Edu has done a brilliant job in handling the “25”, and apologies to him are needed

By Tony Attwood The great fear that I personally had for this window was that Mr Arteta would repeat his unwelcome trick of dropping players from the squad, without arranging a loan or a transfer for them.  But rough and ready calculations by Untold (always notoriously unreliable when it comes to sorting out the 25 …

How PL clubs spent less this summer and yet still bought more players

By Sir Hardly Anyone Since 1 January, all players transferred from EU countries to English clubs have required an endorsement from the Football Association to be granted a work permit, and English clubs have been banned from signing under 18 year olds from foreign lands. This, it was feared, could have had a major impact …

Takehiro Tomiyasu makes us the top spenders, and most went on the defence

By Sir Hardly Anyone In the end we bought six out of the 134 players tipped by journalists and bloggers to be joining us, a success rate for the journalists and bloggers of about 4.5%.  That was their highest ever success rate in tipping transfers since we  started counting – mostly brought about by a) …