Month: August 2021

By Sir Hardly Anyone On this page we have rumours number 65 to 124, making this now the transfer window with the most rumours ever since we started covering them about 12 years ago. What’s interesting is just how shameless this all is.   The newspapers and websites that come up with these stories know that …

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By Sir Hardly Anyone I noticed this little quote the other day: “The Arsenal management’s inability to manage the squad, manage transfers, and inspire trust is obvious to anyone watching.”  (Just Arsenal). But given that there are now 124 players coming to Arsenal, according to the blogs and newspapers, surely the true quote ought to be …

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By Sir Hardly Anyone The media’s aim is to make Arsenal look stupid and to suggest that they (the media) know more than the lollipops running the club.  It’s not a conspiracy, just a cheap way of filling the media space, and since the fans get little news from the club, this makes some fans …

Read More “The strange story of Leno, Martinez, Ramsdale and an out-of-work Spurs player”

by Sir Hardly Anyone The transfer window slams shut (please note it never closes, but it always slams shut) on Tuesday, 31 August at 23:00 BST. And currently rather a large number of clubs are getting rather worried for a variety of reasons. The problem is that of financial projections – which basically means clubs …

Read More “What’s gone wrong in the transfer market? In essence, everything.”

By Tony Attwood “I think we showed some really positive stuff and some worrying stuff when we gave the ball away in difficult positions, and when we had to do defensive organisation, it opened spaces in difficult moments. “For what we could do against that team and where we are in pre-season, I think it …

Read More “How “I think that was positive” was turned into “Arteta’s worried” by the media”

By Tony Attwood Throughout the last couple of months the media have kept up the incessant talk that all is not well at Arsenal and major reforms are now required to the playing squad, and quite possibly the backroom staff as well. Yesterday a 1500 word article on Arsenal appeared in the Guardian analysing their …

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By Tony Attwood You may read that this was a 1-2 victory to Chelsea but actually Arsenal scored two perfectly reasonable goals.  However, one was ruled not a goal because the ref, who was standing about 12 yards from the goal line, couldn’t tell if the ball had gone over the line.  It had, beyond …

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By Bulldog Drummond So we return to the pre-season games after an interruption with the cancellation of the American trip, with the game against Chelsea. Despite the cancellation of the American meander we have managed to put in a few friendly games 13 July: Hibernian 2-1 Arsenal (Easter Road) 17 July: Rangers 2-2 Arsenal (Ibrox …

Read More “Arsenal v Chelsea: The Mind Series. Build up and the team predictions”