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Captain Cesc Fàbregas rejoined Barcelona after eight years at Arsenal.. Arsenal's pre-season transfer activity was once again dominated by media speculation regarding the future of club captain Cesc Fàbregas, whose return to boyhood club Barcelona was widely expected, although not officially confirmed until the middle of August when an initial fee in the region of £30 million [5] was agreed ...
Arsenal Who's Who. London: Independent UK Sports. ISBN 1-899429-03-4. Kelly, Andy (29 July 2015). "Every Arsenal player in chronological order". The Arsenal History. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016 "Arsenal first team line-ups". The Arsenal History. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016
When Arsenal was founded in 1886 by munition workers' from Woolwich, the club resisted the lure of professionalism and remained an amateur side. [12] Success in local cup competitions soon followed, and a tie against Derby County in the FA Cup on 17 January 1891 led to the opposition approaching two of Arsenal's players, in view of offering them professional contracts. [12]
In the 2011–12 and 2012–13 seasons, Arsenal were fighting for the top four as they struggled to compete with the financial advantages held by Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester City. In Europe, Arsenal were eliminated in the last-16 stage of the Champions League for seven consecutive years between 2011 and 2017, despite recording a ...
Arsenal Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Islington, London. The club was formed in Woolwich in 1886 as Dial Square before being renamed as Royal Arsenal, and then Woolwich Arsenal in 1893. [1] In 1914, the club's name was shortened to Arsenal F.C. after moving to Highbury a year earlier. [2]
The 2010–11 season was Arsenal Football Club's 19th season in the Premier League and their 85th consecutive season in the top flight of English football. [1] [2] The team were within one point of league leaders Manchester United at the end of February, [3] but a run of just one league win throughout the entirety of March and April ended their challenge. [4]
To signal the intent of reducing surplus players, Arsenal then announced that a £6 million agreement had been reached for the sale of Carlos Vela on 17 July 2012. Vela featured 62 times for Arsenal, scoring 11 goals, and he was the first member of the first-team squad to be sold in the summer transfer window.
The first fixture between Manchester United and Arsenal in the 2011–12 Premier League season was played on 28 August 2011 at Old Trafford in Manchester. Manchester United won the match 8–2, making it Arsenal's heaviest league defeat since 1927, 84 years earlier, when they lost 7–0 to West Ham United in the old Football League First Division.