Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
"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 Slowly, very slowly, there are a few people in the media who are starting to consider the wider issue of the Kroenkes influence on Arsenal in recent years. The issue that is slowly, very slowly, being raised is, is the downturn in Arsenal’s fortunes of late due to poor management by Wenger, …
Read More “How Arsenal got into this mess, and the one thing they must now do.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone I think I am right in saying that never before in the history of never before, have so many players been tipped by so few to go to the Arsenal before the window swings open. There are 42 days before the window swings open (do remember if writing about transfers the …
Read More “63 players tipped for Arsenal! Pre-window transfers reach an all time record”
By Tony Attwood OK, you might be expecting me to argue in a piece about what is wrong with football, that the force blocking all change is the notoriously conservative Football Association, and yes’ I’d go along with that. But there is another force acting against all change, and they are much more powerful than …
Read More “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the agents (Shakespeare, almost)”
By Sir Hardly Anyone A quick peek in through the shuttered windows of the Toppled Bollard (favourite drinking house of football journalists across London) reveals the awful truth. It’s shut. Which is why the rumour mill has gone into hyperplus overdrive as those who make up the summer transfer tales eschew their normal drinking hole …
Read More “The 49 players now tipped for Arsenal this summer”
By Tony Attwood Slowly it has been realised: the clubs across Europe owe around £4.5bn in transfer fees. Of course in one way it can be said that that is not a crisis since everyone owes everyone else, so if A pays B then B pays C etc and ultimately we’ll be ok. But in …
Read More “£4.5bn is in outstanding transfer fees, and few have got the money to pay.”
by Sir Hardly Anyone “The six players Arsenal must sell this summer to give Mikel Arteta the squad he needs” is a challenging headline. Six? I mean really six? More than half a squad??? All sold at once??? Of course, some of them might be youngsters or players who are already out on loan, but …
Read More “Is this a real attempt to undermine Arsenal, or just whacky gibberish?”
by Sir Hardly Anyone Although the media started the enforced Winter Break by shouting about the players Arsenal were going to buy and should be selling, they have settled down a little, seemingly finding few new names since the initial outburst to pull out of imaginary hats – perhaps because this imaginary transfer window has …
Read More “The eight Arsenal transfer stories currently being talked up – all gathered together.”
by Sir Hardly Anyone Strangest headline of the day: after months of knocking Mustafi at every turn Goal gives us this one, “Arteta confirms Arsenal looking for reinforcements after Mustafi injury blow”. Two weeks ago an injury to Mustafi would have been hailed in the media as a bonus for Arsenal! Now it seems to …
Read More “The 42 players tipped by all-knowing journalists to be signing for Arsenal.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Follow the video on Untold Gooner News According to the latest gossip Pablo Mari is on the verge of a move to Arsenal after the Spanish defender flew into London to complete the formalities of a £7million transfer from Flamengo. So says the Telegraph. Is it true? At the moment, I’ve …
By Tony Attwood Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews There are still no signs of an agreement as to which footballers will be allowed to play in the UK in the aftermath of Britain leaving the European Union. The initial worry – that the …
Read More “No agreement on transfer regulations as Britain leaves the EU heralds league chaos”
By Sir Hardly Anyone. Just Arsenal have an interesting take on Arsenal’s future with the headline “The Arsenal board are close to sabotaging Mikel Arteta”. The headline leads to a statement that the Arsenal board needs to back Mikel Arteta, but that they are not. The point is made that “Arteta is having to deal …
Read More “All the players Arsenal are going to sign this window”
By Sir Hardly Anyone I am not sure there has ever been a transfer window like this with such a paucity of transfer news as we have in this one. Normally by now we’d expect to have 40 to 50 men coming to Arsenal, but this January, its very poor. Very, very poor. Just 23, …
Read More “Transfer table update: the 23 players Arsenal are tipped to be buying”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Having more or less run out of players to tip as being the men about to join Arsenal, the media have reversed their strategy today and are now looking for players that they can claim are about to leave. Unfortunately one of the pre-requisites for being a football journalist these days …
Read More “Arsenal players must be sold as new tactical approach revealed, but no money”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Untold Video Updates: We’re continuing to experiment with our video commentaries: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews Oh yes. We have a new manager so now we have a list of all the players that we are going to buy. And here, right before your very eyes, we have …
Read More “The signings we are going to make in January and the players being promoted”
By Roger Miller Arsenal could be shorn of the services of fan favourite Nacho Monreal after he was heavily linked with a move back to Spain. The left-back was one of the few Gunners stars to emerge with any credit from a dismal 2017/18 campaign as he impressed with some solid displays. He has been …
Read More “Is Monreal really leaving? A lack of alternatives could be worrying.”
By Tim Charlesworth My last article talked about the two big gambles that Wenger took in constructing the squad in the summer of 2015. The first gamble was in midfield and the second was in the striker/no 9 position. So now we take a look at last season’s strikers. We went into the season with …
Read More “Strikers: the second Arsenal gamble of Summer 2015 (and will we buy this summer?)”
As the cleaners move in to tidy up all the shards of glass that were smashed when the transfer window slammed shut we woke up to find we have one extra international footballer. Welcome Danny Wellbeck! Once before I attempted to see where our current squad would be getting injured while away from Arsenal duty, …
Read More “Untold internationals (or the interlull as @arseblog calls it!)”
