Arsenal transfers: a perfect example of how make-believe rumours work

      by Sir Hardly Anyone The Women’s World Cup – 15 Arsenal Players Involved Arsenal vs Wayne’s World. Wow, wow and wow, that was good. We have often noted that each summer around 97% to 98% of the stories running in the media about players Arsenal are buying, result in no purchase.  No …

The Women’s World Cup – 15 Arsenal Players Involved

      Arsenal vs Wayne’s World. Wow, wow and wow, that was good. Arsenal v MLS all stars team news and a bit of a worry about Kane from the Lane by Andrew Crawshaw The FIFA Women’s World Cup gets underway in Australia and New Zealand today (20 July) and closes a month later …

Arsenal vs Wayne’s World. Wow, wow and wow, that was good.

    Arsenal v MLS all stars team news and a bit of a worry about Kane from the Lane Arsenal’s 25 man squad for next season: how is it shaping up? Today’s anniversary: Adebayor from £3m to £25m to £0 is six years By Tony Attwood In case you were, like me, too old …

Arsenal v MLS all stars team news and a bit of a worry about Kane from the Lane

      Arsenal’s 25 man squad for next season: how is it shaping up? Does it matter if European clubs are getting upset with the English By Sir Hardly Anyone Tomorrow morning (at least tomorrow in the UK) at 0130 BST Arsenal are again in action against the MLS All Stars.  We are told …

Arsenal’s 25 man squad for next season: how is it shaping up?

    How football has become a house of cards that is very likely to fall at any moment Arsenal v MLS All Stars: early team news Every year from about mid-July I start trying to whittle down the number of players that Arsenal have got on their books in order to get to the …

Does it matter if European clubs are getting upset with the English

    How football has become a house of cards that is very likely to fall at any moment Arsenal v MLS All Stars: early team news Arsenal anniversaries 19 July: A youngster called Bellerin appears for the first time Attendance data in this article comes from Footballwebpages By Tony Attwood We are now, as …

How football has become a house of cards that is very likely to fall at any moment

      Arsenal v MLS All Stars: early team news Football is bust: enjoy it while you can, because it is not going to last in this form. By Tony Attwood Arsenal’s current approach of building a young versatile squad by promoting their own youth players and buying in others at high expense, with …

Arsenal v MLS All Stars: early team news

    Football is bust: enjoy it while you can, because it is not going to last in this form. Football is teetering on the edge of a financial disaster: here’s why and how By Tony Attwood Arsenal have announced the squad for the forthcoming games in America and the first thing that we might …

Football is bust: enjoy it while you can, because it is not going to last in this form.

  44 players coming to Arsenal; 22 players leaving: the full list 3 players for every position; 3 positions for every player, and they all want to be at Arsenal By Tony Attwood “Football is unsustainable — since the start of the Premier League in 1992, there have been 64 incidents of clubs in the …

44 players coming to Arsenal; 22 players leaving: the full list

    3 players for every position; 3 positions for every player, and they all want to be at Arsenal Football is teetering on the edge of a financial disaster: here’s why and how By Sir Hardly Anyone There are of course two ways of writing up football transfer rumours, which make up the vast …

3 players for every position; 3 positions for every player, and they all want to be at Arsenal

    How Arsenal are evolving a new set of tactics to overtake Man City What will the first three matches of the new season tell us about Arsenal? By Tony Attwood There are, of course, 20 Premier League managers.  The oldest is David Moyes born in 1963.  The youngest is Vincent Kimpany born in …

Football is teetering on the edge of a financial disaster: here’s why and how

  Why Nurnberg, and what did we learn? Football Finances By Bulldog Drummond We are used to clubs having debts.  For example in their 2020 annual meeting, Real Madrid revealed that they had aggregated a debt of €901 million.  Not to be outdone Barcelona’s vice-president, revealed that the club’s provisional adjusted debt now stands at over €1bn …

Why Nurnberg, and what did we learn?

  Football Finances How Manchester City manage their defence in a way others can’t. Arsenal anniversaries 15 July. Wenger joins Legion d’Honneur; Martinelli’s debut By Sir Hardly Anyone It was completely clear from start to end that the match against Nurnberg was very much the first tryout of the season.   And clear that a lot …

Football Finances: it is just like a casino

      What will the first three matches of the new season tell us about Arsenal? 155 transfer reports; 44 players incoming; 22 leaving and 1 spotted at the airport By Tony Attwood As we have noted many times, most football clubs are in debt – often huge amounts of debt.  That debt is …

How Manchester City manage their defence in a way others can’t.

    By Tony Attwood How Arsenal are evolving a new set of tactics to overtake Man City What will the first three matches of the new season tell us about Arsenal? Arsenal’s History: Arsenal’s first ever away match excursion Last season Manchester City and Newcastle United each conceded 33 goals, which is ten goals …

It’s Nurnberg v Arsenal, on Arsenal TV tonight

      By Sir Hardly Anyone How Arsenal are evolving a new set of tactics to overtake Man City What will the first three matches of the new season tell us about Arsenal? The game will kick off at 6pm UK time, (or to put it another way 1800 BST) and all 90 minutes …

How Arsenal are evolving a new set of tactics to overtake Man City

        What will the first three matches of the new season tell us about Arsenal? 155 transfer reports; 44 players incoming; 22 leaving and 1 spotted at the airport Arsenal anniversaries 12 July: Caesar, Graham, Kennedy and winning the world cup By Tony Attwood In the past ten years Manchester City have …

What will the first three matches of the new season tell us about Arsenal?

      155 transfer reports; 44 players incoming; 22 leaving and 1 spotted at the airport Where Arsenal players sit in terms of the most valuable players in the world Arsenal anniversaries: Edu arrives, but has problems with his passport. By Tony Attwood Although it is quite possible that by the time you read …

155 transfer reports; 44 players incoming; 22 leaving and 1 spotted at the airport

        By Sir Hardly Anyone. Yes it has been a long old time since any scribbler dropped into the depths of spotting a player at an airport (often an unnamed airport) and from that decided that he wasn’t nipping off to meet his girlfriend’s mother, but was actually coming to Arsenal, or …

Where Arsenal players sit in terms of the most valuable players in the world

        Arsenal’s opening fixtures moved for TV and the problems Arsenal are left with Football’s fundamental problem: the lack of proper checks and balances By Tony Attwood According to Football Observatory the most valuable player in the world is Erling Haaland who is currently valued by that research site at €245.1m.  But …

Arsenal’s opening fixtures moved for TV and the problems Arsenal are left with

      Football’s fundamental problem: the lack of proper checks and balances For Arsenal moving forward it is not a case of belief: it is clearly worked out system For Arsenal it is not belief but a scientifically worked out system. Part 2 And from the anniversary files – remembering Bob McNab By Tony …

Football’s fundamental problem: the lack of proper checks and balances

      For Arsenal moving forward it is not a case of belief: it is clearly worked out system For Arsenal it is not belief but a scientifically worked out system. Part 2 By Tony Attwood Anyone who studies any aspect of being a citizen in one of the western democratic countries learns about …

For Arsenal it is not belief but a scientifically worked out system. Part 2

      The great Chelsea fire sale and how clubs are now manipulating FFP Arsenal to unveil Wenger statue, completing the fans’ proposal of 13 years ago By Tony Attwood I ended part one of this article with the notion that what has been going on at Arsenal is “analysis, analysis and analysis.  That …

For Arsenal moving forward it is not a case of belief: it is clearly worked out system

      Arsenal’s tactics: 2023/4 The great Chelsea fire sale and how clubs are now manipulating FFP Clubs begin to split from Uefa; corruption allegations against Fifa mount Arsenal to unveil Wenger statue, completing the fans’ proposal of 13 years ago By Tony Attwood A really interesting article has appeared in Just Arsenal which contains …

The great Chelsea fire sale and how clubs are now manipulating FFP

    Arsenal, Brazil, money Clubs begin to split from Uefa; corruption allegations against Fifa mount How did clubs benefit from the costly purchases made in January? Arsenal to unveil Wenger statue, completing the fans’ proposal of 13 years ago By Tony Attwood According to reports Chelsea, are engaged in a fairly desperate attempt to …