By Tony Attwood If we know how to make a club successful, why can’t every club do it? Part 1 In part one of this series (linked above) we gave three reasons why, if the factors of how to build a successful team are known, so many clubs simply seem to ignore …

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    Arsenal Women Season Review – part 3 the midfield and attack Why don’t clubs look at evidence or act rationally as they seek to improve? By Tony Attwood It is not just Untold that has an idea on how to make a football club rise up the league, journalists and broadcasters give their …

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    Arsenal women: the season’s review The hidden problem facing Arsenal Women by Andrew  Crawshaw Our midfield and attack was the strongpoint at the start of the season but also where we suffered the most from injuries as the season progressed.  Here is my player by player analysis. Midfield Kim Little – Our Captain …

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    Why don’t more teams do the obvious in order to rise up the league table? Where has Arsenal’s improvement come from? Actually, its very simple. By Tony Attwood What I have been trying to show is that there are ways of developing a football team that work, and which are known, but which …

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    Arsenal women: the season’s review part one ———- Goalkeepers We  have four first-team goalkeepers :- Manuella Zinsberger – our undisputed No1 and with 1 on her shirt.  Manuella is 28 and is also the Austrian No1.  It was strongly rumoured earlier in the season that she would be leaving this summer but has …

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    Where has Arsenal’s improvement come from?  Actually it is very simple Six players who appear to be in the mix for next season By Tony Attwood Our headline for the last article was “Where has Arsenal’s improvement come from?” and we concluded it was very simple.  In defence, as we have so often …

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      Six players who appear to be in the mix for next season Today is the anniversary of the start of the collapse of Uefa – at the hands of Man C By Tony Attwood Football pundits talk of goals, passes, and expected goals, but not much else.  It is as if those …

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    Today is the anniversary of the start of the collapse of Uefa – at the hands of Man C What do Arsenal need to do to win the league next season? 25 players now tipped to join Arsenal; 9 who will leave By Sir Hardly Anyone It is being widely reported that William Saliba …

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      The future of football What do Arsenal need to do to win the league? 25 players now tipped to join Arsenal; 9 who will leave Is the PL getting harder to win, and who expects to be in the top four in 2024? By Tony Attwood It is not being picked up …

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    Preparing for next season 25 players now tipped to join Arsenal; 9 who will leave Is the PL getting harder to win, and who expects to be in the top four in 2024? Arsenal and Tottenham: two styles, two approaches, different results Just how revolutionary is the Arsenal side we are now seeing? …

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  The world of transfers in five snap shots…. Arsenal have too many players in the 25 man squad. Who will leave? Did Arsenal really go for Mudryk or was it all a clever trap for Chelsea? How spending a fortune on transfers is not always a good idea. The significant success of Arsenal’s recent …

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    Arsenal and Tottenham: two styles, two approaches, different results. Just how revolutionary is the Arsenal side we are now seeing? Fifa’s WC depravity knows no bounds. If you agree, avoid all their sponsors By Tony Attwood Competition at the top of the league is getting tougher.  Once upon a time we would talk …

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  Just how revolutionary is the Arsenal side we are now seeing? Fifa’s WC depravity knows no bounds. If you agree, avoid all their sponsors By Tony Attwood Arteta joined Arsenal on 20 December 2019.  Tottenham now have their new manager ready for the next season.  So how does the state of the two clubs …

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      Fifa’s WC depravity knows no bounds. If you agree, avoid all their sponsors 8 Arsenal men in most valuable players list, and which stadia had seats spare in 2022/3? By Tony Attwood According to the new edition of Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson “The standard of defending has declined alarmingly among elite clubs, …

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  8 Arsenal men in most valuable players list, and which stadia had seats in 2022/3? Arsenal have too many players in the 25 man squad. Who will leave? By Tony Attwood That Fifa tells fibs is hardly news, but this one was one of the biggest.  For as the Guardian reports (and as is …

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      Arsenal have too many players in the 25 man squad. Who will leave? The Premier League will be different next season By Sir Hardly Anyone An article in Issue number 425 of the Weekly Post from CIES Football Observatory, offers us the top 100 estimated transfer values using the statistical model developed by …

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  Arsenal’s 25 man squad The Premier League will be different next season Over half the coaches in professional football clubs were sacked this year By Sir Hardly Anyone Every summer there is an issue that lots of websites playfully ignore, while Untold struggles on desperately trying to make sense of it.  It is the …

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  Over half the coaches in professional football clubs were sacked this year Summer 2023: Arsenal Transfers episode 2. 17 players in, 4 out. By Tony Attwood We’ve been talking a bit of late about managers being sacked, and how Arsenal now have the fourth longest-serving manager in the Premier League, and it brought to …

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    Summer 2023: Arsenal transfers, 17 players in, 4 out. Arsenal women: the season review. We made the Champions League By Tony Attwood More than half of coaches or managers in professional clubs in sixty top divisions around the world did not finish the season with the club they started with.  Indeed in the …

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    Arsenal women: the season review. We made the Champions League The ten reasons why Arsenal will continue to progress part 4. By Sir Hardly Anyone In January, as we usually do, Untold Arsenal tracked the rumours concerning who Arsenal were going to sign.   And as you might recall there were 53 separate reports …

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    The ten reasons why Arsenal will continue to progress part 4. Football’s in trouble. The ten reasons why Arsenal will make more progress part 3 Andrew Crawshaw The best place to start the season review is where we finished – in third place, which none of us would have been happy with a …

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    By Tony Attwood The ten reasons why Arsenal will continue to progress part 4 – football is in a mess and Arsenal are working around it. Previously in this series we have had  The ten reasons why Arsenal will make more progress in 2023/4. Part 1.  (A young team is maturing; Scoring from …

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  The ten reasons why Arsenal will make more progress in 2023/4. Part 1 (the young team maturing, scoring from everywhere, transfers that work, referees dealt with) The ten reasons why Arsenal will continue to grow: Part 2: Players will stay Part 3…. 6. Merit payments and Champions League money will both help There has …

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    The ten reasons why Arsenal will make more progress in 2023/4. Part 1 The ten reasons why Arsenal will make more progress in 2023/4. Part 2 By Tony Attwood According to reports that are starting to circulate internationally (see for example Forbes), Uefa corruption inspectors have recommended that Barcelona should be removed from …

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  The ten reasons why Arsenal will make more progress in 2023/4. Part 1 By Tony Attwood In the first part of this piece (see the link above) we highlighted four reasons why Arsenal would continue on their upward curve. 1. A young team is maturing 2. Scores from everywhere 3 Transfers 4 Referees and …

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