Lee Hurley Archives: 06/2016

Joel Campbell and Costa Rica are heading home from the Copa America after the end of the group stages while David Ospina watched on from the bench as Colombia lost 3-2 to Joel’s team in Houston, Texas.

Everything worth talking about from Saturday.

Arsenal have been heavily linked with a move for Wolfsburg’s left-back, Ricardo Rodriguez and things might be a lot more complicated than a normal transfer.

With the Euros starting and actual football to be talked about, the Jamie Vardy story has shut up, or, at least, quietened down for a little bit. So where are we?

After crating a fuss by taking a player to the Euros who had hardly kicked a ball for his club all season, Roy Hodgson confounded people further by leaving him on the bench.

In the build-up to Wales v Slovakia it was most certainly the Gareth Bale show as far the BBC were concerned, but there were a few other players involved, one of them even plays for Arsenal.

Granit Xhaka lined up alongside former Arsenal man Johan Djourou (Senderos was not included) as they defeated his brother’s Albania in the second game of this year’s Euros.

Laurent Koscielny said that the French fans will remember their victory over Romania for a long time after Dimitri Payet’s thunderbolt sealed the win for his country.

Alex Iwobi gave Gooners everywhere a heart attack when he was pictured wearing a Manchester City shirt but fear not – it’s only because (it seems) he lost a bet.

In the midst of the euphoria over the start of the Euros, it’s easy to forget that we also have a few players in the States featuring in the Copa America.

Granit Xhaka, and his brother Taulant have revealed that they still give a whopping 80% of their wages to their parents.

While his fellow Germans are off enjoying life in France at the Euros, Per Mertesacker, who hung up his international boots in 2014, has found other ways to entertain himself this summer.

Dimitri Payet left the pitch in tears on Friday night as he was subbed having won the opening game for France with an absolute screamer. So how did Olivier say thank you to his team mate?

Ryan Mason has gotten his new season predictions in early and the Spurs midfielder believes that, yes, you guessed it, Tottenham will finish above Arsenal.

You may not know much about Mohamed Elneny, even though he joined the club in January, but he’s shown he’s as game as most at Arsenal by staring in a new ad for etisalat.

Swiss defender Ricardo Rodriguez has admitted that it would be ‘nice’ to play with Granit Xhaka at Arsenal and if he did move he knows his roommate would be sorted as he looks set to leave Wolfsburg.

Bolton have apparently accepted a £1.5m bid from Arsenal for central defender Rob Holding.

French Daily, L’Equipe, are reporting that Mathieu Debuchy wants to leave Arsenal in news that surprises absolutely no-one.

Petr Cech took 20 minutes out of his pre-euro preparation to spend time signing autographs and posing with photos after training.

Another day, another load of rumours, but this time it seems like we might have something concrete to report.