Suburban Gooners

So yesterday’s bit of fluff that everyone was getting a little hard over was the possibility of Kieran Tierney possibly joining us from Celtic. As usual there is little other than journalistic licence on certain ‘angles’ for us to go on; he’s been watched by Arsenal for ages and since ... read more

Morning all. Hope you’re feeling marvellous. Or as marvellous as you can do on a Wednesday morning. Today I’ve been thinking about Unai Emery, as well as the divisive nature of the Arsenal fan base. But also, the hypocrisy of some of us, and there is severe levels of it. ... read more

Morning folks and happy Friday unto thee. We have some news amongst the barren wasteland of post season silence, although as much as many people online wanted it to be some sort of magical work of fiction and Kroenke was leaving the club and throwing his shares out of the ... read more

Morning folks and welcome to another Monday. It’s a William Saliba shaped one by the sounds of it and supposedly we are in for him and have finally come to an agreement with his representatives, with just the small matter of St Etienne needing to agree the fee, so in ... read more

Signing relatively unknown goalkeepers, when we should be hard at work getting on board defenders and wingers, you say? That’s the Arsenal I know! I had begun to wonder what the new regime would cook up in their first full summer transfer window but it appears that they’ve dusted off ... read more

So we know how our season next year is going to pan out fixtures-wise, with the first one of the season away to Newcastle on Sunday 11th August. Then it’s a home game against Burnley before Liverpool away and the Tiny Totts at home. Hardly the easiest of starts and ... read more

Last night as The Management was doing a fitness video I decided to undertake a bit of channel surfing and, upon landing on the sports section on Sky TV, I found a host of international games going on. My general malaise over all things internationals clearly extends beyond the boundaries ... read more

Another day and I’m sure there’ll be another round of spurious transfer rumours on the cards. We’ve had Carrasco, the two Sampdoria lads, some guy who used to play for Villa called Veretout, Saliba and Claude Maurice from Lorient. Those stories have had the transfer juiciness squeezed out of them ... read more

On Saturday I sort of said my piece on Yannick Carrasco, so now whilst we wait for the process to evolve and for other journos to start talking about it, I feel like it’ll be a bit of an old story by the time we may or may not find ... read more

Another day, another spurious link, with Yannick Carrasco seemingly back on the cards for circa £30million it seems. I’ve gotta say this is one that would get some fans excited about. He’s a Belgium international, showed flashes of brilliance whilst at Atletico Madrid and if it’s true that his Chinese ... read more

And today’s latest conversations on the Arsenal transfer speculation pile include: Two lads from Sampdoria A Russian lad who scored against us last season A French kid nobody had heard of this time last year Liam Neeson’s character from ‘Taken’* *not actual Liam Neeson. The guy from the movie he ... read more

The curse of Chris struck again yesterday it seems, as I listed out all of my reasons why Xhaka would not be leaving, which of course led to a supposed ‘cousin’ saying “he’s off to Inter for €55million”. Given that sort of money I’m not surprised that there’s a link ... read more

Morning Gooners. Provocative headline I know, but given some of the rumours that have circulated over the last 24 hours I thought I’d wade in with my opinion as to why I cannot see either Granit Xhaka or Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang joining the respective clubs they’ve been linked with by the ... read more

The unsavoury part of the footballing calendar has begun: transfer season. Here we go again folks. Here we go with the attention seekers, looking to provide a ‘scoop’ simply by making things up from their mobiles on public transport somewhere. Here we go with the fighting amongst Twitter accounts as ... read more

This last few days has been some of the longest times I’ve not blogged since I started this website up around ten years ago. I don’t tend to do it too much when I’m on holiday, usually because I’m hanging and not waking up until after 10, but this time ... read more

I’m trying hard this morning guys. I’m trying real hard. I’m trying hard because for all of the talk, the messages from ex players, the ‘manager’ who supposedly feels comfortable with this competition, what I’m looking at is a team of f**cking bottlers who stared Champions League and a trophy ... read more

This is it then. A whole season distilled down to one football match in which the success or failure will be viewed. All through the prism of a European Cup final. I’ve seen one in my lifetime, witnessed three heartbreaking ones, so I’m very aware of our record in Europe ... read more

After a lovely bank holiday relaxing with the family yesterday, all of that has already been undone as I tap away at my iPhone this morning on the tube journey in to work, on account of what we’ll find out in the next 48 hours. By this time on Thursday ... read more

Happy Bank Holiday Sunday to those of you in the UK, enjoying the extra day off tomorrow, which means we can all have an extra cheeky beverage or two this afternoon and then take a bit of a lie in for the morning too. I wonder what the Arsenal players ... read more

Morning Gooners. Happy Saturday. Not long now until we find out whether this season is a busted flush or glorious chapter in the clubs’ history. But whilst many of us are starting to focus on the Europa League, there are still transfer speculations going on and the one that appears ... read more

I read an article this morning on the BBC website about how Stephy Mavididi made his debut for Juventus in the last few weeks and has already impressed the Italian Champions since joining the club. It got me thinking about academy products and particularly Arsenal academy products because this could ... read more

Apparently it’s been one year since we start the Arsenal Fan’S Show on LoveSport Radio, which is now branded as GunnersTown Radio, with me ol’ pal Dave Seager and Giles Aniyam. It’s been a great year and also great to have Charlie join the show too and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed ... read more

Right, we’re in to the one week countdown for the Europa League Final, so of course Chelski being Chelski they’re trying their best to get every inch of an advantage or mind games that they can, this time via leaked news that Petr Cech will be joining the club in ... read more