By 1970's Gooner Anthony Annan seems to possess all those characteristics that may make him a typical Arsene Wenger signing. He is at the not so ripe age of 22, no one has really heard of him but he is already a Ghanian international playing along side Michael Essien in the centre of Ghana's midfield and plays in that midfield position that Asrene has said he is looking to strengthen. Click to continue reading...

By 1970's Gooner During the summer of 2007 and looking ahead to the following season, Gilberto Silva was naturally expected to star in the centre of Arsenal's midfield next to wonder boy Fabregas. He had already assumed the captaincy while Gallas was injured during the previous season and had an inspiring campaign, providing the maturity and experience the young guns desperately needed after Click to continue reading...

We all know how good Micah Richards is. The Manchester Citeh ace even made his debut against the Gunners on 22nd October 2005 as a sub and was given his full debut on February 12, 2006 against Charlton Athletic.

He played in the majority of Manchester City's matches for the rest of that season, and was named as the club's Young Player of the Year for the 2005-06 season. Click to continue reading...

By 1970's Gooner Carlos Vela's fine performances for Arsenal in the pre season friendly games has not gone unnoticed by Sven Goran Eriksson, the new head coach of the Mexican national team. His spies in Europe have been impressed with Vela's prowess in front of goal especially that fine effort against Stuttgart when he rounded Lehmann before slotting the ball into the net off the bar. Click to continue reading...

By 1970's Gooner Boro Primorac is considered to be Arsene's "real" right hand man as far as strategy and tactics are concerned. Wenger did after all take him to Japan as his second in command when he managed Grampus Eight there. He usually sits behind Wenger looking serious and quiet and he does not usually speak much. Click to continue reading...

By 1970's gooner Arsenal's interest in Brazilian wonder kid, Diogo Luis Santo, who plays for Portuguesa in Brazil may be about to end as another European club are in advanced negotiations for his signature. Arsenal have already hit a brick wall in their attempts to sign the player. The apparently intransigent Portuguesa president, Manuel da Lupa, revealed that they have twice turned down Click to continue reading...

By 1970's Gooner Alexander Song had a bad game against Fulham at Craven Cottage a couple of seasons ago and a lot of frustrated fans got on his back since then. They seemed to ignore that in that defeat the whole team had a nightmare of a game with hardly anyone of the players playing above average. Click to continue reading...

By 1970's Gooner Eduardo's return to first team action has now been placed in October as he is not expected to start his pre season until September. The assessment is that he will make a full recovery which is great news for Arsenal. This however leaves Arsene Wenger short of the full complement of forwards that are currently available. Click to continue reading...

I'll say this about Thierry Henry, he's still an ambassador for Arsenal despite his career having taken him to Barcelona. The former Gunner superstar now is a Gooner - and he's optimistic for the future. Last year people asked me... Click to continue reading...

Kevin Keegan definitely has a thing for players with more than a bit of attacking panache, so a player like José Antonio Reyes is surely right up his street. The good news is that the ex-Gooner should be available after his current side Atlético Madrid deemed him surplus to ... Click to continue reading...

RvP the next to leave? Boss: Ade will stay Another Gooner to Barca Click to continue reading...

By 1970's Gooner The current manager of Mexico's national team is now a certain Sven Goran Eriksson. He replaced not so long ago a great Mexican legend, Hugo Sanchez, who having failed to guide the national team to the finals of the Olympic tournament (which is about to start in early August) got the sack. Click to continue reading...

Thierry Henry has been voted the greatest ever Gunner in the Arsenal poll.

The man is a legend and deserves to be crowned the top man. Going down the list there are so many names that could all have been voted number one but I think the correct decision has been made.

A good choice Gooners! Click to continue reading...

Thierry Henry -- Its the name which every Arsenal fan has stamped on his heart.Then, him being voted the Greatest Gunner by online voting of the Arsenal fans in a poll of 50 Greatest Gunners comes hardly as a surprise.To set things straight, in whichever way u see it, I am a die hard Henry fan .I, for all this years had him as my favourite Arsenal player, the title of which has been duly replaced by Cesc Fabregas. Click to continue reading...

By 1970's Gooner What we have been reporting for some time now has finally come to a close with Gilberto putting pen to paper and signing a three year contract for Greek club Panathinaikos. Speaking to the Greek media he admitted a hunger for winning titles again. "Even if I won trophies with Arsenal and Brazil I'm still hungry to win more titles. Click to continue reading...

Alexander Hleb the Belarussian play-maker was officially revealed in front of the hungry Spanish media by Barcelona. Thierry Henry was also present at the event which saw Hleb kissing the Barca Batch as though he was practicing it since he first kicked the ball. Its like, you play with your dog, show him a piece of raw meat and you could make him do any trick in the book, with that look in its eyes. Click to continue reading...

By 1970's Gooner Alexander Hleb will become tomorrow the fifth player signed by Barcelona this transfer window. New Barca boss Pep Guardiola has already recruited defenders Daniel Alves (Sevilla), Martin Caceres (Villarreal) and Gerard Pique (Manchester United) as well as midfielder Seydou Keita (Seville). Click to continue reading...

Gilberto Silva, as I mentioned in my previous post was about to sign for the Greek side Panathinaikos ,which the picture suggests will be completed in a day or two. The image shows Gilberto driving out of the Athens airport surrounded by the supporters of the Greek club. Around two thousand supporters assembled at the airport to cheer their clubs latest acquisition. Click to continue reading...

By 1970's Gooner The news coming out of Athens sounds very decisive. Gilberto's representatives, The Base Soccer Agency, who traveled yesterday to the Greek Capital, have agreed personal terms with Panathinaikos after negotiations which lasted several hours. And after communicating with Gilberto himself they declared that he was in agreement too. Click to continue reading...

By 1970's Gooner Arsenal have agreed to transfer Gilberto Silva to Panathinaikos and Gilberto may be keen on the idea too. Ken Friar is reported today in the Greek press as having said that he has, on behalf of Arsenal, come to an agreement on principle with Panathinaikos president Nikos Pateras. Click to continue reading...

By 1970's Gooner Thierry Henry traveled to Mexico yesterday as part of his promotional duties to launch a new football boot. He also gave his thoughts on the country's two young starlets who may be facing each other in the North London derbies this coming season. Carlos vela, who will be joining Arsenal for his first pre-season training, has impressed Henry as both were playing in the Spanish Click to continue reading...

By 1970's Gooner Arsenal seem to have taken the decision to finally go ahead with transferring one of their most experienced and loyal players. Gilberto Silva has been, since his transfer from Atlético Mineiro right after he helped his country to victory in the World Cup of 2002, one of Arsene Wenger's best buys. Click to continue reading...

Loyalty.

That's a word that many footballers in this day and age don't have in their vocabulary. In recent times we've seen it at first hand at our own club Arsenal.

Over the summer two of our best players have shown that money is the be-all and end-all with them. Adebayor and Hleb should hang their heads in shame at their disgusting attempts to quit Arsenal to satisfy their greedy needs. Click to continue reading...

By 1970's Gooner This is indeed a typical Arsene Wenger signing. Bischoff is only 21, has never played a single Bundesliga game in the Werden Bremen first team since his three years there and therefore no one has really ever heard of him. His only professional deployment was against Celta Vigo in the Uefa Cup quarter-final 2006/07. Click to continue reading...

By 1970's Gooner Arsene Wenger obviously knew what was coming when right after the last gasps of the League season he warned that his first priority in the transfer market would be to try and keep this team together. For, when your club's strategy is to rely mainly on youth and to "make the stars rather than buy them", it is crucial that time through proper training and on the job experience Click to continue reading...