Lee Hurley Archives: 01/2022

Arsenal will reportedly offer Mikel Arteta a new two-year deal in order to ward off interest from Manchester City who see the Spaniard as a potential replacement for Pep Guardiola.

Arsenal have agreed a deal that sees Pablo Mari leave the club to join Udinese on loan until the end of the season.

Liverpool’s assistant manager, Pep Lijnders, spoke to the media ahead of the second final of the Carabao Cup semi-final at the Emirates and he couldn’t have been full of more praise for Arsenal.

Liverpool’s assistant manager, Pep Lijnders met the press before Arsenal host Liverpool and he was, inevitably, asked about Arsenal’s game against Tottenham being postponed.

With Arsenal said to be in advanced talks to sign Leandro Trossard from Brighton in the January window, I remembered a piece we had from a few years ago when his agent explained why he picked Brighton over the Gunners in 2019.

Mikel Arteta wants to ensure that Arsenal’s momentum continues throughout the rest of the season and into the 2022/23 season and that means more work…

Arsenal are said to be optimistic as they assess their squad numbers before the game against Liverpool despite the Daily Mail suggesting the fixture could be in doubt.

Arsenal have finally ended all the speculation and announced that they have signed Brazilian defender, Rafaella Souza.

The media are still not coping well with Arsenal daring to ask to have the Tottenham game postponed and one ITV correspondent has got himself in a bit of a pickle

The Premier League’s principal function is to organize the football contest between the league’s 20 clubs.

The Premier League will resist calls to change their rules around matches being postponed, despite the mass hysteria over Arsenal’s game against Tottenham being moved.

Arsenal are being linked with an annoying move for Diego Costa, a player who has, ridiculously, been called the ‘Granit Xhaka of strikers’.

Arsenal women have announced the signing of Austrian Laura Wienroither from TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.

Arsenal’s FA WSL game against Reading, that was due to take place on Sunday, has been postponed.

Arsenal have confirmed they have signed Stina Blackstenius from BK Hacken so what does that mean for Vivianne Miedema’s future?

Granit Xhaka picked up the fifth red card of his Arsenal career so what matches will the former Arsenal captain miss through suspension?

Arsenal produced a display to be proud off against Liverpool at Anfield, despite playing most of the match with just 10 men and now go into the second leg all level.

AFCON is underway and on Monday, Thomas Partey’s Ghana and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s Gabon played to mixed fortunes.

Jurgen Klopp said that Liverpool’s recent Covid outbreak was actually a ‘lot of false positives’ but that seems highly unlikely and it has annoyed a number of EFL clubs, not that the EFL and their former Liverpool chief executive chairman care about that.

If you wanted to feel old, then the news that Ian Wright’s grandson is old enough to play professional football should just about do it.