Arsenal’s current squad value is £570.3m according to Transfermarkt – sixth highest in the Premier League. Manchester City’s squad is valued at £1.15bn, with Liverpool £959.1m. Tottenham are at £881.5m, Chelsea £697.9m, Manu U £664.6m. Everton are the next after…
Back in the nineteen nineties, when ANR started, some pundits predicted that live matchday crowds would diminish in importance, and that in time they would be let in free or paid to provide atmosphere for the live TV audiences. The…
Arsenal have drawn last season’s semi-finalists, Eintracht Frankfurt who ran Chelsea close, in the Europa League groups draw today. Vitoria SC and Standard Liege make up the other teams in Group F with Arsenal being spared unduly long distance trips,…
Makes you wonder what would have happened if Arsenal went for Klopp, instead of carrying on with the Gazidis-Wenger inertia and decline. After all he was linked as an alternative to Wenger for a long time. This was a game…
Important long interview with Josh Kroenke on the BBC. [Some of the key statements – below] “Going into the summer we knew we were going to have instruments in place that were going to allow us to be aggressive and…
Arsenal 2 – Burnley 1 This was new v old, modern v ancient. Arsenal sporting a new look with two teenagers, a Brazilian defender, a Spanish midfield maestro playing 4-2-3-1 versus good ole 4-4-2. Burnley showed the gap between the…
I thought Emery had to do a ton of juggling he really did not want to last season, with the main disruption being the loss of Bellerin and Holding just at the point they were showing true development and giving…
One of the few mentioned elements of Arsenal’s transfer business amidst the euphoria of incomings is the loss of experience with those that left. Six players who left – alone have 485 international caps between them and 722 Arsenal appearances.…
Arsenal’s pre-season campaign for 2019/20 has started with the news that captain Laurent Koscielny refused to travel with the squad and wants to leave the club – another problem to add to the list. Unai Emery came ever-so close to…
Amidst the hyperactive mania around the Pepe transfer – an insightful article from our old friend Stewart Robson in the Express. He reckons the addition of Pepe will change Arsenal’s style – more into the mould of Liverpool and a…