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The 30 players that the media currently say that Arsenal are chasing this summer Are Fifa incompetent, a bunch of crooks, or the backdrop of violence? By Tony Attwood On 18 May 2026, Martinelli was selected for Brazil’s squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. On 29 June 2026, he scored his fifth international goal for …
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Recent posts Newcastle, Villa and Chelsea all caught out by Uefa’s fianncial rules; fines imposed. Arsenal transfer news isn’t actually always what it might be By Tony Attwood It has long been my view that Fifa is not fit to pass comment on an amateur hamlet table tennis competition for the over 90s, …
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Arsenal transfer news isn’t actually always what it might be What can Declan Rice and Arsenal do about Rice’s recurring injury? By Tony Attwood The fines being imposed on clubs are, within the context of football, not enormous, but they are there, and it seems the authorities are perfectly willing to increase the …
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What can Declan Rice and Arsenal do about Rice’s recurring injury? Why does nobody ever question what Fifa is getting up to? By Tony Attwood “Bashing Arsenal” articles ebb and flow through the window, and one of these websites has had a bit of a bash at Arsenal of late, leading with the headline …
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Why does nobody ever question what Fifa is getting up to? The greatest football upsets of all time… By Tony Attwood Being Arsenal’s most expensive player is a risky business: not just for the player but also for the manager. Just ask Unai Emery – although in his case he made a habit …
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The greatest football upsets of all time… Perfectionism isn’t what we need from Arsenal although we should cheer when someone tries it By Tony Attwood In recent days, the story has been breaking that the boss of Fifa does quite well, financially, out of football. Although that might not be the full story, …
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Perfectionism isn’t what we need from Arsenal although we should cheer when someone tries it Transfers 27 June: Finance guru impressed by Arsenal’s buying power. 24 players arriving! By Tony Attwood I know that is not an Arsenal topic, but I am struggling to find much that is Arsenal-related and which isn’t …
Transfers 27 June: Finance guru impressed by Arsenal’s buying power. 24 players arriving! Can you imagine England paying you to support England at the WC? (And just say no). By Tony Attwood It is commonplace to hear and see football supporters denigrate a player on the team they allegedly support simply because he has …
By Sir Hardly Anyone ‘Look at the players Arsenal are talking to’ – Finance guru impressed by club’s transfer plans. That comes from Football Insider, but it is also worth remembering that across the last few years, as we have been measuring transfer rumours and actual transfers each summer, only around 3% of the players …
By Tony Attwood It is, of course, hard to imagine that instead of paying to get into a game, the reverse happens, but apparently (according to newspaper “reports”) that is how it is for some countries at the World Cup. Top of the list of “we’ll pay you to attend” is Qatar, who now pay …
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How Arsemal can beat AI predictions in terms of football trends When the world turns against us, there’s nowhere to go By Jack Deams I am sure everyone knows that a Premier League squad cannot consist of more than 25 senior players. And yet the technicalities of that ruling are somehow forgotten on …
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One of the simplest observations that one can make about artificial intelligence is that in essence, it is simple: it measures trends, and then, based on those trends, it makes predictions. But football managers don’t always do what the predictions say they will do, not least because sometimes, despite their best efforts, they can’t …
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By Tony Attwood The most fulsome apologies. I handle Untold Arsenal from my home in the EasMidlands, and although we have beautiful blue skies, last night, where I live we had an enormous storm which knocked out the power supplies. I am writing this on a battery-powered laptop and hoping I can actually …
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————- We are now up to players whose names are being associated with a link to Arsenal this summer, with no less than a third of these possible transfers being mentioned in the media in the past three or four days. What we seem to be getting, particularly this summer, is every journalist …
The world cup ball is a ball like no other – but why is it introduced now? Why so many managers get sacked and why clubs can’t appoint the right manager By Tony Attwood As you might have guessed, I don’t have much interest in international football, so I use international breaks …
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Why so many managers get sacked and why clubs can’t appoint the right manager The 25 players Arsenal are preparing to buy this summer By Tony Attwood It has always struck me that if the World Cup, which I don’t particularly care for since it invariably ends up injuring players I would like …
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The 25 players Arsenal are preparing to buy this summer Aaropn Ramsey gets a new job, Monga to Arsenal, England flutter in the WC By Tony Attwood As you might recall we’ve taken a bit of interest in the issue of the sacking of football club managers of late, and it is …
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Every summer, newspapers and websites list 100 or more players who journalists report are going to be transferred to Arsenal in this window. However, only Untold Arsenal indexes the list to see how accurate these predictions are. Thus, this is the reference point between the predictions and reality; a unique and invaluable guide to …
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The 25 players Arsenal are now preparing to buy this summer Around one in four WC players weren’t born in the country they represent, By Tony Attwood So it now looks as if Bukayo Saka is going to play in the final England qualifier in order to try and get the country out of its hole. The WC …
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Around one in four WC players weren’t born in the country they represent, We have an injury table, but where is the minor niggles table? By Tony Attwood These are the main transfers that we have found scanning through the media on the morning of 23rd June 2026. That doesn’t mean that there are not others lurking in …
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We have an injury table, but where is the minor niggles table? Transfers tales: the 20 players tipped as coming to Arsenal What is the one statistic that a club needs in order to win the Premier League? By Tony Attwood And to take that headline on a bit further, no fewer than …
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Transfers tales: the 20 players tipped as coming to Arsenal What is the one statistic that a club needs in order to win the Premier League? By Tony Attwood It was only yesterday that we had “Arsenal concern as Saliba admits playing through pain at World Cup” from MSN. This is one of those …
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By Illget Myman The media seems as full as ever with names of players (many we must admit we have never heard of) who are at any moment going to come to Arsenal. In fact, what we have done today is pick out the first 20 we’ve found – but there are many more, …
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What’s upsetting Fifa: maybe we should just sit down and read a book The opening fixture and a very early thought about how the new season will start. By Tony Attwood As I am absolutely sure you will know, no club other than Arsenal has gone a whole season unbeaten. But that doesn’t mean …
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