Lee Hurley Archives: 09/2019

Kelechi Nwakali has confirmed that Arsenal do indeed have a buy-back option in his contract and he is hoping to do enough to convince them to activate it.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan netted twice and set up the other two as Armenia beat Bosnia & Herzegovina 4-2 on Sunday.

Arsenal opened their league title defence with a 2-1 win over West Ham thanks to goals from Beth Mead and Jill Roord.

Matteo Guendouzi was called up to the France squad this week and, as is customary in football, had to get on a table and sing in front of his teammates.

Granit Xhaka has admitted he ‘made a mistake’ in giving away the penalty against Spurs but isn’t quite sure why people care so much about that and not all the good stuff he does.

During August, Everton thought they had signed Chelsea’s Fikayo Tomori until Arsenal got involved and signed David Luiz.

Arsene Wenger has come to the defence of Mohamed Elneny after the midfielder was shipped out on loan by Unai Emery.

Dani Ceballos asked not to be transferred to Arsenal permanently when the sides were negotiating in the summer and Marca today reports there were two reasons for that.

The Women’s Super League returns this weekend with Arsenal kicking of the defence of their title on Sunday against West Ham.

David Ospina has become the first goalkeeper to play 100 games for Colombia, setting a new record for his country not long after leaving Arsenal.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s winner against Burnley as been voted as Arsenal’s goal of the month for August while the forward was also named as Arsenal’s player of the month.

Nicolas Pepe has withdrawn from the Ivory Coast’s squad to return to Arsenal but there’s nothing to worry about – he is just coming back to work on his match fitness.

Nicklas Bendtner’s FC Copenhagen debut will take place behind-closed-doors because of fears of over-crowding due to ‘Bendtner-mania’.

Granit Xhaka has offered to give up the armband of the Swiss national team if it will help Xherdan Shaqiri get over his huff and return to the squad.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan has revealed that his loan move to Roma that happened on Monday all came about pretty quickly.

According to a number of reports from Germany, Schalke wanted to sign Sead Kolasinac before the summer window closed.

Former Arsenal goalkeeper, Saari van Veenendaal, has been nominated by FIFA for their BEST awards.

With the transfer window now closed, let’s look at the madness Arsenal pulled off.

Arsenal went into this summer hoping to clear a load of wages from their books and they’ve managed to do that to the tune of an astonishing £46m-a-year.

Nicklas Bendtner has signed for FC Copenhagen on a short-term contract, returning home without fulfilling his life’s goal of becoming the greatest striker the world has ever seen.