Nia Griffiths Archives: 02/2017

On this day in 2009, Arsenal announced the signing of Andrey Arshavin from Zenit St Petersburg.

Arsene Wenger is apparently set to bring security to Arsenal’s match at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, seeing as he has to sit with the home fans.

Frank Lampard has officially announced his retirement from football and fellow players came out in support of the former Chelsea and England hero.

Shkodran Mustafi believes the reason he and Laurent Koscielny work so well on the pitch is because they understand the way the other plays.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain recently hailed player of the month, Olivier Giroud’s, scorpion kick against Crystal Palace.

Arsenal have allowed Tyrell Robinson to leave the club.

Arsenal face Bayern Munich on 15 February in the first leg of the Champions League knock-out stages and the Gunners have now submitted their squad with a few changes.

Rob Holding recently looked back on Olivier Giroud’s scorpion kick against Crystal Palace and revealed that the France international has actually done similar in training before.

Despite it being reported on 26 January that Calum Chambers had suffered a stress fracture in his foot, it seems the defender is almost fit.

Arsene Wenger recently hailed Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s work down the middle for Arsenal; is this where we could see the 23-year-old feature against Chelsea on Saturday?

Sports journalist, Mark Mann-Bryans, understands that, as predicted, Aaron Ramsey will not play a part in Arsenal’s clash against Chelsea on Saturday.

As most will have heard or read already this Thursday morning, Jose Mourinho isn’t a happy bunny… as usual.

On this day in 2001, Arsene Wenger successfully appealed against a 12-match ban for violent conduct against referee Paul Taylor.

Wojciech Szczesny watched on from the bench as Roma went through to the Coppa Italia semi-finals against Cesena on Wednesday evening.

Despite missing Egypt’s Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final match against Morocco with a calf strain, Mohamed Elneny managed to make the bench for their semi-final win against Burkina Faso.

Arsenal were linked with former Stoke City star, Steven N’Zonzi, earlier in the January transfer window but now the midfielder has crushed our dreams (/sarcasm) by signing a contract extension with his current club, Sevilla.

Olivier Giroud has said before that the fans can’t expect him to dig Arsenal out of a hole every week and he proved this against Watford on Tuesday night.

Arsenal now have three players missing going into their Premier League clash against Chelsea on Saturday.

The date for Arsenal’s FA Cup clash against Sutton United has been confirmed.

Arsenal travel to Bayern Munich on 15 February for their first Champions League clash against the German giants… this season anyway.