When a club is bought, spends big, and then collapses… How money laundering in football works.
Click here to become part of the definitive history of Woolwich Arsenal FC Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ————————————————————– By Anne. Part one of this article is available here. _______________________…
Money Laundering in Football – are the crooks really running the show? Part 2 of our investigation
Money laundering, football and the press – part 2 (with added Lassana Diara) By Anne In our first article in this series exposing corruption in football we took a quick look at the situation at Tottenham and the minor matter of how a set of phone…
Money Laundering, Premier League football, Operation Apprentice, and a little more on Portsmouth FC (again)
By: Anne You know, it’s amazing how quiet the football media can be when they want to… Leading into our upcoming series on the transfer market, transfer rumours, and (here’s the big one) possible money laundering in the EPL, I t…
Untold Economics: Could Man U in trouble despite the huge income?
By Tony Attwood . In football there is a bit of a rule that says that you can lose money and win things, and that’s fine. But to lose money and not win things – that is called “doing an Everton”. . Of course the world has got mo…
Untold Economics: Could Man U in trouble despite the huge income?
By Tony Attwood . In football there is a bit of a rule that says that you can lose money and win things, and that’s fine. But to lose money and not win things – that is called “doing an Everton”. . Of course the world has got mo…
Les annonces du jour
Deux annonces de la part du club ont été faites aujourd’hui. La première concerne le bilan financier du premier semestre 2011 qui est tout juste positif avant taxes. Tottenham est bénéficiaire de £402,00. Un résultat en soit modeste mais qui est une énorme progression comparée au même bilan un an plus tôt où le déficit [...]
Arteta is a gem, but spare a thought for poor sad Everton
—————————————– “Making the Arsenal” – the book of Arsenal’s rebirth Twitter us on follow (or the other way round) @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood If there is a man in football who seems to love his club and be doing a…
What the Mirror and Sun might have said about Harry if he’d worked for Arsenal
We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood . The Sun newspaper is in a bit of a pickle at the moment. You see, Harry Redknapp is their columnist and (presumably) paid lots of money to write stuff, which means that when the big news in footba…
UNTOLD at the AGM. What the reports don’t say: Silent Stan’s great joke.
The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything By Tony Attwood The AGM of Arsenal Holdings plc lasts an hour – several hundred people and a bunch of journalists turn up, there’s tea and biscuits before and after, and this year it w…
Err, is it possible? Could the Swiss Ramble have got it wrong?
By Tony Attwood In case you don’t know the blog, The Swiss Ramble is a King among blogs. Blogger of the year, praised by the media, written by a British guy who has lived overseas for many years, everyone loves it and admires the erudition and …
Arsenal have opened Pandora’s Box
Arsenal have opened Pandora’s Box Don McMahon Following the departure of Cesc Fabregas for a derisory sum of around 30M Euro after add-ons, with Barca’s mocking confirmation that they robbed us, and with the sale of Samir Nasri to City for …
Untold Economics: Why does an Arsenal blog keep talking about Rangers of Glasgow?
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood The fact that Liverpool managed to scramble out of the mire, and Barca, having famously run out of cash so they couldn’t pay the players, are still there buying the likes of Cesc etc makes …
Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 – 2 Tottenham Hotspur: Match Report
Apparently we did ok, Scott Parker was really good. Adebayor scored the first, Defoe got the second and we ran out winners. I’m on holiday and didn’t get to see the match, so that’s all you’re getting. In fact you are lucky to be getting that because we’re only staying in this hotel for one [...]
Untold Finance: If we didn’t have world-wide scouting we would be like poor sad Everton – on the edge of the end
By Tony Attwood Phil’s comment in his Man U match preview that his boss was offering a bet that Everton would end up higher than Arsenal this season made me smile. Of course my smile vanished in the light of the result in Manchester, but that did…
Let’s Play Some Football
As the transfer window slammed shut in front of us, some of us may have felt like we had just caught our fingers in it, after a lack of drama at its conclusion. “Why didn’t we spend our cash?!! ” … “We were only two player…
Is the problem at Arsenal at Board level?
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal by Tony Attwood We all know there are lots of anti-Wengerians on the internet, telling us daily what a useless manager he is. There are also a number of people (some of whom are kind enough to read this blog) wh…
Are Arsenal a selling club ? The true crack(s) of the great Arsenal way !
Are Arsenal a selling club ? The true crack(s) of the great Arsenal way ! Ibrahima Fode NDIAYE For the last couple weeks or months or even years, Arsenal FC its board and manager are under immense critics from all corners. The general consensus is th…
Harsh Truths about Arsenal’s “Decline”
Nick Tolhurst Harsh Truths about Arsenal’s “Decline” Forget debates about whether Arsène Wenger is too miserly, stubborn or just plain wrong in the transfer market – the truth is far simpler. So another summer ends and, despite the best effort…
Arsenal transfers – an alternative perspective
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Marc Bénier At the end of last season it appeared that Arsenal was a club in crisis. Injuries and a lack of mental strength, combined with some seriously flawed defending horrified fans, and even AW appear…
The three reasons why Cesc should not go to that club in Spain
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood 1. Because as soon as Barca have him they will do the same thing with Ignasi Miquel who left Barca under similar circumstances. This really is a key point because Arsenal transferred Cesc quite…
The Summer of our Discontent: how Arsenal are falling behind everyone else.
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here The Summer of our Discontent By Ian Trevett There is no doubt that this summer has been a disaster and it is a bad time to be an Arsenal fan. Manchester United has spent in the …
Untold Media Watch: how one paper has read Untold and changed its mind about Cesc
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood In the novel “1984″ by George Orwell (the book that gave us such phrases as “Big Brother” and “Room 101″ and the notion that newspapers exist to make up news t…
Financial Fair Play, yes, no, maybe? Málaga, Man C & the rest
By Tony Attwood If you have read any of my ramblings on the FFP issue you’ll know I did hope that it might have an impact. I was encouraged by Chelsea pulling back on expenditure, until last January when they went wild. I have been discourage…
Financial Fair Play, yes, no, maybe? Málaga, Man C & the rest
By Tony Attwood If you have read any of my ramblings on the FFP issue you’ll know I did hope that it might have an impact. I was encouraged by Chelsea pulling back on expenditure, until last January when they went wild. I have been discourage…
How the transfer market has been utterly screwed this year
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood There is a continual theme that emerges from those people who like to call themselves Arsenal supporters but who criticise virtually everything the club does, and …
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