Part of the problem is also that many contracts these days include a clause to the effect that at the end of the contract if the player doesn’t leave in a way agreed by the club, the player is then ...

The non-English clubs that are above Arsenal in terms of revenue are Real Madrid, PSG, Bayern Munich, and Barcelona. The list shows Arsenal’s turnover at 716.5m euros. Manchester City has a turnover ...

As their experience shows, and that of many other clubs also shows, changing managers does not change the fortunes of a club for the better. Normally, it does change the fortunes but for the worse.

And of course, it is not only in England that the financial matters catch up with clubs. Olympique Lyonnais EEFG.PA have been relegated to Ligue 2, following an audit of the club, confirming a ruling ...

One example proves that buying more and more players leads to a decline in performance. Transfer doomscrolling: Arsenal are having a bad summer, and you know it; B.

Second clubs don’t like players who leak news of their impending transfer, as generally that indicates a player who is liable to leak anything, including injury news, tactics, etc. Good players can be ...

It doesn’t matter which way you look at it; Arsenal have been one of the best teams in the Premier League for the last few seasons, the second-best team, to be precise. The club ...

Moving on to Chelsea, the way in which the League management team agreed to the highly dubious notion of Chelsea selling their women’s team to another company owned by the same people who own Chelsea, ...

One of the most curious features of the transfer window is the desire by seemingly quite a few Arsenal supporters for Arsenal to be more like Tottenham in terms of transfer dealings. For Tottenham ...

But “dithering” will be the main accusation over Dean Huijsen, Bryan Mbeumo, Nico Williams and Leroy Sane, largely because it was used last year and the year before and went down rather well in terms ...

In recognition of his breakthrough year and the performances he put in he was also named on the shortlist for the Professional Footballers’ Association’s Young Player of the Year award alongside the ...

But there can be a problem, for suddenly moving in a new player can be as disruptive as losing a player through injury. And in this regard in relation to Arsenal, no one mentions the fact that Saka ...