Lee Hurley Archives: 07/2020

Arsenal did what many thought was impossible and beat Manchester City in the FA Cup semi-final to make it to their 21st final of the competition they’ve won more than anyone else.

As I write this at halftime, Arsenal are winning one nil against Manchester City in their FA Cup semi-final and the goal was a beauty.

Mikel Arteta told ESPN on Friday the reasons Mesut Ozil hasn’t been playing and it seems the Spanish coach is getting a little clearer in his message.

Pep Guardiola has said he is planning to use City’s semi-final at Wembley against Arsenal to gauge how ready his side are to play Real Madrid in the Champions League.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will start against Manchester City at Wembley on Saturday in search of his first FA Cup goal for Arsenal this season and Mikel Arteta has backed him to handle the pressure even though he has never scored against City before.

According to Sport in Spain, Philippe Coutinho’s agent and Arsenal’s new best friend, Kia Joorabchian, is in negotiations with the club over a loan move for the former Liverpool man.

Pep Guardiola has decided to come out swinging after Manchester City were cleared on a technicality of being massive financial cheats, pity he didn’t bother to check his facts first when taking aim at Arsenal and Arsene Wenger.

Arsenal have announced that Gabriel Martinelli will not just miss the rest of the season but the rest of the calendar year as well.

Arsenal fans expected to lose quite badly against Liverpool on Wednesday night only to come away with all three points but that doesn’t mean we’re closer to Liverpool than we thought, something we’ll probably learn on Saturday.

Arsenal came from behind to beat Liverpool on Wednesday night to the shock of just about everybody watching, especially as the champions were the ones defending like idiots.

I’ve not been the only one to point to Liverpool and reflect on where they were five years ago while hoping Mikel Arteta can do for us what Jurgen Klopp did for them, the only problem is there are quite a few telling differences.

According to L’Equipe, Arsenal and Everton have submitted an offer to Lyon for their centre-back, Gabriel Magalhães, who has received five offers in total.

Arsenal host Liverpool on Wednesday night, and while most Arsenal fans are expecting humiliation, Mikel Arteta is hoping to get some momentum going. “I believe…

David Ornstein claims in an exclusive that Ainsley Maitland-Niles believes he must leave Arsenal in order to continue life as a first-team regular.

An article on the Daily Mail website claims Hector Bellerin is ‘desperate’ to get out of Arsenal and ‘termination of his deal may be mutual between club and player.’ Really?

Arsenal have finally, reportedly, made contact with Sporting CP regarding Joelson who was apparently on the verge of signing a new extension with the Portuguese side.

Known by some as Mystic Weg, Arsene Wenger spoke in 2015 about the death of FFP and here we are in 2020 with the Court of Arbitration for Sport finally putting it’s rotting carcass on display for all to see.

According to L’Equipe, Mikel Arteta wants to extend Shkodran Mustafi’s contract at Arsenal.

As expected, Manchester City have had their two-year European football ban overturned meaning they can now play in the Champions League next season and Arsenal definitely can’t.

Supposedly out with a ‘slight’ back problem, Mesut Ozil has not been seen playing football since the it returned and Mikel Arteta’s comments after Arsenal’s defeat to Spurs tell us a lot.