Lee Hurley Archives: 07/2016

On Wednesday the transfer circus moved its monkeys from Gonzalo Higuain’s back garden and planted them firmly on Mauro Icardi’s lawn.

Arsenal’s apparent firm stance over Wojceich Szczesny is being blamed for holding up a deal as parts of the media look to apply pressure to…

AC Milan are hoping that Arsenal will offer €30m for Carlos Bacca after the player refused to move to West Ham.

Sport in Spain are claiming that Arsenal have made a £20m bid for Barcelona’s Arda Turan in what seems to be yet another case of information failing to travel accurately between websites.

Arsenal’s new away kit has been leaked just over a week before it goes on sale and if it’s real (we explain below why we think it is), we gotta say – it’s great!

On Wednesday things went a little crazy as it seemed Mauro Icardi’s wife and agent was in London to discuss a move to Arsenal, but was she?

Claudio Ranieri has recently said that he believes that Riyad Mahrez will stay at Leicester and that would seem to put an end to any transfer speculation.

As Arsenal players get ready for the new season, Alex Iwobi has been speaking to Bleacher Report, explaining what pre-season is like.

Just yesterday Arsenal were linked with Borussia Dortmund’s Matthias Ginter and today the German club have denied reports he’s going anywhere.

Manchester City have apparently ended their chase of Hector Bellerin after being told to sod off by Arsenal.

Tafari Moore has spent a few days in trial with FC Utrecht in the Netherlands ahead of a move there after it was made clear to him that he does not have a future at Arsenal according to Dutch reports.

Gonzalo Higuain’s €94m buyout clause has no expiry date despite reports that it ended at the end of June.

Per Mertesacker looks set to be promoted to Arsenal captain after the departure of Mikel Arteta.

Napoli’s president, Aurelio De Laurentiis, has stated, again, that Higuan will not go to Juventus and if he can help it, the striker won’t go to another Italian club.

After being told he was not wanted by Al Wahda, former Arsenal man, Denilson, has returned home to Brazil to sign for Cruzeiro on loan.

Fran Merida has signed for Osasuna for a transfer fee believed to be €500k.

Arsenal have apparently beaten Manchester United to the signature of Erik Tobias Sandberg.

With no actual football to talk about, real news is still very hard to come by out there. Over the course of the past 24…

According to reports in Italy, Kostas Manolas is ‘unhappy’ and wants to leave Roma which is unfortunate for him because the Italians do not want to sell.

Arsenal have allegedly told Manchester City that Hector Bellerin is not for sale as Pep Guardiola sets his beedy little Barcelona eyes on him.