Arsenal Gossip Archives: 07/2016

Per Mertesacker looks set to be promoted to Arsenal captain after the departure of Mikel Arteta.

Napoli’s president, Aurelio De Laurentiis, has stated, again, that Higuan will not go to Juventus and if he can help it, the striker won’t go to another Italian club.

With no actual football to talk about, real news is still very hard to come by out there. Over the course of the past 24…

According to reports in Italy, Kostas Manolas is ‘unhappy’ and wants to leave Roma which is unfortunate for him because the Italians do not want to sell.

Arsenal have allegedly told Manchester City that Hector Bellerin is not for sale as Pep Guardiola sets his beedy little Barcelona eyes on him.

Despite seeming to land Bolton’s Player of the Season, Rob Holding, Arsenal are apparently interested in bringing in another two young centre backs – Jason Denayer and Matthias Ginter.

After a few days that felt quite frenzied, Tuesday was relatively calm in the wake of Juve and Napoli meeting to discuss Gonzalo Higuain.

Olivier Giroud’s agent has rubbished claims that his client will be used as part of the deal to land Gonzalo Higuain and has insisted the Frenchman is going nowhere making an awful lot of ‘reporters’ look very foolish indeed.

On Monday it was revealed that Arsenal had their bid for Bolton’s Rob Holding accepted and the player had already undergone a medical. Here’s all you need to know about him.

Francis Coquelin has been the latest to sing the praises of Arsenal new boy, Granit Xhaka, as he reveals it will be the ‘details’ that make the difference next season.

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.

Bolton News are reporting that Arsenal have agreed a fee for Rob Holding and that the player has passed his medical.

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.

Denilson looks like he could be on his way from Al Wahda as they ship him out to make room for a ‘mystery signing’ in the next few days.

Arsenal have apparently bid $50m (£41m) for Alexandre Lacazette, according to reports coming out of France on Sunday.

Sunday was relatively quiet in terms of actual news but there was quite a lot of gossip around to get the internet in a tizzy.