Suburban Gooners

This feels like the proper start to the season for me today. I picked up a fresh set of home and away kits and will be rocking my beautiful red and white Adidas Arsenal shirt in the ground today for the first game of the season. I’m right back there. ... read more

Happy Friday all. I have a slightly sore head, what with Thursday being the new Friday and my working running a ‘welcome to the company’ drinks for all of the new people that have recently joined the business (of which I am one). It’s great fun, is midweek drinking, until ... read more

Alex Iwobi opens up and tells Sky Sports that he’s always been seen as the youngster and now wants to set his own agenda. Fair play to him I see and having experienced something similar in my working life I can kind of understand why he might want to try ... read more

Morning friends. Football friends. Compatriots who share the same love as me: lovers of The Arsenal. It’s midweek and we still might have three days to go until football returns, but the stories keep dropping relating to The Arsenal or, in this case relating to Jeff Reine-Adelaide. He should be ... read more

We’re only one week in to the new season and after a decent enough defensive display against Newcastle (even if we were relatively untroubled) thoughts are immediately turning to Burnley at the weekend. But, more importantly, who plays against Burnley at the heart of our defence, because I’d make it ... read more

I know there Will be those out there saying “it’s only Newcastle” and given that Newcastle are in a bit of turmoil themselves I know it was hardly the most difficult of starts for us to kick off our campaign yesterday afternoon in the north east, but I was delighted ... read more

It’s the first game day of the season and like I said yesterday, despite feeling like I’m done with football in May, here we are in August and I’m right back in the game. An away trip to Newcastle it is for our lads and with the new signings probably ... read more

Happy Saturday folks and welcome to the start of the new season. Even though Arsenal don’t play until tomorrow I’m still happy it’s here and after feeling like I could go a good six months without any football after the travesty that was the Europa League final, here I am, ... read more

Morning all and welcome to the day after the night before, in which Arsenal finished the first transfer window since I can remember where Arsenal fans are reasonably happy with the business that has been conducted all summer. Yesterday the arrivals of David Luiz and Kieran Tierney were confirmed in ... read more

Morning all. Transfer deadline day. One of the most unsavoury days in the footballing calendar and with the English deadline day finishing at 5pm this afternoon it feels like it’s going to be a busy one. Not least because of what’s happened all summer. Transfers across the Premier League that ... read more

So bye-bye Koscielny as yesterday Bordeaux and Arsenal confirmed his switch to the French club after both teams agreed a few thought to be €5million. In today’s market and exchange rate it’s not too bad for a player who forced the clubs hands through his unprofessionalism and tantrumming by refusing ... read more

You can tell it’s getting closer to the start of a new season because last night I had a dream about Arsenal. There was a mix up at Premier League HQ and we needed up playing West Ham at home on the first game of the season. They didn’t tell ... read more

Final pre season friendly out of the way and, as probably is to be expected, we went to the Nou Camp and came back with a defeat. It’s a familiar thing that we’ve seen before so there won’t be too many surprises with that and hey, I’ve spent all summer ... read more

So we have our first bit of significant cash coming in as Krystian Bielik becomes a Derby player for around £10million, as well as Takuma Asano heading off to Partizan Belgrade for £1million, meaning that we made a £2.5million loss on a player who essentially went out on loan for ... read more

Well it finally happened yesterday and despite the fact I’d been lamenting all transfers, how they weren’t a surprise and how numb I feel like I’d got in the whole process, I still gorged myself on the glorious glorious content that the club put out throughout the day. I can’t ... read more

So we have ourselves enough leaked news and people (like the Lille chairman) talking about Nicolas Pepe’s move to The Arsenal, that we know it’s happening, we just haven’t had it confirmed yet. No doubt the game against Angers was an overriding factor in the announcement not happening. Arsenal had ... read more

When it comes to the exciting Nicolas Pepe story, we’ve had it all now, haven’t we? Yesterday he was pictured in an Arsenal shirt as leaked footage emerged of him tapping the shirt and with that we know something will happen today officially but, as is the way of the ... read more

So we’re edging closer towards the Pepe signing as – if rumours are to be believed – he’s due for a medical at some stage either today or tomorrow and despite the fact that nothing is secret any more and so we all know chapter and verse about this deal, ... read more

So we had the Emirates Cup yesterday in which Lyon eventually beating us from coming two goals behind (one of which looking like it certainly had more than a whiff of offside about it) and as a result there were a few Gooners who sadly couldn’t see a victory on ... read more

So we have a Sunday morning in which there’s an Emirates Cup on the horizon later on this afternoon and probably a little more Pepe chatter until something breaks like a ‘spotted at Arsenal’ or ‘medical set for x date’ or something similar. After my later post yesterday there was ... read more

Bit off a late one from me today, mainly on account of a friends leaving do last night and one or two too many Heineken’s that were consumed until the early hours of the morning. I’m glad i did wake up late and am writing this at lunchtime though, because ... read more

Morning folks. You know how they say “slow news day?” When there’s the square root of b*gger all going on I. The Arsenal world? Well, I think it’s safe to say that yesterday was not one of those days! First we had the confirmation of Ceballos and Saliba from the ... read more

Today there is a fan Q & A at The Emirates in which Raul Sanllehi and a few other Arsenal representatives will sit in front of a selection of fans to discuss the recent history and upcoming future of Arsenal. It’s something Arsenal have done for many years and is ... read more

As I’ve been saying all summer there’s very little that you can take from these friendly matches other than who’s at what stage of their development, but it looked like it was one heck of a crazy game against Madrid last night, especially when you have sendings off in friendlies. ... read more

Morning all and before I get in to the usual stuff, if you received a barrage of old blogs from me yesterday into your inbox/social media feed, many apologies. The WordPress app on my phone had a bit of a meltdown – probably because we haven’t signed anyone – and ... read more

So it appears as though this summer is going well from a results perspective, eh? A 3-0 victory against Fiorentina, another ‘W’ on the board and some encouraging performances from some players, I have to say. Take Saka, for example, who looked good in small flashes last season but really ... read more

Howdy all and welcome to another ore season Saturday and it’s a Saturday in which I’m sure you’ve already seen yourselves, but we appear to finally got the Saliba deal over the line, so all that remains to be seen is for us to announce it. I suspect it’ll be ... read more

Morning all. Now, I know that for some people today’s blog topic will be divisive and before even reading a single sentence there will be people slagging me off on social media, purely because of the headline and not because of what I’m about to say, because that’s how social ... read more