Well the season be over (for good and bad) and now we’re headed off to the beach to be baked by the sun-hot speculation of the transfer- market arrivals, whilst surfing the waves whilst wondering who will barrel-over and depart.
The fixtures for the new season will be released on the 18 of June at 10am (WET). The Mighty Cannon is back in action on the 23rd of July against AC Milan, kick off 12.30pm western European time, we then play Newcastle and the Spuds in the following days.
The Charity shield between Palace and Liverpool is on the 9th of August.
Take care of yourselves and have a great summer. Its odd that we don’t wish each other any kind of happiness/greatness in any other season?
COYG!
Positively Arsenal 
If anyone wants to do a post over the Summer, just let me know.
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Obi and Ayden scored the goals to help manure come from behind to win their final game of their post season Asian tour.
This will help others leave without a doubt
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They might get a game with Man U cause Man U really are pooo.
I have tried to be critical on Arteta on this issue before.
I wanted Hutchinson to be given a chance and we sold him to Chelsea and also Duberry I thought might have a chance.
To be honest Hutchinson was sold on by Chelsea and I have no idea if Duberry is still at Brighton. Maybe they may come good maybe not.
Niketiah not been a starter at crystal palace, Smith -Rowe in and out of the team shows me it’s not a guarantee any of these players go on to do better at lesser clubs. Time will tell I guess.
i will give credit for to him for bringing through Nwaneri and skelly though, see what happens with Dowman and hoping he gives Marli Salmon some time.
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Raheem Sterling’s 8 year old son Thiago has signed for Arsenal U9’s and will be part of that group at the Hale End Academy
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some transfer rumors
Arsenal are reported to have agreed deals with both Sesko and Gyokeres, and had first bids for both turned down, its not clear if Arsenal actually want to sign both strikers or have moved on both in hope of completing one move
Barcelona are said to have made a move for and are close to completing a deal for goalie Joan Garcia, whom arsenal tried to sign last summer and were said to be in for this summer too.
Earlier in the week reports came out that Arsenal had lined up a medical for Zumbimendi and a deal will be done once window opens tomorrow
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reports that Arsenal want to sign Blackburn Rovers teenager Igor Tyjon and have made a £1M plus add on offer for the 17 year old striker
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reports in Spain not only have Barcelona in for Arsenal target Joan Garcia, but that they are now in talks to sign Partey on a bosman, and also are interested in signing Martinelli.
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García to join Barcelona this week apparently
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yeah ian and now arsenal briefing that they had decided not to sign garcia cos he was too expensive for a back up keeper, you really have to laugh
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the man we should have signed as back up keeper last summer, and maybe he’ll be available this summer again is Szczesny, we held talks with him last summer but he announced his retirement, but Barcelona persuaded him to come out of retirement when their keeper got injured and WS won la liga with the
and on the topic of ex keepers there are rumors we might bring in Fabianski as our back up keeper, he has left West Ham
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Arsenal today revealed the list of Men, Women and Academy players leaving the club this summer, 20 in total
Nathan Butler-Oyedeji
Reece Clairmont
Khayon Edwards
Jakai Fisher
Romari Forde
Teyah Goldie
Jimi Gower
Jack Henry-Francis
Lina Hurtig
Amanda Ilestedt
Jorginho
Max Kuczynski
Salah-Eddine Oulad M’Hand
Ismail Oulad M’Hand
Neto
Brian Okonkwo
Elian Quesada-Thorn
Zacariah Shuaib
Raheem Sterling
Kieran Tierney
In addition, the following players’ contracts also expire on June 30, 2025. Discussions are ongoing, and once matters are finalised between all parties, we will communicate in due course.
Chloe Kelly
Thomas Partey
Michal Rosiak
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Another season of youngsters training with the first team, being on the bench time and time again only to be released at the end of the season.
I understand a place in the squad is taken up by all those who have turned 21 but what’s the point in including those and the likes of Sterling in the last games.
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Tavares, king of the pass without looking,(different from the no look pass) has completed his permanent move away from ARSENAL.
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While the intention was to spend big this summer that was obviously intended on the three major signings.
The problem is that the first eleven wasn’t the biggest problem last season, it was the squad.
The small to middling signings are going to be very important but I’m not holding my breath that we won’t end up in the same position as we were at the start of last season.
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Arsenal said to be close to completing a deal for 17 year old Genk midfielder Konstantinos Karetsas, but he will be loaned back to Genk as he can’t join till he turns 18 in January. The fee is said to be with all add ons as high as €45m
Arsenal are said to be considering Chelsea goalie Kepa Arrizabalaga (30), who has a release clause of £5M, for the role of back up keeper to Raya, he is after having a fine season on loan with Bournemouth, he joined CFC in 2018 for over £70M
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arsenal are said to be close to appointing Matteo Tognozzi the former head of scouting at Juventus among others to our player recruitment team
arsenal have also advertised part time scouting jobs across the UK for a role in what the call scouting emerging talent
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Kepa is a quality keeper and would be an excellent signing.
The recruitment of scouts, across the country, looking for emerging talents is obviously a reversal on all the scouts they sacked a few years ago.
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Gabriel signing a new deal is fantastic news and maybe will help push an extension for Saliba. The Saka deal looks like it’s just about the right numbers for him as he obviously wants to stay.
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spuds sack there most successful manager in decades.
He’s miserable when they win so only knows what he’s going to be like now. That will be a depressing interview worth avoiding.
Although he might be chuffed (as all their other ex managers were) to finally be away from the shite hole.
The only problem is that a decent manager might decide to go there because they have a CL place.
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Jorginho has signed a three year deal with Flamenco
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well spurs sacking ange is not a surprise, after all the sacked george graham after he won them their last trophy
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The shame is Frank, Silva, Glasner and Iraola are all better managers than the miserable Ang.
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so David Ornstein reports that Arsenal are close to signing Kepa Arrizabalaga from Chelsea for his release clause of £5M, he remains the most expensive Goalkeeper of all time with CFC having paid just under £72M for him in 2018, and if he signs Arsenal will have the most expensive keeper and Raya the 8th most expensive keeper.
For me this move makes far more sense than spending the £25M that is reported to be the fee for Joan Garcia
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Ornstein also reports that Arsenal want to sign a right sided CB, possibly another left back as Tierney is gone and Zinchenko is for sale. He says AFC are bringing in Zubimendi but also want Partey to sign a new deal, but if he does not then we’d want another CM too, back up for Saka wanted and first choice signings for both left wing and CF. He also stated that Sane is seen as a possible squad signing too.
The big question is who will sign the likes of Vieira, Nelson, Lokonga, and of course Zinchenko. Hein is likely off too. And if we sign those first choice forwards and back ups then surely at least one of Martinelli or Trossard would be off, and of course Jesus would not be wanted either, but like Tomiyasu he is injured so who would sign him till he proves his fitness.
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As we aren’t going to raise much in player sales, doing all that business would be difficult. Other clubs seem to get small but decent amounts for youth players but we get nothing.
I would imagine Trossard and Martinelli would be wanted for the bench. If they want a move they would have to force it.
Although we need it, I believe, eight players or even close to that seems out of our reach.
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Marquinhos has left the club on a permanent transfer. Another player brought in because of huge potential only to be sold without really coming anywhere near a first team chance.
Can anyone think of one of these types of transfers that has worked out since Martinelli.
These disasters plus the waste of academy players must have cost the club and absolute fortune.
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Jeorge Bird
@jeorgebird
Arsenal currently have three spaces in their Premier League squad for non-homegrown players. This is based on all players being included, such as those returning from loan.
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Former Arsenal favourite Santi Cazorla’s stunning free-kick at the age of 40 put his boyhood club Real Oviedo a game away from promotion to LaLiga on Wednesday night.
Cazorla, who scored 29 goals in 180 games for Arsenal, found the bottom corner with his supposedly weaker foot against Almeria as Oviedo clinched a 3-2 aggregate win to reach the Spanish second division play-off final.
Cazorla is captaining Oviedo in his second season at the club having also had spells with Villarreal and Al Sadd since his Emirates Stadium departure in 2018.
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looks like Arsenal wasted two years chasing Nico Williams, with him now seemingly destined for Barcelona, its reported he is willing to take a much lower wage from Barca than he wanted from either Arsenal or Bayern Munich
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Williams is obviously a very good player but I don’t think he is head and shoulders above other top wingers. There are other players around who are good enough that we can target.
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Alright lads, hope youre doing well. Its bloody boring without the Arsenal! Grrr! Today I remembered this game from days of yore. Nigel gives McClair a gob full at the end. COYG!
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Remember that game Mills, took ages to get in people everywhere. Those days the attendance was never correct always under estimated. The men on the turnstiles used to take something for themselves as well.
That was before Dixon had arrived and Kenny was demoted so Nigel had to play at right back even though he couldn’t kick with his right.
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Great memory Ian! How did you start support the Arsenal?
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My Mum was from Wood Green and therefore a Tottenham supporter and my Dad was from East Ham and therefore a West Ham supporter. During the birth of the new towns my Dad followed work at Hawker Sidley later to become BAE. And so ARSENAL were my nearest club.
As a child I was football mad and I got my first ARSENAL shirt when I was four, I was so proud of it. I was nagging my Dad to take me to the games and his mate at work was a North bank season ticket holder so he used to take me.
I was lucky enough to see Carlisle in the top division and all the Irish lads come into the first team. My first final on the radio was in 69 when we lost and I cried massively. Fortunately that was followed very quickly by 70 and then 71, by then I was stonewall.
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Brillant. I can imagine there was a lot of banter over the years between you and your Mum and Dad! Amazing you mentioned Carlisle, I had used to collect football cards ( and the stickers) and somehow got hold of some older ones that had a few players from when they had been top flight, I always liked their kit.
Also to have seen the Arsenal Irish come in, and of course go must have been great. They were all in place by the time I turned up.
You must have seen many times Geordie Armstrong and Brady in the same team? Also how did you rate Alan Hudson.
You must have endless stories and anecdotes. One thing I was thinking about, did you have a favourite place to watch at Highbury?
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I loved Alan Hudson but he would of been crucified by today’s fans and media. He was a magical creative player but wasn’t a runner by any means.
Geordie created loads but he was a massively hard worker. Liam could be quiet for ages but then just create something magical that was so good it would make you gasp and laugh at the same time.
I started on the right hand bend of the North bank before going in the schoolboys. Then it was entering the North bank through the Avenell Road turnstile by the East Stand and standing right behind the goal.
If I was flush I would sometimes pay out for a posh ticket to the East or West stand. Once by boys were born I would take them a little further back in the North bank or in the West Stand family enclosure.
As my lads got older myself and my mates all went up the Clock end before moving back down the North bank on the left hand bend.
Finally Steve I from this site would get me and my lads tickets right behind Arsenes seat and the bench. In the last few seasons I’ve just got sporadic tickets here and there.
I know Highbury was getting too small but certainly the Emirates and the popularity of the Premier League has made it more difficult for me to get tickets.
Long gone are the days when you could decide an hour before the game to go.
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Very true about Liam being often quiet but then turning on the intelligent magic. Although disgraced, I thought Graham Rix was also an excellent player and those two were really strong on the left had side, although once Liam left he didn’t seem quite as good, maybe the penalty miss in the CWC final knocked his confidence?
I would have loved to have seen both Alan and Geordie play. Seems they both fell out with Terry N?
I always loved the bend between NB and the West stand, I didn’t ever go down the Clock-end. I also ended up behind the goal at the NB a few times, but Im such a tool I didn’t like that I couldn’t see the game as well.
Highbury had such an incredible atmosphere, for me, even on non-match days just walking around was pretty exciting. Of course Highbury was different before and after the CE/NB renovations and the removal of the bend terraces.
Very true about how you could just turn up, when you look at some of the attendance stats its shocking how low they were, and how hungry people are now.
Were you at the game when Sammy Nelson had his shorts down, wasn’t it against Coventry (1-1) -without checking it?
I wonder what ever happend to Fred Street, seems to have historically dropped off the planet?
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Well it’s official, we have the hardest start regarding next seasons opening six fixtures.
manure away
dirty Leeds at home
scoucers away
fucking early interlull
forrest at home
city at home
barcodes away.
nightmare start.
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Mills I think the big mistake with Rix was that Arsenal tried to have him replace Liam Brady, and he was never good enough to play in the middle. Rix had a dip in form, and making him captain nearly finished him, but he had a revival with good combinations with Sansom and Woodcock, in fact it was good enough to get him in the England world cup squad, was it 82
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Arsenal will be looking for a new member of the coaching staff, Carlos Cuesta has left to become boss at Parma
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some rumors this evening that the media have been invited to the Emirates both tomorrow and Monday, both thought to be for new signings, maybe Kepa and Zubi, but who knows we might actually have decided which striker we actually want to sign
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lots of reports that Partey is leaving, that wages on a new contract could not be agreed.
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reports from Spain say Arsenal will pay slightly more than Zubimendi’s release clause so that they can pay it over a few years instead of all in one go
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Hello Ed, hope youre having a good summer. I agree with what you wrote about Rix, great with the Tony and Kenny as you mentioned and in front of Brady. Those two made some great plays.
One for you and Ian: did you ever see Peter Marinello play? What did you think of him? Way before my time, but that great goal he scored against ManUre was very Best-like! ( Ive read he was dubbed the ‘New GB’ etc. Loks like he rally should have been massive…
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Peter Marinello had all the talent in the world, but was very slightly built and got kicked from pillar to post, and of course we had the great Geordie Armstrong who could play either wing. Marinello also like best had too much going on off the pitch, so with the pressure to live up to the hype, his injuries, and not forgetting our actual style of play back then not suiting him, he was always on a loser.
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seemingly Arsenal paying 10% above Zubimendi’s release clause so that we can pay for it over a number of years instead of all at once.
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When you here you have the new George Best coming through the academy you get quite exited. From there, although very talented, Peter was always on a hiding to nothing. When he was on his game you just had to enjoy.
The same thing happened to a few of our wingers who were described as the new giggs. Football wise none of them made it, although the Romford Pele was a better all round player.
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Apparently lots of deals will be announced on July 1st to help clubs with their finances and FFP rules.
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Both Ornstein and Romano reporting the Norgaard story so seems quite likely now. Leicester’s Ndidi has a release clause of.9 million, so surely that must be an option under consideration.
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ian we paid a club record fee of £100K for Marinello, he had played 2 seasons in hibs first team, we got him as he was about to turn 20.
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