Lee Hurley Archives: 07/2016

Despite seeming to land Bolton’s Player of the Season, Rob Holding, Arsenal are apparently interested in bringing in another two young centre backs – Jason Denayer and Matthias Ginter.

After a few days that felt quite frenzied, Tuesday was relatively calm in the wake of Juve and Napoli meeting to discuss Gonzalo Higuain.

Olivier Giroud’s agent has rubbished claims that his client will be used as part of the deal to land Gonzalo Higuain and has insisted the Frenchman is going nowhere making an awful lot of ‘reporters’ look very foolish indeed.

On Monday it was revealed that Arsenal had their bid for Bolton’s Rob Holding accepted and the player had already undergone a medical. Here’s all you need to know about him.

Francis Coquelin has been the latest to sing the praises of Arsenal new boy, Granit Xhaka, as he reveals it will be the ‘details’ that make the difference next season.

Per Mertesacker can’t wait to help Granit Xhaka fulfil his potential at Arsenal, claiming it will be a ‘joy’ to help him.

Gedion Zelalem enjoyed a mixed time in Scotland during his season long loan with Rangers.

Remi Garde has revealed that the rumour he was once offered the role of Sporting Director at Arsenal is ‘not completely unfounded’ and has backed Arsene Wenger over the Thierry Henry ‘drama.’

When Arsenal travel to the States in pre-season they will play an MLS All Star team that will *not* feature either Steven Gerrard or Frank Lampard.

All the news lately has been about which players Arsenal are likely to be without for the season opener against Liverpool, but they are not without their problems themselves.

We might never know why Arsenal signed Park Chu-Young but one thing is probably certain – the player paid a heavy price for signing for the club but he seems to have finally found his feet again.

On Monday it was confirmed that Wellington had returned to his old club, Fluminense. Here’s how his fees stack up.

Bolton News are reporting that Arsenal have agreed a fee for Rob Holding and that the player has passed his medical.

Denilson looks like he could be on his way from Al Wahda as they ship him out to make room for a ‘mystery signing’ in the next few days.

Arsenal have apparently bid $50m (£41m) for Alexandre Lacazette, according to reports coming out of France on Sunday.

Takuma Asano might not be a name many were aware of before he signed for Arsenal, but he has been impressing since he came under the Gunners spotlight.

Sunday was relatively quiet in terms of actual news but there was quite a lot of gossip around to get the internet in a tizzy.

Reports broke on Sunday that Arsenal had made contact with Mauro Icardi’s ‘entourage’ in order to set up a meeting this week and they were given the go-ahead.

If you weren’t around much over the weekend, you’d have missed all the fun that was the Gonzalo Higuain transfer saga as it really kicked into life.

Arsenal are going to make another attempt to sign Bolton’s Rob Holding this week with a new and improved offer according to the Sun.