Kroenke Increases Holdings to 28.7% In Arsenal

Stan Kroenke has moved up his stake in Arsenal to 28.7% after buying another 80 shares at £8,500. He is the largest Stakeholder in the club at the moment and once he reached 29.9% he will then be forced to make an offer for the remaining shares.

This will be interesting to see what happens and we now have another American in play within the EPL. Kroenke already owns a few professional clubs, The Denver Nuggets of the NBA, Colorado Rapids in the MLS and The Colorado Avalanche in the NHL.

Uzbek metals magnate Alisher Usmanov continues to remain at a 25% stake under the company Red & White Holdings. So what will be the next play in this overall battle.

Tune in and see.

Arsenal 2 - 0 Olympiacos

Arsenal proved to be able to handle Zico's plan to pack it in and try to com eout with a 0-0 draw in the end. A few key plays in the second half put a nice ball across to RvP for the first goal and then Arshavin for the second. So in the end no matter how hard you try to pack it in, Arsenal beat you at your game.

Mannone had to make one good save, but outside of that I felt this was really a one sided match with Arseal dominating from the start. The Keeper for Olympiacos made some good saves to keep them sort of in it and Arshavin's goal was offsides, but still three points go to Arsenal.

Theo Walcott played in the reserve match for 60 minutes and looks to maybe be ready to come back to first team action for this weekends match.

A job well done by Arsenal and hopefully we will have our place locked up in the next round after the next two matches.

Arsenal 1 - 0 Fulham - Lucky Lucky Arsenal!

All I will say about this match is that we were very lucky to win and not so sure that we deserved it. RvP put us up 1 Nil but there were some pretty nice saves by Vito Mannone to keep us in the match.

It was really an ugly match and if we continue to play like that we will be luck to finish in the top 5 of the league. I just don't know what's going on with us. We play to the level of the other teams and sometimes we flat out play worse.

Look for a tough mid-week Champions League match at Ashburton Grove against Olymipiacos.

Come On Arsenal!

Arsenal v Fulham - Preview

Well here we go! Arshavin should be back on Saturday along with the possibility of Theo Walcott to come in as well.

Almunia is out with a stomach virus, Nasri leg and Denilson with a back injury. Our 3rd sting keeper looks to once again get a shot at playing. He really scares me, but hopefully he will hold his own and keep in the match with a shut out.

We had a good run last week in beating Wigan 4-0 but lost two matches prior to the Manchesters, so let's keep the streak going to two wins and bring one home in this London Derby!

Come On Arsenal!

International Break is Over! Finally!

Diego Maradona doesn't look so good after his team lost another one to Paraguay last night 0-1. This was the first home loss in WC Qualifying for Argentina since 1993 or something like that. At this point Argentina will most likely still qualify in the 4th position and have a playoff against CONCACAF, so that could potentially be Honuras or Costa Rica. So they will still get in as long as they don't mess it all up.

Hard to believe one of the contries with such a rich tradition of football, is struggling so much. I would say it's more their coach and it's time for Diego to Go.

The USMNT won their match, but were really lucky. They played a really poor performance against T&T and still pulled it off. Right now I don't think the US deserves to be in the WC2010 unless they can get their act together or find a new coach who can get the combo of players right. Bradley has had some questionable line-ups over the past couple months and has really watch a couple people struggle, yet he leaves them in to do nothing all match. I know we went to the Confederation Cup Final, but still, we really showed that we are not ready to compete with Brazil, Italy or all the other top teams of Europe and South America.

A couple of European teams locked in their spots while others still struggle to get their spot. We will be seeing Spain, England, Italy and Holland. So last night we saw a couple of good wins Czech's won 7-0 over San Marino, England 5-1 over Croatia, Germany 4-0 over Azerbaijan and France ended up in a Draw 1-1 with Serbia.

So we have a few more matched coming up in October and then we should have our main spots all filled with a few floating spots to fill in with the playoff matches.

Not sure if Diego will be let back in the country if he loses again, but for now they sit in 4th and still have a good shot at the playoff.

The USMNT will be in WC2010, but if changes aren't made, we will be walking out the door at the end of the first round. Time for Change - let's do it now to prepare the team for a new coach who can lead us to the finals.

Phillippe is Pissed

Senderos is pissed that he didn't secure a move from Arsenal this summer. Hell, I would be too if I had to sit behine Gallas who sucked balls all last year and finally is starting to play knowing the Senderos is challenging him for PT. Personally I like Senderos and with the addition of Vermaelen it's going to make it harder for him. Based on our ability to stay healthy, I would say we have a good chance of seeing Phillipe play sooner than later. Suck it up kid, you are here until winter for sure.

Eduardo got a ban from UEFA for diving to get a penalty. I think if that was a rule around the world we the whole Mexican and Argentinian leagues would be suspended and have no players left on the field. Silly that they are so furious over a stupid thing like a dive. It's part of the game, get on with it.

International break time - not sure what to do without my Arsenal! Well hopefully we see the US and England both qualify for SA2010 World Cup. US really needs a win after blowing the Mexico match. Still Bob Bradlry remains as manager of a mediocre US squad. Time for some young fresh blood in there, get the recruiters out and find us the players we need to get to the WC Finals!

Final Transfers Until January - Nothing New For Arsenal

The transfer window closed today and as we all hoped that Arsenal would prove to spend some of that money they earned for Kolo Toure and Adebayor, it was not to be. Vermaelen was our signing and he has done a good job so far, but we really needed to spend some money on someone to help compliment CESC in the midfield and it didn't happen.

So injuries have already started and we have a long way to go before the next window opens. I just hope we realize that there is a need to have some depth on our team and that right now we are thin in several roles on the field.

Here's the last day breakdown:

1 September

Radanfah Abu Bakr [unattached - Swansea]
Obi Anoruo [Wrexham - Newtown] Loan
Mickael Antoine-Curier [Dundee - Hamilton Academicals]
Adam Barton [Preston - Crawley] Loan
Tal Ben Haim [Manchester City - Portsmouth] Undisclosed
Hameur Bouazza [unattached - Blackpool} Free
Leigh Bromby [Sheffield United - Leeds] Undisclosed
David Button [Tottenham - Crewe]
Mark Brown [Celtic - Kilmarnock] Loan
Sean Canham [Notts County - Hayes & Yeading]
David Carney [Sheffield United - FC Twente] Undisclosed
Danny Collins [Sunderland - Stoke] £2.75m
Dominic Collins [Preston - Crawley] Loan
James Collins [West Ham - Aston Villa] Undisclosed
Jamie Cook [Crawley - Oxford] Undisclosed
Sam Cox [Tottenham - Cheltenham] Loan
Aaron Davies [Nottingham Forest - Brighton] Loan
Claude Davis [unattached - Crystal Palace]
Carlos Edwards [Sunderland - Ipswich] Undisclosed
Abdou El-Kholti [unattached - Hayes & Yeading] Free
Alain Emerson [Crusaders - Dungannon Swifts] Free
Stuart Fleetwood [Charlton - Exeter] Loan
Lewis Haldane [Bristol Rovers - Port Vale] Loan
Johnny Heitinga [Atletico Madrid - Everton] £6m
Luke Holden [Rhyl - Charlton] Loan
Oscar Jansson [Tottenham - Exeter] Loan
Joe Lamplough [unattached - Mansfield] Non-contract
Grant Leadbitter [Sunderland - Ipswich] Undisclosed
Ivan Klasnic [Nantes - Bolton] Loan
Nico Kranjcar [Portsmouth - Tottenham] Undisclosed
Tom Lees [Leeds - Accrington] Loan
Peter Lovenkrands [unattached - Newcastle] Free
Sean Mackle [unattached - Portadown]
John Martin [Linfield - Crusaders] Free
Clayton McDonald [Manchester City - Walsall] Loan
Leon McKenzie [unattached - Charlton] Free
Yassin Moutaouakil [Charlton - Motherwell] Loan
David Nugent [Portsmouth - Burnley] Loan
Darren O'Dea [Celtic - Reading] Loan
Michael Poke [Southampton - Torquay] Free
Kris Renton [Norwich - Brechin] Loan
Jerome Rothen [Paris St Germain - Rangers] Loan
Alvaro Saborio [FC Sion - Bristol City] Loan
Danny Schofield [Yeovil - Millwall] Loan
Ibrahima Sonko [Stoke - Hull City] Loan
Davide Somma [unattached - Leeds] Free
Evander Sno [Ajax - Bristol City] Loan
Blair Sturrock [unattached - Mansfield]
Teemu Tanio [Sunderland - Birmingham] Loan
Borja Valero [West Brom - Real Mallorca] Loan
Ben Watson [Wigan - QPR] Loan
Mike Williamson [Watford - Portsmouth] Undisc
Hassan Yebda [Benfica - Portsmouth] Loan