Author: Tony Attwood

By Tony Attwood So we’ve signed Martin Odegaard as widely predicted, and the story is still that we are also going to sign Aaron Ramsdale as a back-up goalkeeper. The initial fee for Martin is reported as being around £30million with a further £4million in add-ons. He won’t be available to play against Chelsea having …

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By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw Arsenal as we well know (having been told so many times) are a failure, because after a record-breaking run of appearances in European competitions, this year they are not in Europe.  Utter, total disaster, a washout, a wreck of a club, a flop, a decline, a collapse, a mess, …

Read More “Arsenal are a failure without Europe; Spurs would be better off without Europe”

By Sir Hardly Anyone This is part two of the current list of players Arsenal are said to be chasing.  Part one can be found by looking at the Recent Posts list, at the top of the right column on this page.  Or by clicking the post above this one. So, what we find it …

Read More “The players Arsenal are tipped to buy this summer: from 70 to 136.”

By Sir Hardly Anyone Arsenal have now been tipped to bring in 136 players this summer, the largest number of transfer rumours we have found since we started counting summer transfers some ten years ago. Here’s the list for players 1 to 69, with the rest to follow shortly. Curiously all the main action this …

Read More “Arsenal break their all time record for transfers: numbers 1 to 69”

By Sir Hardly Anyone The shape of our new squad is starting to emerge with the Odegaard and Ramsdale transfers looking possibly like the final elements in the puzzle, although I’m still unclear of the future of Aubameyang and Lacazette. But then up pops this gem: “Bukayo Saka could be set for a shock Arsenal …

Read More “11 predictions the media is making: let’s see how many come true.”

By Tony Attwood The current story in the Guardian is that Arsenal are about to sign Martin Ødegaard from Real Mad for £34m, on a five year contract. Of course none of us at Untold know anymore than you probably do, but the way the more serious drainpipes, sorry “outlets” are writing it would appear …

Read More “Ødegaard signs but this media victory over Arsenal costing the club dear”

By Sir Hardly Anyone The story from everywhere is of financial and legal chaos.  Crooks buying their way into English clubs in order to use them for money laundering (a story we first started to pick up on 10 years ago and now being reported once again). Barcelona more than a billion euros in debt …

Read More “Who has spent what so far in the transfer window?”

By Tony Attwood The media are now out to get Mr Arteta, ably backed as ever by the usual anti-Arsenal suspects.  And AFTV and co must be feeling quite confident of success, given their earlier triumphs in terms of getting rid of managers. Arsenal have had eight managers who have won trophies and with Mr …

Read More “It is time for the Arsenal board to stand up to the media, and AFTV”

    Defenders think they are different.  No, actually, that is not right.   They know they are different. They look up the field towards their attacking and midfield colleagues and see men who can take a break – have a rest in between one attack and the next, letting the defenders do their job. Of …

Read More “How the art of defending in the Premier League is changing week by week”

By Tony Attwood and Christophe Jost The Athletic is in no mood to compromise, and indeed in no mood to back off the gaslighting.  They say, “Despite getting their first semi-proper pre-season under Mikel Arteta, Arsenal began the 2021-22 Premier League season as they ended the last…” So let’s consider this “as they ended the …

Read More “What the opening game means, and a perfect piece of gaslighting”

By Tony Attwood Something odd is happening.  In the opening game Man U committed just six tackles.  Last season their average was 15 tackles a game! Tackles are the biggest cause of fouls being awarded on the pitch, and fouls are the biggest source of yellow cards.  Yellow cards are one of the main ways …

Read More “Opening game shows some clubs changing their tactics radically”

By Tony Attwood We’ve been discussing gaslighting in football for some time now, with a couple of summary articles yesterday.  At the same time it is clear that a fair number of correspondents do seem utterly fixated on accusing Untold of supporting conspiracy theories, without producing any evidence.  And that is getting bizarre. And we …

Read More “When it comes to commentating on Arsenal, gaslighting seems to dominate.”

by Tony Attwood My point is that news is selected to fit an existing agenda.   Which raises the question: is there an agenda always to show Arsenal in a bad light?  And if there is such an agenda why does that agenda exist, and where come from? The notion that there is an agenda in …

Read More “Is there an anti Arsenal agenda, or are we actually awful?”

By Tony Attwood Arsenal don’t lose opening games of the season to lowly opposition very often.  In fact I’ve only found five examples in the last 20 years.  However I think we should also note 2012/13 where we opened with two goalless draws which thus gives us six poor openings to Premier League seasons. Here …

Read More “Do bad starts to a season mean a terrible season? The facts.”

By Tony Attwood The media have persistently denied that Arsenal were the second best club over the last two thirds of last season, and so on the back one defeat and a fictitious serious failure last season there are now calls for the manager’s head.   But just before he goes it really might be worth …

Read More “Arsenal have no tactics and Arteta must go (according to some supporters)”

By Tony Attwood The responses to last night’s defeat seem to be that Arteta is the wrong manager and we have a fair number of the wrong players.   Which when one comes to think of it was the response to Arsene Weneger and Unai Emery.  So the calls seem to be out for another change …

Read More “Few teams could survive losing all 3 goalscorers, but staying with the tactics will help”

By Bulldog Drummond Now here is a thing: Alexandre Lacazette is the only player in history to score the opening goal of the Premier League season on two separate occasions. I have to thank the BBC for that one.  He did it in both 2017-18 in two mins against Leicester and 2020-21 and in nine …

Read More “Brentford v Arsenal: the team prediction and the first game defeat syndrome”

By Bulldog Drummond It has been a long, long time since the media were so united in their vision that Arsenal were in really deep trouble.  No one is actually promising relegation, but some are getting quite close to that. But let’s look back at Brentford’s final run of top division games. Date Match Res …

Read More “Will the negativity surrounding Arsenal bring AFC down, or can we rise up tonight?”

By Bulldog Drummond Now you might be a little disinclined to call Brentford “Arsenal’s bogey team” but Brentford seriously were the team that amazingly caused Arsenal a lot of problems the last time we played them regularly. Brentford arose from League Division Two to the first division in 1935 when Arsenal were absolutely the dominant …

Read More “Why Brentford are Arsenal’s bogey team: but hopefully not today”

By Bulldog Drummond I wonder if anyone in the media is getting a bit worried. I mean, they have gone down this route of utterly ignoring what has happened in terms of the tactics of tackling, and refused to acknowledge what happened to Arsenal over the last two thirds of last season and now they …

Read More “Brentford v Arsenal, the Premier League in code, and gibberish from the Mirror.”

By Bulldog Drummond Tackling is a matter of contention in the Premier League,  as we discovered after we observed the antics of Leicester City in the season before last.  Leicester, you may recall, took tackling to an industrial level in 2019/20 and got away with it for a while – then were suddenly reigned in …

Read More “Arsenal kick off the league season against Brentford. It’s going to be rough!”

This is part two of our list of the 131 players being tipped to come our way this summer.   If you would like to know what happened to the 134 players tipped last summer, we’ve done a complete analysis, showing how many didn’t move at all, how many went to our rivals and how many …

Read More “Arsenal transfers this summer: players 69 to 131”

Arsenal have now been tipped to bring in 131 players this summer, just three short of last season’s record total of 134. Here’s the list for players 1 to 68, with the rest to follow shortly. No Player Current club  Position Reported by 1 Patrick van Aanholt Ex Palace Left          Back …

Read More “Arsenal just three players short of last season’s transfer record”

By Ynot Doowtta and Ehpotsirhc Tsoj As we all know, Messi was available to any club that wanted him on a free transfer, what with Barcelona not being able to complete the re-signing arrangements allegedly because of the way the Spanish League’s wage control structure works (although recent reports have said they could have done …

Read More “Why Arsenal made a big mistake not signing Messi”

By Tony Attwood You might recall that for some time Untold has been one of  the very few media outlets in the UK that has seriously covered the investigation into the activities of Fifa President Gianni Infantino. Then we stopped, because the investigation stopped. What happened was that Stefan Keller was removed from his position …

Read More “Infantino and his village gang get his prosecutor thrown off the case!”