Hill-Wood says Arsenal can’t stop money-grabbing stars (Nasri) from joining Man City

The Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood has launched a blistering attack on money-grabbing footballers (Nasri anyone?) that tell the fans that want to leave Arsenal in the quest for glory or trophies, but really just have visions of the piles of money the…

Wenger: We won’t lose Van Persie…and Nasri left for money, not trophies

Arsene Wenger reckons players don’t leave Arsenal for Manchester City to win honours – but,

RvP to be offered huge wage increase as Anzhi Makhachkala confirm interest

Arsène Wenger looks set to offer Robin van Persie a huge wage increase as part of a new 4-year contract as we fight to keep hold of our star striker. Van Persie’s current Arsenal contract expires in 2013, and our captain has indicated that he will …

Wenger should have prepared better for Nasri and Cesc’s departures

With the long-expected transfers out of Cesc to Barcelona and Nasri to Manchester City over the summer, Arsène Wenger was of course left with the dilemma of finding suitable replacements for the pair at a fairly respectable price. The fact that Arsena…

Andrei – Will Song and Van Persie join the list of deserters from Arsenal?

The biggest question after such a terrible season start for the Gunners is what will the rest of the top-class players at Arsenal do about the way things are going? Will they stay and fight for the club’s honour, or flee like Nasri did when trophies …

THE CORRECT ANSWER

And that, lads and lasses, is how to put to bed the most troublesome of weeks.It started with a low rumbling, white static, the sound of the tide crashing up the beach, water flowing into places it shouldn’t really get to. Then the warm embrace of Lanc…

Wenger denies van Persie transfer rumours

Arsène Wenger has acted quickly to quash rumours that Robin van Persie will be sold to Manchester City in January. Van Persie has two years left on his Arsenal contract, but does not seem to be in a particular hurry to discuss a contract extension, su…

From 17th Best To 17th Best!

Greetings fellow Gooners! I know, you expected something directly after the game against Bolton on Saturday and your hearts were broken when I chose not to write a single word on the topic until now! The main reason for this is that for the last match …

Arsenal fighting hard to keep Walcott

Arsenal’s winger Theo Walcott is being pushed into signing a new contract with the Gunners. After the incident with Samir Nasri, when Wenger waited too much and the player didn’t want to sign any new contracts because the team lost the fight for th…

Memoirs of a North Bank Sage: Digging in

He’s been watching from the North Bank for more than 50 years; read the latest memoirs of a North Bank sage on wearethenorthbank.com throughout the season. And probably during the summer too! On the Dortmund game… I was well pleased with a poin…

Clichy – Fortunately I don’t play for Arsenal any more!

Former Arsenal left-back Gael Clichy still thinks that Arsenal will be fighting for the title until the very end despite the slight setback from the start of the season, but he is happy that he now plays for Manchester City instead, who are challenging…

AST Meeting Review – Wenger is in total control of players purchases and salaries

As AST meetings go, last nights was pretty intense. It was held in quite a small room, the information coming out probably felt quite abrasive to some, so at times the debate was quite intense. All in good spirit of course! I’ll give you the key points jumbled up into no particular order… Fanshare now [...]

What The Media Say About Underdogs Arsenal

Arsenal are often the subject of blog-posts and pod-casts online and I’ve been checking some of them out over the weekend. As usual the coverage is schizophrenic in it’s opinion. The Gunners get a lot of criticism, whatever they do. In the past they were getting flack for not signing any new players, especially experienced [...]

Will Park start? | Mertesacker wouldn’t have signed if Vermaelen had stayed fit

So after what feels like 16 weeks without football, we’re out the other end gearing up for a what I’m hoping will be a thrilling return to football. Swansea head on over, brimming with naive new team enthusiasm, whilst our squad turn up hoping to banish the demons of the Manchester United spanking they were [...]

Arteta: Don’t Compare Me To Fabregas and Nasri

Arsenal’s new summer signing Mikel Arteta has gone on record saying that it’s unfair to compare him and the rest of the new signings to the departed duo of Fabregas and Nasri. Arteta, 29, who signed for the club on deadline day from Everton…

Entitled to extinction?

OK, just a final grumpy blog entry before this blog takes a break. Read – and taste – these words from BBC reporter and blogger Dan Roan:Arsenal fans are certainly entitled to ask why, with [Stan] Kroenke and Alisher Usmanov, two of the richest men i…

Summary and hibernation

So that concludes the 2011 Silly Season.Arsenal have had the busiest summer for a very long time. When arsenal.com write the club’s own summary, nine players have been signed or loaned and twenty-one sold, released or loaned out.Predictably, the Englis…

Arsenal: qualche riflessione a 24 ore dalla fine del mercato

Rieccoci a parlare dell’Arsenal. Troppi giorni di chiacchiere sul blog dell’amico Massimo Usai (che è ormai il piacevole ritrovo degli arsenaliani italiani, che vivano in Italia o no) per non scrivere qualcosa anche qui.Gli 8 a 2, gli info…

Bendtner certain to leave, and Nasri slams Arsenal again

Nicklas Bendtner was confident that he would find a new club at the end of last season, and he has been variously linked with Stoke, Sunderland, Newcastle and a few German clubs but without seeming to be close to actually signing for anyone. But his fa…

Phil Gartside twitter blast costs Bolton £10m as Arsenal look up Mertesacker

L’Equipe is reporting this morning that Werder Bremen’s Per Mertesacker has flown to London for a medical ahead of signing for Arsenal Football Club. Nothing has been confirmed on Arsenal.com yet but if the big German does sign for the Arsenal it will signal an end of Gary Cahill’s chances of playing for the London team [...]

Did Nasri become a whore by snubbing United?

Let’s call a spade a spade, maybe all footballers are prostitutes! Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp was prepared to reveal that Samir Nasri could have – and wanted to – join…

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Two or three players will join Arsenal before transfer deadline

Arsène Wenger has revealed that he believes that Arsenal will challenge for the Premier League title if he is able to bring in two or three more players before the close of the transfer window on Wednesday evening. As things stand the squad is threadbare, with significant injuries and suspensions adding to the setback of read more »

Red Dead Podcast 7 – Spurs, CL Draw, Nasri and Star Wars References

Welcome to the seventh episode of the Red Dead Podcast, the foremost Manchester United podcast for Truly Reds, brought to you as always by Tom “Darren Fletcher” Addison and Liam…

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Van Persie wants reinforcements and Arsenal books a date with Olympique Borrupiakos

At 11.59pm yesterday, I was still convinced that there was still time left in the transfer window but as soon as my clock’s pendulum hit the 12.00am mark, I realized that Arsene Wenger has only FIVE days left to bring the much needed quality that is still lacking at Arsenal Football Club. I’m pretty sure [...]

Frimpong loves Arsenal but two ex-Gunners don’t…

Emmanuel Frimpong has previously stated his desire to be a Gunner for his entire career. He has shown determination and desire on the pitch in his few appearances in an Arsenal shirt, and there is undoubtedly plenty of promise surrounding our young star. Frimpong’s heated discussion with celebrity Gooner Piers Morgan shows that he has read more »