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How Arsenal is now the model for other clubs – but some still can’t get it right Why it is really important for Arsenal to stay well away from the Club World Cup By Tony Attwood There are three constant background stories in football. One is the story you read in the paper …
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How Arsenal is now the model for other clubs – but some still can’t get it right Why it is really important for Arsenal to stay well away from the Club World Cup By Tony Attwood There is already talk of how Arsenal have screwed up the transfer window given that they will …
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Why it is really important for Arsenal to stay well away from the Club World Cup Transfers stalled, prices rising: it’s summer By Tony Attwood While you wouldn’t know it looking at the media, football clubs do look at Arsenal’s rebuild after the disaster of Emery’s reign, and wonder if they couldn’t do the …
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Transfers stalled, prices rising: it’s summer Football is at breaking point: not everything can grow all the time By Tony Attwood In America, President Trump and Rupert Murdoch are having a battle. It is being played out in front of the world’s media, and the world’s media is lapping it up. And I …
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Transfers stalled, prices rising: it’s summer Is it possible for clubs not sponsored by oil money to make a profit in the Premier League? By Tony Attwood I really would like to know if other clubs have fans like some Arsenal fans. Fans who on hearing of a signing about to …
Transfer news: the 55 players Arsenal now trying to buy Is it possible for clubs not sponsored by oil money to make a profit in the Premier League? By Tony Attwood For all the fake excitement in the media, Arsenal’s transfers seem to be resolutely stuck on three players: Martin Zubimendia from …
. Compiled by Tony Attwood While it is normal each summer for blogs and newspaper websites to “report” or “discover” (or I would suspect “invent”) transfer tales involving Arsenal FC, this season, the pattern of events seems slightly different with most reporters focusing on a much smaller number of players, although with a greater …
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“Priceless momentum” is what one club claims, but really has everything just ground to a halt? Arsenal agree £55m Viktor Gyökeres deal with more transfers to come By Tony Attwood There are all sorts of questions in football that seem to remain unanswered for much of the time, such as why investors keep …
Parents concerned about how their child has been mistreated at a football club should act now The Club World Cup is Fifa’s bid to take power away from Uefa, and it looks like Fifa has won By Tony Attwood Eventually, there is an end, simply because things can’t go on growing forever. …
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Parents concerned about how their child has been mistreated at a football club should act now Arsenal’s vibrant youth academy could make all the difference in the coming season By Tony Attwood There is a growing feeling in the media that Chelsea have something called “momentum”. Put another way, they are on …
By Tony Attwood Parents concerned about how their child has been mistreated at a football club should act now The Club World Cup is Fifa’s bid to take power away from Uefa, and it looks like Fifa has won After what seems a lot of newspaper speculation over the price, it seems Arsenal have agreed …
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Arsenal’s vibrant youth academy could make all the difference in the coming season By Tony Attwood I really can’t recall when we first raised the issue of the mistreatment of youngsters by League clubs, including the fact that there seemed to be no one in charge of making sure that they were not …
Believing what you read in the media about Arsenal is not good for your health How much does it cost a club to rise one place up the Premier League? By Tony Attwood There is a newspaper headline that reads Club World Cup truths do not matter to Gianni Infantino and I …
How much does it cost a club to rise one place up the Premier League? If all these journos know so much about transfers, why don’t Arsenal employ them? By Tony Attwood There is an element in Arsenal’s recent development which one can hardly fail to notice – the way Arsenal not …
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. . . How much does it cost a club to rise one place up the Premier League? Which clubs are spending now, and what they spent last season. By Tony Attwood Go and work for five minutes in the world of football commentary and you will come across the word “panic” associated with the …
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How much does it cost a club to rise one place up the Premier League? If all these journos know so much about transfers, why don’t Arsenal employ them? by Tony Attwood And so the Arsenal transfers move along, and we now have three new players. First, Martín Zubimendi the midfielder from …
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It is the legal entanglements that catch players and teams as much as the results The duplicity of the media on issues relating to Arsenal knows no bounds. By Tony Attwood (suggestion: if standing, you might want to sit down to read this). I was contemplating the rather tedious job of totalling …
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Which clubs are spending now, and what they spent last season. So now we know how the Arsenal story will run from here on in. Time to hold our nerve. By Tony Attwood Is what we read, really what the world of football transfers is about? People trying to spend £80m and not …
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So now we know how the Arsenal story will run from here on in. Time to hold our nerve. Transfers this summer: how Arsenal compare with other PL teams By Tony Attwood The ex-Real Madrid, Chelsea, Everton and Brazil manager and/or coach Carlo Ancelotti, known for being the most successful manager …
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So now we know how the Arsenal story will run from here on in. Time to hold our nerve. How the media are repeating last year’s transfer rumours as this year’s news By Tony Attwood So desperate is the media to find ways to knock Arsenal that the Daily Mail are now …
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How the media are repeating last year’s transfer rumours as this year’s news Gyökeres goal tally may be exaggerated by the media but he looks a good buy By Tony Attwood The media united is an awful sight, normally because the media unite around a story which has at least two sides to …
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How the media are repeating last year’s transfer rumours as this year’s news 54 players arriving and 14 leaving Arsenal; the transfer window is broken By Tony Attwood There is an 1100 word tirade against Arsenal in the Guardian today on the issue of Thomas Partey, as it clings to the …
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How the media are repeating last year’s transfer rumours as this year’s news Gyökeres goal tally may be exaggerated by the media but he looks a good buy By Tony Attwood As the media gets hyped up about Arsenal, it is interesting to reflect on how the club has developed over Arteta’s years in …
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54 players arriving and 14 leaving Arsenal; the transfer window is broken Taking action against individuals on the basis of allegations is a dubious course By Tony Attwood ‘Gyokeres will not leave Sporting for £59m’ That headline came from the BBC website on 11 June 2025. They continued that piece with the statement that …
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By Tony Attwood 54 players arriving and 14 leaving Arsenal; the transfer window is broken Taking action against individuals on the basis of allegations is a dubious courseSeos Themes . . There is a piece in the Guardian which says, “Gyökeres has made no secret of his desire for a new …
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