Arsenal Media Watch

Rio Ferdinand hailed Arsenal after they beat Chelsea saying they "made it look as easy as you can make it."

As the World Cup closes in, the English press have become very concerned with the amount of football Bukayo Saka is playing for the club that pays his wages.

Arsenal are currently in talks with William Saliba over a new contract so of course there is a lot of gossip about him in the media, but some of what is being claimed is total nonsense.

David Seaman has been talking about how nice Gabriel Martinelli is, a trait the Daily Mirror says hints at a 'future captaincy' for a player who wants to be Arsenal captain.

Paul Merson has predicted that Arsenal will "rip them to shreds" when they play Leeds United at Elland Road this weekend as they look to maintain their place at the top of the Premier League table.

Earlier this week, the Daily Mail made a claim about Gabriel Martinelli's 'wage demands' that seemed a little bit on the excessive side and now a more realistic number has hit the press.

The Daily Mail have produced a 'special report' on Martin Odegaard in their Thursday edition, ahead of Arsenal's game in Norway against Bodo/Glimt in the Europa League.

Arsenal followed up their victory over Tottenham with a hard-fought 3-2 win over Liverpool to finish the weekend top of the table and the only side most people are saying can give Manchester City some sort of race.

Ahead of Liverpool's visit to the Emirates this weekend, the Telegraph's chief football correspondent, Jason Burt, has claimed that Arsenal are 'the one side who can stop City's march to the title'.

Arsenal legend, 'It's only' Ray Parlour, has been comparing Arsenal legend-in-the-making Gabriel Jesus, with Arsenal legend, Thierry Henry, even though he says the players are nothing like each other.

Fabio Vieira was voted Man of the Match by Arsenal fans following his first start at home and BT Sport's Joe Cole couldn't say enough nice things about him after the game.

Chris Sutton doesn't have the best reputation amongst Arsenal fans but his latest prediction, mad as it might seem will have quite a few smiling at the very least.

Mikel Arteta has responded to claims that William Saliba is a player 'in the mould' of Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk ahead of the two sides meeting on Sunday.

Football fans are not trusted to show appropriate respect to the memory of the Queen and that's why football is the only sport to be cancelled this weekend, according to a report in Saturday's Daily Mail.

Let's take a look at what's going on in the papers in terms of Arsenal coverage

A number of major outlets reported that Thomas Partey had converted to Islam and changed his name to Yakubu, but the Arsenal man was merely having a laugh.

Spanish site Fichajes claims that Thomas Partey has 'run out of credit' at Arsenal after a poor season while AS claim Arsenal will sell him for €30m.

Danny Murphy believes Aaron Ramsdale was 'losing the plot' against Manchester United when Bruno Fernandes missed his penalty, fuming 'he didn't even save it!'

Martin Odegaard is not only inspiring multiple column inches of praise from Arsenal fans, he is also triggering regret in the Spanish press, with one outlet saying it was a 'big mistake' to let him leave.

An anonymous journalist, writing in Monday' s Daily Mail, revealed that reporters were concerned that the 'finest' free food they normally get at Chelsea would be impacted by sanctions but were 'delighted' to find that it wasn't.

Stan Collymore believes that Arsenal should get rid of Mikel Arteta, even if he gets Arsenal in to the top four, and they should hire Patrick Vieira, if he gets Crystal Palace into the top half of the table at the end of the season.

Mark Clattenburg has said that Michael Oliver got it right and wrong against Arsenal as he continues to be one of only a few former refs prepared to defend Arsenal.

The media are still not coping well with Arsenal daring to ask to have the Tottenham game postponed and one ITV correspondent has got himself in a bit of a pickle

The Premier League will resist calls to change their rules around matches being postponed, despite the mass hysteria over Arsenal's game against Tottenham being moved.

Jamie Carragher has hailed Aaron Ramsdale as the signing of the season so far and I doubt you will find any Arsenal fans who disagree.

As Martin Odegaard left Real Madrid for Arsenal, some parts of the Spanish media tried to paint him as a flop, but their tune is changing now.

Arsenal beat Leeds United on Tuesday night with a largely second string team that stepped up and put in a good performance.

Martin Samuel thinks that Arsenal should 'expect more commitment' from Benjamin White after the defender admitted he doesn't watch football.

Harry Kane's hilarious double-assist to both start the move that led to Arsenal's third goal and his sliding tackle to provide the final assist has resulted in a few of the papers laughing at him, along with millions of Arsenal fans.

Martin Odegaard is one of the main reasons Arsenal are starting to win again, according to to Sport in Spain.

The Mail on Sunday thinks Burnley's penalty against Arsenal should have stood because the referee didn't make a 'clear and obvious' error.

Some parts of the media seem to be gearing up to unsettle Mesut Ozil once again despite his agent saying the complete opposite of what they claim.

Arsenal have been used as a warning to Barcelona about what can happen to a club when they start to decline.

The editor of huge Swiss publication, Blick, has hit out at Granit Xhaka for being negligent after it was revealed the midfielder had not only picked up Covid but had also not been vaccinated.

Ainsley Maitland-Niles will not train with the Arsenal first team after he made his displeasure at being denied a move to Everton known on social media according to John Cross.

Henry Winter has admitted that, despite being the chief football writer for The Times, he has written tweets for England players - and he's not the only one.

Ben White has been named as one of 10 'Players to watch' by World Soccer ahead of the new season.

Danny Mills says Ben White is too good for Arsenal, proving once again that he hasn't got over being humiliated by Thierry Henry in 2003/04.

L'Equipe report that Arsenal have agreed to a purchase option for William Saliba in his loan agreement but it's not clear if that's true.

Bukayo Saka stole the show for England, and one publication in Germany was taken with how the Arsenal youngster has completely outshone Jadon Sancho.