Untold Arsenal » 2008 » May

5.5 Centre Forwards and the fans want more!

There’s an Arsenal web site that is currently running a yes/no question along the lines – should Arsenal sign another striker? The majority have said yes. Which is fine – except we are getting a bit overloaded.   We have Adebayor – scored the same number of goals in Season 3 as Theirry Henry, which is not bad.

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FIFA / EU compromise emerges – Arsenal to benefit

Uefa has produced its alternative to the wild scheme of FIFA – which goes completely against EU law.
The UEFA proposal, which the EU has indicated it could well accept avoids the issue of the nationality of players and instead requires that clubs playing in the European competitions should include in the 25 man squad eight […]

Could internationals be outlawed? Probably yes.

“We were at the crossroad between the interests of clubs and national teams, and the congress of Fifa has given very clear indications of where we have to go,” said Sepp Blatter as he pushed through his infamous rule about home grown players.
The crossroads is exactly where FIFA is.  Its position has been undermined both […]

The Arsenal Curse strikes again

Poor sad Flamini.  He leaves Arsenal, which is bad enough in itself, and then the Arsenal Curse begins to hit – just as it did on Birmingham City FC  after the attack on Eduardo.
First, he finds that he is not going to play in the Champions League.  Then he finds that he is not playing […]

Arsenal unaffected by EU rejection of FIFA wild ideas

Vladimir Spidla, European Commissioner for Employment, Social affairs and Equal opportunities has confirmed what Untold Arsenal has said for months, that the FIFA plan to limit the number of “foreign” players in each team is completely illegal under EU law, and would be opposed by the EU.
It is now more than likely that FIFA will […]

Nasri’s here, Grimandi stays, Randall & Barazite in 1st team

As we said on Untold Arsenal last week the Nasri deal is on – just the usual boring stuff about whether it is 20k a week or 22k, and how many years.   Clever aren’t we?
And as we said nine months ago Grimandi is of total importance to AFC – he was in Colorado, which is […]

Blatter’s 7+4 restriction on foreign players won’t hurt Arsenal

The idea that FIFAs bizarre attempt to limit the number of “foreign” players who can play in domestic matches will easily get through EU legislation is bizarre.
But let’s assume for the moment that Blatter’s limit of seven foreign players on the pitch for any team at any one time, does actually happen in 2010/11.  What […]

When commentators go bad

According to Wikipedia Stan Collymore “is widely regarded as one of the best football analysts for his work on radio,television and in print.”
There can be few Arsenal supporters who would agree with this after Collymore’s ludicrous and bizarre outburst on Radio 5 on the evening of 26 May 2008.   Collymore, part of a discussion […]

Arsenal in clear as UEFA start to define its approach to debt

The Daily Telegraph has reported that UEFA has held a committee meeting too look at the issue of the bankruptcy of this year’s two Euro Cup Finalisits. 
Unfortunately there is no mention of the committee meeting on the UEFA web site (although it might well go up in due course) but there is no doubt that […]

Welcome to the battle of the bankrupts

Tonights the big night. The two most indebted clubs in the history of football, who between them owe over £1.5 billion and have absolutely no way of paying it back. One of them the most notorious anti-footballing team of the present era, the other sinking deeper and deeper into the financial mire.

Meanwhile in the real world Arsenal […]