Arsenal News Archives: 02/2019

Alexandre Lacazette, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Bernd Leno and Sead Kolasinac are all up for Arsenal’s Player of the Month award this month.

Mesut Özil featured in WhoScored’s Team of the Week for the most recent round of fixtures, after a starring performance in Arsenal’s 5-1 win over Bournemouth.

Former Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner has returned to training after 50 days of house arrest for assaulting a taxi driver in September.

Rangers signed Glen Kamara from Dundee FC for a fee of around £50,000 in the January transfer window, and Steven Gerrard says it’s already looking like a bargain.

It is a question that has been asked many times of the Premier League and their answer has always been ‘no’ – will you move a domestic game to help an English team in Europe?

Matthew Smith has signed his first professional contract with Arsenal, the club announced on Monday.

Two Arsenal stars made it into WhoScored’s Premier League Team of the Week for the most recent round of fixtures, after the team’s victory over Southampton on Sunday.

Adama Traore, who played with Denis Suarez at Barcelona, believes the player will be a hit at Arsenal but that it will take him time to settle.

The Arsenal academy will travel to the USA for the 2019 Dallas Cup in April, after finishing as runners-up in the youth competition last season.

On Saturday afternoon, Arsenal faced Manchester City in the Conti Cup final, not that you’d know it from the coverage in Sunday’s papers.

It is now international tournament time in women’s football with the SheBelieves, Algarve, Cyprus and Turkish cup all being played over the next two weeks along with a number of friendlies.

The Arsenal academy made three signings in the 2018 summer window, let’s have a look at how each of them are getting on in their first seasons with the club.

Folarin Balogun scored his 15th goal of the season at u18 level on Saturday, and it’s now surely only a matter of time until he gets promoted to the u23s.

Jose Mourinho gave his former adversary Arsene Wenger some rare praise recently, after the latter was presented with the Laureus World Sports Awards’ Lifetime Achievement award.

Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri has made a couple of bizarre claims about Arsenal’s season, as he tries to distract from his own team’s failings.

Sokratis Papastathopoulos and Alex Iwobi have stressed the importance of Mesut Özil to the Arsenal team after the German made his return to the starting XI against BATE Borisov.

Arsenal and Northern Ireland u21 defender Daniel Ballard has compared Freddie Ljungberg’s management style to that of Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola.

Joe Willock is having a great season with the Arsenal u21s, u23s and the first team, particularly when it comes to goalscoring.

Arsenal will face up against two of their former triallists in the upcoming Europa League clash with Stade Rennais FC, following the draw on Friday.

Arsenal youth coaches Simon McManus and Kerry Green have travelled to Rwanda to lead a five-day ‘coaches-the-coaches’ football clinic in the country.