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By Forkout N By It is always good when Deloitte comes into the financial fray in terms of analysing football, since they have about 1000 billion times the resources that Untold has for doing financial analyses, and their calculators tend to go wrong less often than mine. But it is double good when they agree …
Read More “Arsenal sink down the money league, and there’s a huge danger below”
By Tony Attwood As we have seen in recent articles the amount of money clubs spend on players varies year by year, but is growing. Our little table yesterday made this particularly clear I thought: Era TV Revenue 1st year loss Final year loss 2013/14 to 2015/16 £5.25bn £12.17m £395.44 This set of figures shows …
Read More “Arsenal’s astounding shining success in the midst of football’s collapse”
By Tony Attwood Long before the virus appeared, Premier League clubs were in serious trouble, for it appear that last season they made a combined loss of over half a billion pounds. An analysis from Vysyble and republished in the Telegraph totalled the clubs’ losses at £599.54 million, despite the clubs making record revenues of …
Read More “Premier League losses have now gone way beyond the unsustainable level”
by Tony Attwood There has been of late a growing number of attacks upon Arsenal over its transfer policy. And one regular line of this assault concerns the allowing of young players to leave. Players who then go on and have a great future with another club – Serge Gnabry is often quoted in this …
Read More “Are Arsenal really awful at holding onto talented youngsters?”
By Tony Attwood and Christophe Jost And here we go again. Just as Untold was saying in this morning’s article that the UK media will not touch stories about Fifa (for fear of prejudicing the FA’s bid to hold another world cup in England) Europe’s media comes alive once more as the justice department in …
Read More “Huge Fifa corruption story breaks; no report in English media!”
By Tony Attwood The appeal by Manchester City to Committee for Arbitration in Sport against Uefa is surely one of the key pivotal moments in modern football, the outcome of which will be as important and far reaching as the decision by the FA to ban women’s football in 1921, and Uefa’s ban on English …
By Sir Hardly Anyone You have to give it to these journalists, they certainly don’t lack for imagination. 105 players are now tipped to be heading our way, and it is difficult to see how they are all going to be kept happy in the 25 man squad. Plus another 12 players who Arsenal are …
Read More “The 105 players now tipped to be coming to Arsenal this summer”
By Tony Attwood The question is, is there something funny going on in terms of Arsenal’s academy, or is the oddity at the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail It is surely one or the other because the Mirror has, for the last seven months, been running a series of stories about Arsenal’s academy which …
Read More “Is Arsenal academy in chaos or is it merely a manner of speaking?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Preparing for the regular review of who is tipped to be leaving and who is tipped to be coming into Arsenal this summer I came across a previously un-noted (at least by us) website “Top Flight”, which has the headline, “What the Gunners need to do to get back to the …
Read More “Who are Arsenal selling this summer & what do we need to do?”
by Tony Attwood Germany is discovering it is true. Games without fans change everything. Before the ghost games came along Germany’s top division saw 43% of the games end with a home win. 22% were drawn and 35% were away wins. So far since the ghosts came along that has been 22% home wins, 28% …
Read More “Will home advantage vanish as the PL restarts? And if not, why not?”
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” By Tony Attwood And the absurdities have been pouring out day after day, and it has been going on for seven or eight months. Not (we are told) that we need to sell because the players are no good (although that is always …
Read More “Arsenal need to sell, Tottenham are financially strong. Oh, hang on…”
By Sir Hardly Anyone. Here are the current round of tittle tattle and tales. But please do remember most of these are set up just so that afterwards journalists and bloggers can say that Arsenal have failed to get these players. 1: Bruno Fuchs (The Boot Room, Just Arsenal) “Arsenal have joined AC Milan and …
Read More “20 Arsenal transfer stories that have appeared in the last couple of days”
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” By Tony Attwood I don’t normally quote Voltaire on Untold, not indeed do I normally quote 18th century French philosophers in general, but when considering the situation regarding refereeing in the Premier League it is a case of desperate situations… We know from …
Read More “Those who can make you believe absurdities: how the media affects refereeing”
by Tony Attwood There is an assumption behind much that is written on blogs and in the media that Arsenal make mistakes like no one else makes mistakes. Arsenal management, it is implied, is catastrophically inept at every step of the way. Indeed if only the club would wake up and allow the journalists to …
Read More “Aubameyang leaving Arsenal at knock down price? It’s not quite that simple.”
by Tony Attwood It is interesting that through the last couple of months, although there has not been much in the way of football news the media has by and large ignored most of the big stories. Now one can always put the missing of the odd story here or there down to editorial incompetence …
Read More “The ten big football stories that the media won’t talk about”
By Tony Attwood Either all the editors were out of their heads or they knew the story was nonsense, but chose to run it anyway. “YOU CAN DAV IT ALL” said the Sun’s headline. Followed by, “David Luiz’s one year at Arsenal will have cost club £24MILLION as ex-Chelsea defender plots Benfica transfer exit.” Except… …
Read More “How the Sun’s story of Arsenal incompetence and money wasting unravelled”
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Read More “The revelation that has scuppered PGMO once and for all”
by Tony Attwood Give me sport, a rather bizarre website, has run the headline today “Aliens being found in 2019 is 10 times more likely than Arsenal winning Premier League title” Now to understand this piece of gibberish it is worth noting that bookies odds are not based (as Give me sport imply) on the …
Read More “Could Arsenal win the league this season / next season / season after?”
by Sir Hardly Anyone 2017/18 may not have been the very best for Arsenal in the Premier League, but in PL2 – the under 23 League, it wasn’t so bad… Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Arsenal 22 13 3 6 48 32 16 42 2 Liverpool Under 23 22 13 …
Read More “Two seasons have ended and no one really minds as a signing is made”
By Tony Attwood In football we hear about it all the time: the fit and proper person’s test. And we gather that since he is at the helm of Manchester City, Sheikh Mansour is a fit and proper person. I am sure that is right. But it seems Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, crown …
Read More “This is no surprise: in football there is not fit and proper person test”
by Tony Attwood Arsenal have an incredibly interesting group of youngsters in the club at the moment. Consider these players who already have first team squad numbers… In defence there are three Tolaji Bola, Zech Medley, Bukayo Saka In midfield there are seven Ainsley Maitland Niles, Joe Willock, Matteo Guendouzi, Robbie Burton, Reiss Nelson, Eddie …
Read More “The Arsenal youngsters on the up and why the speculation is wrong”
by Tony Attwood There are four stories circulating about Arsenal. Story 1: Arsenal are buying, and they are going to buy big. This is the overall conclusion that one has from the fact that no less than 101 players have been tipped as being sought by Arsenal this summer. And that before the transfer season …
By Sir Hardly Anyone If you are using an advertisement blocker, please consider turning it off while reading Untold Arsenal. Running a blog with a large readership does have its costs in terms of the server, protection against hacking, and maintenance, even though none of the writers get paid. Readers looking at advertisements on our …
By Tony Attwood Businesses that want to grow and last over time need to take risks, try out new ideas, explore new avenues, venture into something different. Not all businesses do – some stick rigidly to what they know on the grounds that it has always worked until now, so “if it ain’t broke…” But …
Read More “Speculate to accumulate is a sound business model, but not for football”
By Tony Attwood If you are reading this page with your ad blocker turned on, and if you appreciate what Untold does in raising questions often not seen elsewhere, could I ask that you consider turning the ad blocker off for Untold. It does cost money to keep the site running and clicks on the …
Read More “Clubs struggling to pay broadcasters refund; TV wants more concessions”
