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Last week The Goon broke exclusive news of Stan Kroenke’s plan to take over Arsenal. Today it has emerged that Alisher Usmanov, the clubs biggest shareholder, has no interest in buying the shares of Lady Nina because, quite frankly she wouldn’t sell to him in a million years. Usmanov has said:

“I haven’t seen her and so far she has not announced that she wants to sell. There is no point in discussing something that doesn’t exist.”

Firstly take everything this mongrel faced criminal says with a ton of salt. Plain and simple Usmanov can’t afford to buy another 50 millions worth of shares because a lot of his money went down with the Russian stock exchange. He lost billions.

You can find his interview here, don’t believe everything he says.

Adebayor has also spoken about the treatment the side got on Sunday and has branded Alonso’s tackle on Cesc as dangerous:

“You can see the tackle on Fábregas before he went off was a little dangerous but there was no card, not even a foul.”

I feel the tackle was 50/50, Cesc came off worse and he is really due a nasty injury, hopefully Guilliem Blague is wrong when he says the injury is worse than first feared:

“there is a real fear that Cesc has torn a cruciate ligament in his right knee – meaning he would face closer to three months, rather than three weeks, on the sidelines.”

I hope he is wrong, he got the information from a Spanish radio station that allegedly spoke to Cesc after the game, hopefully its just the Spanish media playing us.

Solution?

If he is out for a long time we have a problem, who do we play in the middle? Denilson? Nasri? Bischoff? Ramsey? The depth problem is there for all to see, we have Cesc or nothing, no matter how well they played after Ade’s sending off they will not re-create that again, the scenario will not occur at Villa Park on Friday to inspire them like they were inspired on Sunday. Tomorrow i will put forward a list of possibilities that could fill that role taken by Cesc, be sure to return for that as i will try and analyse the situation as well as i can. There should also be much more news on the injury to our captain.

There is also speculation kicking around that Man Citeh’s Elano is set to join on a six month loan deal, with a view to a potential move in the summer, there is something about this rumour that might just be true, a Wengerism. Elano could play in the Champions League as he has only represented Citeh in the UEFA Cup (i think), and there would be no significant money paid out to Citeh, making the finances look good for when they are published.

I think he is pure class, he does not get on well with Mark Hughes but who would? His man management skills are poor and this shows by the Brazillian’s at Citeh all being frozen out. I think it is a possibility.

Wenger ruled out the possibility of moves for Tevez and Arshavin in his own fairly blunt way after the Liverpool game:

“No, no, and no.”

No spin there from Wenger, its a shame he can’t always be that blunt about things, there is also mutterings of an Edu return.

Not gonna happen im afraid.

The title race took another turn today; Chelsea failed to beat Everton meaning its ‘as you were’ before the weekends games, the only difference being Man Utd have an extra game in hand and it looks like they could well take another Premiership Title if they take advantage of this seasons strangeness.

Im going to have news to break of the future of this blog very soon, i can assure you its very positive news and there are changes afoot. I’ll keep you fully posted.

Right, i need sleep.

Til next time, leave me your thoughts on how this place can be improved and your opinions of the latest happenings at this great club.

T’ra

Update: Its bad. 4 months out for Cescy. Its true, been confirmed.