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After their 4-0 humiliation by AC Milan on Wednesday, Arsène Wenger took the unprecedented step of openly criticising his players. The Frenchman, who in the past has usually resorted to smokescreens to detract from his own side's shortcomings, offered no such refuge to his charges at San Siro. "It was one of those nights you never forget," said Wenger, whose side are now 26.0 to pull off a miracle in the return leg against the Italian champions. "It was our worst performance in Europe by far. We were punished and deservedly so. I felt we were never in the game. We were very poor offensively and defensively. It was shocking to see how we were beaten everywhere. There was not one moment in the 90 minutes when we were really in the game. The result is a disaster." It was refreshing ...

"You can spend money and still have a bad team," said Arsène Wenger, after Saturday's 2-0 defeat by Liverpool, and indeed the Gunners' opponents yesterday are a classic case of a club that in recent times have fallen precisely into that category. The problem is that if he doesn't spend, Wenger will still a bad team - or certainly not one that is not up to finishing in the top four (you can lay that finishing position at 2.4) let alone win the title 21.0. The Frenchman is being attacked from all quarters at present for his side's disappointing start to the season - and before we all jump on to the anti-Wenger bandwagon it should be remembered that the season is only two matches old. Alarmingly, though, this is the first time in 42 years that the Gunners have not so much as scored in ...

[b]The Gunners have reached an agreement with Barcelona over the sale of Cesc Fabregas, however they haven't left themselves with much time to reinvest the money received.[/b] As strange as it sounds,[b] Arsenal[/b] supporters won't be too distraught about the departure of their captain [b]Cesc Fabregas[/b] to Barcelona, which looks closer than ever with the clubs striking a deal and the midfielder in Spain for a medical. They will have known all summer that the homesick World Cup winner was likely to leave and their main concern isn't so much about who is going, but whether those players will be replaced, with that frustration apparent in fresh chants of "spend some f****** money" at [b]Newcastle[/b] on Saturday. Far more worrying is the prospect of [b]Samir Nasri[/b] following...

[b]The Cesc Fabregas saga appears to have finally come to an end while Samir Nasri also looks to be following the Spaniard out of the door. Betfair's football ambassador Lee Dixon fears for Arsenal's top four chances as a consequence...[/b] I've tried to look at the whole affair from slightly different perspectives and they generate different sentiments. As a former [b]Arsenal[/b] player it's obviously disappointing that the skipper and talisman has moved on because of all the different qualities he brought to the squad. As a neutral I can't say that the outcome has surprised me one bit. He's been at the club for almost a decade and we've known all along that he's always had this desire to return to his hometown club at some stage. As a pundit I'm actually slightly relieved that...

[b]After more than a decade of Top Four finishes, this could be the season that poor defending really catches up with them and allows a well-balanced and well-led Liverpool team to pip Arsene Wenger's side for fourth place.[/b] In my preview of the winner market I hinted that I thought the Premier League title was very much a three-horse race with [b]Manchester United[/b] my tip to finish top of the pile. Manchester City and Chelsea are hard to split as regards who will come second; it may well go down to the wire as regards who wins that particular battle. But we'll leave the prices on United (1.08), Chelsea (1.19) and Manchester City (1.27) alone as we go in search of bigger odds. So the tougher question is who will grab that priceless fourth spot which gives you access to...

The North London derby isn't a fixture that really needs the ante upped, but with Tottenham needing a win to draw level on points with fourth placed Manchester City and Arsenal after an away victory to keep in touch with Manchester United at the top of the league, this encounter is likely to be even more keenly fought than normal. Harry Redknapp is without the injured Alan Hutton, Ledley King, Wilson Palacios and Jonathan Woodgate, but Steven Pienaar could return after a period out with a groin strain. Peter Crouch is also available again having been suspended for the Champions League game against Real Madrid. Arsenal are likely to have Manuel Almunia, Denilson, Bacary Sagna and Thomas Vermaelen missing with injury, but Alex Song should start after featuring as a substitute against...

Only last week Arsène Wenger was speaking about the importance of holding on to a winning position. "A draw in this league punishes you," he said, before Arsenal's fortuitous 2-1 win against Everton. Not four days later his side threw away a four-goal lead at Newcastle which resulted in draw that was backed at 490.00 on Betfair. The temptation here is to criticise Arsenal's supine rearguard for crumbling under the pressure once again. After all, the Gunners' back-line is widely accepted as their Achilles heel and the fact that they became the first side in the history of the Premier League to lose a four-goal lead would appear to support this conviction. However, every performance should be judged on its own merit and on this occasion the main reason Arsenal - 3.9 to win the leagu...