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 Sir Hardly Anyone It is surely the biggest indictment so far of the millions of pages of rumours spread across thousands of bloggettas and newspapers that virtually no one picked up in advance on the loan of Emiliano Martinez to Getafe CF, before it happened. All those inside stories from people really in the know …
Read More “Arsenal make shock goalkeeper move; rumour mongers left looking extremely silly”
By Tony Attwood For Paris Saint-Germain the issue of the Neymar transfer is not just one of getting the player. It is a case of getting the player and not getting debarred from, or penalised within, the Champions League. Of course PSG know a bit about FFP since they have already come under fire from …
Read More “How PSG plan to get round FFP and where that plan has gone wrong.”
by Tony Attwood Reading the always interesting “A cultured left foot” blog this morning in relation to the decision by Kroenke to bring his big game hunting channel to the UK, I came across the sentence “The reality is that while the MOTV incident brings football into disrepute, nothing will be done.” And yes, I …
By Sir Hardly Anyone There are seven new players on Arsenal’s transfer list this week taking the grand total to 89 players who are said to be joining Arsenal this summer. Last year it was 114 and we have got 31 days left to find the missing 26 players that will make this the all …
Read More “Seven players not previously announced to join Arsenal and a jolly jape.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone According to the Daily Mail, Arsenal’s “summer clear-out” has been “delayed with players refusing to take pay cuts to join new clubs.” So at last, we have our Arsenal summer crisis. The players won’t leave!!! Well, at least it is original. Anyway the headline grabbing news is that, “Arsenal are …
Read More “Arsenal in crisis as players refuse to transfer to other clubs even when asked nicely”
By Walter Broeckx With the Emirates Cup finished one could say that the fun part of the preseason is over. Mind you I don’t know if the players will have found this part the “fun part”. I can imagine them more thinking in terms of the terrible part. With all the running they have to …
Read More “Judging the young guns after pre-season: who will make it, who will quietly fade away.”
