Suburban Gooners – Arsenal Blog
Patience needed as Arsenal’s attacker due diligence needs to work its way through the process
It's funny, because I do this every season, but I forget that this time of the year is the worst when it comes to the football period. If your team isn't successful, that is, because it all feels a little barren. In about a week or two's time, the euphoria from other fans has warn off [...]
Time of Arsenal to be proactive
Yesterday The Arsenal Women had a trophy lift session at The Emirates and I have to say, it was some really positive #content for us to watch and re-watch, after a difficult season for the Men's team. And if you think about it, it has also been difficult for the women too; they didn't start [...]
Hats off to The Arsenal Women
Only one place to start today, which is with The Arsenal Women, who did what I think most of us would agree was the unthinkable, by sinking Barcelona Femini. That Barca team tend to down anyone they come across, so to completely shut them out and then see the final stages over the line after [...]
Penny (or 67 billion) for your Rodrygo thoughts?
So we have another one added to the list, as Saliba has been confirmed as injured for the last game of the season. The reality is that it doesn't matter, as unless City win their last game by about six goals and we lose by a two goal margin or something similar, we're most likely [...]
Making the case to strike fast for the three most obvious Arsenal attacking options
I basically refuse to acknowledge there is any football going on from now until August 16th when the new Premier League season kicks off. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zero. It's all about the transfer window and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE. The press is full of talk of strikers and if Arsenal value anything of the health of its [...]
Other teams get to do transfers too
You know it's funny, I get so focus and insular on Arsenal and improvements that we make, that I forget that other teams will also be making efforts to improve their squad in the summer. I didn't watch the Brighton-Liverpool game, but I saw that Arne Slot was doing his bit to stoke the transfer [...]
Job done for The Arsenal. Just.
That wasn't the most fun afternoon watching of football that we had yesterday, but the requirement was to get the job done and, by the time the full time whistle had gone after that silly VAR check, ultimately that was what happened. A 1-0 win against a decent Newcastle side who will most likely be [...]
Arteta and Andrea’s Arsenal’s alignment
I thought we saw a relatively relaxed Mikel Arteta at his press conference yesterday. I wonder if it was the sun, the fact that he was starting to get over recent disappointments, the tone of the questioning, or maybe it was that he got to deliver good news to the media on Kai Havertz. Naturally [...]
As the season (thankfully) draws to a close, at least next year’s kit looks good…
It's the penultimate press conference of the season today and I'll bet Mikel Arteta can't wait to be shot of them at this stage. It'll be more of the same as he's had in the last few weeks and I suspect he'll have to go on the defensive a bit for the form. Other than [...]
Returning players a welcome end to the season
Arsenal held an open training day session yesterday at The Emirates, where the players took to the field and went through some pretty basic numbers, whilst also doing a few autograph signings, etc. That in itself is nothing ground-breaking or new, but the fact that Leo Trossard, Declan Rice and Kai Havertz all made it [...]