Category: 20/21
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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang: A Fall from Grace
What a difference 18 months can make. After lifting the FA Cup aloft and signing a brand new contract with the club thought to be worth a whopping £300,000-a-week, who would have thought that Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s Arsenal career would be over just 18 months later? In that time, his form has nosedived, he’s been stripped…
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Contracts: A Going Concern
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, more and more clubs are strapped for cash. Given the financial implications behind big signings, huge fees needing to be structured over a period of time when cashflow cannot be guaranteed, more and more teams have had to look to the free market. In recent seasons, Arsenal have struggled in the…
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Out With The Old, In With The New
Though we may only be a few weeks into the summer transfer window, that hasn’t stopped the usual flurry of transfer rumours that so make up what fans have dubbed “silly season”. However, this summer seems to have presented a new series of rumours, rumours that will likely bring a wry smile to Arsenal fans.…
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Transfer Window Mini-Interview with Chris Wheatley
A first for the Arseache blog is an interview with Chris Wheatley! Chris, is the Arsenal correspondent for football.london, having worked for Goal.com previously. Chris’ extensive knowledge of transfers has helped a lot of Arsenal fans navigate the various twists and turns that only silly season can bring. What is happening with Martin Ødegaard? Have…
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From Top To Bottom: A Squad Review
The great Hugh Abbot from The Thick of It once said: “Well, that was a fucking disaster”. It’s a quote used by the character after a disastrous press conference in which he is unable to announce the big announcement he had planned and it feels very apt here as well. This was a season that…
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Arsenal 2-0 Brighton & Hove Albion: Premier League – 23/05/2021
Thank God, the season is over. A truly disappointing campaign can only be offset by the news that Arsenal, for the first time since 1995, will not play any kind of European football next season. A truly drab campaign did have the silver lining of allowing fans back into stadiums to watch the final two…
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Crystal Palace 1-3 Arsenal: Premier League – 19/05/2021
Before we get into the match report here, there’s something that needs to be said. Last night’s match was the last home game of Roy Hodgson’s career and Sunday will be his final time as manager in the modern game after he announced his retirement. It’s rare to come across men who have impacted football…
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Chelsea 0-1 Arsenal: Premier League – 12/05/2021
Arsenal have in recent years seemed to reverse the trend of Chelsea being their bogey team. Gone are the days when Didier Drogba would taunt the Arsenal defence for fun or when José Mourinho would make it his personal mission to unsettle Arsène Wenger before a match. Nowadays, it’s Chelsea who struggle with Arsenal. Arsenal…
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Arsenal 3-1 West Bromwich Albion: Premier League – 09/05/2021
With their European fate all but sealed, Arsenal entered Sunday’s match with Wes Brom with an air of failure ripe in the air. Crashed out of the FA Cup fairly early on, a humiliating exit to Manchester City in the League Cup and a humbling defeat from former-manager Unai Emery, it’s no real surprise that…
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Arsenal 0-0 Villarreal (1-2 agg): Europa League – 06/05/2021
The last chance Arsenal had of achieving European football next season has evaporated after the team slumped to a 0-0 home draw to Unai Emery’s Villarreal. It was a disappointing tie for Arsenal, who seemed to treat the first-half of football as an exercise in fear. Too scared to get forward and work the shaky…