Lee Hurley Archives: 04/2018

Arsene Wenger was presented with a trophy before the match against Manchester United to honour his time at Arsenal, but do you know what it actually said on it?

Arsene Wenger has reportedly received an offer to manage Chinese side, Shandong Luneng, which would see him earn €613k-a-week, making him the highest paid manager…

Arsenal have reportedly moved away from hiring Luis Enrique as their manager according to a report in The Times [£].

There was something most peculiar about Arsene Wenger’s last game as Arsenal manager at Old Trafford.

10 days ago Arsene Wenger announced that he would leave Arsenal at the end of the season, bringing the curtain down on 22 years at the club and shocking the footballing world.

If you want to know why the Premier League is regarded as the most entertaining league in the world, you only have to look back to Arsene Wenger’s early years at Arsenal and the games against Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United.

Games against Manchester United used to make me feel sick.

Luis Enrique wants his new job to be somewhere he feels loved with a project that gets him excited.

Approximately 30 seconds, that’s all it took to pop the Emirates balloon that had refilled with the hope that something special was coming.

All week it has been reported that Luis Enrique is Arsenal’s preferred candidate for the soon-to-be vacant manager’s job and that the Spaniard wants to join the club but now we’re back to him wanting to join Chelsea instead.

Arsenal have reportedly settled on Luis Enrique as their preferred candidate to replace Arsene Wenger but there are likely to be two sticking points before the club and Spaniard can find any agreement – and they both involve money.

Despite most Arsenal fans packing away their belief in this side, the first leg against Atletico Madrid in the Europa League semi-final saw many get it out again, for 82 minutes at least.

Arsene Wenger once described favourite for the Arsenal job, Luis Enrique, as a manager who went from ‘idiot to hero’.

Arsenal are planning on giving Arsene Wenger a guard of honour at his last home game, against Burnley on 6 May.

Alexandre Lacazette has admitted his knee problem was ‘complicated’ and that he wanted surgery done earlier.

Tony Adams has applied for the Singapore National Team manager’s job however he also has ‘a couple of opportunities closer to home’ after admitting he ‘wouldn’t be afraid’ of taking over from Arsene Wenger.

On Wednesday, the Daily Mail tried to imply that Hector Bellerin and Alexandre Lacazette got into a fight in training and despite being corrected by the Spaniard, in their Thursday edition they hint that the defender wasn’t being truthful.

According to Thursday’s edition of L’Equipe, Arsenal have settled on Luis Enrique as their favourite to replace Arsene Wenger and talks with the Spaniard are advancing well.

If there has been a bigger game in recent years, then I can’t think of it.

Patrick Vieira has said that he’s ‘ready’ despite recently hinting he wasn’t as he continues to be linked with the Arsenal manager’s job.