Lee Hurley Archives: 05/2018

Caglar Soyuncu has confirmed that Arsenal want to sign him but he will not be thinking about it until after he is finished with his international team.

Monaco’s vice president, Vadim Vasilyev, has confirmed they turned down a €100m bid from Arsenal for Thomas Lemar last summer and that it was ‘difficult’ to do so.

Arsenal are reportedly interested in signing Sevilla’s goalkeeper, Sergio Rico, a player Unai Emery knows well.

Viktoria Schnaderbeck has said she opted to leave Bayern Munich for Arsenal to get out of her comfort zone as Joe Montemurro’s side look to build on his impressive first season with the club.

Arsenal have increased Unai Emery’s transfer budget from £50m to £70m and are closing in on the free transfer of Stephan Lichtsteiner from Juventus.

The agent of Jean-Michael Seri has explained that Arsenal’s dithering in the transfer market was part of the reason his player didn’t sign for the club last summer.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang may have only arrived at Arsenal a few months ago but he has no problem seeing the main problem at the club over recent seasons – stagnation under Arsene Wenger.

According to a report in Italy, Lucas Perez is closing in on a move to Lazio despite other reports claiming Unai Emery has ordered him back to Arsenal for pre-season training.

Santi Cazorla continues to train alone at Villarreal as the midfielder attempts to prove his fitness ahead of the new season.

According to Julien Laurens 57 people applied for Arsene Wenger’s job at Arsenal.

Arsenal Women have announced their first signing of the summer with the arrival of Viktoria Schnaderbeck from Bayern Munich the first of a number of recruits expected from Germany.

Watford have agreed a five-year deal with 18-year-old Ben Wilmot who was heavily linked with Arsenal towards the end of last season.

Arsenal’s pre-season friendly game against Chelsea, that was due to take place in Sweden, has been cancelled.

Unai Emery was unveiled as the new Arsenal head coach on Wednesday afternoon and he left a strong and positive impression. So what did we learn?

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is delighted to have Unai Emery as the new Arsenal head coach, hailing his achievements so far while Henrikh Mkhitaryan believes he will bring fresh ideas to the club.

It has not been a good summer for the ITKs and some of the (usually) best informed papers – the Mail, the Telegraph and L’Equipe – have done as badly as the Twitterati.

Serge van den Ban has left Arsenal as the club continue a massive clear-out and has admitted he found the decision ‘surprising’ after being told his contract would not be renewed.

Arsenal have reportedly told Lucas Perez to return to Arsenal as Unai Emery is a fan and wants to have a chat with him about a possible future at the club.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has admitted he does not understand Alexandre Lacazette’s World Cup snub by France.

Cairbre Ó Cairealláin has left Arsenal to return to Belfast.