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By Sir Hardly Anyone Preparing for the regular review of who is tipped to be leaving and who is tipped to be coming into Arsenal this summer I came across a previously un-noted (at least by us) website “Top Flight”, which has the headline, “What the Gunners need to do to get back to the …
Read More “Who are Arsenal selling this summer & what do we need to do?”
by Tony Attwood Germany is discovering it is true. Games without fans change everything. Before the ghost games came along Germany’s top division saw 43% of the games end with a home win. 22% were drawn and 35% were away wins. So far since the ghosts came along that has been 22% home wins, 28% …
Read More “Will home advantage vanish as the PL restarts? And if not, why not?”
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” By Tony Attwood And the absurdities have been pouring out day after day, and it has been going on for seven or eight months. Not (we are told) that we need to sell because the players are no good (although that is always …
Read More “Arsenal need to sell, Tottenham are financially strong. Oh, hang on…”
By Sir Hardly Anyone. Here are the current round of tittle tattle and tales. But please do remember most of these are set up just so that afterwards journalists and bloggers can say that Arsenal have failed to get these players. 1: Bruno Fuchs (The Boot Room, Just Arsenal) “Arsenal have joined AC Milan and …
Read More “20 Arsenal transfer stories that have appeared in the last couple of days”
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” By Tony Attwood I don’t normally quote Voltaire on Untold, not indeed do I normally quote 18th century French philosophers in general, but when considering the situation regarding refereeing in the Premier League it is a case of desperate situations… We know from …
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by Tony Attwood There is an assumption behind much that is written on blogs and in the media that Arsenal make mistakes like no one else makes mistakes. Arsenal management, it is implied, is catastrophically inept at every step of the way. Indeed if only the club would wake up and allow the journalists to …
Read More “Aubameyang leaving Arsenal at knock down price? It’s not quite that simple.”
by Tony Attwood It is interesting that through the last couple of months, although there has not been much in the way of football news the media has by and large ignored most of the big stories. Now one can always put the missing of the odd story here or there down to editorial incompetence …
Read More “The ten big football stories that the media won’t talk about”
By Tony Attwood Either all the editors were out of their heads or they knew the story was nonsense, but chose to run it anyway. “YOU CAN DAV IT ALL” said the Sun’s headline. Followed by, “David Luiz’s one year at Arsenal will have cost club £24MILLION as ex-Chelsea defender plots Benfica transfer exit.” Except… …
Read More “How the Sun’s story of Arsenal incompetence and money wasting unravelled”
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Read More “The revelation that has scuppered PGMO once and for all”
by Tony Attwood Give me sport, a rather bizarre website, has run the headline today “Aliens being found in 2019 is 10 times more likely than Arsenal winning Premier League title” Now to understand this piece of gibberish it is worth noting that bookies odds are not based (as Give me sport imply) on the …
Read More “Could Arsenal win the league this season / next season / season after?”
by Sir Hardly Anyone 2017/18 may not have been the very best for Arsenal in the Premier League, but in PL2 – the under 23 League, it wasn’t so bad… Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Arsenal 22 13 3 6 48 32 16 42 2 Liverpool Under 23 22 13 …
Read More “Two seasons have ended and no one really minds as a signing is made”
By Tony Attwood In football we hear about it all the time: the fit and proper person’s test. And we gather that since he is at the helm of Manchester City, Sheikh Mansour is a fit and proper person. I am sure that is right. But it seems Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, crown …
Read More “This is no surprise: in football there is not fit and proper person test”
by Tony Attwood Arsenal have an incredibly interesting group of youngsters in the club at the moment. Consider these players who already have first team squad numbers… In defence there are three Tolaji Bola, Zech Medley, Bukayo Saka In midfield there are seven Ainsley Maitland Niles, Joe Willock, Matteo Guendouzi, Robbie Burton, Reiss Nelson, Eddie …
Read More “The Arsenal youngsters on the up and why the speculation is wrong”
by Tony Attwood There are four stories circulating about Arsenal. Story 1: Arsenal are buying, and they are going to buy big. This is the overall conclusion that one has from the fact that no less than 101 players have been tipped as being sought by Arsenal this summer. And that before the transfer season …
By Sir Hardly Anyone If you are using an advertisement blocker, please consider turning it off while reading Untold Arsenal. Running a blog with a large readership does have its costs in terms of the server, protection against hacking, and maintenance, even though none of the writers get paid. Readers looking at advertisements on our …
By Tony Attwood Businesses that want to grow and last over time need to take risks, try out new ideas, explore new avenues, venture into something different. Not all businesses do – some stick rigidly to what they know on the grounds that it has always worked until now, so “if it ain’t broke…” But …
Read More “Speculate to accumulate is a sound business model, but not for football”
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Read More “Clubs struggling to pay broadcasters refund; TV wants more concessions”
by Sir Hardly Anyone As you may have noticed we rather unusually had a suggestion for a number of other players who have been listed as transfers for Arsenal this summer, whom we have missed. Obviously, a journal of such esteem as ours does need to check our sources, and we have assiduously been going …
Read More “Yet another clutch of transfers as Arsenal head towards 100 pre-window rumours”
by Tony Attwood On 21 December 2019 Arsenal drew 0-0 with Everton. The report on Sky Sports was typical, the opening paragraphs of their post-match posting reading, “New Everton manager Carlo Ancelotti and Arsenal head coach Mikel Arteta looked on from the stands at Goodison Park as their respective new sides played out a dour …
Read More “Arsenal have the youngest squad. Does that help our prospects?”
By Tony Attwood It is already happening in Europe, but it is a subject football journalists are totally silent on, in England. It is not complicated, it does not involve Fifa corruption (the topic that seems to be totally forbidden when it comes to reporting for fear of damaging the proposed FA bid for the …
Read More “The new contract chaos that football journalists don’t want to talk about”
By Tony Attwood Untold has been arguing for quite a while that there is a profound financial crisis hitting the clubs which has been caused by their tendency to spend money they don’t have in order to reach the top seven and get into Europe, or to avoid relegation. The example we have repeatedly given …
Read More “Finally the media is admitting just how bad PL finances have now become”
By Sir Hardly Anyone It is always sad when journalists run out of steam. Maybe they have just got tired and gone to bed. Maybe they nipped into the Toppled Bollard for a final swift one, but lingered rather longer. Maybe they have simply forgotten where the scrap of paper with another ten players names …
Read More “Transfer news: the 93 players Arsenal are looking to be (according to reports)”
Running Untold costs money in terms of maintaining our site and undertaking research. If you are running an ad blocker could you consider removing it for this site and viewing our advertising, as it is the site’s only source of income. Thanks. By Tony Attwood In 2015/16 Arsenal came runners’ up in the league …
Read More “Arsenal: where has it all gone wrong and how can we put it right?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone In previous summers we have ended up with a list of players who are leaving the club, a list which incorporates virtually all players regular first team players and the subs. Of course only a few of them have gone, and in the end the exercise of collecting everyone’s name has …
Read More “11 players tipped to be leaving Arsenal this transfer window.”
By Tony Attwood As we have seen across the years, newspaper journalists and bloggers hunt in packs. When one writes a story others follow and then the notion that they are purveying becomes mainstream. The Athletic summarises this week’s assault with the headline “Let’s not beat around the bush, Arsenal have seen a fairly swift …
Read More “Have Arsenal really fallen apart as the media insist?”
