When spending a fortune in football can go seriously wrong

By Tony Attwood Last season Barcelona became the biggest earning operation in football, up 22% on the previous year pulling in €840.8 million in that year.  Around 10% more than Real Madrid.  They had money everywhere.  What could possibly go wrong? One could have asked a supporter of AC Milan, the third-wealthiest club in football …

Are Arsenal really the bad boys of football, as some want to suggest?

By Tony Attwood Two headlines caught my attention.   One read, “Seven times Arsenal tried to ‘lowball’ clubs in the transfer market” and the other was, “Latest Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang update is not good news.” The two headlines come from one article within which the story is simple.  Arsenal continuously muck about in transfers, pulling every silly …