As you will be able to see, the answer was an unequivocal NO to the Spanish Champions. The reply looks as if it was put together by Ivan Gazidis, Peter Hill-Wood and manager Arsene Wenger .

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From this the club’s stance is very clear. Barcelona are scum and The Arsenal will not bow down to an arrogant, law breaking monstrosity of a football club.

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Furthermore, it is ‘understood’ that in order to put one over Arsenal, they shall now tap up Silvestre and will not rest until they have signed him on a multi-million dollar contract that shall see him not only captain Barcelona but enable them to replace the ‘trophies’ that Laporta smashed to tiny bits (which in truth helped him come up with the Silvestre coup – so it wasn’t a lost cause – ed.)

There you have it gooners, one of the biggest coups in the history of football and we’re the lucky few to be able to live through it and tell our future generations. Exciting times these.

In regular, quite not so exciting news, Cesc Fabregas has hailed the return of Tomas Rosicky as that of a new signing saying:

“I think he has done very well and he gives you so many options,  you can see straight away the vision he has, the touch, the class that he plays with. It’s great to have him in the team.”

Which is about right if you ask me, Rosicky’s vision pace and technique are par none, however it remains to be seen wether he’d be able to stay injury free or not. Speaking of injuries, Samir Nasri is all set to make his Arsenal return as well, he’d provide competition for places and also provide us with another option along with squad rotation but where the boss plans to play him is another story.

Right I’d say that’s about enough excitement for you lot for today. Hopefully we’ll have more on the Messi-Silvestre story as it unfolds in the coming few days. Keep your fingers crossed. Happy days ahead.

The Catalan was reportedly heard bellowing: “Cesc turned us down and now those horrible beasts from North London have got their paws on Lio, how dare he have Arsenal in his DNA”.

The story will hit the pressers in the coming days but one does find it ironic that just days after Laporta himself forced midfielder Xavi to claim Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas has Barcelona DNA and will naturally return to the country of his birth whenever they click their fingers.

The transfer is reportedly free as it triggers a clause in Messi’s contract declaring that if his DNA matches any other club he can move there hassle free and without hindrance from the Barcelona hierarchy.

Spanish daily SPORT still insist that Cesc is on his way to the Camp Nou after declaring that when Cesc scored against Blackburn, and appeared to be kissing the Arsenal crest, he was actually SPITTING on it.

A SPORT insider claimed: “I know to all and sundry it may appear that Francesc, the Catalan, was kissing his Arsenal crest but I can assure you that he was in-fact spitting on it, he was showing his ever increasing desire to move to the Barcelona motherland. Of course this reporting has NOT been affected by a rather large deposit of money into my bank account from an associate of Barcelona CF. Oh no.”

Barca football director Txiki Begiristain has reportedly traveled to his local chapel where he is seeking forgiveness from God for all the tapping up he has done, he has recently tried to sign all of Pele’s top 150 living footballers on pre-contracts, regardless of age.

We, at thegoonblog.com, have managed to get our hands on an incriminating picture of Messi signing for Arsenal:

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Shocking revelations from Barca HQ

After years of having to put up with Barcelona trying to steal their finest, it seems Arsenal have pulled off the ultimate coup. It spells the end for Laporta who is currently under sedation and investigation by FIFA for tapping up every footballer known to man.

The latest rumours from the Barca camp are that Titus Bramble has been signed on a pre-contract. but Titus himself has said “I am currently at a big club here at Wigan, why would I want to move to a smaller club in decline? I have not been paid to say this, pwomise”

So there you have it, one of the finest footballers to grace the green fields of football is on their way to Arsenal. The rumours are already starting in Barcelona about Lionel Messi being disillusioned with life at Arsenal.

Who was it that said the Interlull is boring?

As it turns out, the ‘Elephant’ song, as it is being coined in the press, was not sung in the stands at all. It was the ‘Arshavin version’.

It turns out City fans were throwing missiles at our fans throughout the game with Gooners being hit on the head with coins, fans that were arrested were walked through the City fans and spat at. Stewards were also guilty of inciting fans.

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What was the atmosphere like towards Adebayor before the game and up to the point of his scoring?

The atmosphere was full of hatred towards Ade, he copped for plenty of stick, Every touch of the ball the gooners screamed ‘Wa**er’.

Were the Arsenal fans singing that Elephant song?

I heard the Elephant song being song on the concourse on entering the stadium, it was not song out on the stands ( not what i heard).

When the trouble started, what happened and how did the stewards and police react?

After scoring his goal Ade ran towards us there was only 4-5 stewards stood at front of stand, i threw the stool just as he slid to his knees. Lots of fans were streaming down steps towards front when reinforcements of Police and stewards arrived. fans were pushing and jostling with Police and stewards for quite a while after game had restarted. The Stewards were swearing at fans, I was arrested just as Citeh scored their 4 goal i was taken through Citeh fans who spat at me.

After the game did any trouble kick off between fans?

I’m led to believe there was aggro after the game, the police station i was in stared filling up with fans from 1700hrs.

It can be seen on a few video’s that the police had to stop some of the City fans getting to the Arsenal fans…presumably looking to cause trouble, were you aware of this at the time?

The Citeh fans to our right were chucking coins, a chap stood in front of me was struck by a coin also a friend in the upper tier was struck.Apart from that it was more goading by Citeh fans.

What was the reasoning of many of the fans so called ‘abuse’ towards Adebayor? Anger at his treatment of the club? His pre-match comments about the Arsenal fans?

His abuse was borne from his lack of effort last season with his pay rise and flirting with Milan was the main cause, his pre match comments only fulled the flames.
This game was sold out very quickly & tickets were hard to come-by as people wanted to let the c**t know how they felt.

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In other news today you will have seen that Adebayor has issued some sort of warped justification of his celebration last weekend.

He just got stick that players get week in, week out. As you can see above the racist version of the Adebayor song (sung mainly by City fans when he played for us) was not roundly sung in the stands.

Cesc has waded into the row with pictures of his leg cut by Adebayor in a challenge.

This is hopefully the last mention all this will get, I’m fed up of talking about it and quite frankly, Adebayor doesn’t deserve the attention he is currently getting.

Match preview tomorrow, til’ then.

As we already guessed, William Gallas will be out for the season after that accident against Villarreal. It has been confirmed that it is indeed medial knee ligament damage and that is not a few weeks on the sidelines, its months. As it turns out we have also lost Almunia for what looks like three weeks with an ankle injury that was originally sustained from that despicable excuse for a human being…El Hadji Diouf.

Gael Clichy is also going to be on the sidelines for a couple of weeks with a back injury sustained in Tuesday’s game as well…  At this rate Bakary Sagna’s head is going to fall off after the Wigan game whilst Kolo Toure suffers an influx of Gout after next weeks return leg in the Champions League.

Wenger said this at his press conference yesterday:

“Gallas is a quick recoverer but we think he will be short to come back before the end of the season, It’s a big, big blow but that’s where the squad come in. I believe as well we have lost Manuel Almunia for three weeks and we lost Gael Clichy for two weeks with a back problem. We lost three players on Tuesday night so we have to once again rely on the depth in the squad – that is quite strong. As well we have to rely on our mental strength because until now we have dealt well with all our injury problems. Robin van Persie and Eduardo will have tests tomorrow morning. They might be available. And of course we have Andrey Arshavin available for Saturday.”

This could not come at a worse time. We could face Man United potentially FOUR more times this season, add that to two clashes against Chelsea (exc. CL) and a game against Liverpool (exc. CL), it means we need our strongest defence out there. With all due respect to Kolo, Sagna et.al. Gallas is our best defender, he is better than Kolo, better than Bakary, better than Gael, Djourou and Silvestre. Its a massive loss. In my view no player has redeemed himself more this season than Willy Gallas.

Take a look at the oncoming fixtures:

Arsenal know away fans are the most loyal and thus are cashing in on their loyalty by only keeping the current away shirt for a year. Bad PR by the club if you ask me.

Update: They are ‘mock up’s’, they have been created from rumours coming out of Nike saying we are having a green jersey next season. Thanks too a commenter for that.

Anyway, here goes.

A throwback to this shirt.

It makes me feel sick. It really does.

Let me know your thoughts on this new shirt and the money grabbing intentions of our club.

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