Morning all. This is Arsenal’s statement on Laurent Koscielny. Laurent Koscielny is leaving us to join Ligue 1 side Bordeaux. The centre back has made 353 appearances for us since signing from Lorient in 2010. He was part of our Emirates FA Cup-winning squads in 2014, 2015 and 2017. Laurent, who started his career in […]
Category Archives: Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. It’s late in the transfer window. Arsenal need defensive players but any club willing to sell players now, hold the cards. Unless they have a seriously unhappy player on their hands, they can pretty much demand whatever fee they like from the buying club. Especially a British one. Speculation I know but we’re […]
Morning all. Pre-season came to and end last night with a defeat to Barcelona. A narrow one though I hasten to add with Barcelona needing an own goal to draw level after Aubameyang had opened the scoring. Then right at the end of the game, Suarez popped up with their winner. The own goal was […]
Morning all. I’ve taken a bit of stick for my ‘support’ of Stan Kroenke and his American enterprise, although I do use the term support rather loosely. Of course we could have better owners but then we could have much worse too. People admire the free cash flowing clubs like City and Chelsea, Utd too […]
Morning all. I said to a friend of mine yesterday, at least Arsenal’s style of football should be more exciting this season. How can it not be after signing three quality attacking players and having the likes of Saka, Nelson, Willock and Eddie to call upon. We’ll be winning matches 6-5 I joked as our […]
Morning all. Finally, Arsenal confirmed the signing of Nicolas Pepe yesterday, possibly the most exciting player the club have signed in years. He’s quick, he runs at players, goes by them with ease and he scores goals. This is the kind of player we’ve been crying out for for years. The ideal player for Nelson […]
Morning all. Pinch punch and all that jazz, or white rabbits. It’s the 1st August and the new football season is just eight days away. Ten for Arsenal as our season kicks off on the Sunday. A week today, the summer transfer window of 2019 slams shut. So far, Raul and co have snapped up […]
For years now, every newspaper, sports outlets and fans too have been crying out for the club to spend some money. Usually we have but it’s never been enough, or it’s been spent on the wrong kind of player. Not my thoughts entirely but I’ve certainly read such views for a long long time now. […]
Morning all. Following the 2-1 defeat to Lyon yesterday, a couple of hours after the women had lost their friendly too, Unai Emery was asked whether Arsenal should buy more defenders rather than attacking players: We are deciding how we can improve. At the beginning we were thinking to do one player to achieve […]
Morning all. I always believed that if one day Ryan Shawcross suffered a serious injury I’d celebrate. Not literally of course but in a smug kind of way. What he did to Aaron Ramsey deserved a bit of karma in my book but having seen him foot get stuck in the turf, his ankle bent […]
Morning all. If what’s been written in nearly every newspaper over the last few weeks is true, Arsenal have dealt a double blow to the noisy neighbours. Toots were after both William Saliba and Dani Ceballos, yet both are now Arsenal players. One won’t arrive until next summer which is no good to us this […]
Morning all. The bad news from our 2-2 draw with Real Madrid is the injury to Marco Asensio. If it’s serious and he’s out long term, it could put an end to us signing Cebellos. Rotten news if it pans out that way so fingers crossed Assensio is ok. Mustafi and AMN are struggling with […]