Arsenal Set For Marquee Signing? Dream Team Taking Shape
The Arsenal season kicks off soon, in just under a months time in fact, with the home game against Manchester City. This will provide a chance for Arsenal fans to finally see a competitive Unai Emery, Gunners team in action. As with every new season, it will be filled with excitement and anticipation for what […]
How will Arsenal’s midfield shape up in 18/19? – The balance between Creativity and Combativeness
With the retention of Elneny and Xhaka, a potential re-signing of Ramsey, and the incoming of Torreira, and not to forget Maitland-Niles re-signing, our midfield will have a new face to it. Of course, Wilshere has left, so we may not have as much creative edge. Nonetheless, how can we build on this? How […]
Arsenal’s Feel-Good Factor Has Returned – Here’s How To Enhance It Further
The board and Gazidis, with the catalyst for change, are seemingly progressing. The change, as it stands, is apparently happening. Wenger, the great man, has gone. Wilshere has gone. New coaches are here. And new players are arriving. And we’re doing transfers early for a change, without any last minute rush. So it’s understandable that […]
Unai Has Shored Up Arsenal’s Defense – But The Secret To His Success Lies Up Front
Stephan Lichtsteiner, Bernd Leno, Sokratis Papasthatopoulos and Lucas Torreira in; Jack Wilshere, Santi Cazorla and surely a few more – David Ospina, Lucas Pérez, Carl Jenkinson and Joel Campbell – out. While transfers still represent a big part of the talk surrounding the Arsenal, I would draw your attention to a couple of players who […]
Arsenal’s Latest Signing: Dynamo Lucas Torreira – First Interview (Transcription)
Lucas Torreira conducted his first interview with Arsenal today (July 10, 2018). The following is a transcription (courtesy of Arsenal Media). Arsenal: Lucas, welcome to England. How excited are you to be an Arsenal player? Torreira: Thanks a lot! I feel very happy. I want to make the most of this opportunity life has […]
Emery set to Impress with a ‘High Press’ this season – So now is time for Players to ‘Press’ their claims
As I said yesterday the speculation about how Arsenal will look and set up come August is rife, despite the welcome distraction of England’s World Cup exploits. Unusually our club find themselves in a position where many of the key players were not involved in Russia and are all back and working with Emery and […]
Why Uruguayan and Swiss Structural Values Could Provide a Blueprint for Arsenal in 2018/19
It’s tough to think of many collective entities that aren’t enhanced by the sound structures and frameworks around them. It’s why successful businesses embrace universal “best practices” like establishment of success targets, clear performance expectations, and defined roles among personnel. It’s why many of the best footballing clubs have been as proficient working back defensively […]
5 World Cup Players Arsenal Should Have An Eye On
Well, the World cup is in full swing; we have seen England impressively beat Panama, Mexico capture people’s imagination with their energy and flair, even the Germans are having a wobble (thanks to Mexico). With all that, Arsenal fans want to know which of the players on display could be lining up at the Emirates […]
No room for Sentimentality in Emery’s New Arsenal as we correctly say farewell to Jack Wilshere
It was not too long ago that the club were promoting the word ‘forward’ as part of an attempted reintroduction of one of the clubs first recorded mottos. Now that Arsene has gone and Unai Emery has been installed as his successor, it is finally starting to feel like that is the direction that we […]
Enjoy the World Cup and support your country even if they have multiple Spurs Players in their team!
It is a strange time on Arsenal social media when every fourth summer the largest and most exciting festival of football has the cheek to infringe on time usually reserved for transfer rumour and gossip. Arsenal and the new Emery regime are quietly an efficiently going about their business and making their mark. The new […]