Lee Hurley Archives: 09/2022

A lot has been made of Ivan Toney’s tweet after Brentford beat Arsenal last season but Gabriel has used it to get a laugh after Arsenal demolished them on Sunday.

Ahead of their game against Arsenal, Brentford’s manager, Thomas Frank, has called the Gunners ‘remarkable’ as he talks up their title chances.

Alexandre Lacazette is set for surgery on his vocal chords to fix a problem with his voice that has been troubling him since the start of the summer.

Arsenal return to action this weekend with a trip to Brentford for a 12pm kick-off on Sunday, so which officials have been charged with messing things up?

Arsenal received £145.699m from the Premier League for finishing fifth last season – the fifth highest amount handed out.

Mikel Arteta has been named manager of the Month for August after guiding his team to five straight wins at the start of the season.

Arsenal’s game against Tottenham on 1 October looked like it would be the next match after the Queen’s death was announced at half-time of the game against FC Zurich on Thursday but the game against Brentford will go ahead with a rearranged kick-off time.

Arsenal are reportedly ready to return for Real Madrid’s Marco Asensio as they look to sign a winger that will allow them to send Marquinhos out on loan.

Following on from her success at the Euros this summer, Arsenal’s Beth Mead will release two books with the first due out in November.

Arsenal’s head of emerging talent, Yousuf Sajjad, will leave his role at the club, three years after he joined from Chelsea.

From £72m to £3m: The rise and fall of Nicolas Pepe’s value at Arsenal. Delve into the intricacies of his deal and its repercussions for the club.

Football fans are not trusted to show appropriate respect to the memory of the Queen and that’s why football is the only sport to be cancelled this weekend, according to a report in Saturday’s Daily Mail.

Premier League clubs are discussing opening up parts of their stadiums as warm banks for those who cannot afford to heat their homes this winter due to soaring energy costs.

Arsenal’s match against Everton will not take place this weekend as all football in England is cancelled, from the Premier League down to the National League, while the women’s season opener against Manchester City will also not take place.

Arsenal made three deadline day bids for Douglas Luiz, but Aston Villa turned them all down because they wanted a stupid fee for a player who is out of contract in nine months.

Arsenal’s afternoon might have unfolded differently if Greater Manchester’s Lee Mason on VAR hadn’t told Salford’s Paul Tierney to have a look at Christian Eriksen falling over and even Martin Odegaard has no clue why it was called back.

As if Arsenal’s afternoon was bad enough, losing 3-1 against Manchester United at Old Trafford despite being the better team for most of the game, they also look like they might have lost Emile Smith Rowe ahead of the Europa League starting this week.

The summer transfer window is now closed, so what deals did Arsenal complete?

Arsenal were left scrambling on deadline day for a midfielder after injuries to a number of key players and it has been revealed they turned down the chance to sign Florian Grillitsch on a free transfer.

On Wednesday, as most outlets focussed on Bukayo Saka saying he was confident he would agree a new deal with Arsenal, the Telegraph ran an interesting piece showing how the Arsenal youngster is treading a very dangerous burnout line.