Category Archives: Daily Bits and Bobs

Usmanov talks about Arsenal, Left back 'heavily tipped' to join us & Champions League Draw today…

According to the local newspaper in Southampton, Luke Shaw is “heavily tipped” to leave the club in January and his expected destination is Arsenal. This story has been rumbling since the summer and it wouldn’t surprise me if this turn out to be true. Having just tied down five British players to long-term contracts, Wenger seems keen […]

Arsenal open talks with Walcott and Huntelaar & Five new contracts set to be announced…….

Morning Gooners, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Carl Jenkinson, Kieran Gibbs, Jack Wilshere and Aaron Ramsey, all five are expected to sign new contracts within days. Theo Walcott’s contract obviously needs sorting out and seeing Wenger finally playing him in a central role against Reading, that could mean all sorts of things. The main one of course is […]

Should we trust Jack Wilshere? Time to players to stand up and be counted………

Morning all, We’ve heard from George Graham, Ray Parlour, Stewart Robson, Gary Neville and even Jeff Stelling has had a few words to say on the ‘should he stay or go’ debate…. But forget all of those, what about the current players, what do they think? Surely they are some of the most important people […]

Which Christmas Arsene? Djourou looking to leave as five ready to stay.

Morning all, Seems I missed the ‘Johan Djourou want’s Napoli’ story yesterday… According to his agent, Djourou is surplus to requirements at Arsenal and was close to moving away before this current season started, now it seems he could be gone in January with Italy his preferred destination. Djourou has been with us a long […]

Chamakh to the Hammers, Walcott to Chelsea & Time to make the turnstiles count……

Morning Gooners, Bit of gossip from the newspapers: West Ham want to take Chamakh on loan in January, a move I am sure would be welcomed by all Arsenal fans and Chelsea are reported to be front-runners in the chase for Theo Walcott. Toulouse right back Serge Aurier has been added to Arsene’s wanted list, the […]

Wenger staying and will be spending & Is there more to losing players each year than we all know?

So Arsene Wenger is going nowhere, despite all that has been going wrong and according to Ivan Gazidis, he will have money to waste spend again in January. Apparently Stan Kroenke, who understands everything about the current game and it’s on-field tactics, believes our manager is the right one to take our club back to the top. Arsene […]

Henry 'debut' pencilled in & Is it time to put the League Cup ahead of the rest?

Morning all, According to The Daily Mail, talks over a new loan deal for Henry are going well and a ‘debut’ for the old boy is pencilled in for January 6th when we face Swansea in the FA Cup. Doesn’t really take a genius to work out that that is our first game after the transfer window opens and […]

Sagna to depart? Henry to stay? Did We Fail To Notice the Proverbial Final Nail in The Coffin Years Ago in Birmingham

Gossip to start with and that surrounds Bacary Sagna. News in the papers today suggest that the club have offered him £60,000 a week and a year extension to his current contract. To which he has apparently said thanks, but no thanks. His current deal ends in the summer of 2014 so no doubt he […]