RotorGoat on July 25th, 2010

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 [...]

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RotorGoat on December 11th, 2009

Contracts You can’t see the wood for the trees when it comes to Arsenal players being offered new contracts, can you? First, misser of two good chances on Tuesday, Charles Vela, earned himself a new deal. And now, talk is of man-of-balsa Thomas Rosickly getting new terms. Might seem a bit weird to some people. [...]

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RotorGoat on September 13th, 2009

Manchester City 4-2 Arsenal Bit late in the day to add my tupp’orth about yesterday’s match – couldn’t get anywhere near the pooter till now. Obviously, it’s mostly about Adebayor, which is wrong, but there you go. I only saw the stamp on Match of the Day last night. When you see it in slow [...]

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RotorGoat on July 18th, 2009

So it all kicks off again, at Barnet, this afternoon. And while the squad does contain the expected Frimpongs, Coquelins and Barazites of this world, it’s a surprisingly strong 21-man squad when you add Rosicky, Arshavin, Gallas, Vermaelen and Almunia. How marvellous it is to see Tomas Rosicky back. By my reckoning (with a little [...]

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