Nia Griffiths Archives: 07/2016

Arsenal are set to travel the most out of any other Premier League club during pre-season.

Petr Cech is ‘glad to be back’ training at London Colney ahead of our pre-season match against RC Lens on Friday.

It was one in, one out for Liverpool after they faced Huddersfield Town in pre-season.

While most of the Arsenal squad are relishing the chance to face Didier Drogba in our clash against the MLS All-Stars in the USA, Nacho Monreal is looking forward to playing against another player.

According to reports, Arsene Wenger was first choice for the England job but he snubbed it in order to stay at Arsenal.

Alexis Sanchez has got all philosophical on us ahead of the new season.

Mauro Icardi has confirmed he’ll be staying at Inter Milan after all, despite all the media speculation and baiting from his agent/wife (wagent?).

Is the length of Arsenal’s pre-season not only unnecessary but detrimental to our players’ physical health?

As is the norm lately, there wasn’t much around in the way of actual news on Monday but the rumour mill wound itself up into overdrive.

The media have been claiming that Joel Campbell is set to be released by Arsenal this summer but the forward has other plans.

Freddie Ljungberg hammered home the importance of pre-season recently, insisting that it not only helps with moral but belief within the squad – and he’s right.

According to German outlet, Bild, Arsenal are tracking Hoffenheim winger, Philipp Ochs.

As Arsenal odds to sign Leicester City’s Riyad Mahrez have been slashed, we decided to take a look at how we got to here and what the chances of us actually making a move are.

On Monday, Napoli finally managed to make (another) formal approach for Napoli’s Gonzalo Higuain and…well it didn’t go too well.

Roma have claimed that they will not be letting go of Kostas Manolas amid rumours that the centre-back and another player had a fight in the dressing room.

Napoli have confirmed that they will not budge over Gonzalo Higuain’s £80m price tag after meeting with Juventus on Monday.

It’s that name again; the name which strikes fear into the heart of Gooners everywhere: Didier Drogba.

David Seaman has urged Arsene Wenger to spend, insisting that we need a striker, centre-back and midfielder.

After Wales’ superb Euro 2016 performances, allowing them to progress comfortably to the semi-finals where they were knocked out by eventual tournament winners Portugal, their FIFA ranking has sky-rocketed.

Danielle van de Donk slotted home a crucial goal to put Arsenal Ladies 2-1 up against Chelsea.