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 […]
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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 […]
The game was over over as far as the result goes. Sunderland were losing 3-0 and added time was being played out when Dan Smith pretty much ended what should have been a great footballing career for Abou Diaby. The challenge was deemed worthy of just a booking when in reality a three match […]
Only a few days ago did I write the words spoken by our very own Vinai Venkatesham about how the club would look after all its ‘support staff’ through this time of financial uncertainty. As yet, there’s been no announcement about players taking any kind of pay cut either. Should they be required to […]
So much has been said and written about David Rocastle over the last 30+ years. His spirit, the red and white coloured blood which flowed through his veins, his passion for both the game, the club and the fans. His tears when the day his Arsenal career came to an end. Our tears when his […]