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 ...

When we worked on this morning’s piece which looked at how Nottingham Forest had managed to climb into the top four, none of us had any notion that Edu was about to leave Arsenal to go north – well at ...

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 ...

Emery was sacked on 29 November 2019 after the run of two defeats and three draws, and his problem was of course that he succeeded Arsene Wenger. But that wasn’t a problem because Wenger was doing so ...

There is a huge variation between referees over the number of fouls each “sees” in a game, the percentage of tackles that they see which they give as fouls, and the number of yellow cards they give ...

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 ...