So apparently a Middle-East consortium is prepared to bid £1.5 billion for Arsenal, according to two separate ‘exclusives’ in the Telegraph and Sun on Sunday. Let’s look at the headline figures first. They reckon the offer is £20k a share, which would give Stan Kroenke £831m for his 41,581 shares – which as I worked…

I’ve borrowed this subject matter from ‘Talking Reds’ column in The Gooner issue 233 (out now at all good fanzine vendors around Arsenal Stadium), as it is pertinent to this weekend. You’ll recall that in January Arsenal went 2-0 down to Liverpool, but pulled back to draw 2-2. You may also remember that the celebrations…

Arsenal’s financial results for the half year to the end of November 2012 are out. Expert finance commentators will be dissecting them in detail, including my AST colleagues. In the meantime the papers have had a quick go, some more successfully than others. The Daily Mirror, for example, described Arsenal’s financial results as ‘the shock…

On this day in 1968 Arsenal faced League Champions Man Utd at home – and lost 2-0. It was the 100th League match between the two clubs, and of those 100 Arsenal won 37 and lost 46. Here’s the programme from that day. Although very thin by modern standards, all the standard features are pretty…

I don’t take too much notice of Tony Cascarino, as I don’t generally find his views particularly insightful. Sometimes he says things I agree with, but if he says enough then that is almost certain to happen. Last week he pointed out in The Times that QPR may have bought a lot of players with…

On February 21, 1995 George Graham was given his marching orders from the Arsenal Manager’s Office. At the time, Arsenal were struggling a little in the league, had lost a League Cup quarter final to Liverpool, been dumped out of the FA Cup after a third round replay by Millwall, and (as Cup Winners’ Cup…

A guest post today from Simon Hill, one of the AST‘s football finance experts. FFP is coming – the Premier League owners, largely for selfish reasons of course, are keen on it, and Ivan Gazidis has been banging the drum for it for years. But what will it do to the spending power of the…

Do you want the good news or the bad news? Bad first? Okay: even if we beat Bayern over two legs, we almost certainly won’t win the Champions League. In fact, according to the odds calculated by Daniel Finkelstein’s boffins for The Times, Arsenal have about a 30 per cent chance of reaching the last…

Where to start with the abject performance of Arsenal yesterday? Perhaps with the preview from The Times yesterday morning. This reminds us that we managed to spank at least six past Blackburn three times since 2006, and that was when they were in the Premier League, not some lower division they inhabit now. It also…

I believe Arsenal hold the unique distinction in World Football of having won at least one major trophy on every day of the week – certainly it is unique in England. If you know of a club anywhere else to have done the same, please let me know. The full list of Arsenal trophies in…