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Arsenal is riding high on their fourth place finish last season in the Premiership to remain calm despite their pathetic performance at start of the Premiership. How can Arsene Wenger explain their loss to Manchester City, falling behind eight points of Manchester United and recording their worst top flight campaign in 14 years?

Arsenal surprisingly saw their stars grow faster than expected that helped them sneaked through fourth place on the last day of the competition last season, something we might not be able to see from them unless they get their acts together.

David Beckham is 31 years old, gone are his days of cannon ball shots and his contract with Real Madrid is expiring soon. Should he be extended? Definitely. Should he extend? Definitely.

David Beckham is getting old and a two year extension on what is still looking to become a big money spending for Real Madrid doesn’t make sense, unless he agrees on cheap contract, which I seriously doubt.

Why would Real open their wallets for David Beckham?

David Beckham is still the marketing phenomenal no matter how poor he plays, people love him and Real Madrid cannot let go of someone that generates enough money off his image to pay probably pay half of their team’s salaries. Given that he’s years are coming to end means a lot of fans are storming the stadium to see his final competitions. He isn’t like any superstar who fades as he grows old but the love and admiration of his loyal legions will pay their last respect to the person that occupied their hearts for more than a decade.

The Manchester United legend Roy Keane retired last May and he has never considered coaching or other jobs hinted by his previous club.

Instead, the media is buzzing right now as Niall Quinn who function as the chairman and manager of Sunderland is bent on getting the former player at all cost instead of settling for Martin O’Neill and Sam Allardyce for the managerial position expected to bring salvation to their fate.

Arsene Wenger played a pshychological warfare with Ashley Cole by keeping him out of the Premier League opener sending a message that they are open to transfer him to another team.

About a year ago, Ashley Cole backstabbed Arsenal by talking to Chelsea officials for a possible transfer without the knowledge of his club, though, the deal has not materialized but interest and negotiations between the two clubs have risen following the exclusion of Ashley from the lineup.

Does Arsenal Want to Keep Cole?

They are saying one thing but they are doing the opposite. They have setup a smoke screen to appease Ashley Cole by declaring their willingness to move him and by leaving him out of the team lineup, they are placing more weight on where they stand.

Manchester United cannot screw this season up as massive number of fans has declared their allegiance to the English super power house by chipping in to break record sales for most number of tickets sold in the permiership, which now stands at 67,500.

Manchester is a great team but it’s quite impressive for them to manage outgunning everyone else in ticket sales because of controversies surronding it’s players.

It’s obviously no brainer that Reyes’ denial of his interested transfer to Real Madrid was meant to shut everyone up and appease his club to put him in a better bargaining position. He is no superstar and could not make any Christian Ronaldo type stunt; but accept the fact that he needs to bow down to get decisions in favor of him. Well, you better shut yourself up too, because you are just another card to be dealt with.

Ferguson is lying when he said their parting with their scoring Machine Ruud Van Nistelrooy was “very painful”. He plotted it, wanted it, and drove him out of Old Trafford; but what he doesn’t realize is that the parting with his prized striker is going to get more painful than he thought as the season starts and progress deep into the year.

As Ferguson says: It’s how they react and adapt to being left out that counts. Ruud was different in that way and so that’s what happened.

Van Nistelrooy scored 150 goals for United in 219 games, but was dropped during their final game with Wigan Athletic in favour of France striker Louis Saha.

Carrick was given the number of Manchester legend Roy Keane, 16, who already retired from the games. The number is directly a message telling all fans to expect a legend like future from the 25-year-old former Spur.

Do the club’s expectations a little too high?

But, did they pay more to justify the expectations?

Manchester United made the young player the fifth most expensive signing of the club at £14 million and probably £4.6 million more depending on club’s success this season. The details of
what constitutes success has not been reported but anything less than leadership on standings is considered a failure, I assume.

Patrick Viera is the latest player to be dealt out of Juventus and both Manchester United and Inter Milan are in the hunt for veteran midfielder.

The French midfielder expressed his desire to leave the club and is certain he’s going to leave Juventus because of it’s relegation to Serie B – I will certainly not be playing for Juventus next season after they were relegated to Serie B.