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What do Arsenal’s pre-season games tell us? Unfortunately quite a lot. A case study: what’s wrong with this Arsenal rumour? By Tony Attwood In May 2018 Unai Emery arrived at Arsenal as the club’s new manager. He had been manager at Sevilla between 2013 and 2016 and Paris Saint Germain from 2016 …
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Arsenal’s pre-season friendlies A case study: what’s wrong with this Arsenal rumour How Arsenal and Manchester City have followed the same path (but others have not) By Tony Attwood There seems to be no regular pattern these days to Arsenal’s pre-season these days except that America is featuring in such matches more and …
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A case study: what’s wrong with this Arsenal rumour Arsenal v Manchester United. Saturday 22nd at 10pm. The preview We have a statement on the starting XI for tonight’s match, kick off 10pm BST… Ramsdale Timber Gabriel Saliba Tomiyasu Rice Havertz Odegaard (c) Saka Nketiah Martinelli Substitutes Hein, Rúnarsson, Tierney, White, …
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Arsenal v Manchester United. Saturday 22nd at 10pm. The preview part 1 How Arsenal and Manchester City have followed the same path (but others have not) By Tony Attwood Charlie Gordon is a “Brand Writer” at Express Sport. And to be quite clear, he is not a copywriter, he is a …
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Arsenal v Man U preview How Arsenal and Manchester City have followed the same path (but others have not) Arsenal transfers: a perfect example of how make-believe rumours work By Bulldog Drummond Manchester United have so far played two pre-season friendlies – beating Lyon 1-0 and Leeds United 2-0, having ended last season …
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Arsenal / Man City = the secret Arsenal transfers: a perfect example of how make-believe rumours work The Women’s World Cup – 15 Arsenal Players Involved Arsenal anniversaries 21 July. The birthday of Tom Whittaker By Tony Attwood and data from Who Scored The team that had the lowest number of shots against …
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by Sir Hardly Anyone The Women’s World Cup – 15 Arsenal Players Involved Arsenal vs Wayne’s World. Wow, wow and wow, that was good. We have often noted that each summer around 97% to 98% of the stories running in the media about players Arsenal are buying, result in no purchase. No …
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Arsenal v MLS all stars team news and a bit of a worry about Kane from the Lane Arsenal’s 25 man squad for next season: how is it shaping up? Today’s anniversary: Adebayor from £3m to £25m to £0 is six years By Tony Attwood In case you were, like me, too old …
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Arsenal’s 25 man squad for next season: how is it shaping up? Does it matter if European clubs are getting upset with the English By Sir Hardly Anyone Tomorrow morning (at least tomorrow in the UK) at 0130 BST Arsenal are again in action against the MLS All Stars. We are told …
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How football has become a house of cards that is very likely to fall at any moment Arsenal v MLS All Stars: early team news Every year from about mid-July I start trying to whittle down the number of players that Arsenal have got on their books in order to get to the …
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How football has become a house of cards that is very likely to fall at any moment Arsenal v MLS All Stars: early team news Arsenal anniversaries 19 July: A youngster called Bellerin appears for the first time Attendance data in this article comes from Footballwebpages By Tony Attwood We are now, as …
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Arsenal v MLS All Stars: early team news Football is bust: enjoy it while you can, because it is not going to last in this form. By Tony Attwood Arsenal’s current approach of building a young versatile squad by promoting their own youth players and buying in others at high expense, with …
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Football is bust: enjoy it while you can, because it is not going to last in this form. Football is teetering on the edge of a financial disaster: here’s why and how By Tony Attwood Arsenal have announced the squad for the forthcoming games in America and the first thing that we might …
44 players coming to Arsenal; 22 players leaving: the full list 3 players for every position; 3 positions for every player, and they all want to be at Arsenal By Tony Attwood “Football is unsustainable — since the start of the Premier League in 1992, there have been 64 incidents of clubs in the …
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3 players for every position; 3 positions for every player, and they all want to be at Arsenal Football is teetering on the edge of a financial disaster: here’s why and how By Sir Hardly Anyone There are of course two ways of writing up football transfer rumours, which make up the vast …
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How Arsenal are evolving a new set of tactics to overtake Man City What will the first three matches of the new season tell us about Arsenal? By Tony Attwood There are, of course, 20 Premier League managers. The oldest is David Moyes born in 1963. The youngest is Vincent Kimpany born in …
Why Nurnberg, and what did we learn? Football Finances By Bulldog Drummond We are used to clubs having debts. For example in their 2020 annual meeting, Real Madrid revealed that they had aggregated a debt of €901 million. Not to be outdone Barcelona’s vice-president, revealed that the club’s provisional adjusted debt now stands at over €1bn …
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Football Finances How Manchester City manage their defence in a way others can’t. Arsenal anniversaries 15 July. Wenger joins Legion d’Honneur; Martinelli’s debut By Sir Hardly Anyone It was completely clear from start to end that the match against Nurnberg was very much the first tryout of the season. And clear that a lot …
What will the first three matches of the new season tell us about Arsenal? 155 transfer reports; 44 players incoming; 22 leaving and 1 spotted at the airport By Tony Attwood As we have noted many times, most football clubs are in debt – often huge amounts of debt. That debt is …
By Tony Attwood How Arsenal are evolving a new set of tactics to overtake Man City What will the first three matches of the new season tell us about Arsenal? Arsenal’s History: Arsenal’s first ever away match excursion Last season Manchester City and Newcastle United each conceded 33 goals, which is ten goals …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone How Arsenal are evolving a new set of tactics to overtake Man City What will the first three matches of the new season tell us about Arsenal? The game will kick off at 6pm UK time, (or to put it another way 1800 BST) and all 90 minutes …
What will the first three matches of the new season tell us about Arsenal? 155 transfer reports; 44 players incoming; 22 leaving and 1 spotted at the airport Arsenal anniversaries 12 July: Caesar, Graham, Kennedy and winning the world cup By Tony Attwood In the past ten years Manchester City have …
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155 transfer reports; 44 players incoming; 22 leaving and 1 spotted at the airport Where Arsenal players sit in terms of the most valuable players in the world Arsenal anniversaries: Edu arrives, but has problems with his passport. By Tony Attwood Although it is quite possible that by the time you read …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone. Yes it has been a long old time since any scribbler dropped into the depths of spotting a player at an airport (often an unnamed airport) and from that decided that he wasn’t nipping off to meet his girlfriend’s mother, but was actually coming to Arsenal, or …
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Arsenal’s opening fixtures moved for TV and the problems Arsenal are left with Football’s fundamental problem: the lack of proper checks and balances By Tony Attwood According to Football Observatory the most valuable player in the world is Erling Haaland who is currently valued by that research site at €245.1m. But …
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