The first moves in the coaching carousel that will determine what teams rule Europe for the next five years have been made with Carlo Ancelotti set to replace Pep Guardiola at Bayern Munich next season. Next year will be unprecedented in football as five of the six richest clubs in the world could be looking […]
Arsenal
Wenger had one of his biggest challenges as Arsenal manager when his side travelled to Greece on Wednesday in need of a convincing win against Olympiacos in order to qualify for the last 16 of the Champions League. The Gunners had lost their previous three final group game visits to the Karaiskakis Stadium outlining how […]
It’s a stat from Sporting Intelligence that will make Manchester United CEO Ed Woodward throw up his cornflakes this morning as it highlights how bad United’s exit from the Champions League is. In perhaps a sad indictment about the state of modern football, 9 of the 10 richest clubs who began the Champions League have […]
Arsène Wenger said Arsenal had a “perfect mental and tactical performance” in winning at Olympiacos on Wednesday night, Olivier Giroud’s first hat-trick for the club gave the Gunners the result they needed to leapfrog their hosts and qualify for the last 16 for the 16th season running. Arsène Wenger’s side had no points after their […]
Bayern Munich blitzed Olympiakos with three goals in the first 20 minutes to seal qualification – and keep Arsenal in the hunt. Douglas Costa opened the floodgates in the eighth minute with a rocket shot before Robert Lewandowski’s 5th goal of the campaign – his 20th in all competitions – doubled Bayern’s lead. Four minutes […]
Arsenal boss continues to take shots at Uefa over their blindness to doping in soccer, and the governing body has resorted to intimidation tactics to try and silence Arsene Wenger. A week after Wenger criticisd UEFA’s complacency on drugs cheats, Arsenal get a visit from ten members of the organisation’s doping control unit the next. […]
A bad weekend got even worse for Arenal fans with the news from L’Équipe journalist Bruno Constant that Francis Coquelin is facing “most probably” at least 3 months on the sidelines after injuring his knee in the first-half against West Brom. Coquelin went down in the loss to West Brom on a 50-50 challenge with […]
He is a player that splits opinion, both in North London and Germany, but there is no debating that Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil is an assist machine. Against Swansea last weekend, the World Cup winer picked up his Premier League leading ninth assist of the season. Ozil not only leads the Premier League in assists […]