Archives for: July 2007
31st July 2007
In a warning to anyone who wants to leverage Arsenal into further debt, Manchester United season ticket waiting list previously estimated at 14,000 has fallen to zero, after fans faced a price increase averaging 13% - according to the Guardian.
Manchest… more »
31st July 2007
Some readers have asked what Wengers winger wish-list might be.
In May, it might have been this :
1. Franck Ribery : went to Bayern in June for an initial £17.5 million. Arsene could not afford him.He wanted to come.He was what AW really, really wanted… more »
31st July 2007
Had a very short chat with my son before he went to work.
I went upstairs and he was standing on the landing doing up the buttons of his sky blue shirt.
Michael : "Whats happening ?"
Myles : "Weve sold Reyes to Atletico Madrid for £8 million."
Michael :… more »
30th July 2007
Pedro Silva is 17 and was born in Brazil´s Northeast and raised as a player in the South.
This boy, who is now loaned by Arsenal to Salamanca in Spain, is another gamble by the Gunners in Brazil.
He was spotted last May when Arsenal´s scouts saw… more »
30th July 2007
Excitement in football crowds comes from thousands of fans not knowing what a player will do next.
So Robin van Persie is exciting.
The Inter Milan game was level at 1-1 in the 88th minute and a goal looked unlikely when Eboues short pass found van Pers… more »
29th July 2007
The Sunday press is full of variety for a change - away from the obsession about a potentially real or fictional takeover.
This review of the papers, however starts with The News of the World snapping Dein and Wenger pictured together coming out of a N.… more »
27th July 2007
According to the Irish Examiner today, Angel Di Maria the 19 year old left wing target who has just won the u-20 World Cup with Argentina, claims negotiations with Arsenal at a club and personal level are going well.
Di Maria said (Irish Examiner): "The… more »
27th July 2007
Eduardo had a wonderful chance against Salzburg.
The score was 0-0 in the second half and Hleb wriggled clear on the left side and cut the ball back to Bendtner, who rolled it square to his fellow striker.
Eduardo sidefooted the ball, going for placement… more »
26th July 2007
Mixed reactions to last nights 1-0 defeat to Salzburg, depending on your persuaion.
Ken Mukiibi writes saying same old, same old, pointing out Wenger saying similar things to last season - the players did well, forwards very dangerous etc; and Ken worri… more »
25th July 2007
The Arsenal share price rose to £8100.00 today putting on £850, an increase of 11.72% with only 4 shares traded.
£8000, was the trigger mark that some pundits thought Danny Fiszman would sell at. Fiszman, came out this week saying hes sticking to his lo… more »
25th July 2007
July is a training month.
Arsenal are training in Austria, Spurs are training in South Africa, Manchester United are training in Macao, Chelsea are training in the USA, and Im training in Cricklewood.
Liverpool, Fulham & Portsmouth are training in Hong… more »
24th July 2007
I was going to write this yesterday but I was a tad annoyed by certain comments, I am still disap...This article is courtesy of Gunners4Life.com - Arsenal FCWatching Arsenes Arsenal unravel is horrible. But so predictable | Line up for the Villa game | R… more »
24th July 2007
Freddie Ljungbergs career at Arsenal exactly parallels my time on ANR, so Ive written about him a lot over the last nine years.
A fiery goalscorer who could time his runs off the ball, an adaptable third striker who learned to come in from the right win… more »
23rd July 2007
Speculation is finished ! Kaput !
Thats sorted then ! Nobody can take over the club.
Danny Fiszman, responding to much ill-informed speculation, has issued a statement saying he will keep his shares for the forseeable future.
“The Board is a strong… more »
23rd July 2007
The Arsenal game was off the field last weekend.
Amid speculation that American Stan Kroenke will soon launch a takeover bid, MD Keith Edelman re-stated the boards position, claiming that an investor may try to take more money out of the club than he w… more »
21st July 2007
Rodrigo Palacio. The front man missing from the post Henry puzzle?
I did insist that Arsenal needed to recruit an out and out striker; and that Da Silva wasn't enough. He is a good goalscorer but he cannot lead the line that effectively from the front… more »
20th July 2007
Arsenal said they had had no contact with Stan Kroenke since June despite reports in the British media on Friday that the American tycoon was preparing a to launch a takeover of the Premier League club.
So is Stan Kroenke talking shit or what?
The Arse… more »
19th July 2007
American billionaire Stan Kroenke is keen to meet with the rest of the Arsenal board following talks with Gunners chairman Peter Hill-Wood and managing director Keith Edelman in June.
Stan Kroenke now has a 12% stake in Arsenal and is look like that he… more »
19th July 2007
Wenger has not yet given up on a £10.5million move for Nicolas Anelka, according to the Mirror. The Bolton striker has been banging in the goals at the Peace Cup for Bolton.
According to The Daily Express, Obafeme Martins has snubbed a £13million switch… more »
18th July 2007
My take of the Wenger interview on Sky is that he is more likely to stay at Arsenal football Club beyond his current contract rather than go!All the newspapers and other electronic media have followed Sky’s spin on what the Arsenal manager said aft… more »
18th July 2007
Freddie Ljungberg WAS on the plane to Austria, which left on Tuesday afternoon, Im now told by an irate reader.
Another own-goal by the Roberto Ayala of cyberspace !
Humble aplogies to all concerned.
And thanks to ES for the correction
This article is… more »
17th July 2007
ANR received many emails from readers when I suggested that the Arsenal board should bow out gracefully and sell the club to Stan Kroenke.
The arguments put forward by supporters were generally intelligent and persuasive.
However, I dont think many Goone… more »
17th July 2007
Before I forget, Thierry Henry told Arsenal he was leaving three weeks before the end of the season.
As we now know, Henrys departure had more to do with his divorce than with David Dein leaving, even though Henry is close to the Dein family. Too close,… more »
16th July 2007
Freddie Ljungberg was NOT on the Arsenal plane to Austria today.
It was crazy to give him a four-year deal two summers ago.
I was gobsmacked at the time.So were many other people.
Now the club cant afford to keep him on £70,000 a week.If Freddie cant ge… more »
16th July 2007
Rodrigo Palacio for £15 million ?
A Boca Juniors striker, hes 25 but looks a bit lightweight to me. He is behind Crespo, Messi and Tevez in the pecking order of the national team. The scout who brought Fabregas to Arsenal has been running the rule over… more »
13th July 2007
Excellent news coming out of Arsenal. And it is not only from the footballing side. Wenger, remember, has an economics degree and he is not one to ignore the financial side of the football business. Sagna apparently has undergone a medical and is set to… more »
13th July 2007
Apparently Arsenal have already lodged a £6m bid with Auxerre and are waiting for permission to speak to Bakari Sagna. The Auxerre president Gerard Bourgoin in his comments to the Daily Mail seems to imply that the transfer is on as the player is in… more »
13th July 2007
Will we be celebrating at the end of the season?
Well despite the departure of TH14 and with a...This article is courtesy of Gunners4Life.com - Arsenal FCUEFA Champions League Draw | What a load of rubbish! | Reactions from ANR readers more »
13th July 2007
Jaun Roman Riqueleme has been fun to watch in Venezuela.
The absent Kaka may be the worlds most elegant midfield genius but the 29-year old Riquelme is the most leisurely. The return of the strolling playmaker has made Argentina the best team in the Copa… more »
13th July 2007
Two friends went to the Labour Party football dinner at Wembley last night but I havent heard any gossip yet.
Sky Sports News got interviews with Kia Joorabchian and Sir Alex Ferguson.
The reporter gave the Scot a chance to put the put the boot into Arse… more »
12th July 2007
OBAFEMI MARTINS scored 17 goals in a rubbish team in his first season in the Premiership.
Born in Lagos, Martins joined Reggiana at 15 and then Inter Milan, scoring 37 goals in 105 domestic matches for Inter, who last August sold him for £10 million to… more »
11th July 2007
Some say bookies rarely get it wrong. If so, it is worrying Arsenal have been pushed out to 12-1 for the Premiership with Bet365 and Blue Square - their biggest price at the start of a season since Arsene Wenger took charge.
Man U are a best-price 11-8… more »
11th July 2007
LEEDS hatchet-man Johnny Giles was asked by The Guardian who was the hardest player he had ever played against and Giles said, "Peter Storey of Arsenal and England."
After Cologne midfielder Wolfgang Overath played against Arsenal he said, "I thought the… more »
11th July 2007
Gilberto Silva got a second yellow card which puts him out of the Copa America Final on Sunday night.
Julio Baptista scored again in a 2-2 draw with Uruguay, which Brazil won on penalties.
Captain Gilberto has been very good in Venezuela, showing his… more »
10th July 2007
I write a lot of stuff here and most of it is topical and soon forgotten by yours truly.
Writing something down gives me permisson to forget it. But I mean it when I write it, really mean it. As Johnny Rotten once snarled, "We mean it, maaan!"
When Im wr… more »
08th July 2007
Henning Berg played for Blackburn, Manchester United and Blackburn again.
His biography was written in Norwegian with Joachim Forsund.
Parts of the book were later translated into English by P.J. Bakke and sent to my friend Ken Early, a Dublin sports jou… more »
08th July 2007
Theres a Liverpool fan in my office who says Arsenal need Kroenke to compete with Abramovich. He reckons Kroenke is a lot smarter and sharper than Liverpools Americans. More to the point, on the footballing front, at least - to fight the Glazers, who at… more »
07th July 2007
On Sunday, June 24, I flew up to Edinburgh with my brother, just before Thierry Henry was due to have his medical at Barcelona. I neeed a break and Neil was over from Colorado for two weeks.
Coming back to London, after five days without seeing the inter… more »
04th July 2007
Arsene Wenger has bought the right type of striker.
Eduardo da Silva is what was missing last season. Hes exactly what Arsenal need. He will be good for Hleb, great for Fabregas, and Walcott can learn from him.
Very few goalscorers in the global marketpl… more »
04th July 2007
As the dust settles on a frenetic 10 days or so, there is a mix of opinion as to whether we have ...This article is courtesy of Gunners4Life.com - Arsenal FCAnelka to replace Henry? Or Huntelaar? | Eduardo is the Robbie Fowler of Rio de Janeiro | The Bat… more »
03rd July 2007
The kid from FK Haugesund, Havard Nordtveit, has signed a four-year deal.
He is a 17-year old Norwegian centreback.
Welcome to Londons best and biggest football club, son !
Youll love it here !
This article is courtesy of Arsenal News ReviewArsenal s… more »
03rd July 2007
You would have expected Wenger to pull another one out of the bag. We all suspected that Wenger would have gone for a relatively unknown, youngish but hungry player. He is a 24 year old Croatian international who having immigrated to Croatia from Brazil… more »
01st July 2007
With the departure of our mercurial captain to Barca, G4L posed the question, who has been the gr...This article is courtesy of Gunners4Life.com - Arsenal FCPoll Result: Goal of the season | Poll Result: Whats the next best step for Denilson? | Its alway… more »
01st July 2007
Some gooners are unsurprisingly still reeling from the loss of one of the worlds greatest footba...This article is courtesy of Gunners4Life.com - Arsenal FCPSV look solid, Barcelona may not be as fragile as many claim | Champions League Place Chase over!… more »
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