Good morning everyone, it’s a very quiet Friday and as we won’t hear from Mikel Arteta until this afternoon, before our FA Cup match against Liverpool, this morning will be a short blog. As for transfers, there is very little movement. There is talk of Arsenal looking for a left-back in this window, but that […]
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Welcome to another episode of Arsecast: the Arsenal podcast. In this episode I’m joined by Elliot Smith, who must either strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree with the statements I made to him (suggested by our Patreon members). Topics include: the Fulham game, goals from open play, David Raya and Aaron Ramsdale, Kieran Tierney’s
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I’m still convinced that Cole Palmer can play a very good false 9, and with Nicolas Jackson out of AFCON this month, I think we should use Palmer as a centre-forward most of the time. His finish against Luton Town last weekend only reiterated that point to me even more. In fact, the positioning and
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Arsenal have scored four goals in their last five games and that perfectly reflects the amount of points they have achieved in the same period, which is clearly quite disastrous for a team that plans to fight for the title. The talk about Arsenal’s attack is not recent, it has been rumbling beneath the surface
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In the absence of any substantial news or developments this morning, I thought I’d take stock and do some mid-season player ratings. These are based on the way we do them after every game at Arseblog News, where 6 is considered a sort of baseline to go up and down based on performance etc. As
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As of now, Thiago Silva will leave Chelsea in the summer, when his current contract at the club expires. Again, for now (as things can always change), there is no talk of a new contract extension to retain the 39-year-old beyond the summer. It’s certainly something that’s been discussed internally, but for now that’s it
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Hello, everyone. It’s January, so this is going to be a month absolutely filled with spurious stories about players, transfers and potential deals that have as much hope of happening as I have of running a four-minute mile before the 31st. Less than zero. Less infinite. Let’s start today with something that has actually happened,
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As we enter the second day of January, the focus will of course not be solely on the transfer market – although I predict drama once again – but Mauricio Pochettino and the players will largely focus on the domestic cups. And it’s really lucky that we managed to get to the League Cup, because
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Liverpool captain Virgil Van Dijk will not agree to talk of a Premier League title race unless the team can go into March in an equally strong position. A 4-2 win over Newcastle extended their lead at the top of the table to three points over Aston Villa but, more importantly, ensured they stayed out
Robert Sánchez should return to full training soon after joining our long injury list of late. Sanchez was playing through the pain with injections, but in the end it was too much and he had to sit for a while. Djordje Petrovic had not played a single minute for Chelsea since arriving from MLS in
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