Alexis wants pay cut to force move; Bale coming to Arsenal; tonight’s team news

by Sir Hardly Anyone. For the first time ever I have seen a bloggetta run a transfer rumour with the headline “Nobody believes it”.  The source is Talkingbaws – which is a new one on me – and it runs like this.  Real Mad are going to buy Kylian Mbappé, just to show that they can. …

What makes a pitch worth ‘a million dollars’? Arsenal’s deal secures its second stadium.

by Andrew Crawshaw The ‘million dollar’ quote is from the Borehamwood FC Chairman following the completion of the installation of the ‘Desso’ pitch at the ground Arsenal will be using for its PL2 and Ladies fixtures for at least the next 10 years. In this article, as a preview to both the opening of the …

Has Arsenal come to a dead stop in terms of transfers: indeed has everyone else?

By Sir Hardly Anyone It is as if someone in football has read my name and instead of seeing it as, well, not to put too fine a point on it, my name, they have taken it as what they should be doing in terms of signing players.  And in fact in the past week …