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Arsenal appear to be spending rather a lot of money Forecasting without reality: how Tottenham will knock Arsenal out of the top four By Tony Attwood The current narrative in the media is clear, and is set out in an article in the Athletic: “Moving from ‘Project Youth 2.0’ going into the 2021-22 …
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Forecasting without reality: how Tottenham will knock Arsenal out of the top four 36 players joining Arsenal; 22 leaving the club, and next season’s line up. By Tony Attwood 10 years ago Untold Arsenal ran the headline Half of Arsenal’s mid-field and attack will be different next season and the talk at that …
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The great danger of having only one top striker in your team 36 players joining Arsenal, 22 leaving By Tony Attwood In January 2012 Louis Saha joined Tottenham and stated, “I’m joining the most dynamic and exciting team in the country.” At that moment Tottenham were third in the league just five …
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The great danager of having only one top striker in your team Do Arsenal really want Declan Rice or is it just a hoax? By Sir Hardly Anyone The main news is of course Rice, and whether Arsenal and West Ham can agree a deal. According to Goal.Com and some other sources, …
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Do Arsenal really want Declan Rice or is it just a hoax? The list of “what Arsenal need” is truly bonkers The striker problem in football by Tony Attwood There is today talk in the media of H. Kane leaving Tottenham H. for pastures new. Or given the way Tottenham have been …
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The list of “what Arsenal need” is truly bonkers Fifa decide to give club football more competitions and more matches By Sir Hardly Anyone Last transfer window over 25 different publications ran the story that Arsenal were signing Mykhaylo Mudryk. Between them they ran the story over 50 times. HITC alone ran …
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Fifa decide to give club football more competitions and more matches Tottenham and Leicester saved from relegation after rule change By Sir Hardly Anyone One of the prime tactics of many top clubs during the summer is not, as might seem to be the case, to buy the players that they want, but …
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Fifa launch another competition Tottenham and Leicester saved from relegation after rule change Can the Premier League be saved from Middle Eastern domination and control? By Tony Attwood As you may have realized, Fifa are becoming ever more active in organizing events in order to try and avoid any rebirth of the Super …
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Arsenal under 21s Can the Premier League be saved from Middle Eastern domination and control? The reasons why some player transfers just never work out. By Tony Attwood Tottenham and Leicester City have not, I hasten to add, been saved from relegation from the Premier League itself (what with Leicester down, and Tottenham …
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Can the Premier League be saved? The reasons why some player transfers just never work out. Last season’s Arsenal transfers: what difference did they make? What we now have is a sovereign wealth fund owning not just six clubs in the Champions League which was a worry a while back, but also the threat …
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How clubs decide on transfers The players Arsenal are buying and selling. What are they smoking in Fleet Street? Top six after six: how time and again surprise rises then head for a fall. By Sir Hardly Anyone One of the obvious complexities of discussing transfers is the fact, as we have often …
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Do football transfers work? The players Arsenal are buying and selling. What are they smoking in Fleet Street? Top six after six: how time and again surprise rises are followed by a fall. By Sir Hardly Anyone The distance between reality and the media hype about transfers grows wider by the day, but …
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Top six after six: how time and again surprise rises then head for a fall. Arsenal will replace Xhaka with Havertz this week to help Chelsea resolve their finances By Sir Hardley Anyone This is the fourth summer transfer window running that Arsenal have been “linked” with the transfer of Zaha, which …
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Arsenal will replace Xhaka with Havertz this week to help Chelsea resolve their finances What difference did last summer’s transfers make? (Apparently most were flops) By Sir Hardly Anyone Just before the start of every season a number of websites and newspapers run a story with a headline along the lines of “5 …
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What difference did last summer’s transfers make? (Apparently most were flops) FA once again get away with incompetence over Charity Shield kick off By Tony Attwood According to an article in the Athletic, Arsenal are signing (have signed, will sign) Kai Havertz and change the man who spent last season playing as Chelsea’s …
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FA once again get away with incompetence over Charity Shield kick off There is something fishy about PGMO referees (even more than we knew before) By Tony Attwood The Daily Mirror is one of the leading purveyors of football transfer gossip and most of it is pretty unappealing stuff, but they do …
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There is something fishy about PGMO referees (even more than we knew before) Football as we know it about to be blown apart (by the side effects of current deals) By Tony Attwood As you will know by now the kick-off time for the Community Shield match against Manchester City on 6 …
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Comparing Man City and Bayern Munich is certainly not a good idea! Why this summer’s transfers will tell us little about Arsenal in 2023/4 Analyses by Mike McFarlane, commentary by Tony Attwood We have known for some time that some referees tend to oversee home wins, and some away wins. So we wanted …
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Comparing Man City and Bayern Munich is certainly not a good idea! Why this summer’s transfers will tell us little about Arsenal in 2023/4 By Tony Attwood It has taken a little while for the implication of the new Saudi Arabian football league to catch the media’s fullest attention, but slowly, very slowly …
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Why this summer’s transfers will tell us little about Arsenal in 2023/4 “Arsenal just need a striker to complete the team” Really? By Tony Attwood Football is by and large about comparisons – what one team has done compared to another both in terms of results and in terms of their financial …
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“Arsenal just need a striker to complete the team” Really? 28 players Arsenal planning to sign; 20 players leaving this summer. By Tony Attwood It is an interesting fact, often ignored by commentators on Premier League football that the spending on transfers over a couple of seasons doesn’t actually equate with immediately …
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The difficult run at the start of next season: how the league might look after nine games Don’t hold your breath: the supercomputers are back By Sir Hardly Anyone The legal website Claims.co.uk has given an interesting review of how transfers are allowed to work. The article emphasizes that clubs must talk …
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Don’t hold your breath: the super computers are back Where is football actually heading? Well, since you ask, Saudi Arabia. What are the hardest games for Arsenal during the course of the season? As things stand we might consider Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Liverpool, and Tottenham as the tough ones, and …
Where is football actually heading? Well, since you ask, Saudi Arabia. How the Premier League manages to have a feeling of continuity By Tony Attwood Clearly no one takes any notice of my ramblings – well, I knew that anyway, but I thought maybe some commentators would realise that the notion …
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How the Premier League manages to have a feeling of continuity The solutions are there: why don’t the clubs take note of how to move forward? By Tony Attwood At the end of the last decade the Gulf blockade (in which Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut diplomatic …
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