Arsenal’s strangely enjoyable close season
“For the first time in a while, I will be very active†With these dozen words, spoken at the tail end of May, Wenger has kicked off a fascinating close…
My mouth is parched in this transfer desert
What a goldfish I am. Despite an end of season that spent most of its time reeling from one calamity to another, I appear to be hankering for the new…
Squill’s red and Nasri’s blues
Arsenal 2-1 Huddersfield Town Quick blog ahead of a hectic transfer deadline day, which I'm sure you'll all want to get back to as soon as you can. A £38m…
Fab, Theo and Brazil nuts
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…
No morning words, but a quick poll
We probably all agree that we could do with three or four players this summer, in three or four different areas of the pitch. But what if we only had…
A spoonful of hope on a cereal of improbability
Good morning to you all on a cloudless, plane-free and gorgeous spring London morning. Having no aircraft humming overhead or vapour trails criss-crossing the skies has been as peculiar as…
Summer transfers: What effect will the World Cup have?
Strewth, it’s quiet. In fact, there’s been a whiff of close season to things. Partly I suppose because we’ve got the weekend off, and partly because losing to Barcelona seems…
Seize the moment (and fix the unfixed)
Good things, as they say, come to those who wait. I sat watching Sky Sports on 1st January expecting a flurry of new players to change hands within moments, and…
Transfers: Going Mad
Hard to know what Wenger makes of this transfer pandemic, isn't it? The great man has kept radio silence over the last week, presumably either because he's off on business…
Things are moving already – though TA probably isn’t
So there I was, egg on face, after totally misplacing the opening of the transfer window to the tune of one month, but in the end it didn't stop Man…