Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
"I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art." A Wenger
By Tony Attwood For weeks the headlines have been endless. Indeed just to take the headlines that are on web sites this morning, the Independent goes with, “Beautiful goals and beautiful attacks: Van Gaal pleased with start to life at United” while the Telegraph is running ‘Giggs: Van Gaal is the new Sir Alex and Herrera shines in …
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By Tony Attwood So, as you will have seen, Arsenal have taken about 2,356 midfielders to New York, but only one centre forward: Chuba Akpom. Actually I think I miscounted on the midfielders, and the number is actually 11. But still it is quite a few for just one game. Here’s the full list Goalkeepers: Damien …
Read More “New York: the launch of the career of Chuba Akpom”
By Walter Broeckx There hasn’t been made a big fuss about it but Arsenal have signed another youngster from the famous Barcelona academy. Georgios Spanoudakis is his name and in Barcelona his is known as Giorgio. His name sounds Greek and that is natural as his father comes from Greece but the boy was born …
By Walter Broeckx So on board the team will go today heading for New York. A few more players started training this week. The players from teams from the world cup that went home after the group phase. Santi Cazorla posted a picture of himself seemingly in a very happy mood when going back to …
By Tony Attwood OK let’s get the news we have all been waiting for out of the way first. It is in the headline in the The Daily Star today, and I quote verbatim… Arsenal have NOT bid for Mario Balotelli… Yep, after five weeks of telling us daily that the man from another planet …
Read More “Arsenal agree the third signing, and the news we have all been waiting for…”
By Tony Attwood Arsène Wenger has spoken about the potential of Chris Willock who played in the Boreham Wood game. Now I must admit, watching the match on the computer, I didn’t really notice the 16 year old that much, so I quickly went back to Walter’s article on the game and found, no, he …
Read More “Arsène Wenger finds this year’s young star and ignores/signs Khedira”
By Walter Broeckx Don’t worry I will not declare myself an ITK (‘In The Know’) person and tell you the big or smaller transfer targets from Arsenal and Wenger. No, I will try to go over the team we have and then see where we could or should add something. Let us start with the …
By Tony Attwood The way football club owners operate never ceases to amaze me. I had my rant about the lack of support for the Arsenal Fanshare scheme from the two largest shareholders, over the weekend (still no formal communication from them unfortunately), and going back to the end of last season I ventured to …
Read More “Is there no end to the stupidity of club owners?”
Will we sign a defensive midfielder? If so which one? The story is that Arsenal will havve to pay £24 million up front to get Sporting Lisbon midfielder William Carvalho. Arsenal, it is said, have offered exactly that sum of money in two stage payments. And it is said (again) that Carvalho has a …
By Tony Attwood And so the honeymoon is well and truly over. The big problem wasn’t the apparently vast number of years between winning one trophy and the next. It wasn’t the comparison with trophy wins by other clubs (which didn’t stack up). No, now, according to the press, the issue with Arsenal last season …
Read More “Ah, it wasn’t the trophy that was the issue after all.”
By Walter Broeckx Well we started with a very mixed team in the first half and come to think of it also in the second half. At the start we could see Szczesny, Jenkinson, Hayden, Ajayi, Monreal, Coquelin, Ramsey, Toral, Zelalem, Willock, Sanogo. A first big chance came when Sanogo was released on the right …
Arsenal have published their squad numbers list: 1: Szczesny * 2: Debuchy 3: Gibbs 4: Mertersacker 5: Vermaelen 6: Koscielny 7: Rosicky * 8: Arteta * 9: Podolski 10: Wilshere 11: Ozil 12: Giroud 13: 14: Walcott 15: Oxlade Chamberlain 16: Ramsey * 17: Sanchez 18: Monreal 19: Santi Cazorla 20. Flamini * 22: Sanogo …
By Tony Attwood. It turns out to be rather strange these days trying to follow the transfer window dealings whether you want to follow the up market right wing Daily Telegraph, or the infinite number of blogs who run the “Arsenal in major transfer set back” type headlines and stories that are about six lines …
By Tony Attwood Fanshare is a scheme run at Arsenal which gives supporters a chance to have a tiny stake in the club. With shares in the club running at around £15,000 each, most people can’t buy a share, but they can buy a FanShare. You don’t get much for it, but you can get …
Read More “Arsenal: this is not an acceptable way to behave.”
By Walter Broeckx So Mathieu Debuchy it is who will fill the space left by Bacary Sagna. Born on 28 July 1985 and will turn 29 this summer. He was born in Fretin and that is rather nice for me as it gives me the opportunity to tell you a bit about that part of …
Read More “Untold Debuchy, the complete guide about our new signing and more”
By Walter Broeckx Of course it had to be Debuchy. Just because of Ludivine. When Sagna decided to leave us a lot of Arsenal supporters were sad. Sagna has been a loyal servant of the club and it is always sad to see such a player go and doubly so when they leave for another …
Read More “Why it had to be Debuchy (and you won’t read this anywhere else)”
Typical Arsenal. I spend ages writing a piece about predictions, and how Arsenal have only signed one player, and all that stuff, and then Arsenal go and make a signing. In case you don’t know Arsenal have signed full-back Mathieu Debuchy from Newcastle for about £12m He was part of the French World Cup squad …
By Tony Attwood For a few minutes it looked like the AAA had gone. We had signed Sanchez and there was talk about all the others who were about to sign. Not talk from Arsenal of course, but just talk on the chatterboards. But a couple of days is an eternity in blog land, so …
By Walter Broeckx Yesterday Arsène Wenger returned to the training ground at Arsenal. And by the looks of it he really was in a great mood. A smile as big as the sun above the sky could be seen on a few pictures. And he looked sharp in his new Puma kit which I am …
Read More “The man is back. Now the season can really begin for Arsenal.”
LEADERSHIP ARSENAL STYLE…..BY Don McMahon After suffering through three games watching poor England stumble and scramble in the WC, it occurred to me that England clearly lacked leadership and passion from far too many players. I believe the youngsters tried their best but when Gerard, Lampard or Rooney were called on to perform, they generally …
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By Walter Broeckx When returning to my computer after lunch I saw this message coming on line from the best nr. 10 of the world Mesut Özil. “dear fans, prior to the #WorldCup I supported the surgery of eleven sick children. Since the victory of the #WorldCup is not only due to eleven players but …
Read More “This is awesome: the charity of Arsenal’s German players”
The Independent has a nice phrase for it: “Arsène Wenger’s German reunification plans”. . The issue on that front of course is Khedira. Does he want to play along with Mesut Özil, Podolski and the BFG? Everyone agrees Khedira won’t be a Real Mad player come 31 August but where will he go? . You …
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By Tony Attwood Untold Arsenal is teaming up with Goonernews to create a guide to the best places to eat and drink around the Emirates Stadium. And we need your help. Drew and I have decided to branch out from our regular eating and drinking haunts for this coming season and visit other bars and restaurants …
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By Walter Broeckx And so suddenly with the world cup over we find ourselves in more familiar and certainly more accustomed territory. Arsenal territory. 2 months and 2 days after winning the FA cup we can have a first look at real Arsenal players in real Arsenal shirts playing for Arsenal. Of course we have …
By Billy the Dog McGraw, Head of Things at the University Hospital of the North Circular Road. It seems only days ago that the World Cup ended [it was, you turnip – Tony] but now its time to start playing football again. With lots of players on holiday, or only just starting to train, Arsenal …
