The Winning Potion

August 2013

1 – 0
Ozil (49)




0 – 1
Dembele (7)
(Jack Wilshere will be out for 4 weeks with a broken wrist)


Southampton 2 - 2 Arsenal
Ramirez (52) Pizarro (88) - Giroud (14, 30) Arteta (22)


2 – 1
Giroud (56) Mertesacker (75) – Deeney (65)

Barclays Premier League Table

Arsenal’s EA SPORTS Player of the Month

Olivier Giroud

A fantastic month for Giroud and solely Giroud as he seemed to be the only player in good shape this month with 3 important goals for us in 2 games.

Thierry’s Verdict: A poor month for us and we need to kick on with results in September with the confidence boost we gained from the Watford game. Ideally, we should have won all our games but we just wasn’t good enough to do so.

UEFA Champions’ League Group Stage Draw

Group D

"The Group of Death"

Summer Transfers

– Aston Villa – Fernando Amorebieta £450k, Tony Hibbert £300k

– Brighton – Sone Aluko £6.5m, Scott Wootton (Loan), Ross Barkley (Loan), Robert Snodgrass £4.3m, Chris Wood £5.25m, Billy Jones £4.3m, Sebastian Pinto £7.5m, Jamie Mackie £900k

– Chelsea – Jordy Clasie £14m, Cristian Cuevas £1.6m, Stephan El Shaarawy £10m, Wallace £4.5m

– Everton – Gary Mackay-Steven £4m, Rickie Lambert £2.8m, Tomas Rosicky £5m, Mladen Petric (Free)

– Liverpool – Will Hughes £11.75m, Will Buckley £15m, John Obi Mikel £8m, Gokhan Inler £14.5m, Xherdan Shaqiri (Loan), Sebastian Bassong £17m, Vaclav Kadlec £13m

– Manchester City – Alexis Sanchez (Loan), Robert Lewandowski £46m, Neven Subotic £12m, Ivan Cavaleiro £660k

– Manchester United – Alexander Kacaniklic £19m, Younes Belhanda £19m, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang £23m, Alex £6m, David Ospina (Free)

– Newcastle United – Wilfried Zaha (Loan), Lucas Andersen (Loan), Mohamed Diame £3.5m

– Norwich City – Ricky Van Wolfswinkel £10m, Hedwiges Maduro £2m, Karl Henry £1.6m, Carlton Cole £1.3m, Mile Jedinak £3.4m, Dwight Tiendalli £1.5m, Danny Guthrie £500k, Joe Mason £4.6m, Paul McShane £1.7m

– Nottingham Forest – Rio Ferdinand (Free), David Albelda (Free), Denilson £2.5m, Gabriel Agbonlahor £7m, Jay Spearing £300k, Jay Bothroyd £200k, Alexander Tettey £2.4m, Olof Mellberg (Free)

– QPR – Mikael Lustig £1.9m, Hiroshi Kiyotake £9.5m, Guillermo Burdisso £5.75m, David Bentley £1m

– Southampton – Stewart Downing £3m, Isaac Vorsah £4.4m, Danny Simpson £2.2m, Claudio Pizarro (Free)

– Stoke City – Nathan Dyer £3.6m, Yannick Bolasie £4.8m, Federico Macheda (Loan), Marvin Emnes £3.2m

– Sunderland – Aleksandar Dragovic £3.4m, Matt Lowton £3.2m

– Swansea City – Glenn Murray £4.5m, Ahmed Elmohamady £8.75m, Cesar Azpilicueta £5.5m, Nacer Chadli £10m, Joel Campbell (Loan), Titus Bramble (Free), Miralem Sulemanji (Free), Thomas Drage £1.2m

– Tottenham Hotspur – Rafael da Silva £22m, Leighton Baines £16m, Iago Aspas £8.75m

– West Ham United – Andy Carroll £12m, Per Cilijan Skjelbred £1.7m, Rhys Williams £3.4m



– AS Monaco – Abou Diaby £5.5m, Cheik M’Bengue £8.75m

– Montpellier – Valon Berisha £5m

– Olympique de Marseille – Johan Djourou £4.5m, Kevin Monnet-Pacquet £11.75m, Etienne Capoue £11m, Papa Souare £5.5m, Jorge Enriquez £9.5m, Tiago £600k, Marko Marin £8m, Taras Stepanenko £8.75m

– PSG – Henrik Mkhitaryan £17m, Davide Astori £7m, Nicolas Nkoulou £29.5m, Javier Hernandez £13.5m, Xabi Prieto £26m, Sami Khedira £10m



– Bayer Leverkusen – John Guidetti (Loan), Clement Chantome £5m, Urby Emanuelson £2.9m

– Borussia Dortmund – Dede £26m, Marco Van Ginkel £16m

– Bayern Munich – Mario Gotze £32m, Jan Kirchhoff (Free)

– Schalke – Nicklas Bendtner £4m, Darren Fletcher £5.5m, Javi Garcia (Loan)

– Hamburg – Jozy Altidore £9.5m

– Stuttgart – Sercan Sararer (Free), Lucas Zen £1.5m



– Ajax – Angelo Ogbonna £8.5m



– AC Milan – Daniel Agger £8m, Radja Nainggolan £11m, Hector Moreno £15m, Felipe Melo £1m, Giacomo Bonaventura £5m

– Fiorentina – Christian Maggio £8m

– AS Roma – Alessandro Matri £5m, Matias Suarez £8m

– Palermo – Douglas (Free)

– Inter Milan – Adel Taarabt £2.3m (co-own), Simone Benedetti (Free), Hugo Campagnaro (Free), Francisco Cerro £8m

– Juventus – David Villa (Free)

– Lazio – Thiago Motta £1.6m, Fabian Rinaudo £4m

– Sampdoria – Sergine Kara £7m, Elano (Loan), Cristian Rodriguez £4m

– Udinese – Valentin Stocker £4m



Benfica – Filip Djuricic £5m, Joaozinho £1.5m, Nicolas Lodeiro £4m, Andrea Poli £11m, Modibo Diakite £4m

Porto – Taye Taiwo (Loan), Aleksandar Kolarov (Loan), Florent Malouda (Free), Diego Reyes £6m, Hector Herrera £900k, Eduardo da Silva £4.7m, Hugo Viana (Free), Luiz Gustavo £9m, Koo Ja-Cheol £1.7m, Pedro Leon (Loan)



– Anzhi Makachkala – Siyanda Xulu £18m, Arthur Yusupov £8.5m

– Spartak Moscow – Vladimir Dyadyun



– Celtic – Seamus Coleman £3.3m, Giannis Maniatis £4.7m



– Atletico Madrid – Kaka (Loan), Enzo Perez £5m, Simone Pepe £5m, Andres £5m

– Barcelona – Holger Badstuber £16m, Jefferson Farfan £14m

– Real Betis – Facundo Ferreyra - £11m,
Nicolas Bertolo £8m

– Real Sociedad – Thomas Sorensen £28k, Michael Essien (Loan), Raul Garcia (Loan), Federico Balzaretti £2m, Ricardo Costa £400k, Pablo Aimar £700k, Chico Flores £3.9m, Matias Fernandez (Loan)

– Sevilla - Kolo Toure £2m, Djibril Cisse £800k, Juraj Kucka £3.9m, Vurnon Anita £11m

– Valencia – Mathieu Valbuena £13m, Lucas Lobos (Free), Yossi Benayoun (Free), Dentinho (Loan)

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September 2013 Part 1

1 – 1
Holt (75) – Sterling (90+1)





2 – 0
Ibrahimovic (39, 55)

SPURS TO OVERCOME RIVALS

Tottenham Hotspur’s manager Andre Villas Boas has backed his side to finally overcome Arsenal this season after a thrilling start to the season.

The Lilywhites have won 5 out of their 5 games so far this season including a 1-0 win over Arsenal in a season opener and now find themselves top of the Premier League while the red side of north London have just one win so far this season in 10th place.

Tottenham has not finished above the Gunners since 1995 and last season were piped to the league title by their very own rivals but Villas Boas is determined to end Arsenal’s domination this season.

“We’ve had a fantastic start to the season and Arsenal hasn’t. We improved in areas we needed to and a very strong squad so I believe this is our year.

“For many years we have been close, sometimes better but unlucky but we are much stronger than them as a team and I think we made that clear when we beat them at the Emirates.

“We’ve got confidence on our side and are ready to mount a serious title challenge.”

September 2013 Part 2

1 – 4
Benteke (45) – Cazorla (45+2) Mertesacker (49, 90+1) Sterling (52)




0 – 2
Rosicky (55) - Bony (9) Mertesacker (34)
(Arsenal will face Sheffield Wednesday in the next round at Hillsborough)
( Lukas Podolski out for 4 months with a torn calf muscle and Raheem Sterling out for 3 weeks with a groin strain)




7 – 3
Mertesacker (5, 60, 89) Cazorla (9) Wilshere (21) Oxlade-Chamberlain (66) Falcao (87) – Dzeko (24, 39, 65)

Barclays Premier League Table

Arsenal’s EA SPORTS Player of the Month

Per Mertesacker

What a fantastic month he’s had right here. 4 games, 6 goals and every single one of them has been vital for us. We have struggled so far but if we end up victorious, we have these goals from big Per to thank.

Thierry’s Verdict: We started badly but we have slowly picked ourselves up and ended on a high. We’ve got to keep this form up now.

October 2013

3 – 0
Wilshere (35) Cazorla (40) Ozil (79)




0 – 0
Granero (65)


1 – 1
Johnson (1) – Walcott (78)




3 – 1
Giroud (1, 15) Vermaelen (89) – Reus (6)




3 – 1
Ozil (13) Giroud (59) Mertesacker (71) – Anichebe (63)




0 – 1
Walcott (86)

Barclays Premier League Table

Arsenal’s EA SPORTS Player if the Month

Per Mertesacker
Once again, the team wasn’t really there in spirit and Mertesacker is taking full advantage to show just how good he is. A fantastic month both offensively and defensively in which Per has easily been our player of the season so far.

Thierry’s Verdict: An on and off month once again and we dropped points where we shouldn’t have but we are right amongst the Champions’ League table and are looking good for progression in what is a very difficult group.

FALCAO OFF CUE

Radamel Falcao is being linked with a move away from the Emirates Stadium after another poor month at Arsenal.

The Colombian cost Arsenal £23 million this summer but has only managed to find to the net once in 10 games in which he performed below par in all.

His performances has drawn criticising from all those who were expecting him to challenge the top goalscorers in the league but instead finds himself sliding down the pecking order.

The 27 year old is hasn’t started been called up for Arsenal’s last 3 games and reports have begun to link him with a move back to Atletico Madrid.