Lee Hurley Archives: 01/2020

Cenk Tosun only arrived at Crystal Palace on Friday but Roy Hodgson says the striker is ready to play against Arsenal after signing on loan from Everton for the rest of the season.

Olivier Giroud has been urged to join Tottenham as the player looks to leave Chelsea in order to gain more playing time.

Hector Bellerin was spotted in training wearing Adidas boots but as a client of Puma, does it mean he’s changed deals in line with the club?

Manchester City’s manager Nick Cushing will leave the club, after his side plays Arsenal on 2 February, to become assistant manager at New York City in the MLS.

In Arsenal’s chase for a top four place, Harry Maguire has added to Manchester United’s woes by tearing a hip muscle that will rule him out for up to two months.

Jack Wilshere has suffered another injury setback delaying his return from this latest problem.

Former Arsenal forward, Asisat Oshoala, was named African Women’s Player of the Year 2019 on Tuesday night with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang missing out to Liverpool’s Sadio Mane in the men’s category.

Arsenal are facing the very real prospect of losing their top doctor, Gary O’Driscoll, to Liverpool but are desperately trying to keep him at the club.

Arsenal will travel to play Bournemouth in the FA Cup after beating Leeds, but when will that all be happening?

Arsenal women have been drawn away against West Ham in the FA Cup in what will be a tricky fixture for Joe Montemurro’s side.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang used his pre-match programme notes to declare his commitment to Arsenal and dismiss rumours he wants to leave, so I guess he’ll be signing a new contract soon, then?

Mikel Arteta explained that beating Manchester United was such a ‘big release’ it took Arsenal until the second half to get going against Leeds because some players thought they could relax.

Mikel Arteta admits he was indeed angry with his players against Leeds and highlighted the ‘fitness issues’ people are blaming for Arsenal dropping off late in games has nothing to do with fitness at all.

Leeds United’s Ezgjan Alioski says that going to Arsenal is ‘nothing special’ and he believes Leeds, when they eventually return to the Premier League at some point, will be one of the biggest clubs there.

Bobby Madley quit as a referee last summer in a move that was said to have sent ‘shocks’ through PGMOL, the overlords of officialdom, but the former official has broken his silence about what happened and it raises even more questions about PGMOL and what they get up to out of sight.

This week, Arsenal confirmed that Calum Chambers had suffered an ACL injury to his left knee and underwent surgery on Thursday to correct the problem, so what can we expect for the player over the course of the next six-to-nine months?

Joe Montemurro has hailed Chelsea’s new signing, Sam Kerr, delighted that players from his home country are starting to get the recognition he feels they deserve, but he hopes she doesn’t do too well now she’s playing for our ‘nemesis’.

Arsenal might still sell Shkodran Mustafi this month even though Calum Chambers will miss the rest of the season with a knee injury.

Ahead of Arsenal’s FA Cup game against Leeds United on Monday, their head coach, Marcelo Bielsa has been bigging up Nicolas Pepe’s skills.

Mikel Arteta has revealed that he was given the captain’s armband against Leeds when he was a player for Arsenal but he’s hoping to avoid generating any captaincy problems at the cub.