Euro 2008 final & other football chat

June 29, 2008 | 74 Comments

Posted by Sachin | Filed Under Mailbag 

Salute to Motty

June 28, 2008 | 2 Comments

Just read on the BBC News site:

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After more than 35 years as BBC Sport’s voice of football, Sunday’s Euro 2008 final from Vienna will mark commentator John Motson’s last major television showpiece.

Posted by G. Rex | Filed Under Arsenal News 

Samir Nasri signs

June 23, 2008 | 268 Comments

Although it’s not yet on Arsenal.com, according to multiple sites, including the player’s own website, Samir Nasri has joined Arsenal from Marseille for a fee somewhere near 20 million Euros.

The “next Zidane” is widely seen as a replacement for Alex Hleb who may now be going to Germany instead of Spain or Italy if you believe the latest rumors.

Still anyone’s guess what squad number the Frenchman will get, but given that he’s an attacking midfielder, I’d say the safe bet is on Freddie Ljungberg’s old # 8.

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Rumours, Players and Euro talk…

June 22, 2008 | 44 Comments

Discussion continued from previous thread.

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Star players…

June 19, 2008 | 132 Comments

Like everyone else – I guess I was frustrated at watching everything slip away from Arsene and his lads last season and I had the thought more than once that something is missing. Could it be that we need to jump in and get wet with the other top teams and chase down a couple of ’star players’? If Man City can bid for Ronaldinho, we can…..but Arsene has always been the one to ‘grow’ star players and I really respect that.

Buying big name players doesn’t always work and history shows us that very clearly especially at Chelsea but then they have such strength in depth and perhaps that is what we really lack? We get a couple of injuries and everyone is saying – it’ll be fine when we get Van Persie back etc etc……..I think we will be stronger this year after last year’s experiences  but will we still be lacking strength in depth?

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2008/2009 Fixtures Published

June 18, 2008 | 15 Comments

The schedule is out and published at the Guardian’s web site.

I don’t want to use the word “easy” but I’d say their schedule is pretty light for August so they should get off to a fast start for the season.

I’m counting down!!!

Posted by SteveG | Filed Under Mailbag 

Ramsey Signing Confirmed

June 13, 2008 | 154 Comments

At last, some real Arsenal news to report! The first signing of the close-season has been confirmed today as latest teen sensation (Am I talking footballers or pop stars? hard to tell eh?), Aaron Ramsey signed a “long-term contract for an undisclosed fee”. (Gotta love how we do business, right?)

Anyway, the best part of this story is of course how the young Welshman turned down a move to ManUre in favor of Arsenal. Shows smarts right off the bat. Whether that translates onto the football pitch will have to wait a few more weeks at the very least.

Posted by mikek | Filed Under Arsenal News 

Messing with things this week and next

June 11, 2008 | 2 Comments

Hi

We will be messing with some of the functions on ArsenalAmerica over the next few days as we get ready for the next season. So if you get some odd or strange messages, don’t panic. Just go with it and we’ll get everything sorted shortly.

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Euro 2008 & other footie talk

June 6, 2008 | 248 Comments

There was already some predictions and discussions regarding Euro 2008 at this older thread.

Posted by Sachin | Filed Under Mailbag