For the English Super League side created from the financial fall-out from the Covid crisis enabling the state and oligarch owned clubs already well placed, to create a league of their own, the £97.5 million Lukaku got a first start.…
No sooner has the dust just about settled on the Odergaard and Ramsdale transfers – four midfielders have been linked with Arsenal in the closing week of the transfer window. No smoke without fire, but more believable is the exit…
Arsenal have been true to their word of buying for the future with the latest agreements with Martin Odergaard and Aaron Ramsdale on five and four-year contracts respectively. Martin Odergaard The interesting thing about the Odergaard deal is that Los Blancos…
After the Brentford game, there has been a knee-jerk reaction with Mikel Arteta’s odds for the sack going from 16/1 to 11/4 with Brendan Rogers installed as an unrealistic favourite to succeed him at 13/5. Several articles have cast doubt…
New start. But history repeats itself. Problems in defence, plenty of pretty passing but no cutting edge up front. Opposite of Brentford – solid in defence and threatening in attack with an unorthodox forward line of height and speed with…
This one makes more sense and has a ring of reality than some of the more exotic others including Camavinga, Sanches and Grealish. Bernado Silva is versatile. Arteta knows what he can do and there is a previous working relationship. And he…
Ben White’s move to Arsenal FC has been a subject of debate for some time now, but it seems that things will soon come to a close. White has been the most expensive transfer target this summer for Arsenal, and…
Strange one – glass half full or half empty time. Qualify for Europa Conference – effectively a relegation, but still in Europe, ahead of Tottenham and an extra two million. Fail to qualify and get a clear run to a…
Another microcosm of Arsenal’s season with unpredictability to the fore. Injury time depression turned to hope and elation four minutes later. At the start, the questions were: How much would the 10,000 strong crowd influence the outcome, along with this…
Pressure is reaching its peak at the Emirates Stadium, where Arsenal are preparing for an end-of-season run-in that could go one of two ways. The Gunners currently sit ninth in the Premier League and face the prospect of failing to…