I read read an article in the Athletic yesterday which related to out old Brazilian midfielder. Not Gilberto but Denilson who was just one of many young overseas players to arrive at Arsenal during the Arsene Wenger reign and it made me think about how much we expect from them. Too much perhaps. I […]
Category Archives: Daily Bits and Bobs
What do we as Arsenal fans expect from our club over the next 18 months and in particular next season? For me, it’s the gradual continuation of the progress we’ve seen from our squad as Mikel Arteta and his coaches have worked with them and the hope, given the parlous financial […]
Another day in this strange Covid world we’re living in right now and there’s no sign of things changing any time soon. Certainly not for sport. This morning I read that the Dutch FA have all but given up on their footballing season coming to a natural conclusion as it “intends not to continue” the Eredivisie […]
Yesterday evening Arsenal FC released a statement which read: We are pleased to announce that we have reached a voluntary agreement with our first-team players, head coach and core coaching staff to help support the club at this critical time. The move follows positive and constructive discussions. In these conversations there […]
I’m feeling lazy this morning so I’m cheating. Thanks to The Mirror, here is a list of all the Premier League players who’ll be out of contract on the 30th June 2020 and there’s a lot. Arsenal – None Aston Villa – Borja Baston, Keinan Davis Bournemouth – Ryan Fraser, Jordon […]
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 […]
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 […]