Nia Griffiths Archives: 08/2016

To Arsenal fans’ surprise, Granit Xhaka didn’t start against Liverpool but when he came on with 24 minutes left to play, he made his mark on the game.

Somewhat naively, I always thought that Alexis Sanchez would make a good striker. How wrong was I?

Although there was a fair amount of transfer guff around on Sunday, it was all overshadowed by Arsenal’s rather embarrassing 4-3 loss to Liverpool at the Emirates.

A visibly dejected, quiet Arsene Wenger addressed the media following Arsenal’s 4-3 loss to Liverpool at home.

The first game of the season between Arsenal and Liverpool resulted in a scrappy, odd goal-fest, which highlighted our weaknesses for all to see.

Petr Cech has been announced as Arsenal captain for our opening match against Liverpool.

Arsenal kick off the new season against rivals Liverpool at the Emirates hoping to get off to a better start than last year.

Leicester City’s 2-1 loss to Hull on the opening day of the season has shown perhaps they’re more similar to Arsenal than they’d like to think.

Jon Toral scored yet another goal for Granada v Mallorca in a pre-season friendly.

Mo Farah is probably one of the world’s most famous Arsenal fans and even after winning an Olympics gold media in the 10,000m run, the north London team was still at the forefront of his thoughts.

Arsenal’s u18s got off to a fantastic start to the U18 Premier League in their Saturday opener against Aston Villa at London Colney.

Three Arsenal loanees played on Saturday with varying results.

Thursday’s headlines were dominated by the news that Shkodran Mustafi’s agent confirmed an agreement between his client and Arsenal but other stuff happened to, believe it or not.

Moussa Sissoko, God love him, doesn’t know the meaning of the word ‘subtlety’ when it comes to trying to get a move to a new club.

There are two opposing stories coming out of the Italian media regarding Inter Milan’s Mauro Icardi.

Although everyone’s still talking about Leicester City’s Riyad Mahrez to Arsenal and reporting on it, there’s actually been very little change one way or the other.

Reports are claiming that Arsenal are favourites to sign Manchester City’s Wilfried Bony but we’re not, Everton are.

On Thursday, the rumours surrounding Valencia centre-back, Shkodran Mustafi, to Arsenal kicked up a notch and his agent confirmed that he’s come to an agreement with the club. Here’s all the latest.

After reports from Germany emerged claiming that Mesut Ozil is happy to extend his contract with Arsenal unless Real Madrid come for him, The Times decided to run with the story that we’re worried because Mesut and Alexis Sanchez are yet to commit their future to the club.

Arsene Wenger has revealed that Arsenal won’t sign a new player in time for the Liverpool game on Sunday and that he’ll have to look for an ‘internal solution’ to the Gunners’ defensive troubles.