2nd July 2006:1000 Fans of Arsenal were thrown into dismay as Arsene Wenger left his post as Arsenal manager, fans were outraged at the board and no replacements have been named, although fans were promised that there will be a new maneger to be announced later that day. Although Wenger said he is leaving with a heavy heart, but did not disclose why he did so.
2nd July 2006:2000 Arsenal Football Club have announced that the new manager, to the pleasure of fans, to be their former player, that retired recently: Their Iceman, Dennis Bergkamp. Although Bergkamp has never managed a football club before, Arsenal fans all over the world has said that he deserves a chance.
Unvieling Bergkamp as the manager has turned Arsenal FC upside down for the time being as fans would want to see what he can do and can he carry on the successes of Wenger.
Although he was just appointed, a rest is probably what Bergkamp needed when he starts a new footballing season but this time watching from the sidelines and shouting out instructions.
2 July 2006:1000 Arsenal have agreed to the termination of the contract of youngster Ryan Garry and Goalkeeper Mart Poom.
Garry, 23, have been at the club since the 2001-02 season and Bergkamp did not see him as a possible future for the club, Arsenal FC wishes Garry all the best in the next step of his career.
While Poom joined Arsenal from Sunderland, he was not seen as a long term solution for Bergkamp and was released from his contract
17 July 2006:0700 Arsenal manager have made his first major signing, since the departure of Ashley Cole, the left back position is vacant and injury to Gael Clichy has made Bergkamp sign young leftback from Southampton Gareth Bale for a fee of £1.8m.
18 July 2006:0800 The second signing for Bergkamp came in just 24 hours when Bergkamp signed Wigan leftback Leighton Baines for a fee of £7.5m after Chelsea and Spurs failed to capture the England U-21 leftback's signature and joining Arsenal, he was presented with the number 3 Jersey as the number was vacated by Ashley Cole.
26 July 2006:1000 After contacts were sorted out, Arsenal have agreed to sign youngerster Sherman Cardenas, 16, from Bucaramanga of Colombia and Arsenal will pay £750k for the youngster and he will join the gunners immediatly.
3 August 2006:1500 Arsenal have signed Curtis Davies from West Bromwich Albion for a fee of £8.5m pounds before their match against Hearts for the Champions League Qualifier round 3 1st Leg at The Emirates Stadium, London.
9 August 2006:1945 Arsenal will play Hearts in the opening of the Emirates Stadium and Dennis Bergkamp's first competetive match and he has selected his squad for the match against Hearts.
Arsenal:
Manuel Almunia, Emmanual Eboue, William Gallas (Justin Hyote,62), Kolo Toure, Curtis Davies, Aliaksandr Hleb, Fredrik Ljungberg (Robin Van Persie,62), Gilberto Silva, Francesc Fabregas, Tomas Rosicky, Julio Baptista (Emmanual Adebayor, 45)
Although an Arsenal player did not get the first goal in the Emirates, Arsenal won 3-1 with Baptista scoring 2 goals before hobbling away with a minor knock and Emmanual Adebayor scoring once at the second half.
Arsenal who went down in the 16th min to a Christophe Berra goal and Baptista equalised at the 30th minute and scoring from the penatly spot at the 37th minute gave the gunners the lead, after Arsenal scoring at the 64th minute, Hearts will hope their away goal will help them in the return leg 2 weeks later.
