Nia Griffiths Archives: 09/2016

It was a controversial decision to pick David Ospina over Petr Cech for Arsenal’s Champions League clash against PSG but one that ultimately paid off.

Another game, another day when Arsene Wenger attempted to play Alexis Sanchez as a lone striker in the first half and it simply didn’t work.

Granit Xhaka has picked up another red card during Switzerland’s 2-0 triumph over Portugal.

Nicklas Bendtner could be about to sign for Nottingham Forest.

Olivier Giroud and Laurent Koscielny both featured during France’s 0-0 draw against Belarus on Tuesday night.

Arsenal are at it again: forcing players from other teams to sign new, improved contracts with their existing club just because we may or may not have been interested at some point – when will our reign of terror stop?!

Isaac Hayden revealed during his and Chuba Akpom’s ‘roommates’ video that they did for the FA while away on duty with the England u21s, that Chuba and Alex Iwobi are joined at the hip.

Takuma Asano has scored for Japan yet again – this time during their 2-0 win over Thailand in their World Cup 2018 Qualifier.

According to Jeremy Wilson, Aaron Ramsey’s return to fitness won’t be against Southampton at the weekend.

The interlull is still in full swing but there’s still a few bits of news wafting around here and there.

Despite costing under half the amount, Mesut Ozil ranks 89 on Fifa 17 while Paul Pogba ranks 88.

West Brom academy coach, Mark Harrison, has confirmed that the Baggies won’t be offering Arsenal trialist, Tyrell Robinson, a contract.

Arsenal are reportedly set to return to Roma after having a €39m bid for Kostas Manolas turned down during the summer.

According to Yaya Toure’s agent, the Manchester City star is set to wave goodbye to the team he’s played for since 2010.

Nigeria’s new technical adviser, Gernot Rohr, is looking forward to having Alex Iwobi back after the country found it difficult to score against Tanzania without him.

Olivier Giroud appears to have handed over his title of ‘hottest French player’ to Antoine Griezmann, a fact that the striker has had to come to terms with.

I don’t know why Arsenal spent so much time trying to sign Shkodran Mustafi when we could have just signed Mesut Ozil’s dog instead.

Shkodran Mustafi has claimed for the second time that Mesut Ozil was the person to persuade him to sign for Arsenal.

Rob Holding claims that, for him, signing for Arsenal is the stuff of dreams.

Edward Nketiah has been offered his first professional contract with Arsenal at the age of 17.