time to work it’s time to work, and when it’s time to have fun then I’m the first one to do it, but that commitment is vital. Then I want the football to be expressive, entertaining. I cannot have a concept of football where everything is based on the opposition. We have to dictate the game, we have to be the ones taking the initiative, and we have to entertain the people coming to watch us. I’m 100 per cent convinced of those things, and I think I could do it.

Is there any current manager who particularly influences you? 
One is Arsène Wenger, of course - he has a philosophy that he’s never going to change because he really believes in it. That is the most important thing, because if you don’t really believe in something then you’ll just change it after one bad result and drive your players crazy. Another is Pep Guardiola, who I’ve known since I was 15. The way he sees football is always to look ahead, then further ahead, always improving. Then there’s Mauricio Pochettino - he was my captain at PSG and I always knew he would become a manager. He has taken a lot of influence from Marcelo Bielsa, who was his coach with Argentina; they used to talk about things a lot, and now you can see that his teams are really aggressive, both when attacking and defending. He takes a lot of risks, the players enjoy playing with him, his decisions are always sound and he’s got a good personality. I’ve admired Pochettino ever since I was young; he really looked after me when I was at PSG as well.

You mentioned Guardiola’s thirst for innovation, and he showed that when pushing his full-backs into midfield against Manchester United the other week… 
He’s always got a reason for things like that. I look to see managers do something different and add something to the game, not just going out there to be tight and be compact. You can win like this, but I don’t know if your players will really enjoy working that way. I’d want my players to express themselves – you can give them knowledge and ideas about what you want to do, but afterwards you need to leave room for their own ability and creativity. You have to learn from your players, and if you can do that then you can do something new.

Can we go back to something you brought up earlier? You said that your cruciate injury came just as you were pushing for a Spain place – do you think it was pivotal to your not becoming a member of the squad since? 
No, I think what has stopped me is that we’ve had the best generation of midfielders that European football has ever seen in Europe. I know I was very close to going, and I had a phone call from someone saying I was going to get the chance, but it’s part of football. I would love play next to those players one day, but it hasn’t come and I have to accept it because what they’ve got is brilliant.

Chris Smalling will snub Arsenal move for Manchester United contract

Chris Smalling is set to snub a move to Arsenal and pen a new contract with Manchester United, according to the Evening Standard.

The England international's contract at Old Trafford expires at the end of next season, and it had been claimed that Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger was looking at making a move in the summer.

FORM         

The Standard say that Smalling is set to be rewarded for his good form this season with a contract that reflects his newfound status as one of Manchester United's regular starters. Just this morning the Telegraph claimed that Arsenal were lining up a £12 million bid for the defender, hoping to pounce on the doubt over his future. However the Red Devils will tie him down with a long-term deal to avoid that happening as soon as possible.

SIGNING

The Gunners missed out to Manchester United when Smalling left Fulham back in 2010, and it seems the same will happen once again.

Jack Wilshere Back for Liverpool game ?

Arsenal are hopeful Jack Wilshere will be fit to face Liverpool on Easter weekend but he is unlikely to be thrown straight into the starting line-up.
The 23 Yr old has been sidelined for four months after initially suffering ankle ligament damage during Novembers defeat to Man Utd.
Wilshere then underwent a minor operation last month to remove the studs at the end of pins inserted in his ankle to help the ligaments heal but the club have so far been mindful of rusheing him back as they monitor the inflammation.
Its understood that Wilshere has returned to full training with the aim of being named among the substitutes for BPLS clash with Liverpool on Saturday April 4.
Its a little bit risky to put him in the game even but hes integral part of our team and his passing could be helpful for so much wanted victory.We (gunners) wish you all the best JackO ,see you soon on the pitch.
We only can wish him quick recovery in fullest and pray he scores on matchday.

Arsenals Ramsey after Monaco match Interview

"With the amount of chances that we had tonight, the really disappointing thing is that we just couldn't grab one more goal."
"We've always played Bayern Munich, Barcelona and teams like that, and no disrespect to Monaco, but we thought we'd have a real good opportunity of qualifying, but we gave ourselves a tough task to do from the first game."
"We gave ourselves a tough task again but we came here and did a good job, and came really close."
"We still have the FA Cup to go for. We're in a good position in that. There are still going to be twists and turns in the season, so we just have to concentrate on our games and take advantage of the opportunities that are up for grabs."
"Hopefully the other teams slip up. But we're still on course for a successful season. We can still finish second. There's only one point difference and we have nine games left. If we win all of our remaining games, I'm sure that we can achieve that."
"The last few years we've come really close to qualifying for the last eight. I think we're really close to having a really good go in this competition. We've gone to Bayern Munich and won, so we're more than capable of beating anyone on their day."
"It's just a case of being a bit more streetwise over the two games, because that's what has cost us over the last couple of years. We need to learn from our mistakes in the first game. Hopefully we'll get a chance to put that right next year."

My comment on this is :
Aaron is maybe our best player.Hes so positive but ,maybe too real about BPL title chalenge.
Maybe we need more optimism as ''We are 7 points behind Chelsea 7 rounds abrupt the end,maybe we can win this,its about 21 point in game'' OMG Ramsey why didnt you told us that.
I WILL TELL YOU WHY,because we need to be real,we cant do that ,we cant touch Chelsea on first place.

We are good team but my toughts are that we need strong FIRST TEAM striker-not JOKER and strong DM.
Then,in next season we can try to take titles as LEAGUE OF CHAMPION AND BPLEAGUE.

CHIP KESWICK BIOGRAPHY ARSENAL FC CHAIRMAN

Sir John Chippendale "Chips" Lindley Keswick (born 2 February 1940) is a British merchant banker and member of theKeswick family who control Jardine Matheson, founded by William Jardine. On 14 June 2013, he became Chairman of Arsenalfootball club.
EARLY LIFE

Part of the Keswick family business dynasty, he is the son of Sir William Keswick (1903–1990) and Mary Lindley, and the grandson ofHenry Keswick. He was educated at Eton College and the University of Aix-Marseilles.
CAREER

His elder brother Henry and younger brother Simon Keswick are Chairman and Director of Jardine Matheson Holdings.
Keswick was formerly a director of Hambros Bank and colleague of Peter Hill-Wood. He is currently a non-executive director of a number of companies including DeBeers Sa,Investec Bank, Persimmon plc and chairman of Arsenal football club. He replaced Peter Hill-Wood, who stepped down due to health reasons. He has been involved in a number of other business interests as well as serving as a director of the Bank of England since 1993. His father Sir William "Tony" Keswick was also a director of the Bank of England between 1955 and 1973.(See Keswick family)
He has 20 shares in Arsenal representing 0.032% of the Company's issued ordinary shares.
Personal life

He married Lady Sarah Ramsay, daughter of the 16th Earl of Dalhousie, in 1966. They have three sons David, Tobias and Adam.
He is a member of gentleman's clubs White's and the City University Club. He has supported "Business for Sterling", and sat on the board of corporate donors to theConservatives. In December 2013 the Pro-union group Better Together released the names of individuals who have made major donations to their funds, and Keswick was revealed to have donated £23,000 to the campaign.