Arsenal News Archives: 08/2016

Wednesday was full of the usual fun – I mean that sarcastically, of course – and some news.

Arsenal have received a boost after Mesut Ozil, Laurent Koscielny and Olivier Giroud all returned to training as scheduled.

The Arsenal centre-back, Josephine Henning. was given her first start in the competition, but was withdrawn at half-time making way for Annike Krahn as Germany were defeated 2-1 by Canada.

Arsene Wenger has given injury updates ahead of our Premier League opener against Liverpool on Sunday.

Lyon chairman, Jean-Michel Aulas, has slammed PSG after they completed the signing of Real Madrid’s Jese Rodriguez.

Liverpool’s Emra Can and our very own Mesut Ozil seem to be firm friends and the fact that Can has been pictured wearing the playmakers signature cap just cements this.

After slating Jurgen Klopp and Arsene Wenger recently over comments that spending close to £100m on one player is crazy, Jose Mourinho hinted that Manchester United can afford to do this because they’re a big club, while ‘other clubs’ can’t.

Alex Iwobi has backed Nigeria to qualify for the World Cup.

Thierry Henry has made it clear that he rates Manchester United’s new signing, Paul Pogba, but also believes he needs to work on his defensive work if he’s not going to be played in a more advanced role.

Arsene Wenger has admitted that he feels guilt and regret following Arsenal’s disappointing title run last season.

As far as days go, Tuesday was poo. There was little of note to talk about which just meant people tried even harder to sound like they had something to say.

The Premier League and EA Sports have renewed their long-standing partnership meaning that you’ll still be able to buy Arsenal-branded versions of the game.

We all know that there is no women’s football Team GB at the Rio Olympics because of politics and the respective home nation’s country FA’s being managed by people living a bit in the past, but how would it have looked if there ad been?

When you hear the person sitting next you moaning about paying the player’s wages, don’t dismiss them out of hand, especially not if they’re an Arsenal fan whose match day revenues pay a bigger percentage of player wages than any other Premier League club.

Can you feel it? We’re only a few days away from the start of the season, we’ve just beaten Manchester City, but still the majority of the talk is about who we haven’t signed.

Josh Kroenke has claimed his family are ‘never afraid to spend money’ but before you get too excited, he was talking American sports.

Johan Cruyff believes in the world of football only Barcelona and Arsenal don’t have to adapt to their opposition, however, when Arsenal play the Spaniards they are forced to.

There was no luck for the Arsenal Ladies as they managed to get the worse possible draw in the Conti Cup with Manchester City away.

When a video of Granit Xhaka singing his Arsenal initiation song appeared on the internet, it was awful. Here’s what it is all about.

Serge Gnabry scored his second and third goals at the Rio Olympics as he netted twice on Sunday against South Korea.