Marouane Chamakh Striker Out Of Champions League Clash With Knee Injury.

Marouane Chamakh has been ruled out of Arsenal's UEFA Champions League clash with Marseille on Tuesday and the 27-year-old striker is likely to be replaced on the bench for the Group F clash by Park Chu-Young after suffering a knee injury to a arsenal boss Arsene Wenger now faces an anxious wait to see how long the Morocco striker is sidelined.

The Chamakh is injured, said Wenger he has a knee problem and is not involved and joining the promising South Korean on the bench will be Thomas Vermaelen as he eases himself back to full fitness.

The Belgian defender suffered a minor calf strain on his return against Bolton and featured late on as a substitute in Arsenal's 5-3 mauling of Chelsea on Saturday and the wenger is also able to welcome back Carl Jenkinson who was named in the squad alongside his defensive partner he added, They will both be available and in the squad tomorrow and i have not picked the team yet so I don't know if they are fit enough to start are they fit enough to play? Yes, of course for a yossi Benayoun is also back in the squad.

International career for a Chamakh is a Moroccan international at the senior level in prior to representing Morocco he played for the under-19 team of France and made his debut on 12 February 2003 in a friendly match against the Czech Republic to that was his only appearance with the team in qualification for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Chamakh scored 3 goals and One of his goals during qualification occurred on 8 October 2010 against Tunisia for he appeared in only 4 matches and scored no goals as Morocco failed to qualify for both the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2010 FIFA World Cup.After going scoreless for 6 months at international level, on 4 June 2011, Chamakh scored the second goal in a 4–0 win over Algeria in qualification for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations.

Barcelona defender Dani Alves

Dani Alves the Media Try To Destabilise Barcelona, Nothing Will Affect Us and the Brazilian full-back has stressed that the Catalans should not let any criticism get to them and insists that he and his team-mates have never doubted their abilities.

Barcelona defender Dani Alves has made it clear that media criticism cannot destabilise the Champions League holders as he feels nothing can affect them and the Catalans' form has been questioned in recent weeks after a goalless draw against Sevilla and a narrow 1-0 win over Granada.

The Alves insists he and his team-mates remain unperturbed as they ignore any negative comments from outside of the club to we have to avoid looking at what's being said about us in the media, because they are usually full of the Alves was quoted as saying by they are trying to destabilise us, but nothing can affect Barca.

We should not give any importance to criticism from the outside world. We have to trust in our potential to the important thing is that we never doubted our own abilities and the barcelona climbed to second place in La Liga following their impressive 5-0 home win over Mallorca on Saturday.

Striker Robert Hall Only Experienced One Defeat In His 10 Games At Oxford And He Recalled By West Ham.

West Ham United have recalled striker Robert Hall from his loan spell at League Two Oxford United and he 18, has been instrumental in Oxford's success this season scoring 6 goals in 10 games for the U's and the U's had wanted to extend his loan stay but West Ham have injury concerns and have asked Hall to return.

Although we are disappointed to see Robbie go at this point, we always knew this was a possibility when taking him on loan said, chairman Kelvin Thomas added, The timing is tough as we had begun discussions on extending his loan for a longer period and there would have been no issue with this without West Ham's injury problems.

The positive is that it is great for Robbie He has come here, played well to scored goals and had that little bit of experience and west Ham are very happy with the way he has been looked after and the way he has played and have taken him back to be involved with the 1st team squad.

West Ham are very happy with the way he has been looked after and says, Kelvin Thomas

Emmanuel Adebayor Has Scored Three Goals For Tottenham This Season And My Time At Man City Was A Headache Says Emmanuel Adebayor.

Emmanuel Adebayor insists he has no regrets about leaving Manchester City and described his time at the club as a "headache" and he joined Tottenham on a season-long loan in August after being frozen out of Roberto Mancini's plans since last December in e told BBC Sport, "I wish them the best of luck do I wish to be part of that team right now? No.

The Mancini's expensively-assembled side have moved to the top of the Premier League in Adebayor's absence, but the former Arsenal striker said he is not missing life at City after quickly settling into his new surroundings in north London and you want to be in a house where you feel comfortable, added the former Togo striker.

Adebayor has scored three goals in 6 games this season to help edge Tottenham closer to the top four and qualification for the Champions League in we have to do everything it takes to go beyond that line, he said, we can achieve that as a goal and the adebayor said he was impressed with the strength of Tottenham's squad and it is not only Rafael Van der Vaart, Luka Modric and Gareth Bale who have caught his eye.

Every morning when you come in you see lots of lads working hard in the gym to be fit for the weekend which is a very good sign, added Adebayor and the tottenham's next game is against Queens Park Rangers on Sunday.

World Cup 2014 qualifying Argentina squad.

Fernando Gago & Ezequiel Lavezzi back in Argentina squad for World Cup 2014 qualifying and the two-time world champions have made several notable changes in the squad selection and one new inclusion as Internacional midfielder Pablo Guinazu makes the grade.

Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella has picked 21 players for the upcoming World Cup 2014 Conmebol qualifying matches against Bolivia and Colombia and his list includes Napoli's Ezequiel Lavezzi and Roma's Fernando Gago who return to the squad after missing the previous qualifiers against Chile and Venezuela.

Goalkeepers:  Mariano Andujar, Sergio Romero

Defenders:  Nicolas Burdisso, Martin Demichelis, Federico Fernández, Luciano Monzon, Marcos Rojo, Pablo Zabaleta

Midfielders:  Ever Banega, Fernando Gago, Pablo Guinazu, Javier Mascherano, Javier Pastore, Jose Sosa

Strikers:  Sergio Aguero, German Denis, Angel Di Maria, Nicolas Gaitan, Gonzalo Higuain, Ezequiel Lavezz, Lionel Messi

Argentina play Bolivia on November 11, and then Colombia four days later.

Carlos Tevez Has Not Played For City Since They Beat Birmingham On 21 September.

Manchester City have cut Carlos Tevez's fine to two weeks wages after the Professional Footballers Association refused to support a four-week penalty and the city found Tevez guilty of refusing to play and four other breaches of contract in a Champions League game against Bayern Munich in September.

The PFA backs Tevez's claim that he merely refused to warm up and said a two-week fine is the maximum allowed a city accused the PFA of a "conflict of interest" in its handling of the case to a city statement said, "Manchester City is disappointed by the apparent PFA conflict of interest evident in this process.

Carlos Tevez has been personally represented throughout by the PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor, on whose considerations the club has been informed that the PFA has made its decision and the manchester City has been in constant dialogue with the PFA since September 28th today's PFA decision is a departure from the club's understanding of that dialogue.

City have been further advised that manager Roberto Mancini's post-match comments in he claimed Tevez had refused to play, could amount to defamation of character and that legal action against him could be forthcoming and he had 14 days to appeal against the misconduct charge and is understood to be considering his legal options.

Brazil and Santos Legend Pele Celebrated His 71st Birthday in London.

Pele celebrates 71st birthday and Premier League is best in Europe, Sylvester Stallone was my toughest opponent & Lionel Messi is an incomplete player and the 'The King' was in the English capital to launch his new sports lifestyle collection, bringing out the stars and a number of eye catching quotes in the process.

Brazil and Santos legend Pele celebrated his 71st birthday in London in typical outspoken style this week hailing the Premier League as Europe's top division branding Lionel Messi an incomplete player and i would love to play with Lionel Messi is an incomplete player because he cannot use his head for also i played football for 20 years and Messi has only played for several years.

Pele was speaking at a special drinks reception held in London's Covent Garden to mark his 71st birthday to a guests including Rio Ferdinand, brother Anton ex-Bayern Munich and Barcelona stalwart Patrick Andersson and Pele's 1970 World Cup opponent Terry Cooper formerly of England and Leeds United and the brazil's leading all-time goalscorer said he was delighted to be in England and hailed the country's top-flight division to the English Premier League is the best league in Europe, better than La Liga.

The Barnes said, Alex is one of the best young players in the English Premier League to he made his debut at the 16 and if he achieves a fraction Pele did he will have a fantastic career for a everyone remembers Pele's Brazil teams from 1957-70 and the World Cup victories of '58, '62 and '70 and Only a few things are memorable from my childhood the Apollo moon landings, Muhammad Ali's boxing fights and Pele on behalf of the PFA, we are delighted to present this award as a symbol of our esteem as a birthday present Pele was presented by PFA Deputy Chief Executive Bobby Barnes and Arsenal youngster Alex Oxlade Chamberlain with a special lifetime award to a 18-carat gold-plated football boot.