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By Sir Hardly Anyone ‘Look at the players Arsenal are talking to’ – Finance guru impressed by club’s transfer plans. That comes from Football Insider, but it is also worth remembering that across the last few years, as we have been measuring transfer rumours and actual transfers each summer, only around 3% of the players …
By Tony Attwood It is, of course, hard to imagine that instead of paying to get into a game, the reverse happens, but apparently (according to newspaper “reports”) that is how it is for some countries at the World Cup. Top of the list of “we’ll pay you to attend” is Qatar, who now pay …
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How Arsemal can beat AI predictions in terms of football trends When the world turns against us, there’s nowhere to go By Jack Deams I am sure everyone knows that a Premier League squad cannot consist of more than 25 senior players. And yet the technicalities of that ruling are somehow forgotten on …
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One of the simplest observations that one can make about artificial intelligence is that in essence, it is simple: it measures trends, and then, based on those trends, it makes predictions. But football managers don’t always do what the predictions say they will do, not least because sometimes, despite their best efforts, they can’t …
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By Tony Attwood The most fulsome apologies. I handle Untold Arsenal from my home in the EasMidlands, and although we have beautiful blue skies, last night, where I live we had an enormous storm which knocked out the power supplies. I am writing this on a battery-powered laptop and hoping I can actually …
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————- We are now up to players whose names are being associated with a link to Arsenal this summer, with no less than a third of these possible transfers being mentioned in the media in the past three or four days. What we seem to be getting, particularly this summer, is every journalist …
The world cup ball is a ball like no other – but why is it introduced now? Why so many managers get sacked and why clubs can’t appoint the right manager By Tony Attwood As you might have guessed, I don’t have much interest in international football, so I use international breaks …
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Why so many managers get sacked and why clubs can’t appoint the right manager The 25 players Arsenal are preparing to buy this summer By Tony Attwood It has always struck me that if the World Cup, which I don’t particularly care for since it invariably ends up injuring players I would like …
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The 25 players Arsenal are preparing to buy this summer Aaropn Ramsey gets a new job, Monga to Arsenal, England flutter in the WC By Tony Attwood As you might recall we’ve taken a bit of interest in the issue of the sacking of football club managers of late, and it is …
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Every summer, newspapers and websites list 100 or more players who journalists report are going to be transferred to Arsenal in this window. However, only Untold Arsenal indexes the list to see how accurate these predictions are. Thus, this is the reference point between the predictions and reality; a unique and invaluable guide to …
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The 25 players Arsenal are now preparing to buy this summer Around one in four WC players weren’t born in the country they represent, By Tony Attwood So it now looks as if Bukayo Saka is going to play in the final England qualifier in order to try and get the country out of its hole. The WC …
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Around one in four WC players weren’t born in the country they represent, We have an injury table, but where is the minor niggles table? By Tony Attwood These are the main transfers that we have found scanning through the media on the morning of 23rd June 2026. That doesn’t mean that there are not others lurking in …
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We have an injury table, but where is the minor niggles table? Transfers tales: the 20 players tipped as coming to Arsenal What is the one statistic that a club needs in order to win the Premier League? By Tony Attwood And to take that headline on a bit further, no fewer than …
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Transfers tales: the 20 players tipped as coming to Arsenal What is the one statistic that a club needs in order to win the Premier League? By Tony Attwood It was only yesterday that we had “Arsenal concern as Saliba admits playing through pain at World Cup” from MSN. This is one of those …
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By Illget Myman The media seems as full as ever with names of players (many we must admit we have never heard of) who are at any moment going to come to Arsenal. In fact, what we have done today is pick out the first 20 we’ve found – but there are many more, …
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What’s upsetting Fifa: maybe we should just sit down and read a book The opening fixture and a very early thought about how the new season will start. By Tony Attwood As I am absolutely sure you will know, no club other than Arsenal has gone a whole season unbeaten. But that doesn’t mean …
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The opening fixture and a very early thought about how the new season will start. What Vieira has been doing as Arsenal continue to place emphasis on youngsters By Tony Attwood By and large, I leave commentary on World Cup affairs to others, just slipping in my odd thought on the fact that …
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What Vieira has been doing as Arsenal continue to place emphasis on youngsters Arsenal transfer rumours: the accumulated rumour list By Tony Attwood As ever, the FA and those people who think that international matches are more important than the games between the league clubs that actually pay players’ wages, are mucking about …
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Arsenal transfer rumours: the accumulated rumour list How about a discount for Arsenal season ticket holders who find Rice can’t play at the start of next season? By Tony Attwood Of course, to some degree, one must feel a little sorry for the journalists who are forced to write about England’s World Cup …
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Compiled from headlines and links posted by individual websites. Gathered by Tony Attwood and the Untold team. If you spot some more, please email Tony@schools.co.uk and don’t forget we need the player’s name, his position, who he plays for at the moment, where you saw the story, and how much the player might cost. …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal could run out of players at the start of next season How Arsenal can win the league again next season How to treat the World Cup, that is the dilemma of the media. I mean they can’t run articles like If PSG and Arsenal played in the same league…. but …
How Arsenal can win the league again next season Arsenal could run out of players at the start of next season By Tony Attwood Before I begin, the main topic of this morning, here’s an update on the injury issues. There are two Arsenal men out at the moment: White and Timber, so …
Arsenal could run out of players at the start of next season World cup fans being treated with contempt in USA – just as always By Tony Attwood OK, like me, you probably know the table at the end of last season off by heart, but just to make sure no one has …
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On the Arsenal History Society website we are celebrating Arsenal’s 100 consecutive seasons in the top divison. The latest episode is Arsenal 2001/2: the problem of scoring, and after three second places, Arsenal come top – and that article links to a complete index of the entire series, tracing the club’s 100 season run …
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Fifa is a dictatorship says Neville – and we’re so glad he’s finally caught up How long can a keeper hold on the ball for; and how many players missed the WC through injury? By Tony Attwood One of the most outrageous positions taken up by Englsih media is that “our” referees are …
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