Pre-season

MEGA UPDATE 7: Arsenal rejected an offer from Monaco for a young star while Mikel Arteta is gearing up to raid Lille again, this time for a midfielder.

Arsenal won their first pre-season friendly 4-1 against MK Dons on Tuesday, as they prepare for the weekend Community Shield match.

Arsenal are planning pre-season friendlies in addition to the Community Shield later this month, after confirming the details of that match.

Konstantinos Mavropanos is already in pre-season training for loan club VfB Stuttgart ahead of the 2020/21 Bundesliga campaign.

Arsenal will return for pre-season training surprisingly early according to the latest schedule with the Community Shield not long after.

Arsenal are planning to tour Scotland and Ireland in late August to early September as part of their pre-season plans for the next campaign.

Arsenal won’t take part in the International Champions Cup again this year, as the competition is off due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Arsenal play Barcelona on Sunday evening in their final pre-season game and the starting lineup could well be the one that starts against Newcastle when the Premier League returns next week.

Arsenal suffered a 2-1 defeat to Olympique Lyonnais in the Emirates Cup on Sunday afternoon.

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The Arsenal pre-season show hits London this weekend as the Emirates Cup returns and the Gunners face Lyon, but who is injured and unlikely to play?

Arsenal lost on penalties to Real Madrid to end their 100% pre-season record, after drawing 2-2 in normal time.

A bar in Charlotte put Tottenham Hotspur coasters in their urinals ahead of Arsenal’s game against Fiorentina promoting some Arsenal fans to ask ‘why would you put sh*t in a urinal?’

Eddie Nketiah is ready to play for Arsenal regularly as the club’s man of the moment gets ready to grab his chance.

Megan Rapinoe was at Arsenal’s game against Fiorentina on Saturday night and she took some time out to pose with fellow social justice warrior, Hector Bellerin, before speaking about Donald Trump’s latest racist episode.

Arsenal overcame a relatively poor first-half performance to win comfortably against Fiorentina on Saturday night.

Uni Emery gave Mesut Ozil a ‘pep talk’ ahead of Arsenal’s pre-season tour as the Spaniard tries to work out a way to reignite the German while he also revealed that Nacho Monreal will be one of his five captains.

Arsenal scored a late winner to defeat Bayern Munich in their second first-team pre-season friendly and opening match of the International Champions Cup.

Arsenal overcame Colorado Rapids 3-0 in their opening senior pre-season friendly, with an extremely youthful team producing the goods.