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• Gunners aren't good enough, insists German
• 'Football is not playing nice passes.
Football is winning games'

Michael Ballack has said the championship is now between only Chelsea and Manchester United, and has told Arsène Wenger to stop making excuses for Arsenal's inability to win crucial games against their title rivals.

The Germany midfielder branded Arsenal too predictable, and said it may be impossible for the club to ever win anything – their last trophy was the FA Cup, five years ago – unless Wenger is able to make the team more tactically flexible.
Arsenal now sit third in the league following their 2-0 defeat on Sunday, nine points behind Chelsea, who lead United by two points.

Ballack was clear when asked if the Premier League has become a two-horse race.
"It looks like it," he said.
"It's a race between Manchester United and us.
But as I said a few weeks ago, it can go quickly that somebody drops points.
But at the moment it looks like it's down to the two of us."

Responding to Wenger's comments that he believed the best team had lost, Ballack was dismissive.
"I think he always says this when he loses.
When he loses he always finds an excuse.

"But football is not possession on the ball or playing nice passes.
Good football is winning games and that's what we do when we play against them.
We deserved the win because we played very effectively.
It was how we wanted to play before the game.
It was our strategy.
Maybe in the second half we concentrated a bit too much on defending but if you're 2-0 up you can do this.

"For me good football is a mix of winning, successful football, mental strength, good football technically and also physically.
I think we have a good mix in the team and we have done this all season.
We can't do more.
First in the table."

An ongoing criticism of Arsenal under Wenger is that the team is unable to switch tactics from its free-flowing, passing style, and is also unable to deal with more muscular opponents.

Ballack confirmed that Carlo Ancelotti, the Chelsea manager, had focused on this.
He said: "We want to do our job.
We knew the way they would play – we saw it in the first game we played against them [when Chelsea won 3-0 at the Emirates in November] and in the way they played against Manchester United last week [when Arsenal lost 3-1].
It is always the same style.
If you get your tactics right like we did today I think you can beat them.
That's what we did."

Ballack, who also echoed Didier Drogba's support for John Terry after his loss of the England captaincy, was asked directly if Arsenal would ever win anything playing with their current style.
"This season and the [last] season they didn't show they were able to win the league," he said.

The 33-year-old explained why he feels Chelsea are able to challenge for major honours.
"We have a lot of big-game players and big characters at Chelsea.
That is why we are a good team and it's really great to be part of this club," he said.
"Everybody fights for everybody, there is good spirit and good experience in the group, we've had a few years together and there is a lot of personal quality among the players.
Even if we don't play a fantastic game we have a few players who can decide a game with one action."

Ballack gave particular praise to Drogba, who scored both of Chelsea's goals against Arsenal.
The striker now has 12 in 12 games against Wenger's team.
"He is such an important player for us.
In big games like this he is always there.
That's why he is such a big player," said Ballack.
"Two fantastic goals, the second was a great one.

"He's a very individual type.
The way he plays he's a different type compared to [Wayne] Rooney or [Andrey] Arshavin.
He has unbelievable physical strength combined with technical finishing.
He has a lot of qualities and not a lot of players have this.
It is much better to playing with him than against him."

• Indian billionaires seeking 51% stake in Anfield club
• Ambani owns IPL cricket team the Mumbai Indians

Two Indian business tycoons were reported last night to be lining up attempts to take control of Liverpool.
Mukesh Ambani and Subrata Roy were said to be willing to pay off the club's £237m debt in return for a 51% stake in the club, according to The Times.

Ambani is India's wealthiest person with a fortune valued at about $20bn.
He is the chairman of India's Reliance Industries and owns the Mumbai Indians cricket team.
Roy, chairman of the Sahara Group, which sponsors the India cricket team, is also a billionaire.

Liverpool's co-owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, have been searching for fresh investment for some time but they are not thought to want to sell more than 50% of the club's shares.

They have been seeking investment of £100m for a minority stake in the club.
The Americans have been ordered by the Royal Bank of Scotland to reduce Anfield's debt by £100m before July.

The Times claim that Roy's interest appeared to be the more serious.
It reported that Liverpool's chief executive, Christian Purslow, had denied knowledge of a bid but the paper said the pair had made approaches in November and that discussions had been held.
However, this morning a spokesman for Ambani denied he is interested in any taking over the Merseyside club.
"There is no truth to the report.
We deny it completely," said Sudeep Purkayastha, from Reliance.

There is also said to be interest from the United States and from a Saudi Arabian consortium.

Hicks and Gillett are under pressure from supporters to sell.
They took over in February 2007 but have not so far delivered on a project designed to deliver a new stadium and have provided the manager, Rafael Benítez, with little in the way of transfer funds for this season.
Maxi Rodríguez was the only January signing.

• 'It'll be Armageddon if we go down - worse than Newcastle'
• Pay reductions reported to amount to 25% of salaries

The West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has revealed that players and management staff will be asked to take a salary cut even if the club avoids relegation from the Premier League and has warned that it will be "Armageddon" if the Londoners go down.

"Everyone will be asked to take a cut this summer," Sullivan told the Sun, which reported that the pay reductions would amount to 25% of their salaries.

High earners such as Scott Parker and Kieron Dyer, who reportedly take home around £65,000-a-week are among those who may be affected, as well as the England defender Matthew Upson.

The full scale of the financial crisis at Upton Park is made clear in documents which the paper claims reveal the club owes £15m to other teams in outstanding fees for its current squad assembled for a costly £75m.

"It'll be Armageddon if we go down.
It'll be worse than what's gone on at Newcastle," said Sullivan.
"I can't believe the contracts I've inherited.
Every position is overpaid, whether in administration or on the playing side.
All are earning more than they would at other clubs.

"We have made cutbacks already but may have to make another 20 or 30 people redundant by the summer.
We have already had people in senior positions offer to take a voluntary 25% reduction to keep their jobs.
It's been gratefully accepted.
If someone is doing a good job but is overpaid you still want to keep them.
But many people at the training ground should take a voluntary pay cut.
There's an army of people supporting the first team.
Everyone at the club will be asked to take a salary cut in the summer.
The club is in a mess and we all have to pull together.
If we go down I can't even consider the situation."

West Ham, two places off the bottom, face Sullivan and David Gold's former club Birmingham City at Upton Park tomorrow evening.
Gold has said he hopes his new club "whack" Alex McLeish's side.

"I was at Birmingham City for years and it was great – but I really want to whack them," he said.
"I have a great fondness for Birmingham but it was said the way it ended.
I am a lot wiser now than when I went there 17 years ago and I want to win.
My allegiance is to West Ham – that it where my heart and sole is and I think of my mum looking down and going: 'Come on you Hammers.'"