He opens by saying that the departure of Edu has “left manager Mikel Arteta as the dominant figure in the club’s football structure. While nobody is doubting the Spaniard’s coaching or motivational ...

Arsenal have shown in the last two seasons that yes they can work around the PGMO approach to football – but then suddenly adjusting to European approaches is tough. I think for Arsenal much depends ...

According to Transfermarkt Arsenal have a 24 man squad worth €1.17bn while Inter Milan have a 26 man squad worth €677.30m – so the advantage would seem to be with Arsenal – assuming that squad values ...

Inter opened their campaign with a goalless draw away to Manchester C followed by a 4-0 win over Crvena Zvezda (full name Fudbalski klub Crvena Zvezda, just in case you wanted to know)- which if you ...

For Edu’s sake we can only hope that he realises that Forest are at the position they are in the league because they have played so few of the top clubs. Last season after all they missed relegation ...

Last season in their first ten games Nottingham Forest played (among others) Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea, Manchester City, and Liverpool. Five clubs (ie half their games) against the teams ...

For our referee today his favoured result is an away win. We have included his results for last season at the end and again we can see that he does indeed favour the away team, which is good news for ...

And diverting from my main theme for a moment, after Pepe played his last game for Arsenal in 2022, he had a season-long loan to Nice and then went on to Trabzonspor in Turkey on a free transfer. He ...

Raya, Gabriel, Havertz and Partey are the four ever-presents in the league this season so far, while Rice, Saka and Saliba have all played in eight games in the league. Havertz is top scorer with four ...

Tomiyasu, Tierney and Calafiri are all seemingly completely ruled out while Odegaard is reckoned to have a 25% chance of playing, which means he might be on the bench and come on for the last 15 ...