EU footballers warned: your time at an English club might well be up

by Tony Attwood Not every professional footballer is a member of the Professional Footballers’ Association.  Some players may be members of the trades union for their own country, but many are not members of any union. Which might be a shame if they work in England because although the PFA is contacting all its members …

Arsenal: the 3rd worst club in terms of the effectiveness of its transfer spend

By Tony Attwood If you read the blogs or the newspapers, or listen to radio stations like Radio 5 or TalkSprout or watch TV stations like Sky Sports or BT Sport you’ll know one thing for sure: transfers are important. So important in fact that they determine how well a team will do.  Indeed listening …

Setting up Arsenal to fail: telling the club what it must not let happen

  By Tony Attwood Between 2003 and 2011 Arsenal were the only leading club in the Premier League to make money from buying and selling players.  In that time Arsenal received £21 million more than they have spent in player deals.   At the same time Chelsea and Manchester City each spent well over £400 million.  …