“What is the realistic target for Arsenal and Mike Arteta this season?” If you asked to an Arsenal fan before the season started(or the summer transfer window ended), the most common answer might have been 6th place in the league and getting back into the Europa League. It doesn’t sound particularly ambitious considering that Arsenal […]
Whilst there is no escaping the stark fact that Arsenal were very poor and outplayed by an organised and well-drilled Palace side, we equally cannot ignore that prior to Monday, Arteta’s team had successfully engineered 5 successive away wins in the Premier League. In isolation, it is therefore logical to view the 3-nil defeat as […]
We had to win and we won. We had to score a lot and we did – although we left it late in the game.We didn’t quite match Chelsea’s 9-0 win but we scored five past Leicester and made sure we did our bit but unfortunately Chelsea also won easily against Reading, which means that […]
That’s it, our European journey came to an abrupt end at the Volkswagen Arena, last night.It hurts but we can hardly say the outcome was unfair: over the two legs, Wolfsburg has been the better team. Although we grew into the game and could have had more luck with some of our shots, the first […]
Yesterday I read that Arsenal are vying with Atletico for the signature of Lautaro Martinez from Inter, and are favourites to land Dutch winger, Cody Gakpo from PSV. Both are exciting links but yesterday’s news suggesting Arteta was ready to lure Marcus Rashford and that Arsenal had a pre-contract deal with Dominic Calvert-Lewin, are perhaps […]
Last night I suddenly realized how much I missed this kind of European night. Sure, the men’s team played a couple of Europa League semifinals at the Emirates but nothing really beats a Champions League knock-out game at home. Although the result wasn’t great, the performance from the girls was very encouraging and I bet […]
Prior to the 2021/2022 season commencing, a place in Europe was the objective for Arsenal as this would signal improvement when compared to previous league finishes under the stewardship of Mikel Arteta. But with ten games remaining, his side are now in pole position to finish in one of those all-important Champions League spots at […]
The last few days various media have picked up on a Turkish Sports outlet indicating that Arsenal have joined Middlesex neighbours Tottenham. Wolfsburg, Lyon and Atletico as major league teams tracking Galatasaray winger, Kerem Aktürkoğlu. Aktürkoğlu has had somewhat of a breakthrough season with the Turkish giants, with 20 goal involvements, including 11 goals, three of […]
What an absolute pleasure to be asked by Sun Football, for my thoughts on Arsenal providing four players for the England squad announced by Gareth Southgate last week. It has been a fair few years since the likes of Welbeck, Wilshere and Oxlade-Chamberlain were in and round the international scene simultaneously and I cannot imagine […]
Following the submission of official complaints from a number of players , the FA are to hold an extraordinary committee meeting to bring in a change in the rules regarding celebrations. My insider at FA HQ managed to take a photo of the agenda and faxed it to me this morning. As President, Prince William […]
