Lee Hurley Archives: 01/2017

Arsene Wenger has stood by his decision to substitute Alexis Sanchez with 10 minutes left against Swansea with Arsenal four nil up and cruising.

Amid rumours that Roma want to buy Wojciech Szczesny, Arsenal would be totally insane to let him go.

There’s passion and there’s petulance, what we saw from Alexis at Swansea was the latter

Alexis Sanchez has taken to Twitter to express his happiness at winning against Swansea probably completely unaware of the media storm his huff has caused.

Arsene Wenger has admitted that his side got a bit lucky with some of their goals against Swansea on Saturday.

Arsene Wenger is hopeful that Olivier Giroud’s ankle injury isn’t too serious as he’s assessed by the doctors.

Arsene Wenger told reporters after the game at Swansea that there was no problem with Alexis and his reaction was down to differences between European and South American culture.

Arsenal moved into the top four, for a few hours at least, with a comprehensive win at the Liberty, completing a season double over Swansea for the first time since they returned to the top flight (2011).

Kelechi Nwakali has rejected the chance to return from his loan in January and opted to remain with MVV Maastricht where he has been impressing this season.

Goncalo Guedes found the net twice as Arsenal scouts watched the player from the stands.

Swansea City have completed the signing of Dutch international winger, Luciano Narsingh, from PSV Eindhoven but he will not face Arsenal.

Former Arsenal captain and Rangers man, Mikel Arteta, believes that Jon Toral can be a success at Rangers after the 21-year-old sealed a loan deal to the SPL this week.

Jon Toral would ‘love’ to play alongside Hector Bellerin at Arsenal as he tries to resurrect his season with Rangers.

Jon Toral has revealed that Gedion Zelalem and Mikel Arteta both helped him to make up his mind about joining Rangers on loan.

Arsene Wenger has given another update on Santi Cazorla, claiming the midfielder could miss another 10 weeks with the Achilles problem that has killed his season.

On Friday, the biggest story doing the rounds was Diego Costa being dropped by Chelsea because he wants to go to China and earn all the monies.

Kolo Toure looks set to become a player-coach at Celtic under Brendan Rodgers.

Theo Walcott will not take part in Arsenal’s next game against Swansea and is unlikely to return for Burnley next week after being pulled from training.

Arsene Wenger does not believe that Mesut Ozil’s future at Arsenal is tied to his, despite the German saying it was recently.

How will Arsenal lineup when they face Swansea at the Liberty Stadium on Saturday?