4 09, 2025

Gabriel Jesus’ Champions League omission raises eyebrows

By |2025-09-04T08:31:27+01:00September 4th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Champions League, injuries|3 Comments

I was thinking about talking about Gabriel Martinelli today, but before I get to that, there was the small matter of the Champions League squads announced yesterday ahead of the group stages and, unlike in previous years, the news was awash with players who had not made the respective squads for their teams. Spare a [...]

30 08, 2025

Keeping everyone happy at Arsenal

By |2025-08-30T07:59:32+01:00August 30th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Defence, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference, Transfers|1 Comment

Happy Hincapie Saturday folks! Although Arteta was tight-lipped on that arrival, the Ornbomb has already dropped and it appears we're loan-optioning him for the season and clearly we'll drop the actual cash on Leverkusen's lap in the summer of 2026, which makes sense given that we probably don't have the cash lying around to make [...]

22 08, 2025

Arsenal continue to play Eze blinder, but all eyes now turn to Leeds

By |2025-08-22T07:02:19+01:00August 22nd, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|1 Comment

It's Friday, it's press conference day, it'll be Mikel Arteta and hopefully when he's asked about Eberechi Eze at some stage, we get that Arsene Wenger pre-Ozil signing smile that has become so iconic over the years. We talked about the magnitude of it on the Same Old Arsenal podcast last night and I think [...]

17 08, 2025

Arteta’s options show our strength – we need to prove it against Man United

By |2025-08-17T09:49:07+01:00August 17th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Here we are folks - it's match day! And what a start we have to it, eh? United away. I know they won't be the force of 20 years ago, or even five years ago, but this is still Man United and it's still a place that hasn't been a happy hunting ground for us [...]

16 08, 2025

The pressers are done, so what have we learned from Arteta and Amorim?

By |2025-08-16T08:19:03+01:00August 16th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Morning campers, how we all doing? The Premier League is now underway and last night we got ourselves our first glimpses of a Liverpool team that, as I put out on social media a week ago, I really hope defend like that all season. Sure, they still won and grabbed a last minute winner(s) which [...]

7 08, 2025

Weighing up “it’s a friendly” against some concerns Arsenal fans have

By |2025-08-07T07:50:03+01:00August 7th, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, friendly, injuries, Mikel Arteta, pre season|2 Comments

It’s a curious thing, is pre season, because you can have your concerns about performances, but not about results. It’s a real juxtaposition to the real thing, in which ultimately the opposite is true. Due to work commitments I managed to catch from minute 28 of the game against Villareal last night and found myself [...]

6 08, 2025

Villareal part of Arteta’s careful friendly selection process

By |2025-08-06T08:08:54+01:00August 6th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, pre season|0 Comments

It's another friendly match day today for The Arsenal and I'm intrigued to see how we line up tonight against Villareal. Will we see a pretty much first team rock up against the Spanish side? Or will it be a blended side from the start like in the Asian tour? equally, will we have a [...]

28 07, 2025

Arsenal Women win the Euro’s as Dowman wows Asia

By |2025-07-28T08:33:54+01:00July 28th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, friendly, gooners, Gunners, Internationals|0 Comments

I'll get into the Arsenal men's teams' second win of pre season after a somewhat feisty encounter in Singapore against Newcastle yesterday lunchtime UK time, but before all of that, let's have a word or two to say about the fabulous England Lionesses, who retained the Euro trophy on penalties by defeating Spain in the [...]

24 07, 2025

Good Milan knockabout kicks off Arsenal’s pre season

By |2025-07-24T07:49:54+01:00July 24th, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, friendly, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, pre season|2 Comments

Arsenal kicked off their pre season yesterday with a 1-0 win over Milan and sure as eggs is eggs, it was Bukayo Saka who was the difference maker. Annoyingly I wasn't able to watch the game in full because I was at work, but even if I'd have been off, there's zero chance I'm paying [...]

21 07, 2025

Arteta is pumped over new signings

By |2025-07-21T09:36:35+01:00July 21st, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal Manager, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, contracts, friendly, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, pre season, press conference|0 Comments

It's a new week, the lads are in Singapore, Mikel Arteta has had a press conference and by all accounts, he seemed in good spirits. He talked about a whole manner of things - not Gyokeres by name though - and given what he said and the way he said it, it's clear that we [...]

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