Do you see how the men’s team have like a trillion right-backs on their books? Well, with the arrival of Tobin Heath. Arsenal’s women now have three outstanding forwards for the right wing spot.Unlike Mikel Arteta with Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Cédric, Calum Chambers and the new boy Takehiro Tomiyasu, Jonas Eidevall will surely be thrilled to […]
Talent. Talent. Talent. Perhaps not as much as our rivals but bags of it, still. The Arsenal Women team that is about to start the new season has bags of talent in it. Season 2021/22 will be decisive for the present and future or Arsenal Women team, for different reasons: despite being the most successful […]
Boxing Day 2020, one of the highlights of last season. You certainly remember that day, the gloomy atmosphere and the awkward feeling that another manager would get the sack after the final whistle. Mikel Arteta arrived to that crucial game on the back of a terrible spell of zero wins in seven Premier League games […]
It’s three months but it feels like a hundreds years ago. It was June, 11th when I posted a blog bidding farewell to Granit Xhaka, a player that divided opinions since the very beginning and seemed certain to leave after five years.Today, the same Granit Xhaka is about to pen a new 4-years deal that […]
There’s something about him that I cannot quite explain.While Bukayo Saka steals the show with his flashy runs and moments of magic, another youngster is quietly stamping his mark on the team.Since his introduction to the starting XI against Chelsea last winter, Emile Smith Rowe has been a mainstay for Mikel Arteta and one of […]
Swapping the shirt number from 18 to 5 isn’t the main change for Thomas Partey.The biggest change for the Ghana international happened last summer and I’m not referring to his move to Arsenal from Atletico Madrid: the biggest change for him was going from supporting actor to main lead.Arsenal triggering Thomas Partey’s release clause on […]
Ben White is very likely to be the first signing of the summer.According to many media outlets, the English defender will join from Brighton for a fee between £ 45m and £ 50m, quite an investment.There are too many reports, almost identical, coming out these days not to take this piece of news as legit, […]
Is there anything we don’t know about the William Saliba affaire? It was only a few days ago that Arsenal were reportedly interested in Brighton and England international Ben White, whom the Seagulls value at £40 million. The former Leeds player, who has seen his value double in the space of just one season in […]
Granit Xhaka leaves after five seasons in North London.Having lived in Switzerland for the past eleven years, I took Dave’s offer to prepare an introductory blog about the Swiss international, as soon as his signing was made official. In my scouting report, I likened him to two Italian giants: Andrea Pirlo and Gennaro Gattuso. He […]
We are all very aware of the Arsenal being in the market for a first choice right-back, given the rumored appetite of Héctor Bellerín for a new experience abroad and the doubts surrounding his deputies, Cédric Soares and Calum Chambers.Mikel Arteta and Edu are reportedly looking for an athletic full-back with good defensive skills, comfortable […]
