Lee Hurley Archives: 08/2016

Inter Milan are allegedly preparing an €80m offer for Alexis Sanchez, presumably looking to replace Mauro Icardi who could be on his way to Napoli.

Corriere dello Sport is claiming that Arsenal are considering a move for midfielder, Marcelo Brozovic.

With Mesut Ozil ‘only’ having two years left on his current Arsenal contract, the paper nonsense has already begun.

If you had to point to one non-Arsenal player who was made of pure Arsenal DNA, then you’d probably pick Daniel Sturridge.

The press in Germany on Saturday were claiming that Arsenal are chasing Robert Lewandowski in a rumour that was briefly exciting until you realised they were getting their information from the Sun.

Arsenal are being told that they will need to pay a ‘significant amount’ if they wish to sign Shkodran Mustafi from Valencia.

With just one year left on his Arsenal contract and lighting up Rio, Serge Gnabry is being linked heavily with a move to Hertha BSC according to reports in Germany.

Arsenal and Manchester United are said to be interested in signing Exeter City’s 15-year-old defender, Ethan Ampadu, who made his debut for the his club on Tuesday night.

Jeremie Aliadiere is close to a move back to France with Montpellier, leaving Umm Salal after two seasons with the Qatari side for Muither SC who released him after six months.

With all eyes firmly fixed on Sunday, it was a relatively quiet day on the Arsenal front, even in terms of gossip.

Well, it’s finally here – Arsenal time and our first predicted starting XI of the new season.

When it was announced that Michael Oliver would be in charge of Arsenal’s opener against Liverpool, many Arsenal fans were happy, but should they really be?

Earlier this morning we covered reports of an EXCLUSIVE in the Daily Star which claimed that Santi Cazorla had been made captain of Arsenal. It was wrong.

Arsenal u23s got their new season off to a poor start, losing 2-0 to Reading on Friday night.

Santi Cazorla is set to wear the captain’s armband against Liverpool according to the Daily Star with many papers stating that he has been made the new club captain.

Olivier Giroud will not be taking part in Sunday’s game against Liverpool, but the frontman has been speaking to the press in France about his aims for the upcoming season.

Another press conference, another Jose Mourinho rant about Arsene Wenger?

UEFA have released a list of the top teams in Europe and Arsenal are placed 11th, three behind Chelsea and two ahead of Manchester City.

Johan Djourou has said that Hamburger SV reminds him of Arsenal as they get ready for the new season.

With the season kicking off this weekend, we all have that one opening day game that is seared in our memories. Can you name them all?