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"I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art." A Wenger
By Tony Attwood OK, of course I don’t know who is going to win the league this year. But I just wondered what recent history might tell me. So I took a look at the last eight years, to see if that would give me some insights. Retention: In the past eight seasons no team …
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by Tony Attwood Suggesting that Arsenal has the most injuries each season of any Premier League squad still happens, but it is on the wane – maybe, just maybe, because we’ve been pointing out how wrong these figures are for years. Raymond Verheijen, a man utterly unqualified in the world of injury prevention and treatment …
Read More “Which PL clubs were most affected by injuries last season: you might be surprised.”
by Tony Attwood If you are a regular Untold reader you’ll know that we run the Arsenal Transfer Index which tracks all the players Arsenal are tipped to be signing this summer. The latest edition showed 70 players tipped to come to Arsenal, and 19 said to be leaving. For comparison last season the final …
Read More “Unlike the rest of last year’s top seven, Tottenham have signed no one. Why’s that?”
by Tony Attwood The comparative transfer table started about a week ago, and came about because I wasn’t sure that I had a full grasp of which clubs were the most and which the least active in football transferring. We all know that Arsenal were always accused of being “too slow” – and indeed rather …
Read More “Which clubs have been the most active in bringing players in so far this transfer window”
An article by Zuruvi I am really happy that Arsenal has listened to some of us who have been publishing articles and comments here on Untold Arsenal requesting that Le Prof Arsene Wenger acquires a top clinical central striker to complement the efforts of Giroud. Giroud is a good player but we wanted an …
Read More “Alexandre Lacazette. Why him? Did Arsenal really need a clinical striker? “
By Sir Hardly Anyone In my earlier note (see links at the foot of this piece) I took a look at a range of players we are about to sign “allegedly”, and so now here is part two: all the players we are losing one way or another. 1: Per Mertesacker The story is that …
By Sir Hardly Anyone There is a growing feeling that Arsenal’s summer plan is running exactly according to plan. The third big transfer is getting close and then there is still plenty of time to sell those whom the club wants to sell. It is running like a well oiled machine. Except this is Arsenal. …
Read More “Arsenal prepare for 3rd big transfer, before the selling starts”
by Tony Attwood The game, played by the Metro and others is to try and imagine all the different possible line ups we could have next season, given the players we have, or given the players we have minus Alexis and/or Ozil and/or the Ox. In this sequence there are no more signings – so …
Read More “Exactly how will Arsenal’s forward line look in 2017/18? Here’s the answers”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal’s first Saturday 3pm match will now be on… 9 September. Because of course the league has allowed Sky to play with the fixtures. And we start the season on a Friday launching the whole PL season at 7.45pm on Friday 11 August when we play Leicester at home. The notion …
By Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw It appears that Arsenal have raised the stakes for Mbappé, seeming to have offered €142 million now for the player. By setting the bar as high, with the transfer window just six days old, Arsenal are helping to spiral the prices of players to previously unimaginable levels, meaning that …
Read More “Arsenal to make one more transfer in coming days, and then that will be that.”
By Tony Attwood Here’s the list as it seems to stand at the moment, of players over 21 years of age who could be qualifying for the 25. Goal (4) Martinez Szczesny Cech Ospina Defence including wing backs (10) The Ox Gibbs Bellerin Holding Koscielny Gabriel Monreal Mertesacker Mustafi Kolasinac Midfield defence (4) Coquelin Xhaka …
Read More “Next season’s Arsenal 25 plus the under 21s. It is going to be tight.”
By Tony Attwood If you were following our little review of Rangers in Europe last night you will know that today they were also going to hear the result of the Supreme Court ruling in a past tax case of theirs. Rangers has of course moved on and created itself as another company – although …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Last season, every Arsenal player was tipped to be leaving the club by those people who claim to know everything, and have the inside information about a lot more, but in the end seem to know absolutely nothing. (Isn’t that curious?) (Yes it is, I hear you reply). Just to keep …
By Tony Attwood You possibly didn’t know that there was a match on tonight – not unless you are a close follower of Scottish football. But yes, the extra, pre-qualifying, qualifying round of the pre-qualifying extra round tournament before the Europa League is already underway. In fact tonight was the second leg. And one result …
Read More “Before we start warming up for the warm ups there is a total absolute cock up”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Sorry about the formatting on the original publication of this post. It looked all right at first and then went very odd. I have removed the offending text now. OK the story is that he is at the training centre and having a medical. So what do we know of …
Read More “Alexandre Lacazette: all you need to know and some things you probably don’t”
by Tony Attwood There was an editorial in the German magazine Der Spiegel a few months back about the leaders of Turkey and the United States, which says, roughly, “Erdogan and Trump are positioning themselves as the only ones capable of truly understanding the people and speaking for them. It’s their view that freedom of …
Read More “Why the way football is reported is both insulting and incredibly dangerous”
By Tony Attwood I have to admit it: I am a sucker for quizzes. Science quizzes, general knowledge quizzes, political quizzes, history quizzes, and of course Arsenal quizzes. Which is why finding out that there was a second volume of Graham Lister’s “Never mind the Gunners: The Ultimate Arsenal Quiz Book” caused me to smile, …
Read More “The Arsenal quiz books that will fry your brain, blow your mind and give a lot of fun.”
With today’s guest publication: The Carrick Fergus Times By Sir Hardly Anyone One of the wonderful things we discovered last year in running this series on summer transfers was that an English paper (say the Daily Express) would quote the source of a story as being a Spanish newspaper. Then if one went looking for …
by Tony Attwood . There is a headline doing the rounds at the moment which says that Lacazette’s statistics are “134 minutes per goal, excluding pens, in a weak league” and his statistics are examined and compared to Giroud. Then we are told, first take out the penalties and don’t count them. Then measure …
Read More “Lacazette: does this statistic show that Arsenal are getting the wrong man?”
By Josif We have undoubtedly witnessed a lot of big players leaving Arsenal. If we solely focus on the Wenger-era, we have seen Nicolas Anelka sulking his move away from Arsenal to Real Madrid in 1999 where he was a huge failure, Both Emmanuel Petit and Marc Overmars leaving Arsenal for Camp Nou in 2000 …
Read More “Alexis Sanchez was the second worst player in the league for losing the ball last season”
By Tony Attwood There is an argument (and it has been made by correspondents on this site) that says that Arsenal are always very slow about doing their transfer business, largely because of incompetence in the back room staff or a refusal of Mr Wenger to spend anything. Unfortunately when that point has been made …
Read More “Are Arsenal lagging behind all other clubs once again this summer?”
By Tony Attwood. There is a story that says goldfish have a memory span of about 2 seconds. It isn’t true as anyone who has studied experimental psychology will tell you – there’s a classic experiment through which one can prove that goldfish can be trained that their food always comes down the yellow tube …
Read More “The number of players Arsenal is buying reaches 70 as Window opens. The Index vol 13”
While Untold was available in the normal way we continued publishing on Facebook. This is a slightly extended version of one of the articles we published there, and which I thought I would re-run in case you missed it. And if you don’t follow us on Facebook – please do consider it. We’re not planning …
Read More “Everything is perfect at Bayern, and that is the big, big, problem.”
by Rowley Birkin A new Arsenal fans group has been formed and is being called the Direct Action Football Trust. Known by its initials for short, the Trust has set out its manifesto, and Untold Arsenal has procured itself a copy. The Trust demands that: 1: As an absolute minimum Arsenal should win every game. …
Read More “Arsenal supporters set up new fans group to set out real ambitions”
By Blacksheep Untold Arsenal Report on the End of Season supporters event 2017 Every year members of the variousf supporters groups get invited to an event at the Emirates in June. I have been along with Tony in the past but he was otherwise engaged this time, so Untold was represented by Andrew and myself. …
