As their experience shows, and that of many other clubs also shows, changing managers does not change the fortunes of a club for the better. Normally, it does change the fortunes but for the worse.

And of course, it is not only in England that the financial matters catch up with clubs. Olympique Lyonnais EEFG.PA have been relegated to Ligue 2, following an audit of the club, confirming a ruling ...

Second clubs don’t like players who leak news of their impending transfer, as generally that indicates a player who is liable to leak anything, including injury news, tactics, etc. Good players can be ...

This would seem to be what the media want – for they seem to have lost all restraint in terms of predicting who Arsenal are signing. In fact we are seeing more and more negative pieces about Arsenal ...

One of the most curious features of the transfer window is the desire by seemingly quite a few Arsenal supporters for Arsenal to be more like Tottenham in terms of transfer dealings. For Tottenham ...

It doesn’t matter which way you look at it; Arsenal have been one of the best teams in the Premier League for the last few seasons, the second-best team, to be precise. The club ...

Moving on to Chelsea, the way in which the League management team agreed to the highly dubious notion of Chelsea selling their women’s team to another company owned by the same people who own Chelsea, ...

But “dithering” will be the main accusation over Dean Huijsen, Bryan Mbeumo, Nico Williams and Leroy Sane, largely because it was used last year and the year before and went down rather well in terms ...

But there can be a problem, for suddenly moving in a new player can be as disruptive as losing a player through injury. And in this regard in relation to Arsenal, no one mentions the fact that Saka ...

In recognition of his breakthrough year and the performances he put in he was also named on the shortlist for the Professional Footballers’ Association’s Young Player of the Year award alongside the ...

Now each of these points challenges the very essence of football, and implies that much of the time we are being lied to. Lied to, for example, in terms of which players a club is going to sign, and ...