Arsenal News Archives: 09/2016

Chile legend, Elias Figueroa, has revealed doubts over Alexis Sanchez being appointed captain of his country during their match against Bolivia.

Shkodran Mustafi has headed back to see his family before he returns to Arsenal for his debut against Southampton this weekend.

The CIES Football Observatory have ranked Granit Xhaka’s sale to Arsenal as the fifth best of the summer meaning Arsenal paid a lot more than they should have for him given his current market value.

I’m not entirely sure how you compare a goalkeeper and a forward, but EA Sports have managed to find a way and they’ve decided that Hugo Lloris is worth more points than Alexis Sanchez.

Just even thought of doing this recap is boring me, such is the lack of anything interesting going on now we are right in the heart of the interlull.

Freddie Ljungberg has been bigging up Jack Wilshere as claims Wenger and the midfielder had ‘talks’ take on a life of their own.

Currently on international duty with Switzerland, some of Granit Xhaka’s teammates were asked to complete the following sentence – ‘Granit is a…’

Olivier Giroud has given an interview to Le Parisien in which he talks about being hated.

Mad Jens has taken to twitter to give us all a glimpse of the Arsenal dressing room after they beat AC Milan on Saturday at the Emirates, raising over £1m for charity in the process.

A weekend without Arsenal is never quite the same as one with them but the good thing about international duty is that we get to hear a bit more from players than when they are under the Arsenal thumb at home.

It turns out that Arsenal could have been following Lucas Perez for far longer than we realised.

Lucas Perez may have arrived as a striker shorn of the world-class tag that many Arsenal fans wanted to see this summer, but he looks like he could well be a very shrewd bit of business in what was a crazy window.

Are you still awake?

Kelechi Nwakali has been speaking to the press after his deadline day move to the Netherlands because of problems Arsenal had in securing a work permit for the talented youngster.

Jack Wilshere may have only played 45 minutes for Bournemouth in their game against AC Milan on Saturday, but he did more than enough to show what he has and why the Cherries were so delighted to land him.

Granit Xhaka has admitted that he is taking English lessons because he understands ‘nothing at all’ when people talk.

Granit Xhaka has admitted that when Arsene Wenger first phoned him he was worried that it was his friend playing a trick on him and hung up.

Granit Xhaka has admitted that he’s not the fastest on the pitch but makes up for it by being quick in the head.

Mesut Ozil has revealed that he is ‘very very’ happy at Arsenal – that’s two verys for those keeping count – and looks set to make Arsenal the club he’s spent the most time at.

Mesut Ozil has revealed that he wants to be Arsenal’s number 10 after getting the same shirt number with Germany.