Signed by Man City, pretty much rejected by them too as instead of representing the blue club of Manchester, three loans came Pablo Mari’s way. Girona, NAC and lastly Deportivo La Coruna before a permanent move to Flamengo followed in the summer of 2019. Not that he stayed there long either because Arsenal came […]
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Pay cuts, will this season ever end, will the transfer window begin let alone end and will next season start on time. Questions which won’t go away. Answers which never seem to arrive. How can they when normal everyday movement is restricted. Rightly so of course and I feel the need to say that […]
That’s exactly what I’ll be doing for the next three weeks after government here in the UK announced that there will be no lifting of any lockdown restrictions for the foreseeable. How can there be when so many lives are still being lost and no vaccination has been discovered? That date will take us […]
When the headlines first came out about Arsenal and the five point pay reduction plan, it’s fair to say that most of us on here were in support of it. However, we pretty much agreed that if players were expected to accept a reduction in salary, then so should the management team. Well, they […]
I think the one thing about Arsenal at the moment is that if this season doesn’t finish and the club doesn’t receive the financial payments it would have expected a couple of months ago, there are going to be player sales. It’s widely anticipated that our captain Aubameyang will be one of the first. […]
True or or not I don’t know but reports flying around late yesterday afternoon suggested that Arsenal are heading for hard times financially which if true, blow my theory of the club probably being one of the lucky ones through all this, right out the window. The players have allegedly been asked to take […]
I was reading the story about ex footballer Jamie Brooks this morning. A sad one it is too. Back in 2002 he was on the verge of joining Arsenal from Oxford Utd who’d just been relegated from Division One. He’d played in an Oxford v Arsenal second string match, skinned Lee Dixon many times […]
Kieran Tierney Cedric Soares Gabriel Martinelli Pablo Mari Eddie Nketiah Emile Smith Rowe Reiss Nelson Pepe William Saliba Bukayo Saka Joe Willock Eleven players who in 2020/21 could really help push Arsenal into the top four. Some we’ve seen glimpses of, two are yet to make their debut, one who is yet to arrive […]
Real Madrid are the latest big club to announce that their players and coaches have agreed to take pay cuts. The cut varies between 10 and 20% which might not sound a lot but 10-20% of a massive wage bill like theirs must be is a whole lot of money. This cut will go […]
A message read and heard all day, every day for what might seem like years but it’s been just weeks. Weeks of being asked to do something for the good of ourselves and others, key workers especially as it’s they who work whilst many others rest. But not Mourinho it seems, not some of […]
Football seems to be going in the wrong direction. Liverpool, Toots, Bournemouth, Newcastle and Norwich have placed some, if not all their non playing staff on furlough. The biggest surprise of course is Liverpool who just over a year ago we’re lifting the Champions League Cup. The Mail report that the decision came from the […]
Matt Hancock caused a few feathers to ruffle yesterday afternoon when during the Governments daily Coronavirus briefing he suggested Premier League footballers should take a pay cut in order to help prevent their own club from furloughing their non-playing staff. This comes after the Toots furloughed all their staff just before it was made public […]