Arsenal Gossip Archives: 08/2016

Alexandre Lacazette was taken off at half-time during Lyon’s 4-1 defeat to PSG on Saturday.

The latest player linked with a move to Arsenal is Real Madrid’s James Rodriguez amid reports that an unnamed club put in a £71m bid.

With the news that Juventus have given Manchester United the go-ahead to bring Paul Pogba in for a medical after agreeing an eye-watering fee of €100mfor their former player, many Arsenal fans find themselves watching something they can’t comprehend.

Saturday was full of post-match comments from Arsene Wenger and players following our 8-0 win over Viking FK but of course there was still the usual amount of shady gossip doing the rounds.

Former Arsenal midfielder, Oguzhan Ozyakup is reportedly choosing to stay with Besiktas, turning down advances from Milan, Borussia Dortmund, Valencia and even Arsenal.

It’s been at least five minutes since Arsenal were last linked with Real Madrid’s Isco so this was to be expected.

It appears that Thomas Vermaelen is about to sign for Roma on a two-year loan.

Claudio Ranieri has insisted that Riyad Mahrez is staying with Leicester City for about the 100th time.

Julian Draxler is reportedly set to be fined €100,000 for his interview with Bild in which he expressed his desire to leave Wolfsburg.

Olympiakos are the latest club to be linked with former Arsenal midfielder, Mathieu Flamini.

Arsene Wenger has hailed Zlatan Ibrahimovic calling him a ‘winner’ before going on to describe water as ‘wet.’

Mathieu Debuchy’s agent is working hard to find the defender a new club before the season starts with the president of Galatasaray confirming that he had been offered to the club.

Arsene Wenger insists that Arsenal don’t need to panic in the transfer market, although we are actively looking for players.

Friday was a comparatively jam-packed day with deals happening left, right and centre, as well as the usual gossip-guff.

If reports are to be believed, Arsenal’s transfer situation is getting a little desperate as now both Chelsea and AC Milan want Shkodran Mustafi. Sigh.

With rumours everywhere, especially at this time of the year, we thought we’d take a look at one from a few months ago to see how it developed.

Wojciech Szczesny has admitted that he would welcome former Arsenal captain Thomas Vermaelen at Roma.

Despite signing a new deal this summer, rumours linking Arsenal with a move for Antoine Griezmann started to surface this week but his agent isn’t giving anything away.

After French outlet, Le Progrès, reported that the rumours linking Lyon striker, Alexandre Lacazette to Arsenal were ‘unfounded’ the media as a whole seems to be constantly disagreeing with itself.

The Italian media appear to be reporting that Inter Milan are lining up a move for AC Milan’s Carlos Bacca but is there anything to it.