Lee Hurley Archives: 01/2019

One year ago today, Arsenal and Manchester United performed an unlikely swap deal that saw Alexis Sanchez leave for Manchester United and Henrikh Mkhitaryan head the other way.

Over a year ago, Nick Cohen wrote a piece for The Guardian saying football fans should be asking hard questions about the money behind leading clubs but that still doesn’t look like it will be happening any time soon.

It’s been a lingering question about Arsenal for a number of years – are they just a collection of idiots, incapable of following basic instructions when they take to the football pitch? On Saturday we got a resounding answer – no!

Arsenal are reportedly interested in Sampdoria’s 22-year-old goalkeeper, Emil Audero, after they were turned down by Brazao who will move to Inter Milan in the summer.

Monday was not a good day for Arsenal fans with the news that Hector Bellerin has done his cruciate and Sven Mislintat will be leaving when the January transfer window closes.

Former Arsenal flop, Gervinho, has found the net again in Serie A, taking his tally to six for the season in 14 games, and it was quite the goal.

A defender Arsenal made a ‘concrete offer’’ for back in 2017 now wants an Arsenal move but his wife would, apparently, prefer to go to Liverpool.

Arsenal’s Kelechi Nwakali is demanding more playing time with Porto’s B side after only amassing 603 minutes this season.

If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks you might have missed the uproar in England because Leeds United manager, Marco Bielsa, has been sending his minions around the country to spy on his opposition.

Despite reports at the weekend that Tottenham could wreck Arsenal’s move for Denis Suarez, Sport in Spain claim the player has only been talking to…

Denis Suarez has reportedly been chatting with Watford’s Gerard Deulofeu about playing for Arsenal.

Laurent Koscielny made Garth Crook’s BBC Team of the Week as well as Jamie Redknapp’s Daily Mail team while Hector Bellerin also made an appearance.

He may not be rated that highly by many football fans, but Gooners everywhere will be relieved to know that Marouane Fellaini has been ruled out of Arsenal’s FA clash next weekend.

The S*n had a nice big piece trashing Per Mertesacker for attending a basketball game instead of an Arsenal youth match, but they’ve got so much wrong it makes my head hurt.

Laurent Koscielny was the stand-out player for Arsenal against Chelsea, scoring a goal and putting in a masterful display that earned him the Man of the Match award, so how come he only got a 6 in the Mail on Sunday’s ratings when they gave Cesar Azpilicueta a 7?

After a few misses against Fulham, the S*n laughably called Pierre Emerick-Aubameyang ‘the most wasteful Prem top scorer ever’ and I couldn’t help but be reminded of that as I saw stats today saying the complete opposite.

Arsenal are reportedly interested in messing up Spurs move for Malcom, a player they were heavily linked with before he moved to Barcelona.

Juventus reportedly offered Arsenal €10m to allow Aaron Ramsey to join them this month but the club said no.

Arsenal have reportedly been watching SC Braga’s 19-year-old forward, Francisco Trincao who is apparently a ‘value’ transfer as we find ourselves back here again.

Beth Mead has been ruled out of England’s training camp in Qatar after picking up a knee injury against Chelsea at the weekend while Lisa Evans has become the third Arsenal withdrawal.