Arsenal News Archives: 07/2016

Arsene Wenger has admitted he was wrong when he once predicted that transfer fees would not go as high as £100m and now says they will eventually break past £200m and £300m.

When the deal was initially announced, it was met with surprised eyebrows from supporters and critics alike, but he has already impressed.

Saturday saw the release of Arsenal’s shiny new away and third kits, which were met with mixed responses, as well as news that Liverpool’s first choice goalkeeper has broken his hand two weeks ahead of our Premier League clash.

Not only has Lucas Leiva (as well as Joel Matip, Joe Gomez and Mamadou Sakho) been ruled out of Liverpool’s Premier League opener against Arsenal, now first choice goalkeeper, Loris Karius has broken his hand!

Alexis Sanchez has flown back to London along with his dogs in order to return to training with Arsenal.

In one of the stranger stories that has come out recently, Hollywood actor, Jamie Foxx, modelled the new Arsenal training kit at our recent launch.

On Friday, we beat the MLS All-Stars, Wenger confirmed we’d be signing a new attacking option and we dug into the latest with the Mahrez and Mustafi rumours.

Arsenal have revealed their away and third kits for the 2016/17 season.

Francis Coquelin revealed via Arsenal’s official Snapchat recently that he’d been training at centre-back and “bossing it” but against the MLS All-Stars he was very much in midfield – so what’s going on? Is Wenger training him as back-up just in case we can’t sign someone?

Spurs Ladies have announced a pre-season friendly against Arsenal Ladies on the third of August.

It was relatively quiet in the land of Arsenal on Thursday but we still managed to find a few little tidbits which are almost actual news.

Marcelo Allende, a Chilean u17 international, has joined Arsenal on trial until September.

Arsenal have signed a deal with Atlanta-based Fermata Partners LLC to help expand their retail operations in North America.

Theo Walcott has said that the MLS is close to Premier League standard as he tries to lead the Arsenal charm offensive in America by saying things we all think isn’t true.

With real football closing in on us and just an interlull away, the nonsense that is the transfer window is hard to pay attention to. Here’s what’s been happening in the last 24 hours.

As Ivan Gazidis reiterates that Arsenal can’t compete with the big boys on the world transfer stage, I ask is he lying when he says that or was he lying when he said we would soon be able to?

Arsene Wenger has admitted that Gedion Zelalem still has work to do on his physique ahead of the new season with questions being asked about where the American will be playing next season.

As you probably know, it is a tradition at most football clubs that the new boy has to get up on a chair and sing a song in front of his teammates.

Arsenal’s under21s will play in the new Premier League 2 next season but the club have declined an invitation to play in the EFL Trophy.

The rumour mill was in overdrive on Tuesday, with the news that we could be about to sign Wissam Ben Yedder breaking on Twitter and Lyon confirming that they’ve rejected a bit from us for Lacazette.