93 players rumoured to be going to Arsenal. Are the journos getting lazy?

10 Replies to “93 players rumoured to be going to Arsenal. Are the journos getting lazy?”

1. Bio ring boring boring. You really spent time on this? Nuts!

2. Andrew Banks this is the 24th time you have written to Untold Arsenal to tell us that there is something wrong with one of our articles.
   This is, by any standard, rather strange behaviour. I mean, I know that there are various TV programmes that I find boring, so I don’t watch them. There are magazines which contain articles that I find irrelevant or of no interest, so I don’t read them.
   But you go on and on and on reading Untold, and then over and over and over again you write in to say how stupid or just plain wrong you find the piece. Surely a simple short cut is to stop reading.
   (Unless of course you are not reading but simply noting that an article is published, and then firing off a comment – but that would be even weirder).
   You are, it seems, diagnosing my behaviour as “nuts”. Unlike you I don’t hold the view that one can diagnose a person’s mental state from one action observed at a distance, but reading articles that you know you will dislike, and then writing in to cast aspertions on the mental health of the writer is, to say the least, slightly odd.

3. I believe Arsenal, its management and owners are walking the talk. This season is going to be very special with a compression of games over several periods that will require a squad that stays healthy and thus numerous players – it looks more like basketball then football…..

   One element I think they have visibly assimilated is the fact that 5 substitutions per game will be allowed, which offers quite a lot more potential in squad rotation and player minutes. Only a larger squad an manage that, and this will also give lots of opportunities to integrate academy players which takes time : remember Eddie’s first brace was done coming in as a substitute at the end of a game with Mr Wenger still at the helm…. yep that long ago !

4. It is very sad that the ‘Eddie Nketiah “wouldn’t start for Fulham”‘ comment came from the ex Arsenal player, (some call him a legend) Paul Merson. You would expect an ex player to be supportive rather than critical but Merson regularly comes out with this type of insulting comment, maybe he is trying to attract attention to himself by saying something controversial.

5. My brother sometimes sends me your articles telling what good read they are, I do so to understand what he thinks is so in depth, got to be honest and say I find few thought provoking. We all know how stupid the press can be, this article hardly tells anything new.

   If you want to be cutting, write something different and incisive – too often you do what I use to when writing a blog, write for writes sake.

6. Anthony I think you forget that one person’s different and incisive is not another’s. And perhaps you forget also that one can tell within the first paragraph what a piece is going to be about, so if you do stumble into an article that is not your cup of tea, you’ve only lost five seconds.

7. Anthony

   If you read the articles at all you might notice this one is posted by a writer named Sir Hardly Anyone! A tip to the tongue-in-cheek nature of the poster rather than the tongue-in-a*** nature of the commenter.

8. It looks as though Gabriel Jesus is a certainty now according to Fabrizio Romano, one of the few journalists who can be trusted. A fee of £45 million has been agreed with City and a 5 year deal agreed with Jesus himself.

9. This has been a fantastic transfer window, especially the news about Mike Riley.

10. The article is certainly comic but does demostrate who much money is to made by non-news. Has anyone reserched the finances of the non news sites and how does the Arsenal 93 compare with other clubs? I scan the sites (and those add to their hits) looking for potential real news and there can be some. But so much is ‘a close source has revealed” which can be agents trying it on or I suspect at time a simple fabrication. And then there are the comments from explayers and celebs! Who cares what Piers thinks! Of course the totally bonkers finances around football have created this, excessive wages and eye watering ransfer fees take the game away from the simple joy of 25 men or women on a pitch with 20 of them trying to kick the ball between two posts. I dream of the day that Authorities bring finances under control and the day that a footballer sues a site a fake story.