That said, a move away from Arsenal was certainly the best thing for Andrey Arshavin. He has fallen behind Theo Walcott, Gervinho, Oxlade-Chamberlain and often Yossi Benayoun. He was only getting cameo appearances off the bench and was never going to regain his form by playing a bit part role. He has been out of sorts for a while now and to be honest, it would have made more sense if he moved
The idea that Arsenal could blow £100m on transfers and wages is quite simply laughable. It doesn't take much research to show that more often than not we balance the books by selling what we spend and like I find myself recently repeating ad infinitum is that we have always run the club like this and it is not some tight fisted ego trip of the manager like some still try to pedal. I assume that Arsene's budget depends on Champions League qualification which I guess is pretty obvious. The guillotine will fall on many squad necks but that
Our objective of financial fair play and self-sustainability means the boss is reluctant to spend £20 million on a wonderkid. Sign Hazard! Sign Gotze! Instead, we have to settle for some unknown two-bob teenagers like Oxlade-Chamberlain. What a load of bollocks he's been. In life, there is always a trade-off. This may sound a bit rich coming from a sixteen year old, and by the fact I learnt this term in my economics class, but the fact is, Arsene's deep lying love for this club has been his
The AST meeting yesterday has got everyone talking, has got people speculating about how we are running the club. It has been understood that Arsenal have got somewhere in the region of £45m cash tucked away in Arsene Wenger's bottom sock draw in his home, I can imagine a crowd of people standing up and shouting until slowly sitting back down in silence as the news filters through that roughly the same amount of money will be lost if the club do not make that oh so desirable
How does a team that forked out roughly £70m last January on top of what they already had find themselves in fifth in the table? With the worlds sought after up and coming manager behind them, they started the season as favourites in many a pundits eye. It is quite incredible really. The obvious comparisons are that both teams are in transition. A different type of
Eden Hazard's name was again mentioned by Arsenal, and it isn't the first or I suspect the last time that his name will come out of Wenger's mouth. Arsene has been watching Hazard for a number of years now, I wouldn't be at all surprised if he knew of Hazard way before anyone else. Arsene know's French players very well, especially young French players, I say French players but of course I mea
Firstly we have signed 19 year old Thomas Eisfeld from Borussia Dortmund, as this blog has gone up pretty late, I do not need to go into the details as I am sure you have read them elsewhere, probably more than once as well. What I have been able to do though, is find some footage that seems to be in shortage right now. I have put it together albeit rather shoddily but time was not on my side. As there Andrey Arshavin is in preliminary talks with Anzhi Makhachkala, I didn't even have to look that
I had travelled back to the 2003/2004 season, I am sure you know of it well. A season where Arsenal did the unthinkable. We had finished runners up to Manchester United the season before and were being called the bridesmaids as the last time we won the league title was back in 1997/98. Arsene was being criticised for only bringing in a goalkeeper during that
Since joining Arsenal over Manchester United back in 2008, Aaron Ramsey has had somewhat of an eventful time at the club. A bright youngster who was developing quickly, had a great attitude and then suffered from the Shawcross assult, had his place in the team taken by his Caring Cup team mate who had made a similar impact and then got his place back again
Harry Redknapp's recent hypocritical ramblings about the spending power of Manchester City. While Tottenham are not the largest wage payers in the league they have a higher net spend on transfers than anyone else apart from the two blue billionaire owners in Manchester and West London. This is thanks to ENIC an investment company established by the British billionaire Joe Lewis, who have