According to the player that is…. MALAGA (Spain): Arsenal have completed the signing of Spanish international Santiago Cazorla from Spanish side Malaga, the player said on his Twitter account Thursday. “I can say I am a new Arsenal player,” said the 27-year-old midfielder. Cazorla, who has won 47 caps but missed the World Cup triumph […]
Morning Gooners, Well what a day yesterday, there was a couple of us starting to think that the Cazorla link was going to end up like another Mata, and you know how that went, then out of the blue what we all wanted to hear came real, Santi Cazorla is expected in London for a […]
Let’s start with the titbits for a change: We are reported to be checking out Oliver Torres, a 19 year old midfielder from Atletico Madrid. It’s inevitable that Arsene Wenger would be looking to Spain because of financial crisis in the country and right now, La Liga is looking a very good place to shop. We could […]
Today’s post is about what we can expect from Santi Cazorla if he agrees to sign for us and Lee found an article written by La Liga expert David Cartlidge who describes the player as having: Exquisite technical ability, passing, vision and movement…. He was also asked: What happens to the best players in Spain that don’t play […]
Morning Gooners So, we have finished our tour of the far East and Arsene Wenger spoke about yesterday’s performance: I think defensively we looked fragile, especially in the first half. In the second half not so much because we were not challenged. Defensively we have a lot of work to do as a unit to […]
Morning Gooners.. The Santi Cazorla story again makes the headlines this morning, a few newspapers report that the deal is expected to be completed by Tuesday as the Qatari negotiators for Malaga are flying in this weekend to sort out the deal and hope to conclude this quickly. Just where these negotiators are flying into I don’t know, […]
You have to feel a bit sorry for Arsene Wenger really, having just lost 2-0 to Manchester City in China the press after the game didn’t really want to talk about what was a much better display from Arsenal. Despite the loss there were many positives to take from the game. Of course their were a […]
What a day ahead we have… We all get to see Arsenal perform again in Asia, today we are in China at The Beijing National Stadium and kick-off is at 1pm UK time. Coverage of the game is live on ESPN or Arsenal Player. Then a bit later in the day we have the Olympic Opening Ceremony and if […]
Today really is a slow news day. We discussed the squad numbers yesterday and how poor old Lukas Podolski has yet to be given his, well we all know why don’t we? Of course we do, he is going to get Dennis Bergkamp’s old number 10 as soon as it’s freed up this month or […]
First up is the news about Emmanuel Frimpong, he’s in trouble with the FA after a tweet to a Tottenham fan calling him ‘Scum Yid’. This was of course in reply to the same fan’s tweet which said ‘I prayed you break your arms and legs’. I can understand why Frimpong would get pretty narked […]
I come from a country where there is so much inequality. So much so that only few people in the country can afford what you really call a necessity i.e. modern medicine facilities, nutritious food etc. The reason for a lot of this is down to a corrupt government and, its by and large corrupt […]
Is 2011/12 our worst season during the Arsene Wenger Era and inception of Premier League in 1992/93? Apparently not as 2005/06 tops it. Season … W … D … … L … F … … A … +/- … Table Position 2005/06: 20 … 07 … 11 … 68 … 37 … 31 … 67 […]