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FFP fines look like far too little to have any impact Second club banned from transfer deals By Tony Attwood This is a transfer window that has died on its feet. Maybe our annual publishing of data showing only 3% (at most) of the transfers mooted by the media is making them all …
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Unprescedented second club banned from transfer deals Arsenal face a psychological battle at the start of the season By Tony Attwood I’m often critical of the way newspapers and the media in general report Arsenal, so the fact that I take exception to what the Telegraph has published over the rape allegation …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal face a psychological battle at the start of the season Facial recognition programs are coming to a club near you. Is there anything to worry about? In 2024/25 Chelsea spent €281.90m on transfer fees according to Transfermarkt. They have now been fined €31 million by Uefa for breaches of …
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Second club banned from transfer deals Arsenal face a psychological battle at the start of the season By Tony Attwood In the list below we can see the players who have been transferred to selected Premier League clubs this summer, It does not include players whose transfers are noted in the media as being …
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By Tony Attwood As things stand, two professional football clubs in England are banned from signing any new players: Hull City and Sheffield Wednesday. That might not concern us as Arsenal supporters but at any moment that number could rise, and then rise again. The reason of course is that both clubs owe money …
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When it comes to signing players why do Arsenal seem so slow? What happens when football finance goes wrong: just how close clubs are to collapse. By Tony Attwood The transfer window closes at 7pm on 1 September this year. By the time that happens Arsenal will have played three matches – Manchester United away, …
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By Tony Attwood As you may have heard there are plans from football clubs to introduce facial recognition technology at the turnstiles. The aim of course is to prove to the club that the person entering the ground is the person who is entitled to use the digital ticket. Which is to say it is …
The 52 players coming to Arsenal as the bloggers start to issue threats What happens when football finance goes wrong: just how close clubs are to collapse. By Tony Attwood Sheffield Wednesday finished last season 42 points and 62 goals off promotion. In short, nowhere near promotion but still easily safe from …
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What happens when football finance goes wrong: just how close clubs are to collapse. Football Finance: how are Arsenal comparing with the rest in obeying the rules By Tony Attwood So Arsenal have signed a player: Kepa Arrizabalaga from Chelsea who is a kepa, sorrry keeper. Last season he played on loan for …
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Football Finance: how are Arsenal comparing with the rest in obeying the rules What happens to a club when the transfer policy goes wrong? By Tony Attwood July means action must happen now for The Arsenal says Suburban Gooners, Now July Is Here, No More Excuses Arsenal says Just Arsenal News and these …
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50 players now coming Arsenal’s way and 12 leaving. Arsenal nearly half way there. What happens when a club starts to go wrong? A work in progress. By Tony Attwood “Debt is something that plagues almost every football club. Indeed only four clubs in Europe are free of it: Paris Saint Germain, Manchester City, …
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50 players now coming Arsenal’s way and 12 leaving. Arsenal nearly half way there. What happens when a club starts to go wrong? A work in progress. By Tony Attwood According to Swiss Ramble (whose reports I absolutely recommend to you especially if you want a more detailed account that I can give here) …
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What happens to a club when the transfer policy goes wrong? It will not be long before another club defaults on its debts By Tony Attwood Arsenal are in real trouble – there can be no doubt about that, for they are currently looking at signing… well, we’ve counted – 50 players. …
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Leicester charged yet again over Profit and Sustainability Rules Tackles, fouls and yellow cards: Arsenal and Leicester compared Why do Leicester get such strange stats for fouls, cards and penalties? Arsenal v Leicester and the very curious case of Leicester’s yellow cards By Tony Attwood Leicester City is the club whose statistics always …
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It will not be long before another club defaults on its debts Which clubs transfers are being hauled in because of PSR rules this summer? By Tony Attwood When one of the top clubs doesn’t win a trophy or perhaps enough trophies, there can be annoyance expressed by fans, leading to demands for …
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By Tony Attwood Just how stupid is it for a PL club to change its manager? Which clubs’ transfers are being hauled in because of PSR rules this summer? According to Statista.com five of the ten football clubs generating the most revenue in the world, are in England. They are in order of …
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By Tony Attwood Which clubs transfers are being hauled in because of PSR rules this summer? Do clubs really join in a “race” for a player. Are there really no plans The flurry of articles this summer saying that Arteta should be sacked and a new man brought in to run Arsenal, caused …
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Arsenal transfer targets reach 47. Nine players leaving (maybe) One example proves that buying more and more players leads to a decline in performance. By Tony Attwood PSR rules are “profit and sustainability rules” and they are the Premier League’s way of controlling some of the spending by clubs. Certain spending is allowed, particularly …
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One example proves that buying more and more players leads to a decline in performance. Transfer doomscrolling: Arsenal are having a bad summer, and you know it It is one of the most common forms of newspaper and blog post at this time of year: Liverpool ‘join Man Utd and Arsenal in race …
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One example proves that buying more and more players leads to a decline in performance. Transfer doomscrolling: Arsenal are having a bad summer, and you know it By Tony Attwood In our last review we looked at how much Arsenal have spent in recent transfer windows. What we can see from the …
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Recent posts Which are the League’s favourite teams, and how are they rewarded Transfer doomscrolling: Arsenal are having a bad summer, and you know it By Tony Attwood One of the most curious features of the transfer window is the desire by seemingly quite a few Arsenal supporters for Arsenal to be more like …
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By Jack Beam Can Arsenal Lift A Trophy In The 2025/26 Season? After repeatedly going close, can Arsenal get their hands on more silverware in the 2025/25 season? Here’s what they need to do. It doesn’t matter which way you look at it; Arsenal have been one of the best teams in the …
The proof: spending money on transfers takes a club DOWN the league Manchester City fined again, and yet it seems to mean nothing By Tony Attwood The Premier League is owned by the Premier League clubs, and so the notion of the League itself having favourites seems a bit curious. And …
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There is something rather confusing and odd about football at the moment How to predict the end of the season after just six games By Tony Attwood An awful lot of people spent an awful lot of 2020 doomscrolling. Then as the pandemic eased off. up, lots of people stopped doomscrolling (reading …
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There is something rather confusing and odd about football at the moment The proof: spending money on transfers takes a club DOWN the league By Tony Attwood What happens when a club comes under wholesale attack day after day during the summer? Quite often it seems the will of the management crumbles and …
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