Lee Hurley Archives: 08/2016

Arsenal have been given a boost if they are actually interested in signing Manchester City’s Jason Denayer after Galatasaray seemed to slam on the breaks of the player’s move.

Roma have named Wojceich Szczesny in their Champions League squad ahead of their qualifier on Wednesday night against Porto.

Emmanuel Petit and Marc Overmars have been added to the latest version of FIFA 2017 as legends.

The German national team will play an international game to bid farewell to Lukas Podoksi and Bastian Schweinsteiger who are retiring from international football.

It was, perhaps not surprisingly, another quiet day on Tuesday.

A report from Valencia is claiming that Arsenal do not want to take any longer over signing Shkodran Mustafi as Valencia try desperately to hold onto the German international.

On Tuesday it was all over the internet that Arsenal, along with Manchester United, were interested in signing Jose Fonte from Southampton.

Simon Mignolet told the Liverpool Echo that they had studied Arsenal’s penalties ahead of the game on Sunday although he wasn’t sure how much it would help given the absence of normal penalty takers on the pitch.

Serge Gnabry is confident of sealing Germany’s place in the Olympic final when they face Nigeria at 8pm (UK) in Rio.

A student was shot dead in Uganda on Sunday evening by police after students attempted to riot after the Arsenal game against Liverpool.

Roberto Soriano has revealed that Shokdran Mustafi is on his way out of Spain after Soriano just arrived at Villarreal.

With Arsenal’s deal with Valencia for Shkodran Mustafi looking like it might have a hit a price snag (shocker) Sky Sports are reporting that Arsenal have identified another two targets should they fail to land the German.

Arsenal, and Chelsea, are both interested in signing Yacine Brahimi from Porto, but are only prepared to pay half of what the Portuguese side want for their player.

Arsenal are, reportedly, scouting William Carvalho as the transfer window turns to worn out rumours to fill its pages.

Alexandre Lacazette has told the press that ‘If there are offers that can’t be refused, I’d like to not refuse him’ as a player who was once reportedly fed up with being linked with Arsenal mixes things up a bit.

The season might be new, but the Arsenal story, alas, is not. Here are nine things we learned as Arsenal lost at home to Liverpool

David Ospina’s save against Barcelona in the Champions League to deny Lionel Messi has been voted as one of the best of the season.

The man Tony Pulis didn’t rate when he had him on loan at West Brom is continuing to rip up the Olympics by scoring his sixth goal in four games against Portugal.

As if having Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho at each other throats isn’t enough for them, some parts of the media are trying to start a fight between Jurgen Klopp and Arsene Wenger but they’ve probably picked on the wrong duo.

Arsene Wenger has admitted that it was a ‘natural choice’ to make Per Mertesacker captain while Jack thinks it’s great because Per organises the team dinners.