A quick one to say that Goal.com (sceptical?) have released a yarn saying we are in negotiations with Fiorentina again over Felipe Melo – the only club ‘coming close to his release clause’, which is now set to be diminished with Eboue thrown into the mix.

If true, that’s absolute, pure gold. Nothing short of.

Of course, it is Goal.com. But it’s a tasty rumour, that much can be said.Furthermore, Arseblog has the ‘exclusive’ release of the Michael Owen-style brochure of Adebayor’s agent hawking his client to all and sundry. A great, hilarious read.

That all came in the middle of writing the following – all of which is still important. It’s the beginning of July and that means it’s less than a month to go before the inaugural issue of Third-Gen’s PORTAL is released!

Lots of information can be found on Portal here – of particular interest is the bit on user submissions. PORTAL is about you, the reader, the Arsenal fan, and I want your content!

This can involve anything from featured articles to very short comments on anything to do with Arsenal – who we should sign, what you think of Vermaelen, what Arshavin’s affect on Arsenal has been – anything!

You can submit a rant on your webcam, you can even draw what you feel – heck, anything at all. Send in some video of you and your mates getting blasted in the pub while singing Arsenal chants, or some footage from your mobile phone from the stands as Arsenal scored a goal.

PORTAL’s emphasis is on user generated content as well as editorial features, which means this is as much your eMag as much as the blog’s.

So get writing, get photoing, get taping. Keep the file sizes below 15mb if you can, though if you have something really good worth sharing above this, get in contact with me and we’ll sort something out.

A lot of work has gone into this and particularly over the last few days, things have been progressing nicely. So let people know of the forthcoming release – I hope its something we can all enjoy.

Keep your eyes on the site come the end of July!

Below is a content submission form – if you prefer to do it from your own email client, send the mail to

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