Arsene Wenger expects to see Cesc Fabregas in an Arsenal shirt on Saturday.

Wenger will check on Fabregas’s fitness today and wants to resolve his future as soon as possible.

Fabregas missed Arsenal’s pre-season trip to the Far East with a hamstring injury and his on-off transfer to Barcelona has become an ugly saga.

But Wenger insists that he now wants Fabregas to be a part of his pre-season preparations with the Arsenal captain’s dream move to Barcelona hanging firmly in the balance.

Wenger and his squad landed back in London yesterday and their next friendly is in Cologne on Saturday which could see Fabregas back in an Arsenal shirt after it seemed certain he would join Barcelona.

“We will have to see how far he is with his injury. But normally, yes,” said Wenger when asked whether he would be involved on Saturday.

“He is not back in full training, he is back running on the pitch and the next step is to be back in full training. I will have to assess him on Monday.

“But of course he is in my plans. The problem is we face speculation from everywhere. But my target is the same, to keep the players and my desire to fight for that is the same.”

Fabregas seemed certain to leave this summer but – for the second summer running – Barcelona have failed to reach agreement with Arsenal.

Wenger does not want to sell but realistically would allow Fabregas to leave if he wants to go and – even more importantly – that the deal is right with Arsenal holding out for £40m.

But, despite Barcelona’s players queuing up to talk about how much they want Fabregas at the Nou Camp, the Spanish giants have been all talk and no action so far.

The saga is in danger of disrupting Wenger’s pre-season preparations and the Arsenal boss admitted last week he wants the matter “closed very quickly.”

Fabregas has also been left in limbo with Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola desperate to sign him while the president Sandro Rosell seemingly less enthusiastic to come up with the cash.

The power struggle at the Nou Camp has meant the transfer is in danger of playing out like last summer when Barcelona seemed likely to get their man but Arsenal drew a line in the sand and resolutely refused to sell.

Wenger, who last week accused Barcelona star Xavi of being “disrespectful” after talking about Fabregas, has also been left deeply annoyed by Roberto Mancini openly talking about his desire to sign Samir Nasri.

The frustration for Wenger is that at the start of Arsenal’s Far East tour he made it clear that Nasri – who only has one year left on his current deal – would be held to his contract and they wanted to keep Fabregas as well.

But despite going public on his stance over Nasri, Wenger was fuming that Manchester City are still publicly courting the French midfielder and the Arsenal boss wants the Premier League to intervene.

Arsenal suspect that Nasri – who has been offered a £90,000-a-week new contract to stay at the Emirates – has been “tapped-up” as City, Manchester United and Inter Milan have all gone for him this summer.

That has turned Nasri’s head and, with Arsenal determined to stay firm, he could leave on a free transfer next summer on a lucrative contract.

Wenger revealed he has spoken to Nasri and insisted he must stay but says it is time other Premier League clubs started respecting the rules when it comes to signing players from rival clubs.

“I have spoken to Samir, of course, because he is in a situation where he has only one year to go,” said Wenger. “But we’ve not spoken about Mancini’s statement.

“Things have changed in England and I believe it is important that we go back to normal behaviour on that front.

“The rules are the rules. They have certainly to be cleaned up, the rules, as well. We will have to see (if the rules have been broken).

“For us, at this period of the season, it is important that give importance to what matters to us. Frankly, it doesn’t take sleep away from me.

“I just think it is surprising that we have to face these kind of comments. You have never heard me say any word about a player.”

Nasri started and impressed in Arsenal’s second and final game in the Far East as they drew 1-1 with Chinese Super League team Greentown. Carlos Vela was on target for the Gunners.

Meanwhile, Arsenal’s unhappy midfielder Denilson – who flew home early from Arsenal’s Far East tour – is returning to Brazil on loan. Fluminese have been chasing Denilson but he is likely to join Sao Paolo.

Posh and Becks named their new arrival Harper Seven after her delivery by Caesarean section in Los Angeles on Sunday.

The unusual name provoked lots of discussion, and David has given his version of how it was chosen in a video posted on his Facebook page.He said: “A lot of thought goes into our children’s names. And Harper was a name that we’ve loved for a long time for a couple of reasons.

“One of them is that Harper is an old English name which we love. And the other reason is that Victoria’s favourite book is To Kill a Mockingbird. The author was Harper Lee.

And Becks revealed there were more reasons for Harper’s surprising middle name than just his England and Manchester United shirt number.

He explained: “A lot of people have just assumed it’s my shirt number, which I wore for many years – and part of it is.

“I had so much luck around wearing that number wearing it for England and Manchester United. It was such an influential number throughout my career and a lucky number. But that wasn’t the main reason.

“The other reason was because it symbolises spiritual perfection. Seven wonders of the world. Seven colours of the rainbow.

“And in many cultures of the world it’s regarded as a lucky number. So we love the name. We love Harper Seven and are very proud of having her in our lives and in our family. It’s an amazing time.”

Harper joins David and Victoria’s three boys Brooklyn, 12, Romeo, eight, and Cruz, six.

And the clearly delighted new dad, 36, is enjoying his family’s expansion.

He said: “We love the name, we love Harper Seven, we’re very proud of having her in our lives, in our family, and it’s an amazing time for our family right now.”

The LA Galaxy ace, 36, said that having a girl in the family was “really incredible”.

He said: “We have three beautiful healthy boys already and are so lucky to have that. And now to have a beautiful girl, having a daughter is a whole new thing.

“Having pink and lilac in the house. You have to be lot more delicate with girls than with boys. I am not used to that so it’s a whole new experience but an amazing one.

“To have that little bundle of joy in your hands and her making her little noises and opening her eyes. It really is an incredible moment for us.”

Posh, 37, welcomed Harper into the world at 7.55am on Sunday.

Speaking on Twitter yesterday, Victoria said: “Baby Harper is the most beautiful baby girl I have ever seen, I have fallen in love all over again.

“We all feel so blessed and the boys love their baby sister so much.”

Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo has got his 10 millionth Facebook fan, which makes him the first non-American to win so many pals on the social website.

The Portuguese Real Madrid ace has got 6.5million fans more than David Beckham.

But Ronaldo, 25, trails far behind Lady Gaga, who has 15million “friends” – the most for a living celeb. The closest British contender is football icon Becks with just over 3.5million.

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Netherlands Celebrations

Netherlands , finally go through the FIFA World Cup™ Final last night. People were not expecting such a semi-final from Uruguay side but they have played well with so much strong heart. 

Germany will take on Spain in the second semi-final in Durban this evening in a repeat of the UEFA EURO 2008 final. The Spanish prevailed then but no team has looked more impressive so far in South Africa than the Germans, who put four past England in the Round of 16 and then dished out similar treatment to Argentina in the quarter-finals. Their upcoming opponents did not look quite as impressive in disposing of Portugal and Paraguay in the same rounds, the European champions edging through on both occasions thanks to opportunistic strikes by striker David Villa.

Netherlands vs Uruguay Goals

Semi-Final Stage

Table has just turned around towards Europeans , 3 Euro teams qualified for Semi-Finals [  Germany , Spain and Holland ] whereas, just one team of  South – America  [ Uruguay ]  came into Semi-Finals leaving behind big giants Argentina and Brazil.

Germany Match really hit Argentinians badly by 4 – Nill , in reaction to this Maradona got frustrated and engaged offensively with German Fans.

Lets see , what would happen in Semi-Finals.

Quarter Final Positions

Round 16 was bit of , sorted expect of few matches , from which one of the favorites fell ( Portugal ). Now , hopeful for the quarter finals, which is bit unsatisfactory combinations too early in the event. Germany vs Argentina and Holland vs Brazil, which might seems like semi-finals. However, this would be great to witness such matches.

Which team do you support ?

FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 Round 16

FIFA is now towards sensational turn , Round 16. Some of the very amazing combinations of matches comes too early in this tournament where , Germany would face England.

Portugal vs Spain and Argentina vs Mexico. These combinations , early in the world Cup will electrify the whole tournament. Talking about the Germany and England , in this tournament might be Germany is slightly up a head of England. However, you cannot predict such matches.

FIFA 15th June Summary

FIFA World Cup 2010 , is just to be burning in South Africa . 15th June summary , 6 teams step into the ground with hope and courage to bring up their victory. However, New Zealand and Slovakia  ties 1:1. whereas , Portuguese disappointed by their big team , with the shine of Christiano Ronaldo unable to achieve a single goal against ‘ Republic of Côte d’Ivoire ‘ .

North Korean Team

In the last match of the day , first time appearance of North-Korean team amazed Brazilians by their defensive skills . North Koreans stood like a wall against them . However, match ends with Brazil  2 :  1 North Korea.

How do you find this World Cup , and which team could make up to the finals in your opinion. Keep visiting Jago News to get the FIFA World Cup 2010 updates.

England’s head coach revealed on Friday that he had felt the need this week to remind the Manchester United striker of the importance of staying on the pitch and avoiding a suspension that could be fatal to England’s campaign.

“Rooney played all the qualification matches and he had no problem with the referee,” Capello told a press conference on the eve of England’s group C opener against the United States. I hope it will be the same Rooney in the World Cup. I spoke with him. He is a fantastic player because he wants to win and the hunger in him is really, really strong. But in this World Cup we have to be careful and respect the referees.”

Concern over Rooney’s temperament has been an ever-present theme for England since the striker was sent off in their quarter-final defeat by Portugal four years ago. The subject has been reignited by his booking for dissent in the squad’s final warm-up match, against local club Platinum Stars here on Monday.

Capello admitted that Saturday’s encounter with a resilient, well-organised United States side would test his players’ nerve, but expressed confidence they were ready for the test.

Battle Begins

South Africa and Mexico , honored with the opening Match , to get glorious while being in the finals. While playing so efficiently , unfortunately South Africans being restricted at just 1 goal against Mexican one goal.

So , the match ends with just 1 All. However, Slide show is just you can have.

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