How are you feeling about this summer transfer window when it comes to Arsenal? Often fans can be found at one end of a spectrum or the other. Either feeling excited, dreaming of what might be possible, or feeling pessimistic, doubting the clubs ability to do what these fans deem necessary to improve the squad. […]
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5 Questions on 22/23 that every self-respecting Gooner should know the answers to
1 – Realistically, at the start of the season, where did you expect Arsenal to finish? In the words of Zach Galifianakis in The Hangover 2 “not you, not you, not you, not nobody” expected The Arsenal to be challenging for the title. If we had been offered fourth in August, we would have bitten […]
Jorginho is the new Edu, but it’s still no party without Partey
Last Saturday’s lunchtime’s goal fest at Villa Park, might have offered us an insight into what life without Thomas Partey could look like, in the short-term at least. As someone who’s views, I respect, suggested to me, with Jorginho playing at 6, Arsenal will have to outscore opponents, because we will concede goals. The adopted […]
Exclusive: how Arsenal’s new transfer policy beat the Chelsea hijack machine
Following Chelski’s hijacking of the Mudryk signing, Arteta called an emergency meeting with Edu. My mate’s nan’s cat-sitter’s, brother-in-law overheard the conversation and sent me the transcript. MA: “Ed, have you heard, Chelski have dismantled their scouting department and are now just bidding £20m extra on anyone we bid on” Edu: “ FFS, I thought […]
The Full unedited and this side of PC – Arsenal’s most amusing chants
My first visit to Highbury was in 1976, and I have been attending Arsenal matches fairly regularly since the early 1980s, when my parents finally allowed me to make trip across to North London on my own. It would be fair to say therefore, that I have heard and sung hundreds of fabulous and frankly, […]
Mykhailo Mudryk: the Man Arteta needs? or the next Pepe..?
Christmas Gift? The smell of turkey in the oven, presents are being unwrapped and festive movies are being chosen, Arteta and Edu focus on the two games before New Years Day: a Boxing Day battle at the Emirates against the Hammers before traveling to the Amex a showdown with Brighton . Excitingly, with New Years […]
3 months? Edu and Arteta start scrambling.
So, apparently, the worse case scenario has come to fruition. Jesus will not rise from his knee knock and is likely to be out for 3 months. This has sent London C into crisis mode and I have managed, through my second cousin’s dog walker’s step brother, to get a copy of Friday’s emergency exec […]
Love Exhausted, Love Alive – a little bit of love can take you to the top [ARS 3-2 LIV] (Positive Needs & Hopes)
Love Exhausted, Love Alive POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES An Arsenal Blog from a Coachʻs Perspective Love has many faces. No one place is it more tested than at home. Marriage and kids bring out every emotion but ultimately they are all wrapped in love. Somewhere behind family comes sport. If you are attached and invested […]
A deeper dive into Mikel Arteta’s new signing Gabriel Jesus
Arsenal need strikers. It’s not rocket science. Both Manchester City and Liverpool comfortably surpassed 90 goals over a 38-game Premier League season. Meanwhile, in north London, the Gunners merely scraped over the 60-goal mark, a substantial difference when compared to the elite. To suggest Arsenal can increase their tally by an additional third is unrealistic, […]
Arsenal Squad Cull: these 5 (out of 20) current players should get the chop
So much work to do in this summer window I was looking at our squad sheet on the back of yesterday’s match programme and started to tot up how many players we’d have for next season and it adds up to Arsenal having to do as much as they did in the last summer window […]