Winded Arsene Wenger, Angry Fans and Indifferent Superstars: A perfect Recipe For Hull City Tigers To Gore Arsenal In Saturday's Early EPL Kick Off

 This time, Arsenal fans concede that the implosion hit us below the belt.Wenger let us down (we are used to that) but he wasn’t alone and that is hard to take. This seasons’s habit of key players failing to turn up in crucial matches such as at home against Watford and then away to Chelsea did it for the fans. 

Wenger Not So Stingy After-all, Arsene Overpaid Chelsea 11.4 Million Euros For Petr Cech

"Welcome back" by Mase would do for this occasion. 

I looked at the last date that we posted here and it was simply embarrassing. As embarrassing as this summer's transfer season ala the unending Benzema fiasco. As embarrassed as Arsene Wenger should be over that '3 month' Welbeck lay off, so much so that he couldn't do it himself, Hodgson had to. Other than that, Arsenal news review is pretty much a desperate affair consisting of hype over Theo Walcott for scoring two past part time footballers to finding out how long Ozil lasted in Germany's win over Scotland tonight.

It is in these Arsenal news drought times that guys like those crunching the numbers over at CIES Football Observatory make the headlines. In their weekly post, the nerds hang it all to dry painting a football version of some suburban neighborhood desperate housewives out on a shopping spree. According to their estimates, this summer's window was 23% inflated compared to 2009-2014. 

We paid 11.4 million Euros over for Cech (Estimated value of 3.6 million vs reported fee of 15 million). No surprise really for Manchester United's Antony Martial fee where Monaco skimmed a free 27.9 million of the 50 million fee but they recovered part of that (15.3 million) from PSG for Di Maria. Liverpool lost 32.1 million Euros on Raheem Sterling as CIES reckons that the nine goal? winger is worth at least 95 million pounds. Tiny totts actually made a 7 million Euro super profit on Roberto Soldado! Shock.

At the very least this report by CIES lends credence to Arsene Wenger's assertion that there was too much money chasing after too few players. 

Is Arsene Wenger Really That Tactically Naive?

A man has to earn his bread some way or some how. You have to bring the bacon home if your missus is anything like mine- a magician in the kitchen. So the mundane affair of keeping an 8 to 5 got the best of me this week and the posts dried up here. Sorry folks! For Arsenal though, the excitement never dries up. Being Arsenalii Damu is quite the roller-coaster ride.

Early this week, the glorious news that Rosicky and BFG showed their faith by extending their contracts.Then the heavenly news of Ramsey getting back to fitness, alongside rumors of Rambo tied down with a mega £100,000+ per week contract running the next five years. Late in the week, the bombshell of Wilshere's injury lay off. Six weeks out with a navicular hairline fracture!To that, add the uncertainty surrounding Arsene Wenger's future being it that he is yet to sign on a new deal

What a ride. You've just got to Love Arsenal. Being an Arsenal fan is so much like the perfect relationship where as soon as it gets routine, something always props up to get juices flowing again.Ask any girl and they will tell you just how utterly intoxicating and exciting it is to love a bad boy and wonder not why nice lads finish last.

Facing Everton in just over a couple of hours, it must feel like the girl on Valentines eve. You might end up on the sunny beaches of Malindi or find yourself squeezing your way past potbellied women and psedo-pregnant men in a smokey Nyama Choma and rock bottom prized Tusker joint somewhere in the precincts of Nairobi. Either-way, it is sure to be a ride.

Will Everton repeat their swashbuckling display at the Emirates earlier at the turn towards mid-season? Will Ozil make it a habit of scoring against Everton? With the benefit of hind sight , I find that Everton game as the nadir that turned our season. The point when a team on the average-to-good transition came to our own turf, out passed and out played us, bringing doubt to our own good-to-great transformation fairy tale.

Suarez to Arsenal, Is it all a cock fight?

40,000,001 is the reported second bid by Arsenal for Suarez. In any worthwhile currency ,I suppose,that amount is astronomical.

Predictably, Liverpool have spat at the tens of  millions, if that now infamous, twitter update by Liverpool's principal owner is to be believed.

Going by Alibaba and as informed by a swahili proverb; 'siku za mwizi ni arubaini' . A thief's days number to fourty, 40 is a magical number.

If fourty is mortal number, why else would the systems fail for a man of John W. Henry caliber? A man who's PR ought be so well managed, to spew such vile on twitter? Must be some serious virus

The scenarios:

1. Why would Liverpool in the face of such Champions League winner -esque money, hold on to such a 'vermin' as want-away- Suarez?

Football or monetary considerations in play for Liverpool? My take is that it's the latter.Why else would Liverpool's owner jibe at Arsenal.

2. There is some serious ish up in Ivan's office. Whatever is being smoked at the Emirates ought be passed around. Arsenal bidding 40mil!?! + ?

Could mean only one thing: Arsenal has a sugar daddy. It's not Usmanov as you would imagine. It actually is the bespectaled french unknown who took over the reins in the mid nineties. Yes in a twisted conspirated way, more upside down and jungled up than a family tree, we spat on the very rules that we today serve as poster boys for: FFP. Arsenal were first to predict what the Bosman ruling meant to the rules of supply and demand--add to bag the great depression of the 21st century-For that, we recruited an economist as a manager. Why else would Roma be willing to pay 7mil for Gervinho?

3. The cheeky Arsenal bid for Suarez --£1 above the trigger clause--is our longed for ride on the high horse.

Granted, in defining itself as a brand over the recent unfruitful past, Arsenal under Arsene Wenger has moulded itself alongside the fabled American dream. With Thierry Henry, Pires, Fabregas, Nasri, Van Persie, Song, Adebayoe, Hleb, Flamini, A. Cole, Lauren,Toure etc We have demonstrated that everyone needs a second, third, fourth...chance. What they did once they were onto the holy grail, is entirely a different matter.

Suarez to Arsenal and subsequent 'rehabilitation'  represents the next step in this all inclusive Arsenal brand. The reason for such a diversity in fans from you and me, to Piers Morgan, to the running man of Vietnam to the unfortunate Kenyan,R.I.P, who opted out following a Ronaldo inspired Manchester United demolition of Arsenal in the 2009/2010 UEFA Champions league semifinal at the Emirates.

Cock fight, or not?

Will Arsenal Fans See 'The Dream' As Predicted By Arsene Wenger?

It's a sunny afternoon an hour to the game. Another 8 hours before the people of South Sudan vote in a referendum . A vote whose likely outcome is the split of the land of The Nile, The Sudan, into a dominantly Muslim north and bear the world's newest state, Africa's 54th : the total area  2505810 square kilometers (966710 square miles), 8.5 million people South Sudan.

This Saturday also marks the end of first full week of the new year. Yes, it's that time of the year again: it's the start of knockout football season.

A Look At Wengernomics As Arsenal Begins Season Defining December

Speaking to the press ahead of Today's match, Arsene Wenger as is routine updated the Arsenal fraternity on the injury situation.

On a whole, it was all positive as Samir Nasri has manged to shake off the injury picked up in midweek's Carling cup clash against Wigan,

Robin Van Persie is to feature after completing an impressive70 mins against Wigan, playing deep in the Fabregas role,  just off the main striker of the day- Niklas Bendtner.

Whether the Dutch World Cup finalist will start today against Fulham looks unlikely as Wenger's current priority appears to be to get Van Persie through December unscathed as he eases back into form.