Lee Hurley Archives: 08/2016

It’s good to know it’s not just the UK press that have a problem with their ability to know when something is a pile of bull or not.

QPR are allegedly closing in on signing former Arsenal striker, Nicklas Bendtner, on a free transfer after the Dane was released by Wolfsburg earlier in the year.

Dan Crowley got himself on the scoresheet for Oxford United but his superb goal was merely a consolation as the U’s lost 4-2 at home to Brighton.

There will be no Champions League for Wojciech Szczesny this season (or Thomas Vermaelen) as Roma were dumped out of qualifying by Porto, who thumped them in Rome.

After the draw against Leicester on Saturday evening, most of the post-game focus was about the transfer window and Arsene’s reported reluctance to spend.

This might, quite frankly, be the most pointless rumour that we’ve taken a look at this summer but given the sensationalism loaded into the headlines, we thought we should do it it anyway.

When it comes to the connection between fans and the club they support, sometimes you couldn’t feel further away. One club is trying to fix that.

If you closed down the internet on Friday afternoon when you left work and didn’t look back, you might have missed a few things.

After the game against Leicester, Arsene Wenger revealed that Takuma Asano would not be granted a work permit by the Home Office, meaning that he will not be able to play for Arsenal for the foreseeable future.

Over the weekend both Arsenal and Liverpool were linked with a move for Nottingham Forest’s 19-year-old right winger, Oliver Burke.

With the news that Mauro Icardi has ‘snubbed’ Arsenal, I thought I’d take a look at some of the players who have reportedly snubbed Arsenal in this window, but probably haven’t.

With Arsenal reportedly haggling over the Shkodran Mustafi transfer fee (according to press reports at least) many people are getting themselves a little worked up over it all, none more so, it seems, than Paul Merson.

Arsenal will reportedly complete the signing of Shkodran Mustafi by Wednesday according to a report from our good friend, Emmanuel Giulianelli who also claims this will only happen unless it doesn’t.

Ah, a lazy Sunday where absolutely nothing happened apart from Joel Campbell leaving, fall-out from Leicester continuing, and some gossip.

Colour us shocked, but Mauro Icardi has signed a new five-year deal with Inter Milan after we said all along that his wife and agent, Wanda Nara, was simply using Arsenal (and Napoli) to get him a new deal with the club.

Joel Campbell has admitted that he joined Sporting to become a ‘champion.’

Sporting’s manager, Jorge Jesus, has said that Joel Campbell was a player he wanted when he was manager of Benfica, but refused to be drawn further on the issue because the deal wasn’t complete.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain enjoyed a great pre-season and he looks as if he might be transferring that into a league campaign for the first time in a long while.

Jon Toral played 73 minutes of Granada’s 1-1 draw with Villarreal on Saturday evening as La Liga got underway.

Dan Crowley played nine minutes for Oxford United as they grabbed all three points thanks to an injury time penalty against Peterborough on Saturday afternoon.