Scattering my eyes across the Sundays and the general theme hasn’t changed much: there’s the rustle of keeper talk and a persisting link to Everton’s Phil Jagielka. The latter story has been lingering long enough that the fee is now being quoted at a very un-Arsenal-like £15m. At that price, I can’t see us getting [...]
Continue reading about More goals from Arsenal’s wings required
With Eduardo now officially the fifth Arsenal departure of the summer, the squad evolution continues apace. We’ve now lost two attackers (gaining one), three defenders (gaining one) and have gained one midfielder (Wilshere). So in terms of snipping the squad’s deadheads, the work carries on. And unfortunately, a deadhead is what Eduardo had become. You’ll [...]
14 July – quick poll 12 July – old post How nice is it to be able to crane the old neck away from the World Cup, and back in the other direction, towards the league, and towards Arsenal. I was getting a crick. Looking back, it’s very clear that I’ve barely troubled my laptop [...]
Continue reading about Underhill on horizon, and one final rant
And finally, Laurent Koscielny has signed for the Arsenal. His free Arsenal.com video is a brilliant mix of new signing intro and new shirt promotion. “We bought this! Now buy these!” Luckily, both new shirts are ace. We have laughed many a time in the past about how Wenger pulls signings from nowhere and presents [...]
Continue reading about Arsenal’s new defence begins to take shape
So England have slunk home sheepishly, and the inquest has begun in earnest as to quite how it went so calamitously wrong. I’m not going to get into that inquest here though, what with me being thoroughly bored of our biennial national slip-up, and this blog being of a club hue. A club, incidentally, that [...]
Continue reading about Feed me some transfers, Arsene, I’m hungry.
Good morning from a sultry London. At least, I expect it to be sultry later on, or I want my money back. The shorts are on, perfectly complementing the hairy white legs, and I even got the electric fan out the loft last night it was so warm. That’s as big a meteorological death wish [...]
Continue reading about Signing “quite soon”, but first it’s You Know What.
I love the World Cup, and contrary to the experiences of some, I’ve loved this one just as much as any other. Who can argue with three live games of football a day? Sure, the ball is an aberration but what do you expect from a tournament that is at least in part about Fifa’s [...]
Continue reading about World Cup thoughts: Stunts and psychology
So Phil Senderos has officially left Arsenal – two seasons after he effectively did anyway. There’s been a lot of goodwill on Twitter and across the blogs and that’s fair enough. Senderos was an uncomplicated player who gave his all, never moaned and represented the club very well indeed. He was an up-and-down player though, [...]
Continue reading about Defenders: Out with the old and in with the new
Remember how Wenger stated he’d like to get his transfers sorted before the World Cup began? He’ll be lucky. Most high-calibre players are content to wait until the tournament ends before thinking about what happens next – even if their agents are busy doing stuff in the background. So when the tournament kicks off a [...]
So where am I? I’m not 100% sure, because I’ve never exactly checked, but I’m pretty certain that two weeks is about as long as I have ever gone without checking in here to spew a few words out since I first started the site, now over seven years ago in earth years – or [...]
