Happy Saturday and welcome to the first day of the season, albeit without any Arsenal, although that's ok, right? I mean, it allows us to take some sides by cheering on the teams of those that we perceive are the nearest rivals, so at least that's something. So today you and I will be temporary [...]
It's 7am on Friday as I write this, with at least 2 hours until Arsène's first presser of the season and where normally there would be anticipation and excitement on our chances this season, there is mainly only worry that what usually happens to Arsenal - injuries - has come at least two months earlier [...]
Ok, plenty of trips to wade through this morning, so let's have at it. By tripe, I mean transfer giff-gaff, media bluster, journo hyperbole and all that jazz. Firstly to BILD, who have been interviewing our German maestro which has been translated by the English speaking press, quoting him as saying that he'd jump at [...]
So it's another day and another new signing to not get too excited about. We're at T-minus four days until our season starts and it's the third day since we saw Gabriel's injury. And there's only been a sniff of 'Arsenal are thinking-about-asking-about-maybe-there-might-be-an-outside-chance-of-bidding-for' a defender who other teams even seem to be pulling out of [...]
It's funny how everybody seems to lose their sh*t when a big transfer happens to a rival, especially when we've seemingly been innocently looking to the sky and whistling so as to not attract much attention to ourselves, isn't it? And when I say 'funny', what I actually mean is 'maddeningly hysterical, because that's how [...]
Everything seemed to be going so well yesterday, didn't it? Right up until that moment when Gabriel flim-flammed his leg by twisting his ankle and having to be carried off on a stretcher. It's all so very...well...Arsenal, isn't it? Had Monreal got injured, we'd have all have been gutted, but Gibbs could have stepped in. [...]
I find it a little sad that despite an absolutely thumping victory - albeit against a poor Norweigen side in Viking FK - most of the talk after the game and today amongst Arsenal fans, is the post match comments about signings that he made. Certainly if you read just the written word about what [...]
Like you, I am hoping that Arsenal can feel in Shokran Mustafi from Valencia, but unlike many I feel like I'm one of the few people that has realised that if it actually happens we've still got a selection dilemma come the first game of the season. Mustafi played in the same squad as Özil. [...]
Julian Draxler is apparently going nowhere, say Wolfsburg, and if you believe that their statement yesterday is anything other than an attempt to maximise a return on a clearly unhappy player, I've got some genuine Caesar salad dressing that was on the table of the last emperor himself, that I could sell you. Wolfsburg know [...]
When you've had your dinner really early, like 5.30pm or 6pm, then you get to 9 O'Clock and you start to feel hungry again. That's how I'd describe the Arsenal fanbase right now in relation to transfers and how we feel about the squad. In June, before the Euro's started, we secured what is looking [...]