Lee Hurley Archives: 08/2016

With mixed messages coming out this week claiming that Riyad Mahrez both wanted to stay at Leicester and join Arsenal, Claudio Ranieri has been as clear as he could possibly be.

Sky Sports and BTSport have announced the latest batch of games to be moved for TV and they are leaving some of our coverage to radio and illegal streaming services with five of seven league games selected in October and November.

Arsenal have apparently offered Juventus €16m for midfielder, Mario Lemina, a 22-year-old they were linked with earlier in the season.

Alexandre Lacazette is set to return for Lyon when they face Arsene Wenger’s former side, AS Nancy, after recovering from a hip problem that many thought was simply a polite way of dropping him amid all the transfer nonsense surrounding him.

As Arsene Wenger met with the press on Friday they couldn’t help themselves asking about Manchester United.

Slaven BIlic has confirmed that West Ham have not made a bid for Alexandre Lacazette, the striker everyone is linked with but nobody actually seems to want.

Everton have reportedly offered €18m for Valencia’s Aymen Abdennour, the centreback who is definitely for sale and has already been offered to Arsenal.

In a nice turn of events Arsenal are being linked with a move for Barcelona’s Jeremy Mathieu rather than them being linked with one of our players.

We all know that Jurgen Klopp loves Arsene Wenger and the feeling is mutual.

With the league season upon us, it’s not just Arsenal who are struggling with injuries.

With the new season just hours ago we got the chance to hear from Arsene Wenger about actual football.

Ahead of the game, our good friends at Oulala compiled an infograph comparing Alexis Sanchez and Philippe Coutinho

With the left hand seemingly not knowing what the right hand is doing in this story, Shkodran’s father and agent (fagent), Kujtim, has said that negotiations for his son are going well with Arsenal.

According to Bild, Arsenal have opened talks with Serge Gnabry over extending his contract ahead of it expiring next summer.

Arsene Wenger has laid down the gauntlet to Theo Walcott, Jack Wilshere, and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, claiming all three have a ‘point to prove’ after struggling last season for a variety of reasons.

With Arsene Wenger coy on the signing of Shkodran Mustafi when asked about it at his pre-Liverpool press conference, the player’s former agent, Ali Bulut has not been.

Depending on where you do your reading, you could be sitting here today believing that Riyad Mahrez wants to join Arsenal or stay at Leicester City.

One of the most frustrating things about Jurgen Klopp is that he is the Liverpool manager which means despite being inclined to like him a lot, we must, MUST force ourselves not to for the good of all that is holy in football.

At his press conference on Friday morning ahead of the game against Liverpool, Arsene Wenger said he was not concerned about the situation with Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez’s contract renewals.

Arsene Wenger held his first press conference of the season on Friday morning and gave updates on who’s in and who’s out in the Arsenal injury hokey-kokey.