Aubameyang’s dad sets the transfer market alight

by Sir Hardly Anyone. It is, of course, most important to eat only in the best restaurants where one meets the right people and so the dinner which involved Ousmane Dembele and his chums at Arsenal has produced the wagging of tongues and the moving of mouths. For there was our new superhero Mattéo Guendouzi …

Mustafi leaving, Kulusevski deal on, NZonzi awaits, Cârjan deal done, Niang & Vida maybe, Dembele yes.

By Sir Hardly Anyone These are confusing times in the transfer market, and indeed as my old chum and informant Sir Jasper Fish III said just last night in the Toppled Bollard public house off the Old Kent Road, as I pointed out yet more confusing reports of the comings and goings, “It just shows …

Nine weird stories, rows, twists and turns as the transfer window closure get closer.

By Billy “the dog” McGraw Our weird news correspondent.  And Trends Editor. With all the bits and pieces about who Arsenal are and are not signing, it is easy to lose track of some of the other events around football at the moment.  But they are still worth taking a look at because individually and …

How Arsenal will line up in the coming season, and being a trends editor.

By Tony Attwood Here is a line up for the coming season that in popular among journalists and bloggers… Bernd Leno; Hector Bellerin, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Shkordran Mustafi, Nacho Monreal; Lucas Torreira, Aaron Ramsey; Alex Iwobi, Mesut Ozil, Henrikh Mkhitaryan; Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.   And a variant Petr Cech; Hector Bellerin, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Shkordran Mustafi, Sead Kolasinac; …

Arsenal v Chelsea in the ICC. The teams, the game, the commentary. ARSENAL WIN

Aubameyang leads the line Ramsey, Guendouzi and Elneny start in midfield Sokratis partners Mustafi at the back Cech (c) Bellerin   Papastathopoulos   Mustafi   Kolasinac Guendouzi  Elneny Ramsey Ozil    Mkhitaryan    Aubameyang Substitutes Leno, Chambers,  Mavropanos, Holding, Maitland-Niles, Iwobi, E. Smith Rowe, Nketiah, Nelson That’s the confirmed line up.   Chelsea’s team W. Caballero,  Azpilicueta (c), David Luiz, Rudiger, Marcos …

Arsenal v Chelsea: the predictions, the line up, the league table.

By Bulldog Drummond So here we are again in the next round of the ICC.   We’ve drawn/lost one, and won one thus far, and here’s the league table.  Chelsea’s previous game was a 1-1 draw with Inter which they won 5-4 on penalties. Pos Team P W WP LP L F A Pts 1. Tottenham …

Transfer Window creaking closed not with a bang but with tedium.

by Sir Hardly Anyone Maybe it is the change of arrangements, what with bringing the end of the window back to mid-August – a bit like having an extension done to your house by making the garden bigger and the living room smaller.  (Sorry that doesn’t quite work but I am trying to play with …