Nia Griffiths Archives: 06/2016

Following the drama/hilarity of England getting knocked out of the Euros by Iceland, it was a ghost town in the Goonerverse on Tuesday.

Arsene Wenger, keen to not get left in the wake of Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho’s impending spending sprees, is ready to break the bank for Bayern Munich full-back, David Alaba.

Since Arsene Wenger politely bigged up Julian Draxler in an interview recently, the papers have put 2+2 together and decided that the Wolfsburg forward is Arsenal bound (or, you know, Manchester United bound if you read most outlets).

Arsenal and Chelsea target, Alvaro Morata, has claimed that he’s happy to stay at Real Madrid and fight for a place.

With silly season in full swing and the Twitter keyboard warriors in fine voice, there are some key things we need to keep in mind if we’re going to get through this summer without attacking each other: transfers do fail and it’s not always Arsenal’s fault.

Roma are reportedly after former Arsenal centre-back, Thomas Vermaelen.

Juventus are apparently still sniffing around after Alexis Sanchez despite reports claiming that they’s acknowledged he was ‘unreachable’ just days ago.

Alan Shearer has slammed England manager, Roy Hodgson, for picking Jack Wilshere to start in the Three Lions’ humiliating 2-1 defeat to Iceland.

The reports linking Arsenal to Gabriel ‘Gabigol’ Barbosa are gathering pace at an alarming rate and we’ve now apparently tabled a bid.

After England’s embarrassing 2-1 defeat and elimination from the Euros at the hands of little ol’ Iceland, and Roy Hodgson’s resulting resignation, talk turned to who will take over; Ian Wright wasn’t impressed with one particular name thrown into the hat.

Daily Cannon spent Monday basking in the ambiance of Alexis Sanchez’s Copa America win with Chile, as well as sifting through the usual gossip.

Arsenal are still, rather oddly, being linked to Mauro Icardi, despite the fact that he confirmed he wouldn’t be leaving Inter Milan in May.

Arsenal have reportedly revived their interest in Lyon striker, Alexandre Lacazette.

Schalke have signed Manchester United and Arsenal target, Breel Embolo, and are feeling pretty smug about it.

According to ESPN Brazil, Arsenal have made an offer for Gabriel ‘Gabigol’ Barbosa.

Iceland have knocked England out of the Euros and progressed to the quarter-finals.

Hector Bellerin was, once again, an unused sub in Spain’s 2-0 loss against Italy in the Euros.

Alexis Sanchez picked up an ankle injury in training just before the Copa America final; he played, despite being in pain and now it’s not looking good.

Granit Xhaka finally had a chance to visit the Emirates as an Arsenal player for the first time on Monday.

Alexis Sanchez admitted he was emotional following Chile’s second Copa America win in as many years and explained his injury.